KENNY BARRON
Starting his week as Resident Artistic Director in grand style, Kenny Barron performs with his ironclad working trio with bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake. Kitagawa’s 27-year association with Barron and Blake’s nearly twenty-year tenure have made them the finest working piano trio in jazz, a unit that has developed a singular depth of communication as captured on Barron’s 2016 Impulse! album Book of Intuition — a sterling session nominated for “Best Instrumental Jazz Recording” at the 2016 GRAMMY Awards.
Called “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” by The Los Angeles Times, Kenny Barron is a 2010 NEA Jazz Master and eleven-time GRAMMY nominee who helped define and extend the jazz tradition since his work with Dizzy Gillespie in the early ‘60s catapulted him into the spotlight. Extensive associations with Freddie Hubbard, Yusef Lateef, Stan Getz, James Moody and Ron Carter built his peerless reputation as a sideman, and he has recorded over 50 albums as a bandleader over his five-decade career. A seven-time recipient of Best Pianst by the Jazz Journalists Association, Barron leads an ironclad trio with bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Johnathan Blake, and regularly performs as a soloist and settings from duo to big band.
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DAVE KIKOSKI
Acclaimed jazz pianist David Kikoski brings his formidable trio to Zinc for a splendid evening of jazz piano on Tuesday, January 23. He’s supported by Mark Lewandowski on bass and Ari Hoenig on drums.
One of New York’s busiest pianists, it’s no wonder, given his swinging, always spontaneous playing. One immediately understands why his bio includes tenures with Roy Haynes, Bob Berg, Pat Metheny, and the Mingus Big Band.
Showtimes: 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm. Tickets: $30 (advance) / $35 (door). Don’t miss this magical jazz piano evening! For more exciting shows by Charles Carlini Presents, visit https://www.charlescarlinipresents.com/.
Refunds available for cancellations; otherwise, tickets are non-refundable. Please be punctual, and let us know if you’ll be late. We can hold your reservation for 15 minutes past the scheduled time. Thank you for your understanding.
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ERIC JONES TRIO
Eric Jones was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and started to play piano by ear at the age of five. At 11, Eric began studying trumpet. At 16 he started formal lessons on piano and within two years, he was awarded a piano scholarship to Andrew College. Eric went on to pursue his education at Armstrong Atlantic State University, studying under Dr. Kevin Hampton, graduating with a B.A. in Piano. In addition to teaching private lessons, composing and arranging, he completed his Masters in Composition from Georgia Southern University, where he studied under Dr. Martin Gendelman. Eric has worked with many prominent artists including Grammy Award winning Esperanza Spalding, Stewart Copland of the Police and Keith Miller of the Metropolitan Opera. In 2011 Eric premiered his latest work, “Songs of Creation,” which combines spiritual, jazz and African influences with the poem of James Weldon Johnson’s “The Creation.” Eric is the pianist with the Savannah Jazz Orchestra and performs with them annually at the Savannah Jazz Festival. Eric has also performed several times during Sunday concerts for Coastal Jazz Association. Currently Eric teaches at Savannah State University.
The Band:
Lakien Love Williams ~ Vocal
Marc Chesanow ~ Double Bass
Robert Britton Saunders ~ Drums
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The Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is departing NOLA for the Mountain Time Zone of Phoenix, Arizona with the next destination being a jazz spot called The Nash. Named for internationally renowned drummer and Phoenix native Lewis Nash. As one of the reat jazz venues in the world, the club is not only a music room but an education facility that is a community of jazz enthusiasts and musicians who build on the past to create a modern musical experience.
Taking the stage for this Saturday’s performance is Beth Lederman with her group Jazz Con Alma. They feature jazz that grooves and draws from latin rhythms, taking standards and pop music and adding their own special twists. From Coltrane and Gershwin to the Beatles and Stevie Wonder, they play anything that embraces the creativity which embodies jazz is fair game. Jazz Con Alma consists of saxophonist Mary Petrich, bassist Jon Murray, Adam Clark on drums and percussionist Frank Valdes.
The Nash is located at 110 E. Roosevelt Street 85004 . For more information visit https://notoriousjazz.com/event/beth-lederman.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Joe Haider was born January 3, 1936 in Darmstadt, Germany and performed as an amateur musician in the region Stuttgart, Germany between 1954 and 1959. He studied at Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Germany from 1960 to 1965. During this period he also played in the Fritz Münzer Quintet and recorded Live in HR 1962 and Jazz For Young People.
From 1965 to 1968, he worked as a pianist and led a trio in jazz club Domicile in Munich. During his residency Joe performed with many European and American jazz musician such as Benny Bailey, Duško Gojković, Nathan Davis, Booker Ervin, Klaus Doldinger, Hans Koller, Leo Wright, Attila Zoller, George Mraz, Peter Trunk, Philly Joe Jones, Joe Nay, Kurt Bong, Klaus Weiss and Pierre Favre.
After leading the Radio Jazz Ensemble of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, he worked from 1970 with the quartet Four for Jazz with alto saxophonist Heinz Bigler, bassist Isla Eckinger and Peter Giger on percussion. He founded his own trio with Eckinger and Favre and put together a combo with Duško Gojković and led a big band together with Slide Hampton, in which Dexter Gordon also performed.
1979 saw Haider establishing his own label EGO in order to release his own records and those of his German colleagues. He recorded with his orchestra and Mel Lewis, toured with Woody Shaw, and various soloists such as Andy Scherrer, Roman Schwaller, Sandy Patton or Don Menza. From 1984 to 1995, he was the director of the Swiss Jazz School in Bern, Switzerland. In 1994, the Canton of Bern’s government awarded him the Great Cultural Prize for his contribution in the field of music.
The turn of the century had him working for the next eleven years with Brigitte Dietrich and a double quartet with bowed string instruments. In 2016, he published the album Keep It Dark. Pianist Joe Haider, at 87, is not very active in music.
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