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| Institute of Jazz Studies presents Jazz Strings Concert Series Jazz Strings Concert Series-October 9, 2012 - 2 - 4 PM- Jamale Davis Group-Jamale Davis, bass. Bassist Jamale Davis, born and raised in Irvington, New Jersey, is one of the up and coming bassists active on the New York/New Jersey jazz scene. Paying his dues and learning his craft in well respected jazz spots such as Smalls, Arthur's Tavern, The Garage, Skippers, and Little Branch, Jamale has had the privilege of playing and learning from some of the top jazz musicians. Getting his start in the Jazz Mosaic Ensemble at Rutgers - Newark (led by Newark legend Leo Johnson), Jamel Davis has become one of the featured jazz bassists around Newark, New Jersey, where he currently resides. Jazz Strings Concert Series-November 13, 2012 - 2 - 4 M- Aaron Weinstein with Warren Vaché. Violinist Aaron Weinstein was named a "rising star violinist" by Downbeat magazine and is quickly earning a reputation as one of the finest contemporary jazz violinists. As a featured soloist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Blue Note the Iridium, and abroad at jazz festivals in England, France, Switzerland, Iceland and Israel. Aaron has performed and recorded with an array of jzzz icons including: Les Paul, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, Scott Hamilton, Dick Hyman, Dave Frishberg, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Jon Hendricks, and Annie Ross, as well as New York Pops founder/conductor Skitch Henderson. He has written arrangements for a number of artists including Janis Siegel, Michael Feinstein, Billy Stritch and Hilary Kole. Aaron is a New York Nightlife Award winner and a recent graduate of the Berklee College of Music where he was awarded a full four-year, talent-based scholarship. Trumpeter Warren Vaché is a supremely accomplished, versatile and rare performer. He has been astounding audiences worldwide for decades with his superb cornet, trumpet and flugelhorn stylings. Through live performances and recordings, along with stage, screen, radio and television appearances, Warren conveys incredible warmth through his burnished tone and intelligent improvisations. He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as: Benny Goodman, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Woody Herman, Ruby Braff and Bobby Short to name but a few. He can also be found in the company of such leading contemporaries as: Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Terrell Stafford, Howard Alden, Jessie Davis, Alvin Queen, Brian Lemon, Tony Coe, Alan Barnes, Richard Wyands, Bill Charlap, Harry Allen, John Allred and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra...the list is a virtual "Who's who" in Jazz, spanning every style in the history of the music. Warren Vaché has performed at every major jazz venue and festival throughout the globe from club dates at Condon's and the Blue Note to the Newport Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and Perugia in Italy, including concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Vienna Opera, and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Jazz Strings Concert Series-March 12, 2013, 2:00 - 4:00 PM-Akua Dixon - cellist. Akua Dixon is a native of New York City. A graduate of the High School of Performing Arts, she studied cello with Benar Heifetz and composition with Rudolf Schramm. Akua studied bass concepts with Reggie Workman and Jazz Practice Techniques with Jimmy Owens at the Collective Black Artists Institution of Education. She is the 1998 recipient of "The African American Classical Music Award, " given by the Northern New Jersey Spelman Alumnae Association. Among the many noted artists that she has performed with, a few are: Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Maz Roach, Betty Carter, Ray Charles and Tony Bennett. She has been engaged at many Broadway shows, including Doonesbury, Barnum, Cats and Dreamgirls. Akua performs nationally and internationally at concert halls and colleges, public schools and libraries; at jazz festivals in Chicago, Hawaii, Berlin, St.Lucia, Tri-Sea, North Sea, Pori, Saalfelden, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Guadaloupe and San Diego. Her music for string quartet has been featured on an eight country, 26-concert tour of Europe and Scandinavia. Jazz Strings Concert Series-April 2, 2013, 2:00 - 4:00 PM-Mimi Jones, bassist. New York native Mimi Jones (aka Miriam Sullivan) is a multi-talented bassist, vocalist and composer. In 2009 she released her debut CD, "A New Day, " and she is currentluy working on her second. Mimi has performed or recorded with the great Lionel Hampton, Kenny Barron, Tia Fuller and Terri Lyne Carrington. She has studied with Lisle Atkinson, Ron Carter and Milt Hinton. Mimi toured extensively throughout Europe, the United States and on five continents as a U.S. Jazz Ambassador. write your comments about the article :: © 2012 Jazz News :: home page |