DUDUKA DA FONSECA
Duduka Da Fonseca & Quarteto Universal with Special Guest Maucha Adnet.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – the drummer who is a founding member of Trio da Paz with Romero Lubambo and Nilson Matta. He leads the Duduka da Fonseca Trio, with David Feldman and Guto Wirtti.
In 2020 Duduka was nominated for the American Grammy Award with the album “Sorte!”: Music by John Finbury, Thalma de Freitas with Victor Gonçalves, John Patitucci, Chico Pinheiro, Airto Moreira, Rogério Boccato & Duduka Da Fonseca.
Maucha Adnet was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and started her professional singing career at the age of 15, as a member of vocal group Céu da Boca. Maucha has toured around Brazil and recorded two albums released by Polygram.
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KATE BAKER
Kate Baker is a critically acclaimed jazz singer hailing from, and currently residing in, New Jersey. Her debut album, 2022’s Return to Shore, is a luminous guitar-and-voice duet with her late husband, Vic Juris, who passed away in 2019.
The throughline is Baker’s inimitable voice, which resonates with her love of diverse musical inspirations — whether jazz, Brazilian, Latin, or the blues. Be it English or Portuguese, a Cole Porter standard or an Antônio Carlos Jobim composition, Baker effortlessly makes herself right at home.
For two decades, she frequently performed with Juris, but that, too, isn’t the long and short of it. Across the years and decades, the list of luminaries the native New Jerseyan has performed with is a cross-section of the global jazz landscape.
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JOEY ALEXANDER
Joey Alexander, is an Indonesian jazz pianist. He became the first Indonesian musician to chart on Billboard 200 when his album My Favorite Things debuted at number 174 and then peaked at 59. His first album, My Favorite Things, was released in 2015 when he was 11 years old.
Widely regarded as a wunderkind, Alexander taught himself to play jazz at the age of six by listening to his father’s classic jazz albums. He won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Master-Jam Fest when he was nine.
In 2014, Wynton Marsalis invited him to play at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Alexander played at the Montreal and Newport Jazz Festivals in 2015 and has performed for Herbie Hancock, Bill Clinton, Wendy Kiess, and Barack Obama.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Neil Cowley was born on November 5, 1972 in London, England. He began as a classical pianist and performed a Shostakovich piano concerto at the age of 10 at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
In his late teens Cowley moved into being a keyboardist for soul and funk acts Mission Impossible, the Brand New Heavies, Gabrielle and Zero 7. He also appeared as a co-composer and session musician with the jazz-rock group Samuel Purdey. An early album was Foxbury Rules, released under the pseudonym Diamond Wookie.
By 2002 Neil formed the duo Fragile State with Ben Mynott and after it disbanded, it became the Neil Cowley Trio. In 2006, he released an album called Soundcastles under the name Pretz.
Two years later the Neil Cowley Trio recorded cover versions of the Beatles’ Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 for Mojo magazine. In 2012, he appeared as the session pianist on Adele’s album 21. 2013 saw him as Musician in Residence for Derry, when it was designated the inaugural UK City of Culture.
His sophomore album Spacebound Apes was released by Neil Cowley Trio and in 2018 he announced that the trio was on hiatus and he was working on a new electronic focused project.
Contemporary pianist and composer Neil Cowley, who won the 2007 BBC Jazz Award for best album for Displaced, continues to work on his craft and new projects.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Joseph Rupert Benjamin was born on November 4, 1919 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He played with many jazz musicians in a variety of idioms. Early in his career he played in the big bands of Artie Shaw, Fletcher Henderson, Sy Oliver, and Duke Ellington.
He went on to work with Hank Garland, Marian McPartland, Louis Armstrong, Jo Jones, Gary Burton, Roy Haynes, Art Taylor, and Brother Jack McDuff.
Never leading a recording session, Joe recorded three dozen albums as a sideman with Bob Brookmeyer, Kenny Burrell, Dave Brubeck, Harry Edison, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Barry Harris, Roy Haynes, Johnny Hodges, Budd Johnson, Roland Kirk, Gary McFarland, Carmen McRae, Gerry Mulligan, Jerome Richardson, Al Sears, Joya Sherrill, Rex Stewart, Sonny Stitt, Buddy Tate, Clark Terry, The Three Playmates, Sarah Vaughan, Mal Waldron and Kai Winding.
Double bassist Joe Benjamin transitioned on January 26, 1974.
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