Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ken Hyder was born June 29, 1946 in Dundee, Scotland. He began playing jazz in his native Scotland before moving south to London, England where he studied under John Stevens and played at the Little Theatre Club at Garrick Yard, an avant garde haunt, run by Stevens.
Over the course of a 40 year career Hyder has worked with and recorded with Elton Dean, Chris Biscoe, Tim Hodgkinson, Paul Rogers, Maggie Nicols, Don Paterson and Frankie Armstrong, just to name a few in a long list.
He composes music and has produced more than three dozen albums of original material. In 1970, Hyder formed Talisker and during the decade began moving away from jazz and into collaborations with musicians from different musical backgrounds, including Irish, South African and South American players. This led him to explore spiritual aspects of music with spiritual practitioners like Tibetan and Japanese Buddhist monks, and Siberian shamans.
As an author he has published three e-books based on shamanism in Siberia, cyber crime and cyber terrorism, and a memoir. Jazz fusion drummer and percussionist Ken Hyder, best known for combining folk, ethnic and Celtic music with jazz, continues to perform and record.
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BILL CHARLAP, AARON DIEHL, ISAIAH J. THOMPSON, CAELAN CARDELLO
The present – and future – of jazz piano convenes on the stage that has hosted legends of the art form from Thelonious Monk to Hank Jones to Chick Corea.
Jazz in July artistic director Bill Charlap is joined by a dynamic virtuoso of modern jazz piano, the sublimely talented Aaron Diehl, and two fast-rising piano stars of the next generation. Isaiah J. Thompson, winner of the 2023 American Pianists Awards, has been hailed by NPR as, “a young musician and composer with a mature touch and rare combination of talent, creativity, humility, and honesty.” Caelan Cardello is the recipient of the 2021 BMI Foundation’s Future Jazz Master Award, and has played with such major artists as Jimmy Cobb, Rufus Reid, and Christian McBride. Hear them all in solo, trio, and two-piano performances, with the masterful rhythm team of bassist Noriko Ueda and drummer Carl Allen.
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BILL CHARLAP TRIO
Special Guests: Dee Dee Bridgewater & Nicholas Payton
“There are certain gigs that remind you why you fell in love with jazz in the first place. Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianomeister Bill Charlap did just that Friday night at Catalina’s,” wrote Jazz Weekly following a 2022 performance at the famed LA jazz club.
The NEA Jazz Master and triple Grammy Award winner teams with Grammy-winning trumpeter Nicholas Payton and the Grammy-winning Bill Charlap Trio – Peter Washington on bass, Kenny Washington on drums – to open the 2023 Jazz in July season. They bring the artistic alchemy that has made their collaborations a joyride of spontaneous storytelling and improvisation, making this opening concert one not to miss.
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Three Wishes
Baroness Pannonica asked Ben Riley if granted what would be his three wishes and this is what he responded:
- “Just one wish, and I can do the rest. I want to do something I like to do. Not anything with money, like everyone else is doing. I would really like to feel good and not have to pay for it.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Eddie Crocetti was born on June 25, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland. His interest in music came when he heard a band perform in his father’s bar and he was drawn into the world of professional music. His father immediately purchased him his first set of drums and he began studying drums and piano. By the time he was 14 years old, he was playing professionally for the local musicians of the city. He went on to study the organ.
Eddie married at age 19 and began his family all while entertaining and delighting audiences with his own personal musical approach. For the past 25 years he has been playing alongside Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ira Sullivan, Nat Adderley, Joe Venuti, Allen Harris, Toni Bishop, and more. Beyond jazz he has worked with Robert Goulet, Carole Lawrence, The Smother’s Brothers, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters, Fats Domino, Lucy Arnaz, Bill Cosby, Donald O’Connor, Patti Page and Julio Iglesias among others.
In 2001, Crocetti found his soulmate and formed the jazz group Perfect Fusion, which includes his new bride. This led to his release of a jazz organ recording. His wife lent vocals to one of his original works.
Organist Eddie Crocetti currently performs in jazz venues across the United States.
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