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Mace Hibbard was born and raised in Waco, Texas on October 22, 1976. His early music lessons included piano and voice until settling on the saxophone at age ten. Through his teen years he played with his father, trumpeter Dave Hibbard, attaining a firm grasp of jazz history and its standard repertoire.
Hibbard attended the University of Texas in Austin, earning a Bachelor’s in Musical Performance and a Masters in Jazz Studies. While in Austin, he developed as a composer and formed “Odd Man Out”, releasing their self-titled debut on Viewpoint Records in 2000. Developing his reputation as an outstanding performer in all genres, playing in ensembles as diverse as The Austin Symphony, singer-songwriter Drew Smith, The Creative Opportunity Orchestra, and The Stingers.
After 10 years of being one of the most sought after woodwind players in Austin, Mace relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. This led to his association with The Derek Trucks Band and Soul Stew Revival with Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi in 2005, with this union culminating in his winning a 2010 Grammy Award for his playing and horn arrangements on Already Free. He has performed at the 2008 Atlanta Jazz Festival, 2009 Battle Royale celebration concert at the Savannah Music Festival where he was a featured soloist alongside such jazz luminaries as the Marcus Roberts Trio, The Clayton Brothers, Terrell Stafford, Scotty Barnhart, Jeff Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon and Andre Hayward.
Mace released his debut album as a leader, “When Last We Met” in 2007 to critical acclaim and worldwide airplay, his sophomore project “Time Gone By” was released in 2011. His playing and compositions can be found on recordings by Melvin Jones, Yonrico Scott, Ben Tucker, The Joe Gransden Big Band, Jennifer Holliday, Trey Wright, Bryant Thompson, and Marlon Patton, and is a featured saxophonist/composer on Atlanta Sax Allstars.
Saxophonist Mace Hibbard continues to perform leading his quintet while touring and sharing the stage with Marcus Printup, The Temptations, The O’Jays, The Four Tops, Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton, Frankie Avalon, Frankie Valli, The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra, and rock bands Scrapmatic and Son Volt and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
An educator in his own right Mace teaches jazz saxophone and improvisation at Georgia State University, has taught jazz studies at Jackson State University, and has conducted clinics throughout the United Staes and Canada. Soprano and tenor saxophonist, composer and educator Mace Hibbard continues to evolve his legacy in jazz.
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Don Elliott was born on October 21, 1926 in Somerville, New Jersey. He played mellophone in his high school band and played trumpet for an army band. After study at the University of Miami he added vibraphone to his arsenal of instruments. He recorded with Terry Gibbs and Buddy Rich before forming his own band.
From 1953 to 1960 he won the Down Beat readers poll several times for “miscellaneous instrument-mellophone.” Known as the “Human Instrument”, Elliott additionally performed jazz as a vocalist, trombonist, flugelhornist and percussionist. He pioneered the art of multi-track recording, composed over 5000 jingles with a countless number being prize-winning advertising jingles, prepared film scores, recorded over 60 albums and built a thriving production company.
Don scored several Broadway productions, such as The Beast In Me and A Thunder Carnival, the latter of which he performed with the Don Elliott Quartet, provided one of the voices for the novelty jazz duo the Nutty Squirrels, and lent his vocal talents to such motion picture soundtracks as The Getaway, $ (Dollars), The Hot Rock and The Happy Hooker.
His album Calypso Jazz is considered by some jazz enthusiasts to be one of the definitive calypso jazz albums. He worked with Paul Desmond, Bill Taylor, Billy Eckstine, Bill Evans, Urbie Green, Michel Legrand, George Shearing and Mundell Lowe among others over his career. Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, publisher and producer Don Elliott, who was a longtime associate of Quincy Jones, passed away of cancer in Weston, Connecticut on July 5, 1984.
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From Broadway To 52nd Street
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the musical Betsy as a vehicle for an actress named Belle Baker. When its producer Flo Ziegfeld decided that the show needed a big hit ballad, he went straight to Irving Berlin and asked him for one and Blue Skies was quickly dropped into the musical and on opening night on December 28, 1926 in the New Amsterdam Theatre, Rodgers and Hart – who never countenanced interpolations into their shows – sat in their house seats, fuming. The show faded away after only thirty-nine performances, however, Blue Skies went on to become part of show business history and a popular standard.
Broadway History: At its height in 1928, Broadway had been reduced to a twelve-block area between 41st and 53rd streets, however it originally encompassed an area stretching from 35th to 54th street, between 6th and 8th avenues. Although the district was comprised of nearly 80 theatres only four theatres are actually located on Broadway, The Marquis at 46th, The Palace at 47th, The Winter Garden at 50th and The Broadway at 53rd Street. The balance of the legitimate houses was located either east or west of this avenue. This however was not always the case. In 1810, if you wandered up Broadway north of the Battery towards the villages of Greenwich or Harlem farther to the north of the common pasture, Sheep’s Meadow; past Wall Street and Maiden Lane, at City Hall Park you would have passed the beautiful Park Theatre on Park Row. A second theatre, The Bowery, was built in 1821 and the migration of “mid-town” towards the north was well underway.
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Joe Bourne was born on October 20, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and music became a part of his life at an early age. He began singing in a church choir and on the street corner with various singing groups.
Greatly inspired by such greats as Nat King Cole and Lou Rawls, his US career grew from lead singer for a Top 40 rhythm and blues/jazz band to international status, recording and releasing albums with hit singles. During this period he made several radio and TV commercials for Delta Airlines, Coca Cola and the American Telephone Company.
A move to Europe saw Bourne performing for the American and Dutch military and supporting acts in concert, such as The Stylistics, Natalie Cole, The Manhattans, The Pointer Sisters, Dionne Warwick and Ray Charles while they were on their European tour. He has performed in Scandinavia, Australia, Aruba, Indonesia, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
Apart from his solo performances and his engagements with 25 to 100 voice choirs, Joe teams up with female colleagues for duet performances complemented by various orchestra backings from combo to Big Band or symphony orchestras.
He has been awarded for his rendition of Gershwin’s Summertime, the Silver Orpheus in Bulgaria and the Jimmy Kennedy Award in Ireland. He was also awarded the Kunsteler des Jahres and the Diamantes des Jahres for top class entertainment in Germany. Vocalist Joe Bourne continues to perform and record.
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Red Richards was born Charles Coleridge Richards on October 19, 1912 in New York City and began playing classical piano at age ten. After hearing Fats Waller at age 26 he concentrated on jazz. His first major professional gig was with Tab Smith at the Savoy Ballroom in New York from 1945 to 1949. He went on to play and record with Pee Wee Russell, Bob Wilber, Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton, Big Chief Moore, Muggsy Spanier, Fletcher Henderson through the Fifties.
Richards toured Italy and France with Mezz Mezzrow, accompanied Frank Sinatra while in Italy, became a solo performer for a year in Columbus, Ohio, and played with Wild Bill Davison in the late 50s and again in 1962.
In 1960 Red formed Saints & Sinners with Vic Dickerson, playing with this ensemble until 1970. He joined jazz drummer Chuck Slate’s band in 1971, recorded an album with him called “Bix ‘N All That Jazz”. Through the mid-Seventies he worked with Eddie Condon, put together his own trio for two years, played with Panama Francis’s Savoy Sultans touring with them from1979 through the Eighties.
Pianist Red Richards recorded nine albums as a leader, recorded with Bill Coleman in 1980 and continued to tour nearly till the time of his death on March 12, 1998 in Scarsdale, New York.
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