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About Susan

A native of Baltimore, now longtime citizen of Los Angeles, Susan has been an actor and theater improviser for many years (Film: 28 Days; TV: Mad Men, Shameless; Improv: War Babies, the Wims) but her passion has always been for the music, performing at venues such as The Grape, LACMA, Jazz @ The Merc, Blue Whale — as well as in theaters and living rooms with her jazz salon, ThemeScene.

Following her critically acclaimed multimedia concert and recording project, JAZZ AVIARY,    A Celebration of Birds & the Universal Music We Share (2007), and working again with her longtime collaborators, Rich Eames and Jerry Kalaf, the Susan Krebs Band released Everything Must Change in 2012, featuring Chuck Manning on Tenor.

The  Susan Krebs Chamber Band  released two recordings during their long collaboration: Simple Gifts (2015), and SPRING ~ Light Out of Darkness(2018).

Since 2018, Susan has enjoyed playing with Trio WoRK — a synergistic partnership with Ken Wild (ba) and Tom Rizzo (gtr) – releasing two recordings: Trio WoRK (2018) and Dancing in the Dark (2023)

Her most recent recording project, Little Did I Dream, will be released in 2025. Working again with her decades-long collaborators — currently named The Local Outfit — this album follows their 2021 release, DAYBREAK, recorded mostly remotely — hence their name, Mixed Remotions.

An avid gardener and bird lover, Krebs says her work is “about the art of becoming – whether working with plants or music or with oneself – to dig down, to cultivate, to encourage growth, to thrive and flourish, and eventually to let go and begin the cycle anew.”