SALUTE TO FREDDIE HUBBARD & CANNONBALL ADDERLEY
Among the giants of jazz’s hard-bop and post-bop eras, Freddie Hubbard and Cannonball Adderley were distinctive pacesetters who stretched their talents while still making exciting, accessible music.
Their profound influence on contemporary headliners trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and saxophonist Vincent Herring cannot be underestimated and this all-star quintet pays tribute to their massive contributions. Last year, Herring and Pelt collaborated with other top NY musicians forming the supergroup Something Else!, named after a classic Cannonball recording.
The Players: Jeremy Pelt ~ Trumpet | Vincent Herring ~ Saxophone | Rick Germanson ~ Piano | Richie Goods ~ Bass | Louis Hayes ~ Drums
Tickets: $35.00 +fee
Saturday 7:00pm Show Sold Out
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Cag Cagnolatti was born Ernie Joseph Cagnolatti on April 2, 1911 in Madisonville, Louisiana. He was one of six children sharing Italian and African American parentage and raised Catholic.
Cagnolatti began on trumpet around 1929 and played with Herbert Leary from 1933 to 1942, as well as off and on with Sidney Desvigne and Papa Celestin. He was a recurring member of many of the major New Orleans brass bands; he worked in the bands of George Williams in the 1940s and 1950s, and with Alphonse Picou in the early 1950s.
He recorded with Paul Barbarin repeatedly over the course of the 1950s and 1960s. He and Jim Robinson collaborated in the early 1960s, and he also recorded with Harold Dejan in 1962 and with the Onward Brass Band in 1968. From 1974 to 1980 Cagnolatti was a mainstay at Preservation Hall.
He suffered a stroke in 1980 and did not play afterwards. Trumpeter Cag Cagnolatti, affectionately known as Little Cag, died in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 7, 1983.
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SEAN JONES
Sean Jones, Visiting Artist-in-Residence, is a versatile trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and activist from Warren, Ohio. He began his musical journey in church choir before switching from drums to trumpet at age 10. Jones gained prominence as the lead trumpeter for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under Wynton Marsalis from 2004 to 2010 and became a member of the SFJAZZ Collective in 2015.
He has released eight recordings with his group on Mack Avenue Records, with his latest being “Live from Jazz at the Bistro” in 2017. Throughout his career, Jones has collaborated with renowned jazz musicians such as Illinois Jacquet, Nancy Wilson, and Herbie Hancock. He has performed with major symphonies and contributed to various music festivals. As an educator, he serves as the president of the Jazz Education Network and holds a prestigious chair in Jazz Studies at The John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute. He was previously chair of the Brass department at Berklee College of Music.
He is joined by SmokeFace & Floco Torres.
Tickets: $15.00
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ARTURO SANDOVAL
A protégé of Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval is one of the most dynamic performers of our time, and has been seen by millions at the Oscars, the Grammy Awards and the Billboard Music Awards. Sandoval has been awarded 10 Grammy Awards, and been nominated 19 times. He has received six Billboard Music Awards and an Emmy Award, the latter for his composing work on the score of the HBO movie based on his life, For Love or Country, which starred Andy Garcia. In 2013, Sandoval was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Sandoval was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning group Irakere, whose explosive mixture of jazz, classical, rock and traditional Cuban music caused a sensation throughout the world. In 1981, he left Irakere to form his own band, which garnered praise from critics and audiences, and continues to do so.
He is joined internationally renowned Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes.
Tickets: $40.00 ~ $130.00
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Herbert Joos was born on March 21, 1940 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He learned trumpet first by self-study and then by a private teacher. He studied double bass from 1958, but then turned to flugelhorn, baritone horn, mellophone, and alphorn.
Since the mid-1960s, he has been a member of Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe, from which the group Fourmenonly was created with Wilfried Eichhorn and Rudolf Theilmann. Afterward, he was a member of various modern and free jazz formations with Bernd Konrad, Hans Koller, Adelhard Roidinger and Jürgen Wuchner among others. He played at festivals and in the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden of the SWF at a flugelhorn workshop with Kenny Wheeler, Ian Carr, Harry Beckett and Ack van Rooyen and made a name for himself with his solo recording, The Philosophy of the Flugelhorn in 1973.
He led his own wind trio, quartet and orchestra. He achieved more recognition in the 1980s as a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra, which he influenced. Since the 1990s he has participated in the SüdPool project. He has appeared as a duo with Frank Kuruc as well as in Patrick Bebelaar’s groups, for Michel Godard, Wolfgang Puschnig, Clemens Salesny and Peter Schindler. He also played with the Orchestre National de France.
In 2017, he was awarded the Jazzpreis Baden-Württemberg for his life’s work. Instead of a speech after the laudations, he thanked in a short phrase, and played a concert with a sixteen piece orchestra.
Herbert Joos, who produced drawings, book illustrations and paintings, died on December 7, 2019 after surgery in a Baden-Baden, Germany hospital.
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