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Adam Nussbaum was born in New York City on November 29, 1955 and grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut. He first played the drums at the age of four, however, it wasn’t until after five years of piano study that he got his first drum set when he was around twelve. He went on to study music at the City College of New York, during which time he also played in local clubs.
1978 saw Adam joining Dave Liebman’s quintet and did his first European tour with John Scofield. He played with saxophonist Stan Getz for a year in 1982. The following year he became a member of the Gil Evans Orchestra, and toured Europe and Japan two years later.
Joining the Eliane Elias/Randy Brecker Quartet, Gary Burton, and Toots Thielemans, by 1987 he began touring with Michael Brecker’s band. He was a member of Brecker’s Grammy award-winning album. Don’t Try This At Home. In 1991 John Abercrombie hired Nussbaum to complete his organ trio and during 1992 Nussbaum was part of the Carla Bley Big Band.
He has kept active in a wide variety of groups and as a freelancer. His quartet recording debut as leader in 2018 was The Lead Belly Project, released on Sunnyside Records.
Drummer Adam Nussbaum continues to perform and record.
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Bill Allred was born in Rock Island, Illinois on November 19, 1936 into a family where his father played the Streckfus Steamboat lines on the Mississippi.
He formed a Dixieland band while still in high school. In 1954 he enlisted in the Navy, playing with Navy bands throughout his tour and was excited to be part of a big band for the first time. Returning home he married, pursued a regular career and continued to gig.
His big break came in 1970 when, out of 2500 auditioning musicians, he was chosen to be part of the Disney World Band on the park’s opening day in 1970. While at Disney he formed a trad band called The Reedy Creek Jazz Band. The band was noticed by Bob Snow, who recruited him to put together a show and band for the Rosie O’Grady’s Goodtime Jazz Emporium, that ran for 25 years.
In 1979, Bill formed the Continental Jazz Band for a Roaring Twenties club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Auntie Mame’s” later won the Carbonell Award for Best Cabaret Show in South Florida.
Trombonist and bandleader Bill Allred, who was a vital component of the classic jazz scene in South Florida, died on February 1, 2024 at the age of 87.
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Chris Flory was born November 13, 1953 in New York City, New York and began playing guitar in his early teens. Around that time he heard his first jazz album, Forest Flower by Charles Lloyd. He was influenced by seeing live performances of Jimi Hendrix, B. B. King, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk during the late 1960s. Through his friend Scott Hamilton he met musicians and while babysitting the children of Gil Evans he listened to albums by Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His music has been inspired by Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker.
In his early teens Flory played in rock bands but three years later had a couple jazz lessons with guitarist Tiny Grimes. In the early 1970s he studied at Hobart College, and performed with Hamilton intermittently from 1975 through the early 1990s. He began to record his own albums as a leader after Hamilton’s quintet broke up.
From 1977 to 1983 Chris played in the Benny Goodman Sextet, then worked with Ruby Braff, Judy Carmichael, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Bob Wilber, Milt Hinton, Hank Jones, Duke Robillard, and Maxine Sullivan.
Guitarist Chris Flory, who has recorde six albums as a leader and as a sideman twenty-eight, continues to perform and record.
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César Cardoso was born on November 10, 1982, in Leiria, Portugal. At only seven years old he dedicated his time to studying music, From 2004 to 2008 he studied at Hot Clube de Portugal’s Jazz School, where he had lessons with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira and started to distinguish himself as a jazz musician. 2008 had him enrolled at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he continued to work with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira. Completing a Jazz Bachelor Degree in saxophone performance, he became a member of the dixieland group Desbundixie with whom he recorded Kick’n Blow in 2007 and Up 2 Nine in 2009.
In 2010, César recorded his debut, Half Step, with his quintet at that time followed with a second album, Bottom Shelf, was released five years later in Hot Clube de Portugal, and features his original music this time written for His third album Interchange, was recorded with special guest, Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone.his quartet. His fourth album, Deice of Tenors, is a large ensemble recording.
He published the book Teoria do Jazz (Jazz Theory), with Chiado Editora, the first book ever written in Portuguese about the theoretical bases of Jazz, thought through to serve as a handbook for jazz students. His second book, a complement of the first, is titled Teoria do Jazz – Exercícios. Cardoso has composed and arranged for big bands, such as the Orquestra Jazz de Leiria and the Orquestra do Hot Clube de Portugal.
Saxophonist César Cardoso has won awards, became the first Portuguese musician to become an Artist Henri SELMER Paris, completed his PhD in Music and Musicology, and continues to perform, compose, arrange and teach at the Universidade de Évora in the Jazz degree program and is the pedagogical director of Escola de Jazz de Leiria.
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Lucy Galliher was born in Washington, D.C. on November 11, 1954. He graduated from Maret High School, received her BA in Music from Oberlin College and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study jazz piano with Joanne Brackeen. She went on to study at BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop with Manny Albam, Roger Kellaway, Jim McNeely and also studied piano with Art Lande, Mark Levine, Barry Harris, and Hansi Alt.
She is on the faculty of Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and the Greenwich House Music School. She has held the position of East Coast Editor of Jazz Now Magazine, has performed on Broadway, cruise ships, recorded albums, and performed live in a variety of settings.
Pianist Lucy Galliher, who currently is an online Jazz Reviewer, continues to perform and record.
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