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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Róbert Rátonyi was born December 13, 1953 in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of six he started to learn solfeggio before turning to the piano. He later became a student of Klára Géczy Fazekas, however, following his art studies and the grammar school graduation, he attended the Bartók Béla Music Conservatory, specializing in jazz.
His style of playing is influenced by Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Bob James, Kenny Barron, Andy Laverne and Herbie Hancock. Beginning in 1975 he has played together with all leading Hungarian jazz musicians in concerts and festivals at home and abroad.
Besides jazz, he is one of the most frequently engaged studio musicians. He has written and composed music for numerous films, theatre, shows and advertisements. He is also a consummate accompanist for many vocalists.
Pianist, arranger, and composer Róbert Rátonyi, known for his work in jazz and studio music, while also teaching jazz piano and electronic instruments, has been awarded the Artisjus Award and continues to perform and record.
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Alex Acuña was born Alejandro Neciosup Acuña on December 12, 1944 in Pativilca, Peru. He played in local bands such as La Orquesta de los Hermanos Neciosup from the age of ten, then followed his brothers and moved to Lima, Peru as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1965 moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1974 he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and worked with Elvis Presley, The Temptations, and Diana Ross. The following year he joined the jazz-fusion group Weather Report, and while in New York City, Acuña recorded several songs for RCA records. Leaving Weather Report in 1978 he became a session musician in California, recording and playing live with r&b and jazz musicians Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roberta Flack,Al Jarreau and the list goes on and on.
The Eighties saw Alex recording and touring with the Christian jazz band Koinonia. In 1987 he was summoned back to Perú by producer Ricardo Ghibellini to be the musical producer of Los Hijos del Sol, a group of Peruvians designed to promote Peruvian music worldwide.
Drummer and percussionist Alex Acuña, who has worked as an educator at University of California Los Angeles, and Berklee College of Music, LAMA, Musicians Institute, USC, and CSUN, continues his career of performing and educating.
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The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is jumping on a plane to return to Magic City on the east coast for some more jazz. The venue is the Miami Beach Bandshell where performances of all genres are held. This historic space was initially erected as the North Shore Community Center, it has undergone several renovations where several television programs were broadcasted. By the 1980s and 90s it became a venue for music.
The Jazz Voyager will be in the audience to witness the vocal talents of Philadelphia native, now Miami’s own Nicole Henry. LOVE: The Greatest Gift is the message for the season. This is her 12th Annual Winter Fundraising Concert is a holiday tradition bringing joy and love for all the music lovers, advocates, and community.
The Miami Beach Bandshell is located at 7275 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33141. For more information visit https://miamibeachbandshell.com.
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