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Ari Hoenig was born November 13, 1973 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a vocalist father and violinist mother. He was exposed to classical and other music at an early age, playing piano and violin. He went on to explore rock and metal drums as a teenager before settling into jazz.
Hoenig attended Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts in summer of 1990, followed by attending the University of North Texas College of Music for three years and was a member of the highly regarded One O’Clock Lab Band.
Relocating to New York he began playing with Shirley Scott and went on to record with Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Richard Bona, Dave Liebman, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Tigran Hamasyan, Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Fred Hersch, Snarky Puppy, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pat Martino, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny and many others.
Ari has performed at the Dominican Republic Jazz Festival alongside Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Chucho Valdes, and has appeared with his Punk Bop Band with Jonathan Kreisberg and Gilad Hekselman. Drummer, composer and educator Ari Hoenig continues to record, perform and tour.
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Andrew Charles Cyrille was born on November 10, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York into a Haitian family. He began studying science at St. John’s University but was already playing jazz in the evenings and soon switched his studies to the Juilliard School. His first drum teachers were fellow Brooklyn-based drummers Willie Jones and Lenny McBrown. Through them, he met Max Roach, nonetheless he became a disciple of Philly Joe Jones.
His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher, had an early recording session with Coleman Hawkins and trumpeter Ted Curson introduced him to pianist Cecil Taylor when he was 18. He joined the Taylor unit in 1964 and stayed for about 10 years and eventually performed drum duos with Milford Graves.
In addition to recording a dozen albums as a bandleader, he has recorded and/or performed with David Murray, Irene Schweizer, Marilyn Crispell, Carla Bley, Butch Morris, Reggie Workman, Oliver Lake, Geri Allen, Ahmad Abdul-Malik, Billy Bang, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Walt Dickerson, Charlie Haden, David Murray, Horace Tapscott and the list goes on.
Avant-garde drummer Andrew Cyrille is currently a member of the group, Trio 3, with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman.
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Errol Parker was born Raphaël Schecroun on October 30,1925 in Oran, French Algeria. In 1964, Parker composed the song Lorre, which became a hit in France, and opened his own jazz club called Le Ladybird on Rue de la Huchette.
Following a serious car accident which impaired Parker’s piano playing, he emigrated to New York, where his daughter Elodie Lauten was to begin university in February 1968. It was in America that he started a second career as a record producer, but unable to find a suitable drummer, he started to perform as a jazz drummer, which was not affected by his shoulder injury.
Pianist, composer, record producer and drummer Errol Parker, who played and recorded as a leader and with Django Reinhardt, James Moody, Don Byas and Kenny Clarke among others, passed away of liver cancer at the age of 72 on July 2, 1998 in New York City.
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J. C. Moses was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 18, 1936 and was related to pianist Jimmy Golden and trumpeter Clifford Thornton. Somewhat of a mystery figure in jazz history, he was a very versatile and for a time greatly in-demand drummer who played in settings ranging from mainstream to free jazz.
Moses first gained the attention of the jazz world in the early 1960s, when he recorded with Clifford Jordan, Kenny Dorham and Eric Dolphy. As a member of the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp, John Tchicai and Don Cherry, he toured Scandinavia in 1963 and recorded in Denmark. Returning to New York the following year, J. C. recorded with Bud Powell on the album The Return of Bud Powell, was with the New York Art Quartet, then was with an early version of Charles Lloyd’s Quartet and spent two years with Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
During this period drummer J. C. Moses also worked with Archie Shepp, Andrew Hill and Sam Rivers. By 1969 he played regularly in Copenhagen as the house drummer at the Montmartre Club. However, erratic health forced him to cut back on his activities in the early 1970s and he returned to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately he never led his own record date but he would occasionally played with Nathan Davis and Eric Kloss before his untimely death in 1977.
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Edward Joseph Blackwell was born on October 10, 1929 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His drumming style was greatly influenced by the second line parade music. His early career began in his hometown in the 1950s playing in a bebop quintet that included pianist Ellis Marsalis and clarinetist Alvin Battiste. For a brief stint he toured with Ray Charles.
Blackwell first came to national attention as the drummer with Ornette Coleman’s quartet around 1960, when he took over for Billy Higgins in the quartet’s legendary stand at the Five Spot in New York City. Known as one of the great innovators of free jazz of the 1960s, fusing New Orleans and African rhythms with bebop.
In the 1970s and 1980s Blackwell toured and recorded extensively with fellow Ornette’s Quartet veterans Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Dewey Redman in the Old and New Dreams Quartet. By the late 1970s he became an Artist-in-Residence at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and was a beloved figure on the Wesleyan Campus until he died.
In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. The Ed Blackwell Project was comprised of members Mark Helias on bass, alto saxophonist and flautist Carlos Ward and Graham Haynes on cornet. He played with Ray Anderson, Karl Berger, Jane Ira Bloom, David Bond, Charles Brackeen, Anthony Braxton, Marlon Brown, Steve Coleman, Anthony Davis, Jane Cortez, Stanley Cowell, Eric Dolphy, Albert Heath, Clifford Jordan, Joe Lovano, Yoko Ono, David Murray, Hilton Ruiz and numerous others.
After years of kidney problems, drummer Ed Blackwell passed away on October 7, 1992. The following year he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.
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