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Jazz at Lincoln Center and ASCAP's "Month Of Mondays" to Showcase Emerging Jazz Composer/Performers |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Saturday, 05 November 2005 |
ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn
Bergman announces a Showcase series presented by Jazz at Lincoln
Center and ASCAP, a "Month of Mondays" at Dizzy's Club
Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Beginning
Monday,November 28 through December 26, 2005, Jazz at Lincoln Center
will present five composers from among the winners of the annual
ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. The featured
composer/performers include Manuel Valera (November 28), Sherisse
Rogers (December 5), Jason Goldman (December 12), David Guidi
(December 19), and Maurice Brown (December 26). Each will perform two
sets. 
"The Month of Mondays”
Showcases feature talented young jazz artists nurtured
by The
ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards. Said Marilyn
Bergman, "We are proud to collaborate with Wynton Marsalis
and his team at Jazz at Lincoln Center to provide these young
professionals a major jazz venue to showcase their work."
Established in 2002, the annual ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer
Awards are
granted to encourage gifted American jazz composers
from throughout the United States, age 12 to 30, who compete for cash
awards. The winning works are selected through a juried
national competition.
 Manuel Valera
The Composer/Performers
Manuel
Valera (November 28). Cuba native pianist, bandleader,
composer, and arranger Valera brings together Cuban, Puerto Rican,
Brazilian, and various other jazz styles and forms, forging a
vitality and fresh approach to the idioms of jazz and Latin jazz.
A graduate of Havana's Conservatory and the New School University in
New York City, Valera has performed at the Blue Note, Birdland, and
Smoke, and recently released his debut CD, Forma Nuevaï.
Sherisse Rogers (December
5). Born in Philadelphia, PA and earning a MM in jazz composition
at the Manhattan School of Music, accomplished composer and arranger
Sherisse Rogers has been assembling a steadily growing repertoire of
big band and orchestral music. A year after receiving the "Best
Arrangement" award from the American Society of Musicians
 Cherisse Rogers
Jason Goldman (December
12). California native Jason Goldman is a graduate of the
Berklee College of Music, as well as the Thelonious Monk Institute of
Jazz (TMIJ) and the Thornton School of Music at USC. Now on the jazz
faculty member at the Thornton School, he is also a
clinician/education consultant with the Thelonious Monk Institute and
featured arranger for Warner Bros./Reprise recording artist Michael
Bublé, with whom he has received a platinum record and two
gold records. Nominated for the Coca-Cola Company/NFAA's Jason Goldman
David Guidi
(December 19). St. Augustine, Florida native David Guidi holds
degrees from the University of North Florida (B.M. Jazz Studies) and
Florida State University (M.M. Jazz Studies), and is currently
completing his doctorate while teaching in the music composition
department of The University of Texas in Austin. His compositions
have been premiered by numerous ensembles at such festivals as The
Montreux Jazz Festival, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and The Ravinia
Festival. In 2001, he was one of 23 young artists selected from
across the nation to attend The Steans Institute for emerging jazz
artists in Chicago. He has had the privilege of working with
some of today's finest jazz educators and musicians, including Dr.
David Baker, Nathan Davis, James Moody, Danilo Perez, and Rufus Reid
and has performed with such notable artists as Dave Brubeck, Terry
Gibbs, Dave Holland, Barry Manilow, Ellis Marsalis, Chris Potter,
Tito Puente, and Clark Terry. His latest compositions can be heard on
Beachside with the The David Guidi Quartet.
 Maurice Brown
All Showcases take place at
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at
W.60th Street, 5th Floor), sets at 7:30 pm and 9:30
pm.
For reservations, please call 212-258-9595 or go to www.jalc.org.
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