Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway Appearing at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

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Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway Appearing at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Tues., Wed., Thurs. June 10-11-12, Shows 7:30pm & 9:30pm Featuring Roger Kellaway, piano, Eddie Daniels, clarinet & tenor With special guest Borislav Strulev, cello Performing music from their award winning IPO Release "Duke at the Roadhouse".
Winner 2013
Grand Prix de l'Académie du Jazz
And High Critical Praise From Telerama In France:
A clarinetist beside which even Buddy DeFranco, not to mention Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw, seem an amateur? Here it is: Eddie Daniels. It is
not a young man. In the big band Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, he played tenor sax.

During the recording of a song where the tenors succeeded on high tempo, he unexpectedly passed the clarinet. This solo thirty-two measures led to his being classified clarinetist "number one" by the magazine Down Beat in 1966. Like what … It took then honor this distinction by simply becoming the best clarinetist in the world.

What confirms once again with this record a duet with pianist Roger Kellaway, an old friend, and here and there adding a cellist, Doug Coffin. The sound of Eddie Daniels, woody and sweet, tastes like licorice, her keen is powerful but never loud; classical clarinetists must envy. His phrasing is so miraculous precision swing. As, in addition, it has the melodic imagination and unlimited invention, listening, charmed as much as flabbergasted, to the tunes of Duke Ellington carefully selected (Creole Love Call, Perdido, Sophisticated Lady, Mood Indigo) and excellent original compositions of both musicians. The Academy of jazz comes to crowning honor this disc as the best of 2013, other prices ranging Vincent and Cécile Peirani McLorin Salvant. - Michel Contat

Duke at the Roadhouse

1966 was a big year for me. I was asked to join the Thad Jones- Me Lewis orchestra and was thrust onto the American Jazz scene playing at the Village Vanguard every Monday night. There I was, playing with some of my own idols.......Pepper Adams, Hank Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Snooky Young, Roland Hanna, Jerome Richardson...........it totally changed my world!

Towards the spring of that year I was asked to play at a jam session with Duke Ellington. It was a small restaurant-bar in Greenwich Village. I walked in and there was Duke at the piano and people saying to me:"Get up there and play Eddie". There was no rhythm section....just the 2 of us....wow! and some other musicians in the wings waiting to get a chance. It was such fun to see Duke turn his head towards me and give me that big smile while I was playing. What an experience... indelible marks that last forever.

Fast forward 56 years to last October 2012 in Santa Fe New Mexico, those indelible marks having helped carve a career for me that I always will be thankful for. I was asked to perform at a benefit concert by a group called "Santa Fe Center for Therapeutic Riding ', which helps young people with disabilities while working with horses. The concert was to be held at the Lensic Theater. I immediately decided that the music should be Duke's and chose Roger Kellaway as my collaborator! Since Roger and I had already recorded 2 albums as a duo for IPO records...... "A Duet of One" and "Live at the Library of Congress" …….. and given the idea of Duke's music, I thought that adding a cello to our duo would add a richness to the music. Roger, being a "Cellophile", known for his "Cello Quartets" albums, jumped on it!

I then suggested to Roger that we each write an original tune dedicated to Duke....Roger's is called "Duke in Ojai" and mine being "Duke at the Roadhouse", the latter being named after Harry's Roadhouse in Santa Fe, which bustles with Duke's musical energy and greatly reminds me of that place in the Village where I had my indelible "Duke" experience. Also part of our benefit concert was a painting donated by the legendary Native American artist Doug Coffin. The cover of this album "Duke At The Roadhouse" was done by Doug as he listened to the final mixes of this live concert. He truly is part of the band.

My special thanks to Roger, who is so much fun to play with, Morrie Backun, who made my clarinet, the Lensic Theater, The Santa Fe center for Therapeutic Riding, Doug Coffin for being part of the interplay, cellist James Holland, and IPO's Bill Sorin, who records music that he loves and is passionate about. Enjoy!!!

Partnering with one of the world's great clarinetists is challenging. But, after more than 25 years, it's also musically quite rewarding ! For this Santa Fe CD, Eddie suggested adding Cello And, because of my passion for the Cello [beginning with the A&M recording of "The Roger Kelllaway Cello Quartet" 42 years ago], I was delighted.

As with all of my Cello writing, everything is written out---even the Jazz solos. Therefore it becomes necessary for the Cellist to have some knowledge of Jazz phrasing in order to have the Jazz solos sound like improvisations. James Holland said, "yes" to this challenge. Once again, I'm delighted.

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