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| Meet the Artists: Jazz in July 2008, Continued |
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MAURO REFOSCO, percussion |
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CLAUDIO RODITI, trumpet |
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TED ROSENTHAL, piano |
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DANIEL SADOWNICK, percussion |
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ADRIANO SANTOS, drums |
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CAROL SLOANE, vocals |
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SEAN SMITH, bass |
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TERELL STAFFORD, trumpet |
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SANDY STEWART, vocals |
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DR. BILLY TAYLOR, piano |
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WARREN VACHÉ, cornet |
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VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA |
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CEDAR WALTON, piano |
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KENNY WASHINGTON, drums |
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PETER WASHINGTON, bass |
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FRANK WESS, tenor saxophone |
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| MAURO REFOSCO, percussion |
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 Mauro Refosco is a percussionist whose band Forro in the Dark has been touring the world and releasing albums since 2002, when it started as a weekly party at the jazz club Nublu in New York's Lower East Side. Additionally, Refosco has been touring and recording with David Byrne since 1994. He also played percussion for John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, a pioneering and influential downtown punk jazz outfit. His solo CD, Seven Waves, was released on MA Recordings in Japan and Europe. Refosco graduated with a Master's degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Christopher Lamb of the New York Philharmonic. He is a native of Santa Catarina, a state in southern Brazil, and he currently lives in New York.
Tue, Jul 29: Jazz Samba! |
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| CLAUDIO RODITI, trumpet |
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 Born in Rio de Janeiro, Claudio Roditi was six years old when his parents gave him his first instrument: a set of bongo drums. He soon switched to trumpet, and at 20 Roditi was named a finalist in the International Jazz Competition in Vienna. He studied at Boston's Berklee College of Music, and in 1976, Roditi moved to New York, where he has performed and recorded with Joe Henderson, Charlie Rouse, Herbie Mann, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera and others. For several years Roditi traveled as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra and now performs with the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, in addition to leading his own band. Roditi has 19 releases to his credit, and his solo work on Symphonic Bossa Nova with Ettore Stratta and the Royal Philharmonic earned him a Grammy nomination.
Tue, Jul 29: Jazz Samba! |
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| TED ROSENTHAL, piano |
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 Ted Rosenthal won first prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition in 1988 and has released 11 CDs as a leader. His latest solo recording, The 3 B's, earned four stars in Down Beat magazine. He has toured and recorded with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and has performed with the Art Farmer and Phil Woods Quintets, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Jon Faddis and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Rosenthal is the pianist of choice for many top jazz vocalists, including Helen Merrill and Ann Hampton Callaway. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School. Rosenthal has received three NEA grants for performance and composition projects, which include jazz tunes and large-scale works. He has published piano arrangements and feature articles for Piano and Keyboard and Piano Today. His website is www.tedrosenthal.com.
Tue, Jul 22: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein
Mon, Jul 28: Jazz Piano Master Class |
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| DANIEL SADOWNICK, percussion |
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 Daniel Sadownick grew up in the South Bronx, dreaming of becoming a rock musician until a friend in high school gave him some jazz records, including Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' Moanin' and John Coltrane's A Love Supreme. After listening to them, he threw his rock records off the roof of his building and devoted himself to jazz. Sadownick eventually earned a Master's degree in Musical Education from New York University, where he also studied composition, and was awarded a Presser Scholarship. He toured with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, which led to additional tours and recordings with jazz greats like Michael Brecker, Dennis Chambers, Nicholas Payton, Nat Adderley and Dianne Reeves. Sadownick has also worked with such diverse artists as Steely Dan, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Idol, Angie Stone and Me'shell Ndege'Ocello. He currently serves on the faculty of New York University. His website is www.danielsadownick.com.
Wed, Jul 30: The Shearing Sound: A Tribute to George Shearing |
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| ADRIANO SANTOS, drums |
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 Adriano Santos was born in São Paulo and moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music where he acquired a B.A. in Film Scoring. He moved to New York for his Master's at the City College of New York, where he studied with Ron Carter. Santos has performed with leading international artists like Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Romero Lubambo, John Pizzarelli, Slide Hampton, and Paul Winter and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Santos currently performs with the Vinicius Cantuaria Group, Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quintet and the Afro-Brazilian band Hanhanhaes. He has recorded Pretty World, produced and arranged by Eumir Deodato, and featuring Japanese bossa nova singing star Lisa Ono. Santos has written for various drum magazines and has released a new book through Drummers Collective NYC entitled Afro-Caribbean & Brazilian Rhythms for Drum Set.
