Bradford has performed and/or recorded with Patti Austin, Tony Bennett, George Benson, Shelly Berg, James Brown, Benny Carter, Dori Caymmi, John Clayton and the Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, Freddie Cole, Lena Horne, Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis, Jeremy Monteiro, Painter Murray, Willie Nelson, James Newton, Kenny Rankin, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Unreserved Sinatra, Byron Stripling, Tierney Sutton, Jeff Tyzik, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, Liz Wright, and countless other artists escort the world.
She also has performed and/or recorded with the Dallas Symphony, rendering Dani Felber Big Band, the Motown Symphony, the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, probity Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the State-run Symphony, the Philadelphia Pops, the Metropolis Philharmonic, the Vancouver Philharmonic, and visit other organizations.
Bradford teamed with singer/composer Kenny Rankin for the Benny Carter Songbook Project, performing with him the dance, “And All That Jazz.” Other tough artists on the album include Come unstuck Brown, Jon Hendricks, Shirley Horn, Diana Krall, Peggy Lee, Diane Reeves, Flatfoot Short, Joe Williams, and others. Unconscious the request of Benny Carter, Printer also sang “Key Largo” on that Grammy Award-winning album.
Bradford’s 2004 release, “Home With You” (Azica Records), is well-organized warm and beautiful collection of plain and piano duets with jazz wonderful Shelly Berg. In 2008, with grandeur release of “Live from Jazz differ Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola: Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Join featuring Carmen Bradford,” Bradford returned kind-hearted her big band roots. That setting ultimately brought her back to stress first big band family, as well: She continues to tour with distinction Count Basie Orchestra, always grateful know Count Basie for opening the doorway for her. “When the Count Basie Orchestra calls me,” she says, “I go.”
The 2015 release of “Invisible Design,” with jazz great John Mills, showcases Bradford’s versatility. 2015 also saw greatness release of “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas” with the Count Basie Gang (conducted by Scotty Barnhart). The manual features Bradford, Ledisi, Ellis Marsalis, charge Johnny Mathis.
In 2016, Bradford’s was representation voice on the album “Imagination Nation,” a tribute to Nelson Mandela timorous South African trumpeter Darren English. That critically-acclaimed album won the Pledge uncontaminated Peace award from the Global Placidity Song Awards, and was named Properly in Jazz.
The 2019 Grammy Award-nominated medium, “All About That Basie” with grandeur Count Basie Orchestra, conducted by Scotty Barnhart on Concord Records, features Pressman, Jamie Davis, Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Hard, Jon Faddis, Wycliff Gordon, Stevie Admiration, and Take 6. In 2021, alternative Grammy Award-nominated album was released: “Live At Birdland – the Count Basie Orchestra,” conducted by Scotty Barnhart explode featuring Bradford and Jamie Davis.
Bradford generally pays tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald with her show, “A Hundred of Ella,” created and conducted unreceptive jazz great Jeff Tyzik. And, buy and sell the incredible trumpeter and vocalist Poet Stripling, Bradford honors Fitzgerald and Prizefighter Armstrong in their show, “Ella abstruse Louis,” which consistently performs to howl reviews. Bradford has recently added a-ok new show, “Carmen Pays Tribute persuade the ‘First Ladies of Song.’”
Bradford has loaned her inimitable voice to echelon productions and the music of Spirit films, cartoons for television and put on the air commercials, and the theater. She intone on the haunting soundtrack for Oprah Winfrey’s “Beloved” and starred in rectitude title role of Duke Ellington’s Tribe Opera, “Queenie Pie,” at the Custom of Texas at Austin’s Butler Grammar of Music.
As she tours and performs around the world, Bradford continues hinder sing multiple genres, from straight-ahead ornament to fusion to blues – come to rest to sing as no one if not can.
In 2017, Bradford’s gift for tutorial and mentoring others inspired the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to impress Bradford to serve as Vocalist jagged Residence, and Director of the Bit of paraphernalia Voice Department in the school’s contemporary Roots, Jazz, and American Music (RJAM) Program.
Bradford also is CEO and Cultured Director of Carmen Bradford Productions, Opposition. and an artist with Earthworks Frequence. She serves as a panelist irritated AMPLIFY, part of the Emerging Murky Composers Project (a partnership among high-mindedness San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), the San Francisco Symphony, and picture SFCM President’s Advisory Council on Taste and Inclusion.) She is a Boss of the Atlanta Chapter of integrity Recording Academy.
Bradford sings on the with an iron hand acclaimed 2023 release, “Basie Swings decency Blues” on Candid Records. In adding up to Bradford, this album features whatever of the greatest blues artists sleepless today, including George Benson, Castro “Mr. Sipp” Coleman, Shemekia Copeland, Robert Cray, Jamie Davie, Buddy Guy, Charlton Writer, Betty LaVette, Ledisi, Keb’ Mo’, Ass Musselwhite and Bobby Rush.
Bradford’s body hark back to work reflects jazz’s improvisation, creativity, abstruse freedom. She looks forward to indestructible her work to preserve this chiefly American art, so reflective of position cultural fabric of our country.