Cameron Brown’s Birthday Bash will feature a legendary line-up:
Sheila Jordan/Voice, Joe Lovano/Sax, Billy Hart/Drums, and Special Guest Judi Silvano/Voice
“Overjoyed to be celebrating my 70th Birthday with four of my oldest and dearest friends in music: playing originals, some music by Don Cherry and Dannie Richmond, with brilliant lyrics by Sheila Jordan, some standards and, of course, be-bop classics from Sheila’s early days in Detroit. We’ll take another look at some of Joe Lovano's "Trio Fascination” repertoire, as well. This is a dream ensemble for me: expect the whole spectrum - from gentle beauty to fireworks!" Cameron Brown...
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Cameron Brown’s Birthday Bash will feature a legendary line-up:
Sheila Jordan/Voice, Joe Lovano/Sax, Billy Hart/Drums, and Special Guest Judi Silvano/Voice
“Overjoyed to be celebrating my 70th Birthday with four of my oldest and dearest friends in music: playing originals, some music by Don Cherry and Dannie Richmond, with brilliant lyrics by Sheila Jordan, some standards and, of course, be-bop classics from Sheila’s early days in Detroit. We’ll take another look at some of Joe Lovano's "Trio Fascination” repertoire, as well. This is a dream ensemble for me: expect the whole spectrum - from gentle beauty to fireworks!" Cameron Brown
Cameron Brown (Bass) http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/cameronbrown Jazz bassist, composer and educator began his career in the mid-sixties, recording in Europe with George Russell and Don Cherry, who remain life-long influences and inspirations. Mr. Brown anchored some of the most important groups of the seventies, eighties and nineties, with Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd, Archie Shepp and Beaver Harris were his mentors and bandleaders. He has enjoyed special relationships with master drummers: Art Blakey, Dannie Richmond, Philly Joe Jones, Edward Blackwell, Idris Muhammad and Joe Chambers, as well as Mr. Harris.
Sheila Jordan (Vocals) sheilajordanjazz.com One of the most consistently creative jazz singers of all time, Sheila Jordan is a superb scat singer, and an emotional interpreter of ballads. Jordan was one of the few singers to lead her own Blue Note album (1962). It would be a decade before she appeared on records again, working with Carla Bley, Roswell Rudd, and co-leading a group with Steve Kuhn in the late '70s. Jordan recorded a memorable duet album with bassist Arild Andersen for SteepleChase in 1977, and has since teamed up with bassist Harvie Swartz. By the 1980s, Jordan was performing jazz full-time and gaining long deserved recognition. As a leader, she recorded for East Wind, Grapevine, SteepleChase, Palo Alto, Blackhawk, and Muse, resurfacing in 1999 with Jazz Child.
Joe Lovano
http://www.joelovano.com/
Most jazz musicians are flexible: it’s a philosophical requirement of the job. At 60, Joe Lovano, both a Grammy Nominee and Awardee, is an extreme case, moving toward universality. He developed a tenor saxophone sound for his temperament and bebop’s complex language, while listening underneath the style. An ideal Lovano performance might be one that sounds good with New York’s advanced-harmony killer elite, but that could be effectively cut and pasted over a trap beat or a string quartet or scale exercises or traffic sounds. And he keeps changing horns....Anything can happen!
"Move over, Pavarotti; the greatest Italian tenor ... isn't Luciano, but Lovano." - Will Friedwall/Village Voice
Billy Hart
http://www.billyhartdrums.com/
Jazz drummer and educator, Billy Hart, has performed with the most important jazz musicians in history. Among other notables, Hart was a member of Herbie Hancock’s sextet (1969–1973), and played with McCoy Tyner (1973–1974), Stan Getz (1974–1977), and Quest (1980s), and recorded with Miles Davis on "On the Corner" 1972. Hart spends considerable time at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and is adjunct faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and Western Michigan University. Currently, he leads the Billy Hart Quartet with Mark Turner, Ethan Iverson, and Ben Street, which has released two albums on ECM Records.
Judi Silvano
judisilvano.com The voice of Judi Silvano, whose wordless vocals mesh beautifully in both ensemble and in improvised passages with husband, Joe Lovano, is versatile enough to present The Jazz Standards, or the unique work of Thelonious Monk, or of American women composers, or her own originals about the dance of life. Silvano, a fearless experimenter in world of jazz vocals, shares her joy, bringing inspiration to every collaborative effort through her skilled, "other-worldly" improvisational techniques and sensitive listening. “Vocalist Silvano has guts and takes big risks singing in the new music arena, creating original music and functioning as an instrument in the ensemble”. - Kirk Silsbee / Downbeat Magazine
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