Tue, Jul 29: Jazz Samba! |
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| CAROL SLOANE, vocals |
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 A native of Rhode Island, Carol Sloane had been singing professionally since her early teens when she joined Larry Elgart's band in the late '50s. Her national break came in 1961 at the Newport Jazz Festival, which led to her first recording, Out of the Blue, for Columbia. In the '60s, Sloane was singing in the top clubs of the country, opening for stars like Bill Cosby and the Smothers Brothers. She also appeared regularly on The Tonight Show, and she was a cast member of Arthur Godfrey Time. In the '70s Sloane quietly relocated to North Carolina, but lately her career has shifted back into high gear with recording contracts, concert appearances and tours to Japan. Sloane's latest recording is Dearest Duke, containing 15 Ellington tunes plus Billy Strayhorn's "Day Dream." Her website is www.carolsloane.com.
Thu, Jul 31: Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn |
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| SEAN SMITH, bass |
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 Sean Smith has been part of the international jazz scene for more than 20 years as both bassist and composer. He has appeared in many of the major jazz venues and concert halls of the world, touring in North and South America, Europe, the Mediterranean coasts, Russia and Japan. He is a member of the Jacky Terrasson Trio, and in 2007 he won a Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Instrumentalist. Among the jazz greats Smith has performed with are Gerry Mulligan, Benny Carter, Flip Phillips, Tom Harrell, Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Griffin. A Manhattan School of Music graduate, his works have been played and recorded by Phil Woods, Bill Charlap, Gene Bertoncini, Leon Parker and others. Smith has received two Grammy nominations, and his latest recording, Poise (Ambient Records), features recent compositions performed by his own quartet.
Mon, Jul 28: Jazz Piano Master Class
Wed, Jul 30: The Shearing Sound: A Tribute to George Shearing |
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| TERELL STAFFORD, trumpet |
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 Terell Stafford began playing trumpet at age 13 and initially studied classical music. He immersed himself in jazz at the University of Maryland and cites Clifford Brown's rendition of Cherokee as one of his most profound musical influences. While earning a Masters degree from Rutgers University, he joined Bobby Watson's group Horizon, followed by McCoy Tyner's Latin All-Star Band. Since then Stafford has performed with the groups of Benny Golson, Kenny Barron, Jimmy Heath and Jon Faddis, and he is currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as Matt Wilson's quartet, Arts and Crafts, and Alvin Queen & the Organics. He has recorded five albums as a leader, including the recent Taking Chances (MaxJazz 2007), and he is heard on over 40 albums as a sideman and the soundtrack of the film A Bronx Tale. Stafford is Director of Jazz Studies at Temple University, and his website is www.terellstafford.com.
Thu, Jul 31: Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn |
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| SANDY STEWART, vocals |
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 Sandy Stewart has been singing publicly since the age of ten in her hometown of Philadelphia. At 15 she came to New York to replace Edie Adams on The Ernie Kovacs Show. Within five years she had appeared on a Bing Crosby television special and was a regular on the CBS Morning Show, The Perry Como Show and The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1962 she received a Grammy nomination for her recording of Kander & Ebb's "My Coloring Book." While raising her family, Stewart worked with such songwriters as Richard Rodgers, Jule Styne, Cy Coleman and her late husband "Moose" Charlap. For the past five seasons, Stewart and her son Bill Charlap have appeared at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel. Together they have a 2004 Bistro Award for Best Jazz Duo and a 2006 Nightlife Award for Outstanding Performance of a Duo in Cabaret. They have also released a CD, Love Is Here to Stay, on the Blue Note label.
Wed, Jul 23: Piano Jam |
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| DR. BILLY TAYLOR, piano |
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 The distinguished ambassador from the world of jazz to the world at large, Dr. Billy Taylor has served as the Kennedy Center's Artistic Director for Jazz since 1994. His show, "Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center," was broadcast over NPR for eight years. In 2001, he donated his personal collection to the Library of Congress, the largest jazz archive ever acquired. Born in Greenville (NC), Dr. Taylor spent the '40s playing with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and more, before becoming house pianist of Birdland. Since then he has mostly performed with his own trios and has amassed some 50 recordings and 300 songs to his credit. Now Dr. Taylor is perhaps the foremost jazz educator of our time, creating grass roots efforts such as Jazzmobile, leading master classes across the country, and writing definitive books on the subject.
Wed, Jul 23: Piano Jam |
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| WARREN VACHÉ, cornet |
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 Warren Vaché has performed at every major jazz venue and festival throughout the globe, from Condon's and the Blue Note to the Newport, North Sea (Netherlands) and Umbria (Italy) jazz festivals, with additional concerts at Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Opera, and London's Royal Festival Hall. He has performed and recorded with luminaries like Benny Goodman, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Woody Herman and Bobby Short, and contemporaries like Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Howard Alden and Jessie Allen. Vaché has recorded over 35 albums under his own name, including the award-winning 2gether (Nagel-Heyer) with Bill Charlap and his latest release, Don't Look Back, with the Scottish Ensemble (Arbors). For film, Vaché acted and performed in The Gig, wrote and performed the score for The Luckiest Man in the World, and trained Richard Gere to play trumpet in The Cotton Club.
