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Peter Andrew Bernstein was born on September 3, 1967 in New York City, He began playing piano when he was eight but switched to guitar when he was thirteen, learning the instrument primarily by ear. He studied jazz at Rutgers University with Ted Dunbar, and Kenny Barron.
While a student at the New School in New York City, he met guitarist Jim Hall, who offered him a job performing at the JVC Jazz Festival in 1990. He then appeared on albums with Jesse Davis, Lou Donaldson, Larry Goldings, Michael Hashim, Geoff Keezer, and Melvin Rhyne. He released his first album as a leader with pianist Brad Mehldau.
He has worked with Jimmy Cobb, Tom Harrell, Diana Krall, Lee Konitz, Eric Alexander, Joshua Redman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Walt Weiskopf. In 2008, Bernstein became part of The Blue Note 7, a septet formed that year in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. The group recorded the album Mosaic.
Guitarist Peter Bernstein continues to perform, record and tour.
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On The Bookshelf
I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story
I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story is an autobiography by the acclaimed lyricist Sammy Cahn. Published in 1974 by Arbor House, the book is written from Cahn’s own perspective, offering his insights into his life and career, along with anecdotes, photographs, and lyrics of his well-known songs.
The title itself is a nod to one of his famous songs, which first appeared in the 1944 MGM film Thrill of a Romance. The Academy Award winner for Three Coins In The Fountain, High Hopes, All The Way and Call Me Irresponsible, star performer in his own Broadway musical Words & Music.
This Lower East Side New York City boy who made more than good now tells his whole loving story – personal, public and professional.
I Should Care ~ The Sammy Cahn Story: 1974 | Sammy Cahn
Arbor House Publishing Co.
Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Mick Pyne was born Michael John Pyne on September 2, 1940 in Thornton-le-Dale, England He learned piano from the age of three; then learned violin, and began playing cornet when he was 13.
Around 1957 he and his brother Chris formed their own band before Mick moved to London, England in 1959. He played briefly with Tony Kinsey in 1962, then played U.S. Army bases in France. In addition he worked with Alexis Korner, from 1962 to 1963.
Returning to London at the end of 1963, Pyne worked in the Sixties with John Stevens, Phil Seamen, and extensively with Tubby Hayes, He toured Europe with Stan Getz, Roland Kirk, Lee Konitz, Hank Mobley, and Joe Williams.
In the 1970s he worked with Hayes again as well as with Ronnie Scott, Humphrey Lyttelton, Jon Eardley and Cecil Payne. In the 1980s Pyne’s associations included Georgie Fame, Adelaide Hall, Keith Smith and Charlie Watts.
Pianist Mick Pyne died on May 23, 1995 in London.
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Sammy Weiss was born on September 1, 1910 in New York. He started in the 1930s with the Gene Kardos Society Orchestra, then gigged and recorded with Benny Goodman, Adrian Rollini, Wingy Manone, Miff Mole, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw.
The 1940’s had Sammy concentrated on free-lance recording with Louis Armstrong and Johnny Guarnieri. He eventually led his own popular dance band in hotels and dance halls around Los Angeles, California.
He also worked with Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, Louis Prima, and Erskine Hawkins, among others. After moving to California in 1945, Weiss led his own successful orchestra and worked freelance. He led bands throughout the ’60s, As an actor, Weiss was seen in Shower of Stars and The Jack Benny Program.
Drummer Sammy Weiss died on November 18, 1977 in Encino, California.
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PAUL CORNISH
One of today’s most exciting emerging voices on piano, Paul Cornish and his trio make their Bop Stop debut as they tour to promote Cornish’s debut album as a leader, You’re Exaggerating! The album was released on Blue Note Records on August 22nd.
Every artist who records for Blue Note is part of a grand legacy, now in its 86th year. But pianist Paul Cornish is a torchbearer for several remarkable Blue Note legacies, all at once. Which makes You’re Exaggerating!, his powerfully lyrical trio debut for the label, a mission statement for Blue Note’s next generation.
To begin, Cornish is part of a great heritage of jazz piano that has unfolded at the label, from Blue Note’s first 78-rpm releases by Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons through Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Don Pullen, Geri Allen, Jacky Terrasson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Renee Rosnes, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton and beyond.
Then, he’s part of a lineage of Blue Note artists, past and present, who hail from Houston, Texas, and developed at the city’s Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, a.k.a. HSPVA. That more recent hall of fame includes Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Walter Smith III, Kendrick Scott, Chris Dave and James Francies and, now, Cornish, who was born and raised in Houston and has been based in Los Angeles for over a decade.
Featuring:
- Paul Cornish, piano
- Jermaine Paul, bass
- Jonathan Pinson, drums
Cover: $25 each in advance, $30 day of show.
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