Hello jazztalkers,
I'm very excited about an upcoming performance at the Jazz Gallery- the last time I played here was back in 2002 when I played a night of piano duo with Fred Hersch. My quartet will play the first set, and Bay Area alto saxophonist will lead her group in the second set. A short blurb is listed below for your info.
I also am super excited to have been selected to be a clinician at next year's IAJE Conference in Toronto, where I'll be collaborating with Tammy Kernodle in a workshop entitled
Moving with the Spirit: the sacred jazz of Mary Lou Williams. Just putting out the early word!
Hope to see some of you on August 4!
Deanna
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On August 4th, east meets west at the Jazz Gallery with performances by the Deanna Witkowski Quartet and Sarah Manning’s
Shatter the Glass. Witkowski, a New York based pianist/composer/vocalist, will lead her quartet in the first set at 9 pm. West Coast based saxophonist/composer Sarah Manning will make her New York debut at the 10:30 set with her quartet,
Shatter the Glass, in support of her most recent album,
Live at Yoshi’s: Two Rooms Same Door (ArtistShare).
Winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Deanna Witkowski looks to diverse musical worlds in her fusions of jazz, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, classical, and sacred music. An accomplished bandleader and composer with three releases under her name, Witkowski has been described as “consistently thrilling” with a “boundless imagination” (All Music Guide) and “a clear musical vision” (JazzTimes). In the last year, Witkowski has devoted much of her energies to becoming increasingly fluent in Portuguese and in arranging works by Brazilian composers such as Ivan Lins and Djavan. Her Jazz Gallery date will feature these new arrangements as well as her own compositions, as played by bandmates Adam Kolker on soprano and tenor saxes, Dave Ambrosio on bass, and Scott Latzky on drums.
According to Nat Hentoff, “Sarah Manning can swing as naturally as she breathes…Manning plays – and writes – in what is unmistakably her own voice.” Featuring pianist Art Hirahara, bassist Thomson Kneeland and drummer Kyle Struve,
Shatter the Glass features what critic Andy Gilbert calls Manning’s “compelling new voice, marked by a big, bracing sound and a knack for delivering angular phrases with graceful precision.”
With a double bill, the Jazz Gallery presents the opportunity to hear two artists with two very distinct voices, united in purpose by their quest to expand the boundaries of jazz. For more information, visit
http://www.deannajazz.com and
http://www.sarahmanningmusic.com. The Jazz Gallery is located at 290 Hudson Street (corner of Spring) in Manhattan. Tickets can be purchased at
http://www.jazzgallery.org or by calling 212.242.1063.
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