Next Saturday - our 3rd Annual CARNAVAL UNPLUGGED! Ill collaborate with Vic Juris & Nilson Matta, presenting mostly new (for us) material in celebration of Brazilian Carnaval - in the wonderful, intimate, acoustically perfect Art Academy of Westchester, 145 Palisade St., Dobbs Ferry, NY. Join Us! Heres their descriptive of the event... The Art Academy invites you to join us in an evening of live music, art, and friends at the Art Academy Salon! Saturday March 22, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm Mark Morganelli Brasil Project CARNAVAL UNPLUGGED III Featuring Vic Juris, guitar & Nilson Matta, Bass, and an entirely new repertoire! After two sold out concerts at the Academy, Flugelhornist & 20-Year Dobbs Ferry Resident Mark Morganelli will collaborate with master guitarist Vic Juris and virtuoso Brazilian bassist and Grammy Award winner Nilson Matta in an intimate acoustic evening of Bossa Nova & Samba. Address: Art Academy of Westchester 145 Palisade Street Suite #404 Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 Tel 914-455-4050 click here for directions Doors open 7:00pm, concert starts at 7:30pm Complementary wine and cheese $28 per person online $35 at the door (non - reserved) We have limited seating. Your payment receipt is your reservation Click here to make reservations on-line and process payment Non-reserved tickets $35 at the door if seats still available ***** Mark Morganelli Brasil Project Mark Morganelli Executive Director, Jazz Forum Arts Mark Morganelli began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. By the time the second Jazz Forum loft closed its doors in April 1983, recordings, videos, films and radio broadcasts had documented performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach. After brief residencies at the Village Gate and the Entermedia Theater, Twenty-five years ago, Morganelli established Jazz Forum Arts, a not-for-profit arts presenting organization, and in 1985 started the Riverside Park Arts Festival, which concluded on its 13th anniversary in August 1997. Morganelli has produced over fifty compact discs, most for Candid Records, twenty of which were recorded live at NYC’s Birdland club, where he was the music coordinator for five years. Nineteen years ago, Morganelli and his family moved to Westchester, and shortly thereafter, he inaugurated the Jazz at the Music Hall series in Tarrytown. Performers have included Ahmad Jamal, Billy Taylor, Harry Sweets Edison, James Moody, Betty Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Herbie Mann, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, Dave Brubeck, Chuck Mangione, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Savion Glover, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dr. John, Spyro Gyra, Chris Botti, Pat Metheny and the Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet , Duke Ellington and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras. Morganelli produced the Sunnyside and Berkshire Jazz Festivals and was executive producer of Reckson Jazz at Tilles, at C.W.Post College in Greenvale, Long Island for nine years. Other productions have included the Tarrytown Arts Festival, and concerts at Paramount Center in Peekskill, the Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT, NJPAC, The John Harms Center in Englewood, NJ, the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY, The Beacon Theatre, Symphony Space, and The Town Hall, NYC. Morganelli also produced the Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall and co-produced the Jazz Beats Breast Cancer concert at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2005, he began presenting a new concert series at Jazz @ Lincoln Center. As a trumpeter and flugelhornist, Morganelli performed at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, the 1992 & 1994 Syracuse Jazz Festivals, the Du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, JVC/NY and Saratoga Jazz Festivals, several tours of Italy, many concerts and festivals in Europe, Japan, Brazil and the Caribbean, and hosted nightly jam sessions aboard QE2 to the Newport Jazz Festival from 1996-99. He continues to perform with his Jazz Forum All-Stars at The Prime, in Hastings, as well as around the region. He released My Romance, his fourth CD as leader. Nilson Matta Nilson Matta has long been considered one of Brazil’s best bass players. Since his arrival in New York 1985 he has become the first call of many of the top US musicians. Nilson studied bass at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with Sandrino Santoro, Brazil’s premier classical bass player. While in Brazil he played with such top artists as João Gilberto, Hermeto Pascoal, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Nana Caymmi, João Bosco, Johnny Alf, Nivaldo Ornellas, MPB-4, Helio Delmiro, Luis Bonfa, and many others.In 1983 Nilson was invited to Japan to perform with singer Lisa Ono. Together they spent a year promoting Brazilian music. While with drummer Pascoal Meirelles in 1984, Nilson founded the fusion band Cama De Gato. Nilson moved to New York City in 1985. Since that time he has performed and recorded with such renowned artists as Joe Henderson, Paquito D’Rivera, Slide Hampton, Herbie Mann, Mark Murphy, Oscar Castro Neves, Don Friedman, Paul Winter, Claudio Roditi, Gato Barbieri, Yo Yo Ma, Kenny Barron and many others. Five years after his move to the States, he co-founded an extraordinary quintet – The African Brazilian Connection with pianist Don Pullen. This group released three critically acclaimed CDs for Blue Note Records: Kele Mou Bana, Ode to Life and Live at Montreux Jazz Festival. In 1993 Nilson returned to Brazil to record the CD, The Magic with the great composer and guitarist Luis Bonfa. Along with fellow Brazilians, Romero Lubambo and Duduka da Fonseca, Nilson founded Trio da Paz: one of the foremost Brazilian Jazz groups in the world. The trio has recorded five CDs; Brazil from the Inside, Black Orpheus, Partido Out, Café and Somewhere. Their third release, Partido Out, won the Jazz Journalists Association Award for The Best Brazilian Jazz Album of the Year in 2002. From 1995 till 1998, Matta worked extensively with four time Grammy Award winning saxophonist Joe Henderson, recording on the Grammy award winning 1997 Joe Henderson Big Band (Verve Records). A few years later, he recorded his first record as a leader, Encontros (2000). Included on this CD was harmonica player Hendrik Murkens. With jazz pianist Kenny Barron he recorded a CD Canta Brasil and toured in Europe and USA. In 2003 and 2004 he recorded 2 CDs with the virtuoso cellist Yo Yo Ma Obrigado Brasil Grammy award 2003 and Live at Zankel Hall (Carnegie Hall) also a Grammy award 2004. Recently performed on Nancy Wilson’s CD Turned to Blue for MCG Jazz and with tenor sax player George Garzone for Venus Records in Japan. In September 2006, Nilson Matta released a CD for Blue Toucan Music, Nilson Matta & Friends Walking With My Bass It’s an autobiography project with a wide range of guests. Among them are Joao Bosco, Ivan Lins, Kenny Barron, Harry Allen, Rosa Passos, Robertinho Silva, Mauricio Einhorn, Joyce, Helio Alves and others. Vic Juris His guitar playing first began to attract attention in the early and mid-70s thanks to appearances and recordings with Phil Woods, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miroslav Vitous. Subsequently, he became part of the jazz fusion movement by joining keyboardist Barry Miles group and also performing in duets with guitarist Larry Coryell. Vics ability to play in acoustic and electric jazz formats without loss of integrity ensured popular acceptance. Juris has also recorded and performed with: David Liebman, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Peacock, John Abercrombie, Bireli Lagrene and Lee Konitz to name a few. Vic plays with fluent lyricism, choosing to seduce his listeners with subtle phrasing and engaging harmonies. Not surprisingly, therefore, his playing of ballads is particularly attractive, allowing the romantic element to blossom. ****** Concert Party at the Art Academy Salon features art exhibits and live performances in classical, jazz, and world music. Please forward this invitation to your family and friends! For more information please contact Vicente Saavedra Art Academy of Westchester 145 Palisade Street Suite 404 Tel. (914) 455-4050 email: info@artacademyofwestchester artacademyofwestchester
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:06:31 +0000
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