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| Antoinette Montague performing with Frank Wess in NYC Jazz singer Antoinette Montague will perform with the legendary Frank Wess (sax) featuring Larry Horn on piano, Victor Jones on drums and Neal Miner on bass in The Bacchus Room, NYC, Friday, May 19, 2006. Antoinette was in the Great Women in Music Festival at Birdland with the Duke Ellington Band, Mike Longo's NY State of the Art Band for the 88th Birthday Celebration of Dizzy Gillespie, and selected by a special panel of Judy Pitts, Sheila Jordan and Martin Mueller to perform at the 40th Anniversary of St. Peter's Church and the 10th Anniversary of International Women in Jazz. She and her quartet have performed at the VC Jazz Festival, and Madame X, Cornelia Street Caf, Cleopatra's Needle, Tribeca Bar and Grill, Trumpets, Cajun and the NAACP's Tribute to Milt Jackson. Antoinette brings a business sensibility to Jazz as she is a Vice President at Bottomline Publications and she contributes all she can to help Jazz venues and organizations. She has spent years learning from and supporting some of the best in Jazz for many years including Carrie Smith, Etta Jones, Norman Simmons, Della Griffin, Tom Aalfs, Inez McClendon, Jim Carson, and everyone she can listen and learn from. She is soon to release For the Love of Music with Mulgrew Miller, Bill Easley, Peter Washington and Kenny Washington. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |