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ANNOUNCING THE LIVING ROOM JAZZ SERIES
Four fabulous concerts at The Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach
2800 S. Ocean Blvd. Palm Beach
January - April 2012
concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets $25 for JAMS Members and $35 for non-members
MONDAY, January 9, 2012
NEGRONIS TRIO with ED CALLE and FEDERICO BRITOS
The World Music 5
Accomplished pianist and composer Jose Negroni hails from Puerto Rico and has garnered recognition throughout the jazz world. In his native home, Negroni was a disciple of the Papo Lucca, the legendary Latin multi-instrumentalist. Negroni's career includes more than 16 years as a teacher in his island’s music conservatory. His talent then took him to this country, where he worked as director for Sony Music Publishing for 10 years. But his true passion never left him, and in 2002 he formed Negroni’s Trio, a truly amazing merging of jazz, classic lyricism and Afro Latin punches. Negroni’s Trio consists of his son Nomar Negroni, a gifted and powerful drummer, and currently Josh Allen on bass. A product of the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, Nomar has done session work for various great jazz and pop artists, and recently was nominated as 2008 Best Drummer of the Year by The Latin Jazz Corner. Throughout his journey, Jose Negroni performed with the likes of Apollo Sound and was the featured pianist with La Sonora Ponceña when Papo Lucca was unavailable. Simultaneously, Negroni established a successful career as a highly solicited director, producer and pop music arrangers, all while on tour as pianist and director with numerous multinational artists. His music combines progressive jazz elements, pop and Latin music, while paying homage to the spirit of his native island. Tonight we will experience the group's most recent project: The World Music 5, featuring Federico Britos on violin and Ed Calle on saxophone, two world renowned artists in their own right.
There is no greater proof of the universality of jazz and classical music than the career and life work of Grammy Award winner Federico Britos. This titan of the violin is equally adept playing jazz as classical music. Britos has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe with some of the leading symphony orchestras of his native Uruguay, Venezuela, Peru, Cuba and the United States (Miami). He has performed with some of Latin America's greatest musicians, such as Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Salgan, Bola de Nieve, Cachao and Joao Gilberto. He also share the stage with Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Charlie Haden, Ken Peplowski, Eddie Higgins and Charlie Byrd. He has performed at various jazz festivals worldwide, including the famed Montreux Jazz Festival; played as a special guest in The Grappelli Legacy at Carnegie Hall; and performed at The Kennedy Center in a program called "AMERICANOS" with Cachao, Nestor Torres, Jose Feliciano, Juan Luis Guerra, Gloria Estefan and Paquito D'Rivera. The show was produced by James Edward James Olmos.
Saxophonist Ed Calle is known for his extraordinary prowess in the styles of bebop, Latin and contemporary jazz, and pop. Calle can be heard on hundreds of recordings both as a sideman and soloist. He is on Grammy Award-winning albums by Frank Sinatra, Vicky Carr, Arturo Sandoval and Jon Secada, as well as on numerous television and motion picture soundtracks. He also has recorded and performed around the world with such artists as Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Michael Bolton, Bob James, Bobby Caldwell, Rhianna, Extreme and Vanessa Williams. His many solo recordings have garnered Latin Grammy nominations, in 2005 and 2007. He has served as a guest artist and clinician with the Monk Institute and at the University of North Florida, the University of Florida, the University of Miami and other schools.
