The Jazzschool Piano Sale
Soprano Mary Ellen Callahan & pianist Jerry Kuderna join in bringing you an hour of beautiful music from Vienna and Paris. Sensual, pure, charming, joyful, and heartbreaking songs expressed in Schubert’s style of pristine early romanticism and Debussy’s explorations in Impressionistic music paralleling the visual art of that period.
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Multi-award-winning Venezuelan pianist and composer Edward Simon plays an evening of music by Federico Mompou, Simón Díaz, and selections from his NAACP Image Award-winning album Latin American Songbook. Considered one of the strongest pianists on the jazz scene, he is part of a new generation of "multilingual" musicians who have studied classical, jazz, and Latin-American music and garnered a unique voice both as composer and instrumentalist.
Guitarist, producer, arranger, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist Diego Figueiredo performs his new concert “From Classical to Jazz.” It is a fusion between Jazz, Bossa Nova and Classical music. Diego offers a unique interpretation, with tremendous techniques and enormous emotion. With a variety of work already released, Diego is doing shows on the most important stages around the world enchanting and charming the public wherever he goes with his unique touch.
Drummer Akira Tana invites musicians from Osaka, Hammond B3 organist Atsuko Hashimoto, guitarist Yutaka Hashimoto, and tenor saxophonist Hideki Kawamura, to share the stage for an evening of swinging, unadulterated jazz organ music, in the spirit of jazz organ master Jimmy Smith. The group will celebrate the CD release of their October 2016 live performance in Kobe under the leadership of Mr. Kawamura. They will be joined by jazz vocalist virtuoso Nicolas Bearde.
Enjoy an elegant evening of music with vocalist Tammi Brown along with award winning pianist Dan Zemelman, as they join forces as the ‘Art of the Duo’ to celebrate and perform music by Nina Simone, original music by the award winning “Lost American Jazzbook” project, as well as their arrangements of notable jazz standards. Special Guests include the internationally renowned vocalist Nicolas Bearde and Mr. Terence Kelly, director of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir.
Pianist Manuel Valera & saxophonist/clarinetist John Ellis, two versatile composers, come together to traverse and interact through music. They present their own compositions with this chamber music format in mind, as well as new refreshing arrangements on material from the great American songbook.
The Latin Roots of Jazz are deep. The parallel evolution of traditional and popular Latin American music with that of Jazz has greatly informed both streams and has produced some of the most exciting and moving music of the last 120 years. The JS Quartet always takes us on an imaginative musical journey that encompasses an astounding variety of rhythms and styles.
Pianist/keyboardist, singer, composer, arranger Matt Jenson lights up the connection between roots-reggae and soul-jazz with his Mix Up Mix Up band featuring guitarist Will Bernard, trombonist Jeff Cressman, drummer Reese Bullen and bassist Gillian Harwin. The group presents original compositions and creative re-workings of pop, jazz and reggae anthems by Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Marvin Gaye, George Gershwin, Chopin and more.
You may know Dillon Vado as the vibraphonist who earned 1st place in Jazz Search West 2014, or the vibraphonist/percussionist in Alan Hall’s band Ratatet, or as the drummer and sideman for many people like Jeff Denson, Sandy Cressman, Jovino Santos Neto and Art Lande. But this concert you can hear Dillon play drums with his newest project, Never Weather, as they celebrate a year of playing together and the finishing of their debut record, Blissonance.
