Charlie Haden

Considered one of the greatest-ever jazz bassists, Charlie Haden’s career spans five decades. As a mere toddler in his native Shenondoah, Iowa, Charlie sang on his parents’ country & western radio show, and started playing bass in his early teens. Since arriving in Los Angeles in the late 50s where he first performed with Art Pepper, Hampton Hawes, Dexter Gordon, and Paul Bley, Haden has proven himself to be one of the most creative jazz musicians. His work with Ornette Coleman was visionary, as was his work with Keith Jarrett and Carla Bley, with whom he founded the seminal project, the Liberation Music Orchestra, in the late 60s. He later was a founding member of Old and New Dreams. Haden has since explored world music, film noire, performed in acclaimed duo with Pat Metheny, and has maintained Quartet West over two decades.

Jerry Weldon © Andrea Canter
• 8/01 Abdullah Ibrahim Jazz Standard, 116 E 27^th St. 212-576-2232www.jazzstandard.net
• 8/01 Bob Mocarsky 3; Noah Haidu 4 Big Apple Jazz/EZ’s Woodshed, 2236 Adam C. Powell Jr. Blvd. 212-283-JAZZ(5299) www.bigapplejazz.com
• 8/01 Cedar Walton 4 Dizzy’s, Broadway at 60^th St., 5^th Floor, 212-258-9595 www.jazzatlincolncenter.com/dccc
• 8/01 Chris Dave Blue Note, 131 W Third St. (betw. 6^th & MacDougal) 212-475-8592www.bluenote.net
• 8/01 Craig Yaremko 4 Trumpets, 6 Depot Square, Montclair, New Jersey 07042 973-744-2600 Fax 973-744-7735www.trumpetsjazz.com
• 8/01 Dan McCarthy 3 Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia St. (betw. W 4^th & Bleeker St.) 212-989-9319 www.corneliastreetcafe.com
• 8/01 Duck Baker 4 The Stone, Ave. C and Second St. www.thestonenyc.com
• 8/01 Janice Friedman; BJ Jansen 4 Garage, 99 Seventh Ave S (at Grove St.) 212-645-0600www.garagerest.com
• 8/01 Jed Levy 4 Kitano, 66 Park Ave. (at 38^th St.) 212-885-7119www.kitano.com
• 8/01 Jerry Weldon 3 Smoke, 2751 Broadway (at 105^th St.) 212-864-6662www.smokejazz.com
• 8/01 Jimmy Heath with Jazzmobile at Grant's Tomb. 700pm. 122nd St. & Riverside Dr. www.jazzmobile.org.

Deanna Witkowski © Elimar Coelho

An accomplished bandleader, composer and liturgist, pianist/vocalist Deanna Witkowski has been described as “consistently thrilling” with a “boundless” imagination (Rick Anderson, All Music Guide) and “a clear musical vision” (JazzTimes). The winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a past guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz trained in both classical piano and flute. She first encountered jazz while attending Wheaton (IL) College, and after starting graduate studies at DePaul University, she left to devote full time to music performance. Deanna’s musical palette soon extended beyond classical and jazz, teaching piano in Kenya and studying Cuban music with Chucho Valdes and Hilario Duran. Her first recording, Having to Ask (Jazzline, 2000), was acclaimed as the debut of a “major talent” by Jazz Improv. Still living in the Chicago area, Witkowski moved in yet another direction when she began coordinating an annual jazz service for the LaSalle Street Church, leading to an interest in composing liturgy and a move to New York in 1997. During three years as music director for All Angels Church, she composed a body of new liturgical music and two jazz masses. Her interest in liturgical music continues, with the release of a recording of her sacred works anticipated this year. Her three jazz recordings to date have been greeted with critical acclaim.