presents
Will Calhoun Ensemble
Featuring Charnett Moffett
and Marc Cary
with Special Guests
with Special Guests
Brian Lynch and Marcus
Strickland
Saturday, March 8, 2014 ~
8pm
SouthFlorida JAZZ announces the
performance of the most acclaimed new band on the international jazz scene with
the appearance of drummer WILL CALHOUN and his expanded
ensemble. The core band features pianist Marc Cary and virtuoso bassist
Charnett Moffett. The band will showcase saxophonist Marcus Strickland and
trumpet luminary Brian Lynch.
The
band will present a master class at 11:00 A.M. on March 8 at Broward College
Davie campus free to Broward students with I.D. as part of the South Florida
JAZZ “Jazz Masters” program.
Will
Calhoun
Before
he won two Grammy® Awards and became famous as a member of the groundbreaking
rock group Living Colour, Will Calhoun was an accomplished jazz drummer, having
been raised on a steady diet of his father’s bebop records. He graduated with
honors from Berklee School of Music and then he hit the road. In 2000, he led
the Will Calhoun Quintet that featured Bobby Watson and Terell Stafford on his
Grammy-nominated album Live at the Blue Note. Jazz is in his blood, a part of
his heritage. “Before rock, before hip-hop, before funk,” he explains, “In my
family, African-American history was very important, whether it was Muhammad
Ali or Jim Brown, Coltrane, Miles, Duke Ellington—it wasn’t just listening to
the music in my house. The life styles of these men and other women were laid
down as history lessons on the music and culture.” Jazz quite obviously loomed
large for this prodigious drummer.
Mr.
Calhoun recorded with the bands of Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, and also B.B.
King. After intense immersion in West African rhythms and also percussive
electronica, he returns to his jazz roots with this band featuring virtuosic
bassist Charnett Moffett and keyboard star Marc Cary, who garnered three Grammy
nominations working with trumpeter Roy Hargrove and vocalists Abbey Lincoln and
Betty Carter. The frontline features two special guests: Miami
native saxophonist, Marcus Strickland, a five-year fixture in Roy Haynes’
Fountain of Youth quartet and now a successful New York University of Miami
This
modern mainstream band will be pulse-pounding for the South Florida JAZZ
audience as a recent stint at the Blue Note in New York
ARTISTIC PERSONNEL
Will Calhoun
– drums
Marc Cary –
piano
Charnett
Moffett – acoustic bass
Brian Lynch
– trumpet
Marcus
Strickland – tenor and soprano saxophones
South Florida JAZZ, in its 22nd
year, as the principal purveyors of modern jazz in the region since 1992,
formally announces its new season schedule. All eight performances will be held
at the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr Blvd Nova Southeastern
University campus in Davie
Tickets
to all concerts can be purchased from the Broward Center box office at
954-462-0222; toll-free at 877-311-SHOW, online at southfloridajazz.org
or browardcenter.org.
Tickets: $40; students $15; $300 eight-concert
subscriptionAll seating is reserved
Free parking courtesy of South Florida JAZZ
2014 Concerts
April 12, 2014 – BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO
One of the most lyrical and intimate voices
of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which
embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism, and pop
allure. With his trio featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff
Ballard, he is now amongst the most famous and regarded fixtures in modern
music with supreme confidence in his deconstruction of varied source material.
May 10, 2014 – DIANE SCHUUR
Vocalist Diane Schuur has built a stellar
career by embracing not only traditional modern jazz repertoire and the
American Songbook, but also contemporary pop and even some country music with
her distinctively jazz flavoring. Her various collaborations have resulted in
numerous #1 Billboard chart ratings and two Grammys in five nominations.
Deedles’ multi-octave voice, to say the very least, is unique.
June 14, 2014 – CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE TRIO
Grammy Award winner Christian McBride, who
comes from the Ray Brown tradition, is a chameleonic virtuoso both of the
acoustic and electric bass, stands tall among his peers, doing things that
never have been done on the instrument before. His trio that features emerging
stars, pianist Christian Sands, and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr, is dazzling!
Funding
for this organization is provided in part by the Broward County Board of
Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council
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