Featuring perennial poll-winners, NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan and Don Byron on the front line, Cameron Brown and Tony Jefferson - main instigator, a double threat, percussionist supreme and vocal partner for Sheila.
Original music and lyrics by Cameron, Sheila, Don Cherry, Cole Porter, Hank Williams and more!
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....
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Featuring perennial poll-winners, NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan and Don Byron on the front line, Cameron Brown and Tony Jefferson - main instigator, a double threat, percussionist supreme and vocal partner for Sheila.
Original music and lyrics by Cameron, Sheila, Don Cherry, Cole Porter, Hank Williams and more!
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.
Don Byron (Clarinets/Saxophones)
http://www.donbyron.com/
As a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and social critic, Don Byron, has redefined every genre of music he has played. Consistently voted best clarinetist in leading international music journals since being named Downbeat Magazine's “Jazz Artist of the Year” in 1992. Acclaimed as much for his restless creativity as for his unsurpassed virtuosity, Byron has presented a multitude of projects at major music festivals around the world. Byron has been a singular voice in an astounding range of musical contexts, exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre."
Cameron Brown (Bass)
http://www.jazzhalo.be/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=9
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.
Tony Jefferson (Drums)
www.tonyjeffersonmusic.com/
After placing in the Thelonious Monk International Drum Competition, drummer, Tony Jefferson, has been heard in the company of jazz artists Kenny Drew, Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson, Frank Wiss, Freddie Coll, Eddie Harris, Don Friedman, Mark Whitfield, Hank Jones and Ernestine Anderson and has appeared at many jazz festivals around the world. Jefferson is an active player on the NYC jazz scene, a great clinician in high school and college workshops and has taught Masters Classes nationally and abroad.
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