Judy Niemack is a jazz vocalist, lyricist and educator who has worked with Toots Thielemans, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Clark Terry, Kenny Barron and Joe Lovano. Born in 1954 in Pasadena, California, she became tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh's first vocal student and also studied at the New England Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She moved to New York in 1977, played a week at the Village Vanguard with Marsh, and released her first album, By Heart, in 1978. In 1995 she became the first professor of jazz voice in Germany, at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She has written lyrics to jazz pieces such as Clifford Brown's Daahoud and Thelonious Monk's Misterioso, and authored the Hear It and Sing It! method books on jazz singing.
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