Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Alexei Zoubov was born on November 15, 1936 in Moscow, Russia into a family of scientists. Following the family tradition, he graduated from Moscow University with a master’s degree in physics and was offered a prestigious job that physicists would kill for. However, jazz seduced him in the early Fifties and tuned into Voice of America, BBC and other jazz programs.
In his sophomore University year he started playing clarinet, then switched to the saxophone and joined the early wave of jazz rebirth in the Soviet Union. At this time, Stalin was in power and playing jazz in the Soviet Union was considered not far from committing treason. Zouboc went on the road with the Oleg Lundstrem Big Band. He followed this with a seven year run with Vadim Ludvikovsky Radio and Television Big Band.
Alexei led his Crescendo Quartet, his duo with keyboardist Igor Saulski, Barometer Quintet as well as numerous jazz groups. He worked as a studio musician recording for Studio Melodya and wrote music for films. In 1984, Zoubov settled in Los Angeles, California where he continued to compose and play music.
Over the course of his on going fifty plus year career in music, he’s shared the stage and recorded with Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Pete Cristlieb, Paul Gonsalves, Charlie Haden, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Dick Hyman, Keith Jarrett, Milcho Leviev and Russian musicians like Konstantin Bakholdin, Gennadiy Golshtein, German Lukyanov, Konstantin Nosov, Boris Rychkov and so many others.
Saxophonist Alexei Zoubov continues to perform and record.
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César Cardoso was born on November 10, 1982, in Leiria, Portugal. At only seven years old he dedicated his time to studying music, From 2004 to 2008 he studied at Hot Clube de Portugal’s Jazz School, where he had lessons with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira and started to distinguish himself as a jazz musician. 2008 had him enrolled at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he continued to work with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira. Completing a Jazz Bachelor Degree in saxophone performance, he became a member of the dixieland group Desbundixie with whom he recorded Kick’n Blow in 2007 and Up 2 Nine in 2009.
In 2010, César recorded his debut, Half Step, with his quintet at that time followed with a second album, Bottom Shelf, was released five years later in Hot Clube de Portugal, and features his original music this time written for His third album Interchange, was recorded with special guest, Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone.his quartet. His fourth album, Deice of Tenors, is a large ensemble recording.
He published the book Teoria do Jazz (Jazz Theory), with Chiado Editora, the first book ever written in Portuguese about the theoretical bases of Jazz, thought through to serve as a handbook for jazz students. His second book, a complement of the first, is titled Teoria do Jazz – Exercícios. Cardoso has composed and arranged for big bands, such as the Orquestra Jazz de Leiria and the Orquestra do Hot Clube de Portugal.
Saxophonist César Cardoso has won awards, became the first Portuguese musician to become an Artist Henri SELMER Paris, completed his PhD in Music and Musicology, and continues to perform, compose, arrange and teach at the Universidade de Évora in the Jazz degree program and is the pedagogical director of Escola de Jazz de Leiria.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
César Cardoso was born on November 10, 1982, in Leiria, Portugal. At only seven years old he dedicated his time to studying music, From 2004 to 2008 he studied at Hot Clube de Portugal’s Jazz School, where he had lessons with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira and started to distinguish himself as a jazz musician. 2008 had him enrolled at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, where he continued to work with Jorge Reis and Pedro Moreira. Completing a Jazz Bachelor Degree in saxophone performance, he became a member of the dixieland group Desbundixie with whom he recorded Kick’n Blow in 2007 and Up 2 Nine in 2009.
In 2010, César recorded his debut, Half Step, with his quintet at that timefollowed with a second album, Bottom Shelf, was released five years later in Hot Clube de Portugal, and features his original music this time written for His third album Interchange, was recorded with special guest, Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone.his quartet. His fourth album, Deice of Tenors, is a large ensemble recording.
He published the book Teoria do Jazz (Jazz Theory), with Chiado Editora, the first book ever written in Portuguese about the theoretical bases of Jazz, thought through to serve as a handbook for jazz students. His second book, a complement of the first, is titled Teoria do Jazz – Exercícios. Cardoso has composed and arranged for big bands, such as the Orquestra Jazz de Leiria and the Orquestra do Hot Clube de Portugal.
Saxophonist César Cardoso has won awards, became the first Portuguese musician to become an Artist Henri Selmer Paris, completed his PhD in Music and Musicology, and continues to perform, compose, arrange and teach at the Universidade de Évora in the Jazz degree program and is the pedagogical director of Escola de Jazz de Leiria.
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Nick Lyons was born in New York City on November 7, 1982. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, then lived and actively played in the San Francisco Bay Area. Returning to New York he settled in Brooklyn in 2005 and collaborated with pianist and mentor Connie Crothers until her passing in 2016. This had a profound effect on his approach to music and improvisation. His other significant teachers and mentors have included Donald Byrd, Donald Walden, and Gary Bartz.
In 2022 he toured as a solo performer in Denmark and Germany, participated in 2 residencies in France and 1 in the US with the Paris-based group Mobke, appeared on 2 CD releases, “Triple Exposure” under his own name with Gene Perla and John McCutcheon and “Another Spring” with vocalist Cheryl Richards, performed often with bassist Adam Lane’s quartet, performed with pianist Harvey Diamond and bassist Cameron Brown.
In 2020 he joined the improvising ensemble Concerts from Cars which traveled the streets of NYC as a car caravan and performed from the street. They have performed at clubs all over New York. Lyons has been a sideman with William Parker, Sam Ospovat, Adam Caine and Federico Ughi as well as a duet with pianist Carol Liebowitz.
Among the many he has performed with are pianists Connie Crothers and Kazzrie Jaxen; trio with clarinetist Bill Payne and flutist Robert Dick, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Halperin, bassists Michael Bisio, Ken Filiano, Hill Greene, and Ratzo Harris, and drummers Roger Mancuso, Michael Wimberly, Billy Hart, and Billy Mintz.
Nick Lyons, who is an improvising alto saxophonist and composer has earned a reputation among peers for his musical imagination and original approach to playing both standard tunes and pure improvisation.
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Gordon Brisker was born on November 6, 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio and began on piano as a child. He studied reed instruments at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Before enrolling in the Berklee College of Music he played with Ralph Marterie Following this he worked with Al Belletto, Bill Berry, and Woody Herman.
Moving to New York City he played with Louie Bellson and Gerry Mulligan. After a short time Brisker returned to Cincinnati, then moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked extensively as a studio musician.
From 1983 to 1985, Gordon taught at Berklee College of Music and during this time also arranged for Herb Pomeroy. After 1985 he returned to Los Angeles, recording extensively with Anita O’Day and Bobby Shew among others. He recorded several albums under his own name.
In the 1990s, Brisker moved to Australia and taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Tenor saxophonist Gordon Brisker died of pancreatic cancer on September 10, 2004 at the age of 66.
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