DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER WITH SEAN JONES
NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater with bandleader and trumpeter Sean Jones and the NYO Jazz All-Star Big Band. The program consists of:
Feldman | Fitzgerald ~ “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (arr. Slide Hampton)
Santamaría ~ “Afro Blue” (arr. John Clayton)
Ellington ~ “Cotton Tail” (arr. Slide Hampton)
Newley | Bricusse ~ “Feeling Good / I Got You (I Feel Good)” (arr. Emily L. Fredrickson)
John Beasley ~ “Fête dans la tête” (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Holiday | Herzog Jr. ~ “God Bless the Child” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
Higginbotham | Drake | Fisher ~ “Good Morning Heartache” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
John Clayton ~ “I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues”
Nichols | Holiday ~ “Lady Sings the Blues” (arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater)
Bley ~ “Lawns” (arr. Javier Nero)
Lee | Goodman ~ “Let the Good Times Roll” (arr. Frank Foster)
Sean Jones ~ “Touch and Go” (arr. Dave Morgan)
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NICOLE HENRY
Set For The Season
Songstress Nicole Henry returns to St. Louis! Nicole possesses a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance. Her passionate, soulful voice and heart-felt charisma continue to win over fans worldwide.
Since her debut in 2004, Nicole Henry has established herself as one of the jazz world’s most acclaimed vocalists. Ms. Henry possesses a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing, and powerful emotional resonance. Her passionate, soulful voice and heart-felt charisma have earned her a 2013 Soul Train Award for “Best Traditional Jazz Performance,” three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan jazz CDs, and rave reviews by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, El Pais, Jazz Times, Essence and many more.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Joe “Bebop” Carroll was born Joseph Paul Taylor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 25, 1919. In 1949 he became a member of the Dizzy Gillespie big band. After the band broke up a year later, Carroll continued in a small group formed by Gillespie. In 1953, he left Gillespie to pursue a solo career and recorded albums for Epic Records in the 1950s.
Vocalist Joe Carroll, whose collaborations with Gillespie included the humorous songs Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac and Oo Bla Dee, transitioned on February 1, 1981.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
David Werner Amram III was born November 17, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1948–1949, and earned a bachelor’s degree in European history from George Washington University in 1952. In 1955 he enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under Dimitri Mitropoulos, Vittorio Giannini, and Gunther Schuller. Under Schuller he studied French horn.
As a sideman or leader, David has worked with Aaron Copland, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Jack Kerouac, Sonny Rollins, Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, George Barrow, Jerry Dodgion, Paquito D’Rivera, Pepper Adams, Arturo Sandoval, Oscar Pettiford, Allen Ginsberg, Mary Lou Williams, Kenny Dorham, Ray Barretto, Wynton Marsalis, and others that included a wide range of folk, pop, and country figures.
In 1956, producer Joseph Papp hired Amram to compose scores for the New York Shakespeare Festival, the next year staged one of the first poetry readings with jazz, and in 1966 Leonard Bernstein chose Amram as the New York Philharmonic’s first composer-in-residence.
He went on four international musical tours to Brazil, Kenya, Cuba and the Middle East. He conducted a 15 piece orchestra for Betty Carter’s What Happened To Love? album, became an advocate for music education. He composed scores for the Elia Kazan films Splendor in the Grass, and The Arrangement and for the John Frankenheimer films The Young Savages and The Manchurian Candidate.
French hornist and pianist David Amram, who also plays Spanish guitar, penny whistle, sings and composes, has recorded nineteen albums as a leader and twenty-eight as a sideman.
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The Jazz Voyager
Saying farewell to DC always gives me a melancholy feeling having spent so many years there having so much fun. This week the Jazz Voyager is heading for a little jazz in the Buckeye State and for those who don’t know I’m talking about Ohio. The city is Cincinnati and it sits at the confluence of Licking and Ohio Rivers, the latter which has the city looking at Kentucky.
The venue is Caffè Vivace, a coffee house by day and a jazz lounge by night. It provides a space for Queen City residents to gather, work, socialize and herald the musical art form of jazz and a destination for jazz lovers. Located in the Walnut Hills neighborhood and has gained a reputation that hosts the area’s finest local jazz musicians, young and old, as well as the occasional regionally or nationally known artists.
So tonight I will be in the audience to check out vocalist Mandy Gaines who has been singing since an early age, getting her initial training school and church. She then continued studies with private vocal instruction and an assortment of workshops that enhanced her skillset. Joining her is pianist Sergio Pamies from Spain who fuses traditional jazz language with flamenco music of his childhood. He has takenhis knowledge and became a college professor at several universities in America, Europe and Asia.
The venue is located at 975 E McMillan Street, 45206 and for more information you can visit https://notoriousjazz.com/event/mandy-gaines-sergio-pamies
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