MIKE LEDONNE GROOVER QUARTET
Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet featuring Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein & Kenny Washington.
We’re quite proud of our newest Jazz Forum addition – a Hammond organ – and even more proud to debut it with this outstanding quintet of top-notch musicians, led by keyboard great Mike LeDonne.
For many years, LeDonne has been at the B-3 to lead The Groover Quartet, a wildly popular weekly “grits and gravy” jazz gig at Smoke in Manhattan, and he’s bringing that sound, plus an additional horn, to Tarrytown. Don’t miss it!
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:30pm
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Alan Haven was born Alan Halpern on April 1, 1935 in Prestwich, Lancashire, United Kingdom. His early work was performed on a Lowrey organ. He collaborated with John Barry on two Bond movies ~ From Russia With Love and Dr. No, and Barry wrote an extended jazz organ solo for his Oscar-winning theme from The Lion in Winter and recorded it as a single.
He released several albums in the 1960s and 1970s, initially on Fontana Records, CBS Records including a recording of a live set at Ronnie Scott’s in London, England. He released Live at Annie’s Room and Mastersound, remastered and re-released three of Alan’s previous albums Organ Show, Images and Collector’s Item.
Local musicians, including Eric Delaney, organized a big band night featuring Alan. With his wife Karen they produced four albums which were Two, Day By Day, Libra and By The Seaside, which was released in 1992.
Organist Alan Haven transitioned on January 7, 2016.
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Fernand Coppieters was born in Brussels, Belgium on March 3, 1905. He took up piano in his youth and also played the Hammond organ. His first professional work was with the ensemble Bistrouille ADO in 1920 at age 15. Following this, he played in the Red Mills Ragtime Band and the Rhythmic Novelty Dance Orchestra.
Leaving Belgium for France he landed a place in Fud Candrix’s ensemble in France and Holland. Returning to Brussels in 1929, he played in a trio with René Compère and again with Candrix. Soon after this, he joined the 16 Baker Boys, led by Robert de Kers and, later, Oscar Aleman.
In the early 1930s, he accompanied Josephine Baker on tours of Europe, then worked with Roland Dorsay, Candrix once again, and Willie Lewis. In the 1940s and 1950s, he recorded as a leader and worked as a house pianist for Radio Schaerbeek, an independent Belgian radio station.
In the late 1950s and 1960s, he recorded several albums on Hammond organ, for Fontana Records and Philips Records. Pianist and organist Fernand Coppieters, who also played accordion, saxophone, and violin, transitioned on September 9, 1981 in Brussels.
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MIKE LEDONNE ORGAN QUINTET
Mike LeDonne Organ Quintet featuring Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, Dave Stryker & Joe Farnsworth!
Pianist Mike LeDonne started playing piano at the age of 5 and was raised in his parent’s music store. By the age of 10, his father, a jazz guitarist, began booking him on gigs.
He is now an internationally renowned pianist and organist with the unique experience of having played with a wide spectrum of jazz masters from Benny Goodman to Milt Jackson and Sonny Rollins. He has won praise not only from critics but from master musicians.
Mike is on over 100 CDs as a sideman and starting in 1988, recorded his first of 16 CDs as a leader. His award winning CDs include some of the greatest musicians around today including Tom Harrell, Gary Smulyan, Kenny Washington, Steve Nelson, Jim Rotondi, Joshua Redman, Peter Washington, Eric Alexander, Jeremy Pelt, Mickey Roker and Ron Carter.
Showtimes: 7:00pm & 9:30pm
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Sonny Phillips was born on December 7, 1936 in Mobile, Alabama. Phillips began playing jazz organ after hearing Jimmy Smith in his twenties. He studied under Ahmad Jamal, and played in the 1960s and 1970s with Lou Donaldson, Nicky Hill, Eddie Harris, Houston Person, and Gene Ammons.
His debut album Sure ‘Nuff was released on the Prestige Records label in 1969. He released several records as a leader in the Seventies before suffering a long illness in 1980. He also recorded twenty-three albums as a sideman with Harris, Person, Ammons, Rusty Bryant, Billy Butler, Willis Jackson, Etta Jones, Boogaloo Joe Jones and Bernard Purdie.
Electric organist and pianist Sonny Phillips went into semi-retirement after suffering a long illness. He moved to Los Angeles, California and has since performed and taught occasionally.
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