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| Highlights In Jazz Final Show Of The Season New York's longest running jazz concert series, concludes it's 42nd season on Thursday May 8, 2014 at 8:00 PM at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at Borough Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, NY, 10007 with a celebration of Brothers In Jazz featuring The Heath Brothers - Jimmy Heath and Albert "Tootie" Heath and Peter Anderson & Will Anderson Performing The Music of the Dorsey Brothers featuring Wycliffe Gordon plus, as in all Highlights In Jazz concerts, a surprise special guest. Now in their fifth decade together, The Heath Brothers, remains one of the most enduring groups performing in jazz history. First assembled in 1975, the band, which originally featured tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath, bassist Percy Heath and drummer/percussionist Albert "Tootie" Heath (along with pianist Stanley Cowell) garnered international recognition with their debut Strata East recording Marching On. Since the 2005 passing of eldest brother Percy (well known for his forty year tenure with The Modern Jazz Quartet), the group has gone on with bassist David Wong, along with long time pianist Jeb Patton. Playing an engaging repertoire distinguished by the classic compositions Jimmy and the exhilarating rhythms of Tootie the ensemble persists as one of the most satisfying bands in music today, living up to the title of their 2009 Jazz Legacy CD release Endurance. Recipient of the 1990 Highlights In Jazz Award, the annual honor presented by Kleinsinger "to celebrate living jazz artists who have made an enormous contribution to the jazz art form and are loved and respected by their fellow artists and jazz aficionados alike, " NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Heath, who will be making his eleventh Highlights appearance with this performance, praises the impresario and his series, noting, "Jack's a great respectful presenter over many years and we always enjoy playing for his audiences. His concerts are both well organized and well attended." Sharing the bill with the Heath Brothers will be Peter and Will Anderson (Performing The Music of the Dorsey Brothers), making their third Highlights In Jazz appearance. Will Anderson declares, "My brother and I are really looking forward to this performance. It's going to be a dream for us to play beside Jimmy and Tootie Heath. The Heath Brothers have been a huge inspiration to us." The remarkable young siblings, hailed by The New York Times as "virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone, " have received widespread praise for their Off Broadway jazz productions Artie Shaw at 100, The Fabulous Dorseys and Le Jazz Hot. They will reprise their swinging renditions of compositions by big band giants Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey with an exciting ensemble featuring Wynton Marsalis Sextet/ and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alumnus, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, who will be performing for the dedicated Highlights crowd for the fifteenth time. As in all Highlights In Jazz concerts the show will also feature a surprise guest, chosen from among the music's finest players. Some of the biggest stars in jazz who have appeared as special guests in previous years have been Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Branford Marsalis, Carmen McRae, Gerry Mulligan and George Shearing. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |