Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Michael Patrick Dease was born August 25, 1982 in Augusta, Georgia. He attended John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet High School where he studied saxophone and voice. He achieved all-state vocal honors for three consecutive years.
At 17 Michael taught himself to play trombone and was soon invited to join the inaugural class of the Juilliard jazz studies program by Wycliffe Gordon. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees while at the school. While at Juilliard he won many awards, including the Frank Rosolino Award, J.J. Johnson Award, the Sammy Nestico Jazz Composers Award, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, and the Fish Middleton Jazz Competition.[2]
He began his career in Illinois Jacquet’s Big Band in 2002, and has performed as a featured member of the big bands of Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Jimmy Heath, Charles Tolliver and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars. He also performs with small groups led by Claudio Roditi, Rodney Whitaker, Wycliffe Gordon, and David Sanborn. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. In addition to performance, Dease serves as president and producer at his jazz record label, D Clef Records.
Dease conducts master classes and workshops at universities and conservatories around the world, holds the position of Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone at the Michigan State University College of Music. He has held similar positions at Queens College, CUNY, and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.
Tenor and bass trombonist, composer, producer and educator Michael Dease continues to perform, compose, record and educate.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Mick Goodrick was born on June 9, 1945 in Sharon, Pennsylvania and began studying guitar in his pre-teens and was performing professionally a few years later. At sixteen he became interested in jazz at a Stan Kenton Band Camp. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts and attended the Berklee School of Music from 1963 to 1967, eventually teaching at Berklee,
After spending a few years touring with Gary Burton, he returned to Boston, he settled into a career largely as an educator. Goodrick’s notable students include Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, John Scofield, Lage Lund, Mike Stern, Avner Strauss, and Rale Micic.
During the 1980s to the late 1990s,Mick worked with Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, Jack DeJohnette and with Steve Swallow. He performed in a duo with Pat Metheny at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005 and with Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Jazz Standard in 2008.
Guitarist Mick Goodrick died November 16, 2022 from the long-term effects of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 77.
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Karl Sterling was born in Ithaca, New York on June 5, 1961. Growing up in a musical household, it was a natural thing for him to take to music and drums. Both parents attended the Ithaca College School of Music with his father, a drummer, composer/arranger, and band leader, his mother, a vocalist and pianist.
His interest turned to medicine and he became a nuerorehabilitation specialist, educator, and advocate for people with Parkinson’s disease. So in 2018 Karl founded the Parkinson’s Global Project nonprofit corporation dedicated to funding research and supporting associations around the world.
Using his musical talents to raise awareness of the disease, in 2019, Sterling recorded Dream, a project in which Jimmy Haslip, Jeff Richman, Peter Erskine, Scott Kinsey, and other musicians donated their time and talent.
He has since traveled, researching with and educating neurologists, physical therapists, fitness trainers, people with Parkinson’s, and caregivers all over the world.
Drummer Karl Sterling has spent the majority of his life in the Syracuse, New York area and continues to perform, compose and educate.
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John Morell was born into a family of guitarists on June 2, 1958 in Niagara Falls, New York. His father was his first teacher and together they would play jazz with him leading and his father accompanying him and then they would switch.
As he matured he began composing and controlling the setting. His most recent recording Trading Places is an album that swings with a more contemporary sound. Morell often played with drummer John Guerin and added organist and keyboardist Steve Bohanon to make a trio.
He and Guerin have played on 40 films and countless TV soundtracks or at recording sessions for albums. The guitarist figures he’s played on 40 films, and countless TV soundtracks and recordings.
In 1968 Berkeley, California he played a concert with the Gil Evans Orchestra and the Miles Davis Quintet. For four years beginning in 1970, John was a member of the Shelly Manne outfit. Then, for a period of time Morell gave up playing to focus on building furniture. Though it paid the bills it wasn’t satisfying and he returned to music, operating his own studio and continued to flourish in a side career as a woodworker.
Guitarist, organist and composer John Morell, best known for his work with drummer Shelly Manne’s sextet, continues to perform and record.
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Marco Cortesi was born on May 18, 1962 in Locarno, Switzerland. Though learning the guitar early he began taking music seriously at the age of 20. He attended several Italian summer camps with Joe di Jorio, Jim Hall, Mick Goodrick and others. From 1985 to 1991 he enrolled at the Swiss Jazz School (SJS) in Bern, Switzerland where he studied and played with Frank Sikora, Rachel Gould, Woody Shaw, Sal Nistico and others.
After graduation at SJS in 1991, he started a musical and artistic relationship with American and European musicians and started working regularly with Gene Calderazzo in a trio that features special guests such as Franco Ambrosetti, Walt Szymansky, Jon Davis, Mark Abrams, Dario Deidda, Jeff Gardner, Rick Margitza, Giorgio di Tullio, Alberto Bonacasa and many others. He went on to perform in trio to quintet configurations at festivals and in clubs.
In 1997 he’s in London, England for a tour with the Gene Calderazzo Quartet. That same year the Swiss label Altri Suoni released his first CD Triblu. In 1999 he was in New York City he worked, toured and recorded with pianist Jeff Gardner. He went on to tour with tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza, with whom he also recorded with his sophomore project Why Not in 2000. He has collaborated with Franco Ambrosetti, trumpeter Hilaria Kramer, lute player Luca Pianca, and viola player Walter Fähndrich.
Guitarist Marco Cortesi composed all the music and soundtracks played and recorded by his group. He writes music for jingles, radio tunes, and electronic compositions for professional use in the media business.
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