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Dannie Richmond was born Charles Daniel Richmond on December 15, 1931 in New York City and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He started playing tenor saxophone at the age of thirteen, and went on to play R&B with the Paul Williams band in 1955.
His career took off when he transferred his talents to the drums, which he had taught himself to play in his early twenties, through the formation of what was to be a 21-year friendship and an indispensable ingredient of the Mingus sound. Upon Mingus’ death Richmond became the first musical director of the group Mingus Dynasty in 1980.
Drummer Dannie Richmond, best known for his work with Charles Mingus, died of a heart attack in Harlem, New York on March 16, 1988, at the age of 56.
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DANIEL SPEARMAN QUARTET
Daniel was captivated by music, first playing the piano then picking up the trumpet when he attended Creative Arts High school under the tutelage of Jamal Dickerson. Daniel graduated with highest honors from the Oberlin College and Conservatory of music with degrees in Africana Studies and Jazz Piano. He has studied under Dan Wall, Sean Jones, Eddie Henderson and Sullivan Fortner. Artists that Daniel has worked with the Robin Eubanks Big Band, Sam Blakeslee Large Ensemble, Tito Puente Jr., Edgardo Cintron, The Four Tops, Eric Nolan, Angie Stone, and Justin Lee-Schultz.
Recently Daniel obtained his M.M. in orchestral trumpet from Pennsylvania State University where he studied under the tutelage of Dr. Langston Fitzgerald III, who served as the Principal trumpet player for the Baltimore Symphony prior to teaching at Penn State. He operates primarily in the Greater Philadelphia area performing regularly with a wide range of wedding, salsa, and jazz bands. He is the frontman for the band SoundEVR, which is dedicated to blurring the line between dance music and art music.
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TEDD BAKER TRIO
Tedd Baker has worked with a wide variety of jazz greats and contemporary artists including Barry Harris, David Sanborn, Arturo Sandoval, Slide Hampton, Eddie Daniels, George Duke, Victor Lewis, Orrin Evans, Jason Moran, Wycliffe Gordon, Kurt Elling, Allison Miller, Fitz and The Tantrums, Sean Jones, Michael Mossman, Warren Wolf, 8-Bit Big Band, Ryles Jazz Orchestra w Jon Faddis, Artie Shaw Orchestra, and Donny McCaslin among others. He has also recorded with David Sanborn, Bobby Caldwell (“After Dark”), New York Voices (“Let It Snow”), Bohemian Caverns All-Stars, Amina Figarova Sextet, and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra under the direction of David Baker.
He began playing professionally around Boston’s Back Bay, North End, and downtown in his teens. In 2000 he won the Hilton Head Jazz Society Competition and led a quartet of past awardees. In 2001 he toured 8 weeks in South America, Central America, and Jamaica for the State Department Jazz Ambassador Program as part of the Richard Johnson trio. In 2002 he joined the Airmen of Note, USAF Premier Band, Washington, D.C. and has been featured on many of the “Note’s” performances and recordings.
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LENNY ROBINSON TRIO
Lenny Robinson has become one of the foremost voices of jazz at the drums. He grew up in Baltimore, Md. in a very rich musical environment. He played piano and organ in his father’s church in his early teens. He also played trumpet in both junior high and high school. The love of percussion was felt in the ninth grade and the rest, as they say, is history.
He studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music as well as Morgan State University and has gone on to perform or record with a who’s who of artists. A partial list would include: Dewey Redman, Clifford Jordan, Warren Wolf, Carter Jefferson, Vanessa Rubin, Lou Donaldson, Roy Hargrove, Charles McPherson, Kenny Barron, Eartha Kitt, Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Joey DeFrancesco, Ahmad Jamal, Keter Betts, John Hicks, Sean Jones, Larry Willis, Don Braden,Terence Blanchard as well as the Bill Cosby show “You Bet Your Life”. He was also a member of the late Stanley Turrentine’s working band and has toured and recorded with Marlena Shaw.
Lenny is the leader of The Lenny Robinson Group as well as the co-leader of Lenny Robinson and ThreeForAll. He has an organ group called the “Organic Trio”, and he leads the piano-less trio “MadCurious which features Brian Settles on saxophone and Tarus Mateen on bass.
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Anna Maria Jopek was born on December 14, 1970 in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Mazowsze singer Stanisław Jopek, known as the First Coachman of Poland.
Representing her country in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ale jestem, she finished 11th out of 25 competitors. By 2002 she was collaborating on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She has received numerous awards for her music, including Michel Legrand’s Personal Award in Vitebsk, Belarus in 1994.
Anna has sung with Polish musicians Marek Grechuta, Jeremi Przybora and Wojciech Młynarski as well as abroad with Youssu’n Dour, Bobby McFerrin, Ivan Linz, Branford Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bona, Oscar Castro-Neves, Makoto Ozone, Sting and Gonzalo Rubalcaba among others.
In 2015, Jopek received the Knight’s Cross Order of Polonia Restituta conferred by President Bronisław Komorowski for promoting Polish art worldwide.
Vocalist, songwriter and improviser Anna Maria Jopek, who has recorded twelve studio and two live albums as a leader, continues to pursue beyond the boundaries of her musical range.
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