EMME KEMP  

1. Toshiko Akiyoshi
2. Geri Allen
3. Andrews Sisters
4. Angela Andrews
5. Lil Harden Armstrong
6. Dorothy Ashby
7. Pearl Bailey
8. Beverly Barkley
9. Karen Briggs
10. Ruth Brown
11. Diane Cameron
12. Betty Carter
13. Joan Cartwright
14. Kim Clarke
15. Gloria Coleman
16. Alice Coltrane
17. Dorothy Donegan
18. Ella Fitzgerald
19. Rita Graham
20. Jace Harnage
21. Billie Holiday
22. Bertha Hope
23. Shirley Horn
24. Lena Horne
25. Alberta Hunter
26. Jus' Cynthia
27. Sandra Kaye
28. Emme Kemp
29. Vinnie Knight
30. Lavelle
31. Peggy Lee
32. Abbey Lincoln
33. Melba Liston
34. Gloria Lynne
35. Tania Maria
36. Marian McPartland
37. Carmen McRae
38. Mabel Mercer
39. M'zuri
40. Sandy Patton
41. Trudy Pitts
42. Cheryl Porter
43. Shirley Scott
44. Nina Simone
45. Bessie Smith
46. Carol Sudhalter
47. Sarah Vaughn
48. Dinah Washington
49. Ethel Waters
50. Mary Lou Williams

Emme Kemp was a 3-year-old prodigy. She grew up with the good time gospel and blues of Chicago, Emme recorded with the ragtime piano man Eubie Blake. Prior to her move to New York, Ms. Kemp lived in California and coached with the eminent pianist Egon Petri.

Her Jazz anthology goes from classic to modern. She has appeared on numerous college campuses. Her lectures, poetry and writings, form a significant overview on popular culture.

Emme sings and plays  her original compositions "Eyes on Harlem" and "Someone  To Sing To". She pays  tribute  to the music of Harold Arlen, Gershwin and Ellington on her new album "Try a Little Tenderness" with liner notes by Dick Hyman, Barry Harris and Randy Weston.

http://home.att.net/~emme.kemp

Joan met Emme Kemp playing piano, in Bern, Switzerland, in 1994. They met, again, on November 19, 2005, when Carole Sudhalter (sax) featured Emme in Joan’s hometown, Jamaica, Queens, for a Women Composer’s Concert