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| Miget Continues 'Feed Your Soul' Series With Sun Ra's Kash Killion by imajinnWEST On Wednesday September 12, 2007, Marcia Miget of Miraflores Music School will perform the second in a series of lunchtime concerts on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and 'E' Streets, San Rafael. Each week from noon to 1:30 pm Ms. Miget will perform with a local name musician or former student in jazz, Latin or classical genres. The second 'Friend' in Marcia's series is San Francisco-based Kash Killion, a visionary cellist, bassist, vocalist, and composer who stretches the boundaries of stringed instruments. Kash began his professional musical career at age ten drawn first to clarinet, then voice, flute, electric guitar and electric bass. Born in the very fertile music scene in and around East St. Louis, Alton, Illinois (Miles Davis' home town) the cellist, bassist, vocalist, and composer Killion has played extensively in avant garde circles with such icons as Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Julius Hemphill, Reggie Workman, Sun Ra, Butch Morris and George Lewis. As well as being an integral member of Sun Ra's Arkestra His performance history includes Donald Byrd, George Cables, Billy Higgins, Reggie Workman, dance troupes and poets including Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Quincy Troupe, Shirley Le Flore and Jessica Hagdorm. A consummate session musician finishing a film score with Tom Waits last year, he also studied with the great Indian musicians, Ali Akbar Khan and master Sultan Khan learning an assortment of Middle Eastern stringed instruments such as, serengi, ditruba and esraj. His latest project, 'Lost Legacy of the Cello', is currently available through kkillion.com. Kash states, "I hear the cello as a bass, a violin, a guitar, a saxophone, and a piano, and strive to put the instruments in unusual situations, play any style of music and make it sound 'authentic'. My focus is to create something unique." Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and educator, Marcia has most recently performed with the Voices of Latin Rock at Arizona's Cesar Chavez Day Celebration. With skills that cross multiple genres she's the only female saxophonist/flutist with Dr. Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, performing with Wayne Wallace's Rhythm and Rhyme, the Northern California Lighthouse Singers 25th Anniversary conducted by Helen Stevens and Stephen Roberts and the Montclair Women's Big Band. She's played at Monterey, Stern Grove, Sonoma, Fillmore Jazz Festivals and the International Association of Jazz Educators' Conventions with the African American Jazz Caucus AllStar Big Band (in 2004 was the Featured Artist with the Historically Black Colleges' University Allstar Band). Her last project-as-producer was Passing the Baton: the Miget-Redd Session Part 1 with legendary Bebop pianist, Freddy Redd. A Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences her performance pedigree includes multiple appearances with Carlos Santana, and such notables as Larry Ridley, Jimmy Cobb, Buddy Baker, Kenny Barron, Orestes Vilato, Frank Foster, Pete Escovedo, Donald Byrd, Tyrone Hill of Sun Ra's Arkestra, Freddy Redd, Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra, Carl Perazzo, Phish, Wayne Wallace, John Santos, Babatunde Lea, Abel Sanchez, Jorge Santana and Prophet, Jaimeo Brown and Dartanyan Brown. Her past band has opened for Chick Corea, Kenny Loggins, Phoebe Snow and performed on MTV with Rickie Lee Jones. She has been the featured performer with the James Cleveland Choir at the Gospel Music Workshop of America; in a 2003 Jam Session Tribute to Oscar Peterson at the Toronto International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention. Based in the Bay Area Miraflores Music School is a preeminent private school that has been the foundation for some of Marin's best musical talent since 1988, as current and graduated students, e.g. James Perdelwitz, Joelle Parrett, Jeff Derby, Jaimeo Brown, Alex Baky, J.J.Byars, Lou Wiskus, Robby Marshall, Isabella Quereshi, Zach Gunsell, Dan Birch, Bram Kincheloe, Elecia Strauss, Seth Paris, Kristina Hoffman, Andrew Capra and Salvador Santana, evidence. These graduates, and many more, were selected for prestigious musical performance groups like the International Monterey High School All-star Jazz Band, California High School All-State Band, California High School All-State Concert Band, the San Francisco Jazz High School Allstars and attend a number of institutions such as Oberlin College, Sarah Lawrence, Berklee School of Music, the New School to Cal Arts, Manhattan School, NYU, USC and UCLA or performing professionally with such names as Bill Watrus, Mingus Big Band, and Greg Tardy. The array of award-winning students from Miraflores have performed in such events as the Duke Ellington Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, San Rafael's Italian Street Painting Festival, et al. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |