Pat Martino Organ Trio Plus Horns
Pat Martino has become one of the true living legends of jazz. His core trio is joined by saxophonist Adam Niewood and trumpeter Alex Norris. PerformersPat Martino, GuitarPat Bianchi, OrganCarmen Intorre Jr., DrumsAdam Niewood, SaxophonesAlex Norris, Trumpet
Zankel Hall @ Carnegie Hall|New York, NY, New York/NY
Banjo Roundtable with Béla Fleck, with Seamus Egan, Tony Trischka, Don Vappie, and Abigail Washburn
Steeped in a wide array of musical traditions, from old-time and modern bluegrass, drop thumb, New Orleans 4-string, early jazz, and Creole styles to Irish, new acoustic, classical, and world music sounds, these phenomenal musicians join banjo forces for an incredible evening of trading tunes and stories from their unique and diverse perspectives.Just in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are some who say he’s the premier banjo player in the world. Others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Béla, you know that he just loves to play the banjo and put it into unique settings.The 16-time Grammy Award winner has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in Grammy history and remains a powerfully creative force globally in bluegrass, jazz, classical pop, rock, and world beat. In 2009, he produced the award-winning documentary and recordings, Throw Down Your Heart, where he journeyed across Africa to research the origins of the banjo. In 2011, Fleck premiered The Impostor with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, an unprecedented banjo concerto, followed by the companion documentary, How to Write a Banjo Concerto. In 2016, Béla will unveil his second concerto Juno in Canton, Ohio. These days, Fleck bounces between various intriguing touring situations: he performs his concerto worldwide with symphonies, collaborates in a duo with Chick Corea and in a trio with Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer. He performs in concert with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, in banjo duet with Abigail Washburn, and back to bluegrass with his old friends Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton, and others. He collaborates with African artists such as Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabate, in a jazz setting with The Marcus Roberts Trio, and with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, who continue to perform together 25 years after the band’s inception. belafleck.comTony Trischka (United States Artists Friends Fellow, 2012) is considered the consummate banjo artist and perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 45 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians with the many voices he has brought to the instrument.Tony has received the IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) award for Banjo Player of the Year. His album Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular received IBMA awards and a Grammy nomination. With his latest album Great Big World is a deeply compelling showcase for his expansive instrumental talents, far-ranging musical interests, and distinctive songwriting skills, as well as his sterling taste in collaborators.Give Me the Banjo aired on PBS stations nationwide with Tony as the Musical Director and Co-Producer of the documentary, subsequently released on DVD. He produced Steve Martin’s Grammy nominated Rare Bird Alert, which features performances by Paul McCartney, the Dixie Chicks, and the Steep Canyon Rangers.Tony is one of the most respected and sought after banjo instructors, having created 15 instructional books as well as a series of DVDs. In 2009, he launched the groundbreaking Tony Trischka School of Banjo, an advanced, interactive, online instructional site.With his fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka has roamed widely through the banjo's creative terrain. He continues to maintain a national and international touring schedule with his band of extraordinary musicians. tonytrischka.comDon Vappie is a world renown jazz musician and presenter from New Orleans. He leads the Creole Jazz Serenaders, a classic New Orleans jazz orchestra, as well as his various jazz and R&B combos. He has produced and recorded numerous CDs and film sound tracks and is star of the PBS documentary American Creole: New Orleans Reunion.Known for his virtuosic banjo skills, Don is a stellar bassist, guitarist and vocalist. Add to that his commitment to the cultural creole music of New Orleans he calls "creole jazz."As an educator, he has participated, presented and/or performed for programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Tulane University, Historic New Orleans Collection, NPR, Smithsonian, Appalachian State University and many more. He currently serves as jazz guitar instructor at Loyola University and the Don “Moose” Jamison Heritage School of Music. In the span of his 43 year career he has performed with Peggy Lee, Joel Gray, Carol Channing, Danny Barker, Wynton Marsalis, Otis Taylor, Terence Blanchard, Johnny Adams, Eric Clapton, Cheick Hamala Diabate, Bassekou Kouyate, Demma Dia of Sengal, Bette Midler, Ellis Marsalis, Diana Krall, and many more. His transcriptions of early jazz recordings are available from Warner Bros. Publishing and his orchestral arrangements for banjo and orchestra are distributed worldwide on the NAXOS label. donvappie.comAbigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player whose music often meshes traditional Appalachian and Chinese folk tunes. Abigail’s music projects range from her string band, Uncle Earl, to her bilingual releases Song of the Traveling Daughter(2005) and City of Refuge (2011), to the mind-bending “chamber roots” sound of the Sparrow Quartet (featuring Béla Fleck, Casey Driessen, and Ben Sollee), to Afterquake, her fundraiser CD for Sichuan earthquake victims. Her most recent record with her husband, Béla Fleck, won a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Washburn is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has regularly toured in China, including a month long tour of China's Silk Road supported by grants from the US Embassy, Beijing. Abigail is a TED Fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach titled “Building US-China Relations…by Banjo.” In March of 2013, she was commissioned by New York Voices and the NY Public Theater to write and debut a theatrical work, Post-American Girl, which draws from her 17-year relationship with China and addresses themes of expanding identity, cultural relativism, pilgrimage, and the universal appeal of music. abigailwashburn.com
Symphony Space|2537 Broadway at 95th Street|New York, NY 10025, New York/NY
Abigail Washburn & Wu Fei
Crossing cultures effortlessly, Washburn and Wu perform songs rooted in traditional Appalachian and Chinese music. The guzheng, a Chinese zither, melds with the American folk tones of the banjo, creating an entirely unique sound.Abigail Washburn is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player whose music often meshes traditional Appalachian and Chinese folk tunes. Abigail’s music projects range from her string band, Uncle Earl, to her bilingual releases Song of the Traveling Daughter (2005) and City of Refuge (2011), to the mind-bending “chamber roots” sound of the Sparrow Quartet (featuring Béla Fleck, Casey Driessen, and Ben Sollee), to Afterquake, her fundraiser CD for Sichuan earthquake victims. Her most recent record with her husband, Béla Fleck, won a 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. Washburn is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has regularly toured in China, including a month long tour of China's Silk Road supported by grants from the US Embassy, Beijing. Abigail is a TED Fellow and gave a talk at the 2012 TED Convention in Long Beach titled “Building US-China Relations…by Banjo.” In March of 2013, she was commissioned by New York Voices and the NY Public Theater to write and debut a theatrical work, Post-American Girl, which draws from her 17-year relationship with China and addresses themes of expanding identity, cultural relativism, pilgrimage, and the universal appeal of music. abigailwashburn.comWu Fei, a native of Beijing and a current Nashville resident, is a master of the guzheng, the 21-string Chinese zither. She plays beautifully in the instrument’s vernacular–a musical language which is at least 2,000 years old–and in a contemporary idiosyncratic, experimental dialect nurtured by years spent at Mills College and immersed in the New York Downtown improvisation scene which revolved around venues like The Stone, where Fei has frequently performed and curated. Fei composes for choir, string quartet, chamber ensemble, Balinese gamelan, and orchestra; her commissions range from a composition for Percussions Claviers de Lyon that premiered in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing to live performances in Paris and Tokyo for luxury brand Hermès. In addition to her own original compositions, Fei has collaborated with many artists of different disciplines and genres ranging from Washburn to avant garde composer John Zorn, Fred Frith, Carla Kilhstedt, Billy Cardine, and Jeff Coffin, to name a few. wufeimusic.com
Symphony Space|2537 Broadway at 95th Street|New York, NY 10025, New York/NY
Sierra Hull
Ever since her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 11, Sierra Hull has been breaking boundaries. This mandolin player and vocalist has two acclaimed albums and a vibrant style that makes her the perfect ambassador for modern roots music.Sierra Hull has been recognized from age 11 as a virtuoso mandolin-player, astonishing audiences and fellow-musicians alike. Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mind is a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull's career, but in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall. With instrumentation comprised largely of mandolin, bass, and vocals, this is genre-transcending music at its best, with production by Béla Fleck and special harmony vocal guests Alison Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens adding to the luster. Hull speaks eloquently, in her challenging and sensitive originals, her heartfelt vocals, and once again breaks new ground on the mandolin. Béla Fleck special guests on banjo on two tracks and duo partner, Ethan Jodziewicz, not only anchors the record on bass, but introduces us to a major new instrumental voice. sierrahull.com"[B]ound for bluegrass stardom." -Boston Globe"[A] crystalline voice and inventive mandolin playing..." -Chicago Tribune
Symphony Space|2537 Broadway at 95th Street|New York, NY 10025, New York/NY
Bela Fleck & Victor Wooten
With 20 Grammy Awards between them, this banjo and bass combination has been heard world-wide as part of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. In this special intimate concert, these two mind-blowing musicians explore the sounds of "blu-bop"and modern American roots music like never before.Part of Symphony Space's Project Americana, an exploration of America's rich cultural heritage through its art, music, and literature.With 20 Grammy Awards between them, this banjo and bass combination has been heard world-wide as part of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. In this special intimate concert, these two mind-blowing musicians explore the sounds of “blu-bop” and modern American roots music like never before.Just in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are some who say he’s the premier banjo player in the world. Others claim that Béla has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Béla, you know that he just loves to play the banjo and put it into unique settings.The 16-time Grammy Award winner has been nominated in more categories than any other artist in Grammy history and remains a powerfully creative force globally in bluegrass, jazz, classical pop, rock, and world beat. In 2009, he produced the award-winning documentary and recordings, Throw Down Your Heart, where he journeyed across Africa to research the origins of the banjo. In 2011, Fleck premiered The Impostor with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, an unprecedented banjo concerto, followed by the companion documentary, How to Write a Banjo Concerto. In 2016, Béla will unveil his second concerto Juno in Canton, Ohio. These days, Fleck bounces between various intriguing touring situations: he performs his concerto worldwide with symphonies, collaborates in a duo with Chick Corea and in a trio with Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer. He performs in concert with the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, in banjo duet with Abigail Washburn, and back to bluegrass with his old friends Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Bryan Sutton, and others. He collaborates with African artists such as Oumou Sangare and Toumani Diabate, in a jazz setting with The Marcus Roberts Trio, and with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, who continue to perform together 25 years after the band’s inception. belafleck.com
Symphony Space|2537 Broadway at 95th Street|New York, NY 10025, New York/NY
Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis
Angelique KidjoRobert Glasper Experiment Kamasi WashingtonCharles Lloyd New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland Potter, Holland, Loueke and Harland Nels Cline: Music from LoversLizz WrightJosé James Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Presents Stretch Music Anat Cohen's Clarinet Re-Imagined Django Festival All-Stars Kenny Barron Trio Yosvany Terry QuintetBen Williams & Sound Effect with Gilad Hekselman and Christian Sands Toshiko Akiyoshi, solo piano Rossano Sportiello, solo piano Cory Smythe, solo pianoThe Westerlies MA Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Band plus others tba!
