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Alfredo Remus was born on November 9, 1938 in Argentina. He learned to play the double bass and by 1964 was part of the ensemble recording the historic album La Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramírez. He has performed and/or recorded with Paul Gonsalves, Vinícius de Moraes, Maria Bethânia, Enrique “Mono” Villegas, Gato Barbieri, Mercedes Sosa, Tony Bennett, Ariel Ramírez, Víctor Heredia, Alberto Cortez, Trio Los Panchos, Raphael, Cuarteto Zupay, Dyango, Leonardo Favio, Sandro, Susana Rinaldi, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others.
He was regularly participated in a series of improvisation and casual folk experimentation at the house of Eduardo Lagos, named humorously by Hugo Diaz as folkloréishons, the jazz jam sessions with Astor Piazzolla, Diaz, Oscar Cardozo Ocampo, Domingo Cura, and Oscar López Ruiz, to name a few. Double bassist Alfredo Remus, the interpreter of tango, jazz, Argentine folklore, and bossa nova, continues to perform.
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Jon Eardley was born on September 30, 1928 in Altoona, Pennsylvania and first started on trumpet at the age of 11. His father played in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. From the age of eighteen, he played1946 to 1949 he played in the Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., then led with his own quartet in D.C. from 1950 to 1953.
A move to New York City in 1953 got him introduced to the jazz scene. The following year he played with Phil Woods, then left for Gerry Mulligan for three years, and during that time played with Hal McIntyre. Returning to his hometown, Jon played there until 1963, when he moved to Europe and settled for a time in Belgium.
1969 saw his next residency in Cologne, Germany where he played with Harald Banter and Chet Baker and working through the 1980s. The last years before death he played in the WDR Big Band Cologne, Germany. Trumpeter Jon Eardley passed away on April 1, 1991 in Lambermont, near Verviers, Belgium.
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Ayako Shirasaki was born on September 16, 1969 in Tokyo, Japan and started classical piano lessons at age five, and was intrigued by her father’s professional trombone-playing. By age twelve she began her professional career playing gigs at the “J” jazz club in Tokyo.
After attending the Tokyo Metropolitan High School for Arts, Shirasaki majored in classical music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and gave concerts as a classical pianist for several years after graduating before returning to play jazz.
Her 1997 move to New York City saw her pursuing a master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with pianist Kenny Barron. Landing in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ayako operates the Brooklyn location of the Sakura Music School, which specializes in teaching music to small children with an emphasis on those of Japanese ancestry.
Performing regularly in the New York area, she tours internationally, in addition to recording. Her debut trio album Existence brought drummer Lewis Nash and bassist Marco Panascia together in 2003. She has since recorded four addition albums, has been featured on Marian McPartland’s National Public Radio show Piano Jazz, and was a finalist in the Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Piano Competition in 2005 and 2006 and the Great American Jazz Piano Competition in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Pianist and educator Ayako Shirasaki continues to perform, tour, record, and teach.
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Steve Davis was born on September 10, 1958 in Santa Barbara, California. With Shelly Manne as his godfather, he became interested in the drums at a young age. Following the advice of drum teacher Alan Dawson, he moved to New York City in the early 1980s to begin his career as a jazz drummer.
Once there Steve met jazz educator Jamey Aebersold, and by 1982 joined the Aebersold clinic faculty. Throughout the 1980s while studying privately with Joe Morello he worked in New York City, meeting pianist Lynne Arriale at a jam session soon after she moved to the city in 1991.
As an educator, Davis holds a faculty position at the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Summer Schools in the US and the Jazzwise Summer Schools in the UK. He has taught at Triton College, Webster University, Washington University, Berlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of South Florida.
He has recorded five albums as a leader, and eighteen as a sideman with Arriale, Aebersold, Joe Beck, Ali Ryerson, Manfredo Fest, Monika Herzig, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, and Walt Weiskopf. Drummer Steve Davis, who is a recording engineer, continues to perform and record as a musician.
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Marlon Jordan was born August 21, 1970 in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of six performers of a prominent family of New Orleans musicians. He is the son of saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan and classical pianist Edvidge Jordan, and his brother Kent is a flutist, his sister Rachel is a violinist, and sister Stephanie is a jazz singer.
Starting on playing trumpet in the fourth grade, he graduated from the famed New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. A major influence was Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard who he knew when he was a child. Marlon recorded as a sideman with his brother Kent in 1987 and Dennis González in 1988.
In 1988 at age 18 he recorded his debut album as a leader, For You Only, with Branford Marsalis, brother Kent, and Elton Heron. Taking his quintet on the road, with Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis and George Benson, he was billed as one of the headlining act in a series of JVC Jazz Festival dates. They would go on to play some of the country’s top jazz clubs, as well as in concerts.
He has recorded with his immediate family, Stephanie, Edward, Rachel, Kent, along with uncle Alvin Batiste, cousin Jonathan Bloom, uncle Maynard Chatters, and Chatters’ son, Mark.
In 2005, Marlon and sister Stephanie toured Bucharest, Germany, Lithuania and Ukraine as Jazz Ambassadors on a European Tour as part of the Higher Ground Relief effort sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, and Jazz at Lincoln Center to thank the people of Europe for their support of New Orleans and the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina. Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Marlon Jordan continues to perform, record, and tour.
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