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David Chevan was born on September 19, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was musically active from an early age and led synagogue services from the age of 10. His double-bass education has mostly been self taught, but credits bassist, Lisle Atkinson for showing me the pathway to self-education.
As a composer, Chevan focused on works for improvisors, writing for a wide range of artists and ensembles, including collaborations with dance and film. He performs regularly in a duo with pianist Warren Byrd and co-leads The Afro-Semitic Experience.
As an educator he is an Associate Professor of Music at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. David is currently studying the music of bassist Slam Stewart and is a board trustee of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.
He has performed and recorded with Ali Ryerson, Joe Beck, Jaki Byard, Harold Danko, Ellery Eskelin, Giacomo Gates, Frank London, Andrea Parkins, and Cookie Segelstein. Bassist David Chevan tours when time permits in his teaching schedule.
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Gordon James Beck was born on September 16, 1935 in Brixton, London, England where he attended Pinner County Grammar School. He studied piano in his youth, but decided to pursue a career as an engineering technical draughtsman and moved to Canada in 1957 for this reason.
Largely self-taught, he returned to music after returning home from Canada in 1958, where he had been exposed to the works of George Shearing and Dave Brubeck. He became a professional musician in 1960 and played with saxophonist Don Byas in Monte Carlo. Beck joined the Tubby Hayes group in 1962, then led his own bands from 1965, including Gyroscope, from 1968, a trio with bassist Jeff Clyne and drummer Tony Oxley.
1967 saw the Gordon Beck Quartet record the album Experiments with Pops released on Major Minor MMLP 21 in 1968. That same year they recorded with Joy Marshall and released as When Sunny Gets Blue decades later.
Beck first played with vocalist Helen Merrill in 1969 and continued the relationship into the 1990s when she toured Europe. From 1969 to 1972 he toured with saxophonist Phil Woods’s European Rhythm Machine.
In the Sixties and Seventies he was a house pianist at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Beck played experimental funk with George Gruntz from1973-75), and free jazz with improv drummer John Stevens and was a member of Nucleus between 1973 and 1974.
From middle age, Beck played predominantly in mainland Europe, recorded albums with Allan Holdsworth, Henri Texier, Didier Lockwood and others. He often played solo from the 1980s and started teaching music at the same poin and toured Japan with Holdsworth in 1985.
Pianist Gordon Beck stopped performing around 2005 because of poor health and died in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England on November 6, 2011.
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Albert Aloysius Casey was born September 15, 1915 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a child prodigy who first played violin, then switched to ukulele. He began playing guitar in 1930 and attended DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City where he studied guitar. He met Fats Waller in 1933 and the following year, at eighteen, he became a member of Waller’s band.
Making several recordings with the band, he is known for having played the solo in Buck Jumpin’. After Waller’s death in 1943, he led his own trio and for two consecutive years in the 1940s, he was voted best guitarist in Esquire magazine.
From 1957, he was a member of a rhythm and blues band led by King Curtis. Four years later he dropped out of music, though he returned in the 1970s to record with Helen Humes and Jay McShann. Another absence followed until 1981, when he returned to music to play with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band.
During his career, Casey worked with Louis Armstrong, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Billy Kyle, Frankie Newton, Clarence Profit, Art Tatum, and Teddy Wilson.
Guitarist Albert Casey died of colon cancer on September 11, 2005, four days shy of his 80th birthday.
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JACQUES LESURE TRIO
The guitarist takes to the stage bringing special friends with him for an evening of great jazz. Coming out of Detroit the jazz guitarist is a recording artist is signed to WJ3 Records.
He has performed with several jazz artists, such as Jimmy Smith and Stanley Turrentine as well as Wynton Marsalis, Eric Reed, Warren Wolf and Gregory Porter.His performances can be heard in La La Land, the Academy Award winning movie.
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Eddie Moore was born in Houston, Texas on September 14, 1940 and began his musical journey at Texas Southern University where he earned a Bachelors in Arts and immersed himself in the Houston music scene. He relocated to Kansas City, studied under Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and received a M.A in Jazz Studies.
He formed a jazz fusion group Eddie Moore & The Outer Circle in 2012, with diversity and inclusiveness defining him as an artist. His debut album, The Freedom of Expression, was released in 2013. With a performing and visual arts curator he created an experimental platform in partnership with Charlotte Street that pairs time-based artists, producers and musicians.
Eddie has received awards and a 2017 residency at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. He has composed music that has been featured commercially for Sprint, Netflix’s Queer Eye, Morgan Cooper’s short film Room Tone, and Peacock’s Bel-Air.
He has shared the stage and recorded with Tia Fuller, Pam Watson, Logan Richardson, Maurice Brown, Boys II Men, Brian Blade and the Fellowship, John Baptiste, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Bilal, Ledisi, Chantae Cann, Krystal Warren, Andre Hayward, Tivon Pennicott, and Various Blonde.
As an educator his passion for teaching sent him on a course as a jazz lecturer at the University of Kansas, created a pilot Incubator, Tribe Studios, which programs master classes, music business meet-ups, and provides creative/maker space for musicians and visual artists.
Pianist and bandleader Eddie Moore is an integral member of the music community in Kansas City, as well as an advocate for change and resources for professional artists.
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