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Scott Robinson was born on April 27, 1959 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey and was the son of a piano teacher and National Geographic book editor. Graduating from the Berklee College of Music in 1981, the following year he joined the college’s staff, becoming its youngest faculty member.
Robinson has appeared on more than 275 LP and CD releases, including twenty under his leadership, with musicians Frank Wess, Roscoe Mitchell, Ruby Braff, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Paquito D’Rivera, David Bowie, Maria Schneider, Rufus Reid, Buck Clayton, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Four of these recordings won a Grammy Award. He has received four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2000, the U.S. State Department named him a jazz ambassador for the year 2001, funding a tour of West Africa in which he played the early works of Louis Armstrong. Material from these appearances was released on the album Jazz Ambassador: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Louis Armstrong by Arbors Records.
Throughout his career, Scott has worked to keep unusual and obscure instruments in the public view. His main instrument is a C-melody saxophone, however he has recorded with the ophicleide, and the rare contrabass saxophone.
Saxophonist Scott Robinson has operated his record label, ScienSonic Laboratories since 2009, in addition to his performing and recording.
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Axel Dörner was born on April 26, 1964 in Cologne, Germany and studied piano in the Dutch town Arnhem, Netherlands and at the Music Academy in Cologne. From 1991 he studied trumpet with Malte Burba, and during his studies collaborated with trumpeter Bruno Light as the Street Fighters Duo.
The duo expanded to form the Street Fighters Quartet and the Street Fighters Double Quartet, with members including Matthias Schubert, Bruno Leicht, and Claudio Puntin. He formed the Axel Dörner Quartet with Frank Gratkowski, Hans Schneider, and Martin Blume, and played with saxophonist Matthias Petzold on the albums Lifelines and Psalmen Und Lobgesänge.
Living in Berlin, Germany since 1994 and is an integral part of the city’s scene of new improvisational and experimental music. Besides playing solo and in his trio TOOT with Phil Minton and Thomas Lehn, he has played with Otomo Yoshihide, and in the groups Die Anreicherung, Ig Henneman Sextet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory-Band, Hedros, and the London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra.
A versatile musician, he has worked in the idiom of bebop, playing on pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s album Monk’s Casino, featuring interpretations of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk.
Trumpeter and pianist Axel Dörner continues to perform and record.
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Massimo DeAngelis was born on April 25, 1958 in Rome, Italy. A self-taught drummer, he began playing at the age of twelve. As a composer he plays and writes in various styles and genres across the musical spectrum, favoring high-energy instrumental jazz fusion.
He has performed with many groups, including I Percussionisti di Roma, a percussion ensemble. Throughout his career he has been invited to perform at several jazz festivals throughout Europe.
In 1986 Massimo emigrated to the United States and has been performing live and recording with numerous bands. Teaching privately for several years, he is now focusing his energy and time on composing, arranging, recording, and producing.
Drawing his inspiration from surrealism and improvisation, drummer, percussionist and keybordist Massimo DeAngelis’ music is intended to fill those many musical voids that exist around us. He continues to composer, record and perform.
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The Jazz Voyager
From Miami to Seattle is where this Jazz Voyager is in flight to Seattle~Tacoma International Airport for some more of the Northwest hospitality and jazz experience. Located in the downtown section of the city, The Triple Door is situated in a historic theater. Radiating urban cool with plush half-moon booths, state of the art sound witha side of colorful cocktails. The venue provides an intimate dimension to the atmosphere between artist and audience.
Pianist and composer Lynne Arrriale takes center stage in the Mainstage Theater for two nights and I’ll be in the audience on the second night. Having seen her over twenty years ago I anticipate hearing her growth as a performer. She won the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and has recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums.
The Triple Door is located at 216 Union Street, Seattle, Washington 98101. For more information contact the venue at https://www.thetripledoor.net.
Tickets: $30.00 General Admission | $38.00 Premium
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Collin Walcott was born on April 24, 1945 in New York City, New York. He studied violin and tympani in his youth, and studied percussion at Indiana University School of Music. After graduating in 1966, he went to the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied sitar under Ravi Shankar and tabla under Alla Rakha.
Walcott moved to New York and blended bop and oriental music with Tony Scott in 1967–69. Around 1970 he joined the Paul Winter Consort and co-founded the band Oregon. These groups, along with the trio Codona, which was founded in 1978, combined jazz improvisation and instrumentation with elements of a wide range of classical and ethnic music.
He played with Miles Davis on his 1972 album On the Corner, had three releases under his own name on ECM Records. He taught at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Sitar and tabla player Collin Walcott was killed in a bus crash in Magdeburg, East Germany on November 8, 1984 while on a tour with Oregon.
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