LEWIS NASH & THE NY ALL~STARS
11th Anniversary House Party
Paul Bollenback: Guitar | Dave Kikoski: Piano | Essiet Essiet: Bass | Lewis Nash: Drums
Join us for this spectacular private party for 60 guests featuring an intimate performance by Lewis Nash & The NY All-Stars, complimented by a panoramic birds-eye view of Phoenix. Includes hosted wine and hors d’ouevres.
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CHRISTOPHER BROWN QUARTET
Noah Simpson: Trumpet | Matt Sazima: Piano | Garrett Baxter: Bass | Christopher Brown: Drums
Christopher Brown is an acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, and educator who seeks to be a voice within the advocacy of Jazz music and American culture. And through the expansive range of groups that he has assembled and/or performed with—which span from duos to Jazz big bands to military marching bands and orchestras—his musical and personal experiences have led him towards an interest in synthesizing the principles of Jazz with the day-to-day practicalities of life. However, given that businesses shape the global market economy that everyone lives and participates in, is why he has found it useful to integrate business philosophies with that of music to help develop himself and his band. Which as he likes to say, “we’re all in the same business…the people-trusting-people business. No people, no business.”
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CLARK TRACEY QUINTET
Line-up:
CLARK TRACEY drums
JAMES OWSTON double bass
GRAHAM HARVEY piano
ALEX CLARKE alto/tenor sax
EMILY MASSER vocals
Much acclaimed jazz drummer Clark Tracey has been leading his own bands since 1981 and currently leads an ever evolving quintet as well as tribute bands to his father, the late Stan Tracey. His latest quintet features a few of the most exciting young musicians today.
Alex Clarke on alto and tenor sax is aged 23. She won the Rising Star in the British Jazz Awards 2 years ago and was runner up in the BBC Young Jazz Musician last year. Last year she successfully released her debut CD “Only A Year” with Dave Newton, Dave Green and Clark Tracey.
Emily Masser is an astonishing vocalist, still 19 years of age and attending Trinity. Her vocalese skills have already introduced her to hardened jazzers like Claire Martin and Liane Carroll who have both endorsed her and invited her to sit in with them. Daughter of Dean Masser, her years belie her enormous talent, which began at Chethams School of Music.
Graham Harvey is one of the UK’s most experienced pianists, studied at Berkley, MD of Incognito, Stacey Kent’s pianist and much sought after as a freelancer.
James Owston on bass is 25, a graduate of Birmingham Conservatoire and again a runner up in the BBC Young Jazz Musician Finals a few years ago. Considered by Clark to be one most technically gifted upright bassists in the UK and is now working with a variety of musicians.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Alvin Stoller was born October 7, 1925 in New York City, New York and studied with drum teacher Henry Adler. He launched his career touring and recording with swing era big bands led by Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Charlie Barnet. He backed singers including Billie Holiday, Mel Tormé, and Frank Sinatra on some of their major recordings.
His drums may be heard on many of Ella Fitzgerald’s Songbook recordings; on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, having performed with the Duke Ellington orchestra itself, alongside Ellington’s own Sam Woodyard. From the moment Frank Sinatra started to record with Capitol Records in 1953, Stoller was the singer’s preferred percussionist and performed on nearly all Sinatra recordings until 1958.
He recorded with Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Oscar Peterson, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Herb Ellis, and Erroll Garner among many other jazz musicians. The 1950s saw Stoller settlling in Los Angeles, California where he became respected for his work in the Hollywood studios which lasted for several decades.
Leonard Feather considered him a first-rate, swinging drummer. Buddy Rich, whom some consider to have been the greatest of all jazz drummers, chose Alvin to play drums on an album in which Rich sang suggests the esteem Stoller earned from his fellow musicians. He was the drummer on both Mitch Miller’s recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas and Stan Freberg’s parody of Miller’s recording.
Drummer Alvin Stoller, though an in-demand drummer during the Forties and Fifties and recorded more than five dozen albums, and eventually appeared to have been largely forgotten, transitioned on October 19, 1992.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Alexander Louis Bigard, Jr. was born on September 25, 1899 in New Orleans, Louisiana into a musical family. His brother was Brney and his cousins were Natty Dominque and A.J. Piron. He studied drums under Louis Cottrell, Sr., and played at times with Cottrell in A.J. Piron’s band in the 1910s.
He played with the Excelsior Brass Band and Maple Leaf Orchestra, as well as with Peter DuConge, Buddy Petit, and Chris Kelly in the late 1910s and early Twenties. He was a member of Sidney Desvigne’s band in 1925, then with Kid Shots Madison. For much of the Thirties he worked with John Robichaux.
In the mid-1940s he was in Kid Rena’s band, then formed his own ensemble, the Mighty Four, in the 1950s.During the Dixieland revival period of the 1960s, he was a regular at Preservation Hall, and performed or recorded with Harold Dejan, Kid Howard, Punch Miller, De De Pierce, Billie Pierce.
Becoming deaf around 1967 he left active performance. Drummer Alex Bigard, who was involved for decades with the New Orleans jazz scene, transitioned on June 27, 1978 in his hometown.
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