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| Terri Lyne Carrington Ensemble at Blue Note Jazz Club by Nick Balkin For the ninth straight year, a group of Berklee College of Music's top student instrumentalists and composers will play New York City's legendary Blue Note Jazz Club, Monday, March 26, 2006. Directed by Professor Terri Lyne Carrington, the group will perform primarily original compositions; Carrington will perform with the students on a number of tunes. Berklee's Terri Lyne Carrington Ensemble 2007: Terri Lyne Carrington, drums. A native of Medford, MA, Carrington developed a reputation as a child prodigy, jamming with Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson, and many more. At 11, she received a full scholarship to Berklee, where she played with Kevin Eubanks, Mike Stern, and Branford Marsalis, among others. In 1983 she moved to New York and worked with Stan Getz, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, and David Sanborn. Carrington later became the drummer for The Arsenio Hall Show, and the TV show Vibe. She spent seven years on tour with Herbie Hancock and has also toured with Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, and Al Jarreau. In addition to being an in-demand side player and producer, Carrington has released the albums Jazz Is A Spirit, Structure, and the Grammy-nominated Real Life Story. Carrington has been a professor in the Berklee percussion department since 2005. Julian Lage, guitar. First year Berklee student, Julian Lage is still not 20 years old, but has over a decade of professional performance experience with the likes of Martin Taylor, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, Bobby Hutcherson, Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano and others. He recently recorded a pair of albums with Gary Burton, both of which included his original compositions, and toured internationally with Burton's Next Generation band. He is also the subject of Mark Becker's Academy Award-nominated documentary", Jules at Eight", shot over a decade ago, when he already showed great promise on the instrument. Lawrence Fields, piano. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Fields started on the snare drum in high school, but quickly gravitated toward the piano. He came to Berklee almost entirely self-taught. In only his second semester at the college, Fields was the first-ever recipient of Berklee's James Williams Award. Fields has already worked or played with Nicholas Payton, Jeff "Tain" Watts '80, drummer Rodney Green, 2005 Thelonious Monk Guitar Competition winner and Berklee alumnus Lage Lund, and legendary songwriter and recording artist Oscar Brown Jr. He recently recorded with clarinetist Alvin Batiste, with Branford Marsalis at the faders, for Batiste's upcoming CD on Marsalis Music. Godwin Louis, saxophone. From Bridgeport Connecticut, Louis has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D'Rivera, Michael Brecker, Jimmy Heath, Ralph Peterson, Billy Preston, and others. Louis has studied under George Garzone, Hal Crook, Frank Tiberi, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Ed Tomassi, Jim Ogdren, Herb Wilson, John Pearson, and Joseph Degroate. In May of 2005, Louis represented the college at the Blue Note in New York, as part of a student group led by bassist Esperanza Spalding and faculty member, drummer Francisco Mela. He recently sat in with the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra at Birdland. Hogyu Hwang, bass. Winner of multiple major scholarships at Berklee and in his native Korea, Hwang came to Berklee in May 2002 from Dankook University, in Seoul. Hwang has had the distinction of holding the bass chair in both of the college's finest large ensembles: the Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra, led by Prof. Greg Hopkins, and the Rainbow Band, led by Prof. Phil Wilson. Since coming to Boston, Hwang has toured France and Spain, played the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the International Assn. for Jazz Education annual conference, and recorded for broadcast on XM Satellite Radio. Bryan Parks, saxophone. A native of Southern California, Parks studied music at Riverside City College before enrolling at Berklee. In 2003, he was selected to play in the Community College Honor Band at the IAJE, in New York. Parks has performed with such acclaimed jazz artists as Slide Hampton, Kurt Elling, Jeff Ellwood, Henry Franklin, Lorrie Andrews, Gary Foster, Steve Tavaglione, and Kye Palmer, among others. Dan Pugach, drums. Born in Raanana, Israel, Pugach began playing the drums at age 11. He studied at the Rimon School of Jazz, while serving 3 years of mandatory military service playing in the Air Force Big Band. In 2003, he won the Rimon Jazz Contest and was chosen to represent the school in the IASJ meeting in Freiburg, Germany. Pugach has performed with many of the finest jazz ensembles in Israel, including The Tel-Aviv Jazz Big Band, The Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and The Holon Jazz Big Band. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |