JOBIM & THE MUSIC OF BRAZIL

In the 1960s, Antonio Carlos “Tom” Jobim brought the bossa nova craze to the United States, and this infectious and sensuous sound soon became beloved throughout the world. We celebrate Jobim’s centennial and the jazz genres of Brazil—including bossa nova, samba and choro with Shelly Berg and the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.

Featured Special Guests:
Eliane Elias ~ Piano, Vocal
Anat Cohen ~ Clarinet
Trio da Paz ~ Guitar, Bass, Drums

Cover: $52.65 – $152.10 | Fees Included

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Daily Dose Of Jazz…

Joe Beck was born on July 29, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and learned to play guitar as a child. Briefly delving into 60’s and 70s rock music he turned his attention to jazz and got initiated in the post bop, mainstream, fusion and soul jazz eras.

Beck began as a member of the Gil Evans orchestra and in 1970 released Rock Encounter for Polydor, followed by a release on Kudu and a record session with Esther Phillips – What a Diff’rence a Day Makes in 1975 on the same label.

By the 1980s Beck was recording several CD’s for the DMP/Digital Music Products label including co-billed work with the noted flautist Ali Ryerson. To fill out the sound he wanted to present — bass lines, harmony, and melody—in the duo setting with Ali, he developed what he called the “alto guitar”. He would go on to collaborate with Jimmy Bruno and John Abercrombie, and record with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Buddy Rich, Duke Ellington, Paul Desmond, Maynard Ferguson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Sergio Mendes, Laura Nyro, Paul Simon, Houston Person and the list goes non.

On July 22, 2008, guitarist Joe Beck passed away from lung cancer in Woodbury, Connecticut after a career spanning more than 30 years in jazz and nearly two-dozen albums.

 

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Joel Harrison was born on July 27, 1957 in Washington D.C. In the Sixties he became enamored with the inventive guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin. By his twenties, after graduating from Bard College, he hitchhiked across America exploring the rich diversity contained between its coasts.

Joel’s musical style encompasses a melding of jazz, classical, country, rock and world influences as the composer, arranger, songwriter, vocalist and bandleader stretches from concert hall to jazz club and the occasional dive bar. Finding inspiration from music too often barred from admission into the jazz consciousness, he continues his exploration into the reinterpretations of Miles Davis, Charles Ives, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Hank Williams.

He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a two-time winner of the Jazz Composer’s Alliance Composition Competition, 1st Place at the Percussive Arts Society worldwide competition, and has received grants from Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, the Flagler Cary Trust, NYSCA, and the Jerome Foundation.

With a string of albums under his belt in a variety of genres, guitarist Joel Harrison has played and recorded with an impressive list of collaborators that includes Christian Howes, Donny McCaslin, Nels Cline, David Binney, Norah Jones, Dave Liebman, Uri Caine, Jamey Haddad, and Dewey Redman. He continues to compose, record, perform and tour.

 

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Charles Ables was born on July 23, 1943 in Mississippi and started out on his musical career playing the guitar. He worked with Ray Charles prior to switching to bass to become a member of the Shirley Horn Trio in the early Eighties. He would tour the world and record with her on Steeplechase and then Verve record labels over the next three decades

Ables is heard on guitar as well as bass on several of these, including You Won’t Forget Me, which featured guest contributions from both Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis, Light Out of Darkness, Horn’s tribute to Ray Charles, I Thought About You, Close Enough For Love, Here’s To Life and the Grammy-winning I Remember Miles.

As well as accompanying Shirley Horn, Charles is heard with the trio on Carmen McRae’s last album in 1990, Sarah – Dedicated to You, in which Horn is featured in her often forgotten role as a pianist. He recorded in similar circumstances with Toot Thielemans on his album For My Lady, with Joe Williams and as a leader.

 Bassist and guitarist Charles Ables passed away on October 8, 2001 in Washington, D. C.

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TYRONE JACKSON QUINTET

Dr. Tyrone Jackson brings his electric band to Eddie’s Attic. The quintet will explores the innovative edges of jazz and creativity. F.T.M.O. (From The Mind Of) is drawn from his critically acclaimed album From the Mind of Tyrone Jackson, where genres blur but the improvisational aspects of jazz remain central.

The Quintet:
Tyrone Kackson ~ Piano
Lavahi~vocals
Patrick Arthur ~ guitar
Joel Powell ~ bass
Robert Boone ~ drums | Grammy Winner

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