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Courageous Endeavors Debuts at the Artists Quarter, September 26th

Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor

Sunday, 23 September 2012

Joe Strachen©Andrea Canter

The best measure of the vitality of the Twin Cities jazz scene is the increasing number of young musicians studying in the area and/or coming home or moving to the Twin Cities to launch their careers. Four of these upstarts come together to form a new ensemble at the Artists Quarter in St. Paul on Wednesday, September 26th. With Nelson Devereaux, Joe Strachan, Brian Courage and Miguel Hurtado, “Courageous Endeavors” will live up to its name!

Nelson Devereaux©Andrea Canter

Nelson Devereaux is a 2011 graduate of the University of Minnesota’s School of Music with a double major in Saxophone Performance and Music Education, with a focus on jazz and improvisation. He has studied with Dave Milne, Aaron Gardner, Mike Lewis, David Bixler. Clay Jenkins, Doug Stone and Berkeley Fudge, as well as with renowned classical saxophonist Eugene Rousseau. Devereaux plays saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piano and percussion. He leads his own trio, plays with the Jazz Wonderband, Jake Baldwin, and the Adam Meckler Orchestra, and is composing music for his debut jazz album.

Pianist Joe Strachan is a graduate of Northfield High School (2009) and was the pianist for the third edition of the Dakota Combo (2008-09). A former student of Laura Caviani and now Bryan Nichols, he first studied classical music, switching to jazz in eighth grade. After a year at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, he transferred to the U of M in Minneapolis where he has found more performance opportunities, appearing recently at the Artists Quarter, Dakota and Studio Z and playing with John Raymond, Jake Baldwin, Alicia Steele, the Jazz Wonderband and more.

Brian Courage©Andrea Canter

Bassist Brian Courage is the new face in town, graduating this past spring from the Lawrence University Conservatory. He wasted no time getting his chops warmed up on the local jazz scene, playing with Laura Caviani at the Artists Quarter and earlier this week, in duo with Evan Montgomery at Jazz Central. We’re going to be hearing a lot more of Brian in coming months!

Miguel Hurtado&Andrea Canter

Miguel Hurtado (drums) graduated from Minneapolis South High in 2006. As a teenager he played throughout the Twin Cities with The Eggz, Second Nature and The Bridge as well as with South High jazz ensembles. Miguel graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in spring 2010, and returned to the Twin Cities where he has quickly become a working member of the local jazz scene. He led his own ensembles at the 2011 Twin Cities Jazz Festival and at the Artists Quarter, and has recently performed with Jake Baldwin and John Raymond. He’s also expanding his musical resumé, playing with some local pop and R&B singers, particularly Alicia Steele and vocalist/rapper Toussaint Morrison.

Courageous Endeavors follows the early set band, Steve Kenny and the Bastids, making it a full night of smoldering modern jazz at the Artists Quarter.

The Artists Quarter is located at 408 St Peter Street in the lower level of the Hamm Building in downtown St. Paul; www.artistsquarter.com

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