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Jack Kleinsinger's "Highlights in Jazz," New York's
longest running jazz series is pleased to present Keepers of the
Flame
featuring Dick Hyman, Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks, Marcus
Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham and Special Guest Peter Cincotti on
Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM at the Tribeca
Performing Arts Center.
Dick Hyman (born Mar 8, 1927 in New York, NY) is a versatile
virtuoso pianist. He has investigated ragtime and the earliest periods
of jazz and has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott
Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake
and Fats Waller. In addition to being an accomplished pianist,
organist, arranger, music director, and composer his encyclopedic
knowledge of jazz is featured on Dick Hyman's 100 Years Of
Jazz Piano,
a CD-ROM based on his frequent recital-lectures. For his
"Highlights
in Jazz," appearance Dick will be a 'keeper of the flame' for the
piano music of James P. Johnson (1891 - 1955), the grand-daddy of
stride piano who composed "Carolina Shout", "You've Got To Be
Modernistic", "Caprice Rag", "Eccentricity", "Old Fashioned Love"
and "Charleston".
Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks band are renowned on the New
York scene for their commitment to preserving and authentically
presenting 1920s and 1930s jazz. Each piece they perform is inspired
by, and arranged from, original recordings from greats of the era. The
11-piece group has been featured on movie soundtracks including Ghost
World, Cotton Club, Finding Forrester, Bloodhounds
on Broadway, and most recently Martin Scorsese's Howard
Hughes biopic, The Aviator.
Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave is a versatile performer who
plays avant-garde and traditional New Orleans jazz, blues, and ragtime.
Belgrave has performed with Ray Charles, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald,
Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dizzy Gillespie. For
his "Highlights" appearance he will be saluting jazz trumpet great
Doc
Cheatham (1905- 1997) Doc Cheatham recorded with Ma Rainey and Billie
Holiday, and, during the 1950s, he alternated playing with Dixieland
and Latin bands. He was a sideman in several big bands in the 1920s and
started to make a name for himself as an improviser in the 1960s. In
1980, Cheatham's career took off, and he became a fixture at music
festivals and began to steadily release recordings, which include The
87 Years of Doc Cheatham and Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton.
Special guest Peter Cincotti (born July 11, 1983 in New
York
City), started tinkling the keys of a toy piano when he was three years
old. By age 12 he was already appearing professionally. His first jazz
concert appearances as a teenage was at "Highlights in Jazz". And at 18
he became the youngest performer to headline at the prestigious Oak
Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. In 2003 he was signed to
Concord Records, and his self-titled debut album was produced by Phil
Ramone. Being born and raised in Manhattan he was exposed to everything
from rock concerts at Madison Square Garden to jazz clubs to Broadway
shows. Cincotti bends the Great American Songbook into new and
interesting shapes and like his mentor, Harry Connick, Jr., he can
swing and sing everything from W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" to Cole
Porter's "I Love Paris", to Goffin and King's "Some Kind Of Wonderful".
USA Today declared Peter "a prodigiously gifted pianist and an
interpretive singer of considerable charm."
There will be a special surprise guest on this show.
This concert will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center
(Borough of Manhattan Community College),
199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and West Street).
The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students. They can be
purchased at the theater box office or by calling
(212) 220-1460.Mai
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