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Juini Booth was born Arthur Edward Booth on February 12, 1948 in Buffalo, New York. He began playing piano at about age eight, and switched to bass at 12. He worked with Chuck Mangione in his hometown before moving to New York City around 1966, where he played with Eddie Harris, Art Blakey, Sonny Simmons, Marzette Watts, Freddie Hubbard and Shelley Manne out in Hollywood through the end of the decade.
In the 70s Juini performed with Erroll Garner, Gary Bartz, Charles Brown, Tony Williams and McCoy Tyner and recorded with Larry Young, and with Takehiro Honda and Masabumi Kikuchi during a 1974 tour of Tokyo. He would spend a short period with Hamiett Bluiett, then resettle in Buffalo but worked with Chico Hamilton in Los Angeles and Junior Cook in New York. By the late 70s he played with Elvin Jones and Charles Tolliver.
From 1980 on, he played with Ernie Krivda in Cleveland, as well as locally in Buffalo. He recorded freelance with Beaver Harris, Steve Grossman, Joe Chambers, and Sun Ra among others and currently lives and works in New York City.
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Sérgio Santos Mendes was born in Niteroi, Rio de Janiero, Brazil on February 11, 1941. S a child he attended the local conservancy with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as the jazz-inflected derivative of samba known as bossa nova emerged.
Mendes formed the Sexteto Bossa Rio, recorded Dance Moderna in 1961, toured Europe and the U.S., recorded with Cannonball Adderley and Herbie Mann, played Carnegie Hall and then moved to the States in 1964, cutting two albums for Capitol and Atlantic Records.
Sergio would join the Musicians Union, Create Brasil 65, change the name later to Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, opt not to record Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va” which would become a hit for Carlos Santana, release “Mas Que Nada” that would take them platinum. He would record “Look Around” and their fourth album “Fool On A Hill”.
His breakout success was with the performance of Burt Bacharach’s “The Look of Love” at the 1968 Academy Awards telecast, ultimately becoming the biggest Brazilian star in the world at the time. He would go on to record for Elektra, Bell, A&M and Concord record labels, collaborate with Stevie Wonder, reunite with Lani Hall on the Bond “Never Say Never Again” soundtrack, record with will.i.am and The Black Eyed Peas, Jill Scott, India Arie and others on his Timeless project, win several Grammys over the course of his fifty-five releases and be twice nominated for an Academy Award for the Look of Love and his contributions to the 2011 film “Rio”.
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Ari Brown was born on February 1, 1944. Growing up in Chicago he learned to play the piano and saxophone. He attended Wilson College where he met Jack DeJohnette, Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman.
Brown played piano in R&B and soul bands in the 1960s, then switched to saxophone in 1965. By 1971 he was a member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) and was also playing with The Awakening in the early 1970s. In 1974 Ari lost several teeth in a car crash, and temporarily switched to piano again until he recovered.
By the late 1970s he was playing sax once more with McCoy Tyner, Don Patterson and Sonny Stitt. In the 1980s, Brown worked with Lester Bowie, Von Freeman, Bobby Watson and Anthony Braxton. He would later become a member of Kahil El’Zabar’s trio.
As a leader he recorded three albums for Delmark and as a sideman has recorded thirteen sessions with The Awakening, the Ritual Trio, Orbert Davis, the Juba Collective and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. Saxophonist and pianist Ari Brown continues to perform and record.
Jazz In Film
Rhapsody In Blue: 1945 film directed by Irving Rapper and starred Robert Alda, Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith. This biography depicts the life of George Gershwin, a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
The movie includes appearances by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra and pianist Hazel Scott.
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Bob Moses was born Rakalam Bob Moses on January 28, 1948 in New York City. Studying drums during his childhood by the time he was a teenager in 1964, he was playing with Roland Kirk. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell formed the jazz-fusion group “Free Spirits” two years later and then in 1967 began working with Gary Burton, with whom he would record with in the Seventies.
During this era he released his first album as a leader titled “Bittersuite” in 1975 followed by his “Devotion” in ’79. He was a member of “Compost” with Harold Vick, Jumma Santos, Jack Gregg and Jack Dejohnette; and began working with Dave Liebman/Open Sky, Pat Metheny, Hal Galper, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, George Gruntz and Emily Remler to name a few.
Moses would continue to record from the 80s into the new millennium as a leader for Gramavision, Amulet, Navarre, Sunny Side and Jazzwerkstat record labels with many of his releases receiving critical acclaim.
Drummer Bob Moses currently performs alongside John Lockwood, Don Pate, and John Medeski with noted guitarist Tisziji Muñoz and teaches at the New England Conservatory.
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