Here is my Craziest Dream…

My father is a seasoned pianist and arranger who has played with the likes of Roy Eldridge, Gene Krupa, and Bobby Hackett, just to name a few. I’ve looked up to him all my life while singing along with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald records, imagining my father as Teddy Wilson and myself as Billie…  then I was able to live that dream while making my very first full-length, independently-released CD, My Craziest Dream.

That is the story of Herb Gardner and Abbie Gardner. The father-daughter team that has been compared to Nat King Cole and his daughter, Natalie, except that they are both still alive and well. In fact, they’ve only just begun.

Abbie began singing Jazz standards with The Galvanized Jazz Band in 2001 and has since cut her teeth as a vocalist with Stan Rubin’s Tigertown Five, The Stan Rubin Orchestra, Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, The New Deal Orchestra and Herb Gardner’s Groundhog Band.  Her singing style has been compared to Billie Holiday and Norah Jones.

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