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| Portuguese Bassist Andre Carvalho and Trumpeter Garrett Schmidt Debut Singles Named for his first born son, Schmidt releases his first track as a leader! Stay tuned for the full album next month! For now take a listen: More on Garrett Schmidt: Garrett Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies, teaches jazz trumpet, jazz arranging, jazz combo, and directs the Concert Jazz Band at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before moving back to Illinois, Garrett was an active musician in New York City, playing at Shapeshifter Lab, Somethin' Jazz Club, 54 Below, Tea Lounge, The Garage, and Radio City Music Hall. Garrett is an active clinician and performer. He has performed all over the the world with the Maria Schneider Orchestra(Tokyo Blue Note, Jazz Standard, University of Maryland, Elmhurst Jazz Festival, Barcelona, Luxembourg, Vienna, Zürich, Geneva, Basel). He has also performed/toured with the Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, John LaBarbera Big Band, Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Temptations, Johnny Mathis, Frankie Valli, CDZA, T-Pain, and Grease Das Musical. In 2014, Garrett performed 8 shows a week with the Broadway production of 'Cabaret' at Studio 54. As a member of this production, he had the opportunity to play on both the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Today Show. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media from the Eastman School of Music. More on André Carvalho: André Carvalho's credits are in abundance, his pedigree unassailable, having worked with Chris Cheek, Will Vinson, Ian Froman, Colin Stranahan, André Matos, Tommy Crane, Vinnie Sperrazza, Mário Laginha, Billy Mintz, Maria Joăo, Gilberto Gil, European Movement Jazz Orchestra, among many others. The Fulbright grantee (with a Master of Music in jazz performance at the Manhattan School of Music) has also worked extensively outside the jazz world with the Ibero-American Orchestra (under Gustavo Dudamel), Anton Webern Orchestra (under Franz Welser-Most and Heinrich Schiff), Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra (under Michael Zilm), among others, as well as contemporary ensembles such as Octothorpe. His interest in Fado, Portugal's traditional music, led him to perform with important names of this genre, such as Carlos do Carmo and Cristina Branco. In recent years, Carvalho has also been performing intensely around Europe, performing as a bandleader and sideman in Portugal, Spain, Austria, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, England, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, Romania, as well as in the U.S. and Egypt. write your comments about the article :: © 2019 Jazz News :: home page |