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MONDAY, February 6, 2012
TERELL STAFFORD QUINTET
Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Known for being a gifted and versatile player with a voice all his own, Stafford combines lyricism and a deep love of melody with a spirited, adventurous edge. This uniquely expressive, well-defined musical talent allows Stafford the ability to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads. Stafford was born in Miami and raised in Chicago and Silver Spring, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Maryland in 1988 and a Masters of Music from Rutgers University in 1993. Since the mid-1990’s Stafford has performed with Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s Sextet, the Kenny Barron Sextet, the Jimmy Heath Big Band, the Jon Faddis Orchestra. Currently he is a member of the GRAMMY award winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as a member of the GRAMMY nominated Clayton Brothers Quintet, and the Frank Wess Quintet. Between 2006 and 2007 Stafford played an integral part on several albums including Diana Krall’s GRAMMY nominated From this Moment On for which Stafford joined with the Hamilton-Clayton Jazz Orchestra. In celebration of Jimmy Heath’s 80th birthday, Stafford recorded with the Jimmy Heath Big Band for the album Turn Up the Heath. Stafford has also been an integral part of bands led by such venerable artists as Cedar Walton, Sadao Watanabe, Herbie Mann, and Matt Wilson. He has appeared on television (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and You Bet Your Life with Bill Cosby) and can be heard on the soundtrack for the feature film, A Bronx Tale. He has also performed as a guest artist with the Billy Taylor Trio on National Public Radio’s Billy Taylor’s Jazz at the Kennedy Center.
MONDAY, March 19, 2012
NOEL FREIDLINE QUINTET
Noel Freidline is a 1991 graduate of the University of North Florida, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Music (magna cum laude). A pianist, vocalist, writer and arranger, Noel has been the leader of his own group since 1991. The Noel Freidline Quintet released their seventh CD “Live at the Jazz Corner,” in September of 2008. Their 2002 release “Four Nights at the Slammer,” spent 12 weeks on the national jazz radio charts and broke into the top 20.
The NFQ’s performance credits include the Montreux and Northsea Jazz Festivals, ten appearances at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, the Nashville Summer Lights Fest, Chattanooga’s Riverbend Festival, a three-year house band position at The Bellagio in Las Vegas, actress Julia Roberts’ surprise 35th birthday party, and regular performances with the Charlotte Symphony as featured artists.
Noel was named Best Jazz Musician by Charlotte Magazine in 2006 and in 2009 was named “Best Musical Director” by the Metrolina Theatre Association of the Carolinas. Broadway shows for which he has performed include “Jersey Boys,” “Dream Girls” and “White Christmas” as well as the Charlotte Symphony’s recent presentation of “Wicked Divas.” A dilettante of pop culture, Noel has become a popular lecturer for theatres and museums, creating and presenting multi-media presentations on everything from Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons to Mel Brooks.
Noel is currently a Lecturer in Music at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he specializes in jazz studies and music business. As a composer and arranger, Noel has written and recorded music for ESPN, ABC and the Walt Disney Company, with his most recent work being featured on Monday Night Football, the NBA All-Star Game, and SportCenter.
MONDAY, April 2, 2012
ROSE MAX BRAZILIAN JAZZ QUINTET
The temptation to compare Brazilian singer Rose Max and her guitarist husband Ramatis Moraes with Astrud Gilberto and Joao Gilberto is hard to resist, and one wonders whether the younger musical duo wouldn’t have achieved a similar degree of popularity if they, instead of the Gilbertos, had come to the United States decades earlier. That’s because Max won the Brazilian Press Award for Best Female Brazilian Singer Residing and Performing in the USA three times – in 1997, 1998 and 2001. The brand of music performed by her and Moraes is bossa nova, samba and Brazilian jazz, the same fare that wowed American audiences in the Gilbertos’ collaborations with Stan Getz in the 1960s and as a duo in their own right in the ’70s. The sensuous appeal of the highly rhythmic music is timeless, and, plied by consummate artists such as Max and Moraes, never fails to delight. Max moved from Brazil to Miami in late 1993, where she has maintained a full performance schedule ever since, all the while continuing to develop her musical prowess. Her first solo CD was Rose Max–Brazilian Jazz, released in late 2002. It consisted of Brazilian classics in the bossa nova and samba styles, and was directed and produced by Moraes. The Miami New Times newspaper has been enthusiastic in its praise for Max and Moraes, declaring that they deliver “Brazilian jazz, samba and bossa so rich, you’ll think you just stumbled in off the streets of Rio de Janeiro.” JAMS presented this group to close out last season in April 2011. Their performance was sold out and now they are back by popular demand to conclude our second season here at The Four Seasons. Rose and Ramatis appear as a quintet with bass, percussion and piano.
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