Terese Genecco (pronounced "Teh-REECE Jeh-NECK-oh") is originally from New York, but is also bi-coastal, splitting the majority of her performance time between San Francisco/Los Angeles, and New York City.

Terese is the San Francisco - Bay Area's reigning "Entertainer of the Year," a 2007 Backstage Bistro Award Winner, a 2008 MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) for Best Recording, a 2008 MAC Award nominee for Best Female Vocalist, a 2006 MAC Award nominee for Best Female Debut Performance, and Time Out Magazine's (NYC) Top Ten Best Cabaret Shows of 2006 AND 2007! She was also recently voted one of the Top Ten Best Cabaret Performers and one of the Top Ten Best CD's of 2007 in the Cabaret Hotline Online Members Choice Awards.

Genecco is best known for her award-winning performances (with her 7-piece *little big band*) in her own jazz, musical creation, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES FAYE!" This show made its world premiere in San Francisco, where it opened at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in July 2005, and ran for five consecutive weeks, before moving to New York City for multiple engagements at The Encore Showroom, Jazz@Lincoln Center, The Iridium Jazz Club, and more than a dozen performances at Manhattan's hottest nightclub, The Metropolitan Room.

Genecco is also now hailed as the hottest nightclub entertainment at the new Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko in downtown San Francisco. Genecco can be seen in "Last Call!" with her 7-piece *little big band* on select Saturday nights at 10:30 PM throughout the year.

Terese performs many of the original arrangements of the great Russell Garcia in her act. She also worked with pianist and arranger Mike Greensill, reed player, Tony Malfatti, and bassist Daniel Fabricant to further recreate the particular sound quality of the horn and rhythm sections used in the various studio and club bands Ms. Faye worked with. Terese's 7-piece *little big band,* as they have come to be known, brings an authentic mid-20th Century sound and energy to the show, playing in the style of Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Eddy Grady, Maynard Ferguson, and the West Coast style of jazz that emerged in the early 1950s. Frances Faye prominently featured Latin percussion in her 50s act, relying heavily on the stylings of Jack "Mr Bongo" Costanzo or George Escevedo. Until recently, Terese has employed the skills of the young and accomplished, Bay Area-based, Latin percussionist, Jacob Lawler, for West Coast performances, and percussionists, Joe Passaro and Mayra Casales, in New York City, to recreate the "Costanzo" effect on the show. In more recent performances of her follow-up show, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: THE SEQUEL!", JACK COSTANZO himself, is featured in the role he created for Faye almost fifty years ago, and he continues to perform in Genecco's newest creation, "Last Call!"

Terese's *little big band* roster changes regularly, but these are the masterful musicians you are most likely to see on stage with Terese: Mike Greensill, Kelly Park, Barry Lloyd, and Tammy Hall sharing duties with Terese at the piano; Daniel Fabricant, Rene Camacho, Tom Hubbard, Bill Moring, John Wiitala, and Fred Randolph on bass; Kelly Park, Randy Odell, Mikey Holguin, Brian Fishler, and Gaspar Bertoncelj on drums; Jack Costanzo, Jacob Lawlor, Dominic Cabrera, Sage Baggott, Joe Passaro, and Mayra Casales on Latin percussion; Rich Armstrong, Ellen Seeling, Chris Rogers, and Bud Burridge on trumpet; Tony Malfatti, Fil Lorenz, and Jean Feinberg on the saxophones, and Max Perkoff and Mara Fox on trombone.

More information about Frances Faye can be found at this fan site: http://www.tyleralpern.com/francesfaye.html 

Terese recorded her 2008 MAC Award-winning debut CD, "DRUNK WITH LOVE: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCES FAYE!" (her live tribute show) over a weekend in October of 2006 at The Metropolitan Room in NYC. It was released on the BUG:OUT:MUSIC label in April of 2007, and can be considered a companion piece to Ms. Faye's "Caught In The Act" LP's, which are currently available through GNP Crescendo Records, and distributed online through iTunes, Amazon.com and other music retailers.

In the words of the legendary Frances Faye, "HORNS UP!!!!"