Wed, Jul 23: Piano Jam |
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| VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA |
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For over four decades the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra has been committed to engaging audiences in New York, across the U.S. and around the world in jazz and related American music experiences. The Orchestra was founded in 1966 by cornetist, composer and arranger Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis as an outlet for their creative energies outside the confines of the recording studio. With just a handful of musicians and arrangements, they got a booking from Village Vanguard owner Max Gordon for three Mondays in February for their newly-christened Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. The gig was an overwhelming success, and 42 years later, the renamed Vanguard Jazz Orchestra still performs there Monday nights.
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra sound has extended far beyond New York, as the Orchestra regularly criss-crosses the U.S. and the world. It is especially popular with campus audiences; in the past two years it has appeared at Arizona, Michigan State, Massachusetts, Clemson, Florida/Gainesville and Princeton universities, among others. Last summer, during its European Tour, the Orchestra began a yearly commitment to Jazz Assisi in Italy and just finished its second engagement this past May. A Planet Arts recording ensemble, the Orchestra won a 2004 Grammy Award for The Way—Music of Slide Hampton, and in 2006 it earned two Grammy nominations, including Best Jazz Ensemble, for Up From The Skies, music of the ensemble's current pianist, composer and arranger, Jim McNeely. The Orchestra's latest recording, a double-disk CD entitled Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard is due out this month. Its website is www.vanguardjazzorchestra.com.
Thu, Jul 24: The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: 42 Years of Swing |
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| CEDAR WALTON, piano |
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 For over six decades, Cedar Walton has worked lovingly on his craft. He moved to New York in 1955, where, after a two-year stint in the Army during which he got to sit in with Duke Ellington, he joined Kenny Dorham's band, followed by J.J. Johnson's sextets and Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet. Walton made his fame with his next job, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, for whom he composed such hits as "Mosaic" and "Ugetsu," and then began a long association with singer Abbey Lincoln. In the mid-'60s Walton became a freelancer and has been in constant demand ever since, working especially closely with drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Ron Carter. Walton made several recordings for Prestige, including his first album as a leader, Cedar. In 2001, he became an exclusive HighNote Records artist and has released four recordings, including the solo album, Underground Memoirs.
Wed, Jul 23: Piano Jam |
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| KENNY WASHINGTON, drums |
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 Kenny Washington was born in Brooklyn and attended the LaGuardia High School for Music & Art. He studied percussion with former Dizzy Gillespie drummer Rudy Collins, and in 1977, while still in his teens, he worked with Lee Konitz and his Nonet. Within the next few years Washington would perform and record with Betty Carter, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter and Frank Wess, and his freelance career would begin. He has now played with many other major artists, including Johnny Griffin, Milt Jackson, Tommy Flanagan, Jay McShann, the Mingus Dynasty, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval and Benny Goodman, and he is a member of the Bill Charlap Trio. Washington has a discography of over 100 titles, and he has an interest in jazz history, writing liner notes and helping to prepare re-releases by Art Blakey, Count Basie and others.
Tue, Jul 22: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein
Wed, Jul 30: The Shearing Sound: A Tribute to George Shearing |
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| PETER WASHINGTON, bass |
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 Perhaps the most recorded bassist of his generation, Peter Washington has a discography of over 350 recordings, and it grows on a near-weekly basis. Born in Los Angeles, he majored in English Literature at Berkeley, and while in San Francisco, he was invited by Art Blakey to move to New York and join his Jazz Messengers. From there Washington became part of two of jazz's most celebrated trios: the Tommy Flanagan Trio, and for the past ten years, the Bill Charlap Trio. Washington's freelance work roster is a "Who's Who" of jazz, including many Jazz in July artists. Among the instrumentalists are Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, David Sanchez, David Hazeltine, Regina Carter and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. He has worked with vocalists like Chris Conner, Mark Murphy, Paula West, and Ernestine Anderson.
Tue, Jul 22: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein
Wed, Jul 23: Piano Jam
Thu, Jul 31: Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn |
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| FRANK WESS, tenor saxophone |
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 Named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007, Frank Wess was born in Kansas City (MO) and is a celebrated saxophonist who helped establish the flute as a jazz instrument. After a stint in the Army, he first played in Billy Eckstine's band, and then in 1954 he moved to New York and joined the Count Basie Orchestra on tenor saxophone and flute, later adding alto sax. Later on, Wess led his own groups, including the quintet "Two Franks" with Frank Foster, and he played with bands such as the New York Jazz Quartet and Dameronia. He also worked in studios, for theater and on shows like Saturday Night Live, The Dick Cavett Show and The Sammy Davis, Jr., Show. Wess can also be heard on the soundtracks of several Woody Allen films, and he appears in Allen's Sweet and Lowdown.
Thu, Jul 31: Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn |
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