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| Princeton Jazz Quintet at the Iridium Princeton Jazz Quintet will perform at The Iridium Jazz Club, NYC on March 13th. The Princeton Jazz Quintet is comprised of five fine musicians who met and played jazz at Princeton in the 1950s and for the next 50 years went their separate ways pursuing a variety of careers. Two chose music as a profession, but all stayed close to music in some way. They came to Princeton from different places: Alan from New York, Ed from Newark, New Jersey, Dick from Massachusetts, Pete from California and Tom from down the street in Princeton New Jersey. They played in various jazz groups on campus, including the Nassau Jazz Band and Stan Rubin's Tigertown Five. Dick, Ed and Alan were members of the Johnny Eaton Quartet, a unique group that recorded three albums for Columbia Records produced by the legendary producer, George Avakian. One unreleased album included Ed's tenor-sax-playing friend from Newark, Wayne Shorter--this legend's very first recording. The Princeton Jazz Quintet repertoire focuses on the Great American Songbook with a liberal dose of bebop, latin and other music from the mainstream jazz tradition. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |