
Gini Wilson
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Join
the acclaimed San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet
-- co-founders Gini Wilson on piano and reedman
Steve Heckman, along with Pat Klobas on bass, Ron
Marabuto on drums, Badr Karram on dumbek - as they
celebrate the release of their second CD "SFCJQ" in
a long-awaited Marin concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday,
November 26 at the West End Studio Theatre, 1554
4th Street (between E and F) in San Rafael, CA.
Tickets are $15.00 at the door, $35.00 for families.
For tickets and information, please call 415-453-0552
or go to www.westcoastarts.org.
Their new self-titled CD, out August 23 on Music Wizards, is an
intensely lyrical, richly varied program featuring some of the
most arresting and creative chamber jazz they have written to date.
It's earning high praise from critics and the public alike.
SFCJQ showcases music written
by Klobas, Wilson, Heckman, Mussorgsky, as well
as a bossa nova by Amandio Cabral. These compositions
reflect musical influences ranging from classical
music to world music and Brazilian and Cuban
rhythms, and from free improvisation to blues.
The San Francisco Chamber Jazz Quartet has made waves in the San
Francisco area and nationally. Their concerts and debut album,
The Crossing Point, (Music Wizards, 2003) gained national attention.
Gini Wilson, known as The Duchess, is legendary in the Bay Area
as a brilliant jazz pianist, entertainer, and composer. Gini
performs regularly at well-known Bay Area clubs such as Jazz
at Pearls and Shanghai 1930 in San Francisco. In various television
and radio projects, concerts and interviews she is also noted
for her irreverent sense of humor. She studied classical piano
(M. Music) and studied composition with the American master George
Crumb, switched to playing jazz after a classical career, and
this is her seventh album of original music.
Reedman Steve Heckman creates "an
extravaganza of beautiful tenor playing." -
All Music Guide. He began his career in New York
at 17 with bebop trumpet player Howard McGee
and Roswell Rudd. He has performed with trumpeters
Eddie Henderson and Tom Harrell; pianists Andrew
Hill, Bennie Green, and Jessica Williams; drummers
Eddie Moore and Pete Escovedo; guitarists, Bruce
Foreman and Mimi Fox; and vocalists Madeline
Eastman and Kellye Gray.
His debut CD, With John In Mind, (for John Coltrane) has received
critical acclaim. His new CD, Live at Yoshi's is being released
August 23.
Known as a very creative musician
in both the classical and jazz fields, bassist
Pat Klobas' experience has performed with the
S. F. Opera and Ballet, Skywalker Symphony, The
American Jazz Philharmonic, numerous jazz groups
and regional orchestras.
Drummer Ron Marabuto, from the
Bay Area, worked in NYC for many years with leading
players such as Pepper Adams, Roland Hanna, Tommy
Flanagan, Rufus Reid, Steve Grossman and many
more.
Visit ChamberJazz.com
for more info
West Coast Arts Foundation
Presents
The Dick Conte Trio in Concert
Friday, Dec. 9th, 8:00 PM
Tickets $15
The Jazz Cafe with Dick Conte
An elegant blend of classic jazz from artists like Miles Davis,
Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz and Ella Fitzgerald. Hosted by Bay
Area pianist Dick Conte. If you have any questions about the
songs or artists heard during the Jazz Cafe' please feel free
to contact Dick via e-Mail.
Dick Conte is best known as a
jazz radio DJ in the golden days of KJAZ and
now on KCSM and KKSF (his Sunday night straightahead
jazz program is a huge succes). But Conte's also
an impressive pianist who has been gigging the
area for as long as he's been gracing the airwaves.
He's finally released his debut CD, and it's
a jewel of an album.
In these solo and trio sesions recorded over a span of ten years,
Conte gives fine renditions of such chestnuts as Gershwin's "Summertin," Ellington's "Sophisticated
Lady" and "Satin Doll," as well as delights with
orginals, like the gently swaying rmantic tune, "Blues for
Kathleen," the Brazilian-inflected "The Breeze," and
the jaunty "Virgone." Don't expect Conte to pull off
dazzling feats of virtousity. That's not his forte. But what does
make this collection so remarkable is the way he soulfully plays
into the heart of these compositions.
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