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| Five Play, the quintet of DIVA Jazz FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 The late fall months may bring early dark nights, but all the more reason to lighten up a Friday evening with great swingin' jazz. Five Play, the quintet of DIVA Jazz, surely fits that description with its roots in the jazz tradition and inspired by the members' collective, creative vision to swing through the twenty-first century. Women in jazz are usually associated with vocal music. However, the five women of Five Play are instrumentalists ~ creative, unique, and masterful. The date is November 22, 2019. The 7:30pm start-time of the concert has Five Play performing in the William and Helen Richards Theatre at Orange Hall complete with the newly crafted stage laid by hand by the highly skilled technical director of the college, Peter Galipeau. The quintet's repertoire is comprised of innovative arrangements of classic and contemporary standards. In addition, band members compose, arrange, and play their own original music. This full library of powerful ensemble pieces highlights the distinctive, unique styles of each individual musician. Crescendo and Jazz Music journal describes the ensemble, "Five Play is a unit of brilliance; neatness personified – it swings, it entertains, it sounds happy and is surely a pleasure of perfect unisons, dynamic tuttis, stirring up a sense of excitement which never pales for one instant." Leader and drummer Sherrie Maricle is the music director. And the diverse sounds of the group are provided by Tomoko Ohno, piano; Amy Shook, bass; Jami Dauber, trumpet; and Leigh Pilzer, baritone and soprano sax/clarinet. Also, earlier in the day, starting at 11am in Orange Hall room 23, the ensemble will present a master class entitled Creating a Life and Living in Music. The session is free and open to the public. The musicians will explaintheir choices of instruments and demonstrate them as well as their own style of time management in which they fit practicing, touring, composing, arranging, teaching, and, of course, performing into well-tuned (pun intended) schedules. Q & A is a welcome segment of this informative class intertwined with personal advice, shared experiences, laughter and fun. Orange Hall is located at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview Avenues (GPS: 24 Grandview Avenue), Middletown, NY. write your comments about the article :: © 2019 Jazz News :: home page |