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Mamadouh Bahri was born July 31, 1957 in Sfax, Tunisia and grew up there until the age of 25 when he moved to Montpellier, France where he later taught music at Jazz Action Montpellier (JAM) until 1991.
From 1989 to 1993, he played in a quartet with pianist Horace Parlan, Italian bassist Riccardo Del Fra and New Orleans drummer Idris Muhammad. In 1991, they recorded From Tunisia with Love, live in Carthage, Tunisia. The same year, Bahri moved to New York City, where he joined the collective Spirit of Life Ensemble with saxophonist T.K. Blue, trumpeter Ted Curson and drummer Winard Harper among others. He recorded seven albums with the group between 1993 and 2002.
He has played many concerts throughout France and performed in northern Europe, the Middle East, China and the United States. Mamadouh has appeared on broadcast television in Tunis and Abu Dhabi. His recordings have gotten radio airplay in France, New York City and Tunisia. Guitarist Mamadouh Bahri continues to combine Afro-Mediterranean music with a jazz tradition.
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Alan Lee was born on July 29, 1936 in Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the first Australian jazz musicians to fuse classical music with jazz and to utilize Latin American rhythms in his music.
He led several jazz bands in Melbourne and Sydney from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Some of his recorded albums include his Seventies’ projects Gallery Concerts, The Alan Lee Jazz Quartet, Moomba Jazz ’76, Live from the Dallas Brooks Hall, and Alan Lee and Friends: Jazz at the Hyde Park Hotel in 1990, among others.
Bandleader, vibraphonist, guitarist, and percussionist Alan Lee at 86 continues to dabble in music.
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Hector Rodriguez was born on July 11, 1965 in Mexico City, Mexico. He began playing guitar at 14, which led to him playing rock covers in high school bands. By 18 he started privately studying with renowned Mexio City musicians and immersing himself in jazz and other genres.
After several years of studying and playing professionally in his hometown, he ventured to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, majoring in performance. With financial assistance from the World Scholarship Tour award, there he studied with a host of the faculty, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in performance in 2008.
Another scholarship led him to the New Egland Conservatory of Music in Harford, Connecticut studying with the likes of Jerry Bergonzi, Danilo Perez and Jason Moran among others. He graduated in 2011with a Masters in Jazz Performance.
Since then has performed at festivals in Central America, Mexico and the United States. Guitarist Hector Rodriguez continues to perform and conduct workshops and masterclasses.
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Douglas Anthony Munro was born July 9, 1953 in Yonkers, New York. He started his musical studies at age seven, taking drum lessons and by age fourteen, he was playing dances in Yonkers and New York City. At 20, he broke his back in a gymnastics accident, which ended his career as a drummer. However, in 1977 the 24 year old underwent a successful back surgery, and began playing guitar to pass the time during recovery
After his recovery he became a guitarist, performed locally and taught guitar lessons. In 1986 he released the LP Courageous Cats. and towards the end of the decade Doug met record producer Joe Ferry, and began a 25 year professional relationship. He would go on to divide his career into arranging, performing, teaching, and producing with Ferry. In 2004 he started a series of four Boogaloo recordings for Scufflin’ Records. The first, Boogaloo to Beck, featured Lonnie Smith, David “Fathead” Newman, and Lafrae Olivia Sci. He would go on to release to Brazilian jazz albums under the Big Boss Bossa Nova title.
The early Nineties saw Doug arranging and producing with Joe Ferry. Their first album, We Remember Pastorius, was a tribute to jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius. He would go on to co-produce and arrange a series of recordings for Shanachie Records. This period saw him delving into ska, receiving two Grammy nominations. In 1997 Munro added orchestrations to the original motion picture soundtrack for the Muhammad Ali documentary When We Were Kings which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film.
Munro continued to work on over 40 recording albums into the new millennium with Vitamin Records. He has produced lessons for Just Jazz Guitar, Premier Guitar, and TrueFire.com. He founded the jazz studies program in the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in 1993, and served as the director of the program from 1993-2002. He retired in 2019 as Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Jazz Studies program at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College.
Guitarist, arranger, producer, composer, author, and educator Doug Munro specializes in jazz, bebop, Brazilian jazz, jazz fusion, and gypsy swing. Since 1986 he has released over fifteen albums as a band leader and has appeared on over 75 recordings as a guitarist, sideman, producer, and arranger. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and was the recipient of two NAIRD Awards by the American Association of Independent Music.
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KURT ROSENWINKEL
Kurt Rosenwinkel ~ Guitar, Eric Revis ~ Bass, Taylor Eigsti ~ Piano, Gregory Hutchinson ~ Drums
Kurt Rosenwinkel has been a distinct and prominent creative voice at the forefront of modern music for nearly three decades. The American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer has gained international recognition for his deft artistry and unabated individualism since he first appeared on the New York music scene in 1991. His legacy as the pre-eminent jazz guitar voice of his generation is plainly evident on his eleven albums as a leader, each one the inspiration for legions of musicians young and old across the globe.
Kurt’s aesthetic vision and multi-genre facility has caught the ear of some of modern music’s most prominent stars; collaborations with Eric Clapton, Q-tip, Gary Burton, Paul Motian, Joe Henderson, Brad Mehldau, and Donald Fagen are but a few highlights from a remarkably diverse and extensive catalog of over 150 sideman recordings. In the winter of 2016, Kurt formed the independent music label Heartcore Records with the focused intention of signing and promoting a new generation of musicians whose exacting standards match his own.
Actual Showtimes ~ 7:00 pm & 9:30 pm | Friday
Front Stage Table ~ $40.00/$20 minimum purchase required
General Admission ~ $30.00/$20 minimum purchase required
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