Fort Adams State Park|Newport, RI, Newport, RI
Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis
Norah JonesGregory Porter Chick Corea Trilogy with Christian McBride and Brian Blade The Bad Plus performs Ornette Coleman's SCIENCE FICTION Joey Alexander TrioDarcy James Argue's Secret Society John Scofield/Joe Lovano Quartet Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Edmar Castaneda World Ensemble Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 The Hot Sardines Stefon Harris Sonic Creed Dave Liebman Expansions Group Marc Ribot & The Young PhiladelphiansHenry Butler, solo piano Kris Davis, solo piano Mary Halvorson, solo guitar Terry Waldo, solo piano Roxy Coss Quintet: 2016 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz ComposerRI Music Educators Association Sr. All-State Jazz with special guest Jimmy Heath
Fort Adams State Park|Newport, RI, Newport, RI
Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis
Gregory PorterChick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade
International Tennis Hall of Fame|Newport, RI, Newport, RI
Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis
GalacticKamasi Washington Donny McCaslin GroupKneebody Peter Apfelbaum's Sparkler Tierney Sutton: "After Blue" The Joni Mitchell Project Steve Coleman and Five Elements Etienne Charles & Creole SoulTyshawn Sorey & Alloy Sullivan Fortner Quartet Eric Revis Parallax with Ken Vandermark, Kris Davis & Nasheet WaitsJimmy Heath QuintetUniversity of Rhode Island Festival Big Band Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors with Danilo PerezBerklee Camp Student Band
Fort Adams State Park|Newport, RI, Newport, RI
Heartbeat of Harlem
From Duke, Fats, and Billie to Langston, Robeson, P. Diddy, and Jason Moran, throughout the past century Harlem has been an epicenter of cultural innovation and creativity. Artists of all genres boldly fuse traditional and contemporary ideas to keep the Harlem Renaissance thriving.Led by composer, pianist, and producer Marc Cary and featuring an ensemble of the jazz scene’s finest musicians, this concert honors the visionaries and celebrates the modern masters who continue to make Harlem what it is. Joining Cary is a host of top jazz names out of NYC in a blend of musical influence and tradition including 14-year old organist prodigy Matthew Whitaker, trumpeter JS Williams, drummer Sameer Gupta, bassist Rashaan Carter, tap percussionist Jerry Clicquot and vocalist Terri Davis!“There isn’t much in the modern-jazz-musician tool kit that Marc Cary hasn’t mastered…..” —Nate Chinen, New York Times
Last Chance Tavern |Tannersville, NY, 12485, Tannersville/New York
Heartbeat of Harlem
From Duke, Fats, and Billie to Langston, Robeson, P. Diddy, and Jason Moran, throughout the past century Harlem has been an epicenter of cultural innovation and creativity. Artists of all genres boldly fuse traditional and contemporary ideas to keep the Harlem Renaissance thriving.Led by composer, pianist, and producer Marc Cary and featuring an ensemble of the jazz scene’s finest musicians, this concert honors the visionaries and celebrates the modern masters who continue to make Harlem what it is. Joining Cary is a host of top jazz names out of NYC in a blend of musical influence and tradition including 14-year old organist prodigy Matthew Whitaker, trumpeter JS Williams, drummer Sameer Gupta, bassist Rashaan Carter, tap percussionist Jerry Clicquot and vocalist Terri Davis!“There isn’t much in the modern-jazz-musician tool kit that Marc Cary hasn’t mastered…..” —Nate Chinen, New York Times
The Mountaintop Library|6093 Main St.|Tannersville, NY, 12485, Tannersville/New York
Heartbeat of Harlem
From Duke, Fats, and Billie to Langston, Robeson, P. Diddy, and Jason Moran, throughout the past century Harlem has been an epicenter of cultural innovation and creativity. Artists of all genres boldly fuse traditional and contemporary ideas to keep the Harlem Renaissance thriving.Led by composer, pianist, and producer Marc Cary and featuring an ensemble of the jazz scene’s finest musicians, this concert honors the visionaries and celebrates the modern masters who continue to make Harlem what it is. Joining Cary is a host of top jazz names out of NYC in a blend of musical influence and tradition including 14-year old organist prodigy Matthew Whitaker, trumpeter JS Williams, drummer Sameer Gupta, bassist Rashaan Carter, tap percussionist Jerry Clicquot and vocalist Terri Davis!“There isn’t much in the modern-jazz-musician tool kit that Marc Cary hasn’t mastered…..” —Nate Chinen, New York Times
Bard College SummerScape Spiegeltent|Manor Avenue|Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, Annandale-on-Hudson/New York