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“Every tune that I’ve written so far has a meaning and a story within it that I want the whole group to capture ... A lot of guys, when they play, are not thinking about what they’re actually playing; they’re just thinking about maybe the chords, or how the rhythm changes, or something like that, but I really try to tell a story and I want the group that plays my tunes to try to see what I saw when I wrote them.” - Grachan Moncur III |
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The Sheryl Bailey 3 CD release event at The Fat Cat 9/7 at 10PM |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 01 September 2006 |
 Sheryl Bailey
Guitarist Sheryl Bailey is
rated among the foremost bopbased guitarists to have emerged in the
1990’s. Her attack can be direct and hard swinging, but she also exudes
subtlety, elegance of phrase and a pure, warm, liquid sound. Bill
Milkowski has written about her: “ a
modernist burner with an abundance of Pat Martino-style chops, Bailey
prefers angular lines, odd harmonies and the occasional touch of
dissonance as she sails up and down the fretboard with fluid abandon.”
– JazzTimes Magazine, Februrary 2005
Her musical activities aren’t confined to groups working strictly in
the orthodox, bop based jazz tradition, as she has toured and recorded
with bassist, Richard Bona and is a member of David Krakauer’s Klezmer
Madness. Other artists are tenor saxophonist, Gary Thomas, Urban Folk
and Jazz artist, KJ Denhert, and pop diva, Irene Cara. While her mid
1990’s CD Little Misunderstood sees her playing with total familiarity
and command of the fusion idiom, her latest releases, Reunion of Souls,
The Power of Three, and Bull’s Eye represent her love of contemporary
straight-ahead jazz.
In 1995 Sheryl was awarded third place in the Thelonious Monk
International Jazz Guitar Competition, and has toured South America on
behalf of the US State Department as a Jazz Ambassador, honoring the
music of Duke Ellington. She currently leads her own trio, The Sheryl
Bailey Three (Gary Versace on Hammond B3 and Ian Froman on drums). Her
2002 release, The Power of Three was critically acclaimed and charted
in the top 20 of the Jazz Week radio charts. The trio conjures the
essence of the Grant Green/ Larry Young/ Elvin Jones band of the late
60’s.
She is also in demand as an educator. Sheryl has been an Assistant
Professor of Guitar at the esteemed Berklee College of Music since
2000, and has been a popular clinician at the National Guitar Summer
workshop, The Stanford Jazz Workshop, The Duquesne Jazz Guitar Seminar,
Uarts in Philadelphia, and at Southern Cross University in Lismore,
Australia. Visit her website:
http://sherylbailey.com
 Gary Versace
Versace was recently partnered with Lee Konitz on a duo recording by
the lengendary saxophonist, release date TBA, and also recently
completed a six week Asian and European tour with guitarist John
Scofield. Also, he will tour Europe with guitarist John Abercrombie and
drummer Adam Nussbaum in July of 2006.
Gary Versace was voted a "rising star" on the Hammond organ in the 2005
and 2004 Downbeat critics
polls, and was the subject of a feature article in the July 2004 issue
of Keyboard magazine.
Over the past five years, Versace has appeared as a sideman on over 30
recordings with artists on labels including ACT, Omnitone, High Note,
Justin Time, ArtistShare, Fresh Sound, Steeplechase, and Criss Cross,
among others. Versace co-led the band "Project O" with trumpeter Ingrid
Jensen (featuring saxophonists Seamus Blake and Steve Wilson) whose
first recording on Justin Time records, "Now As Then," was released in May
of 2003 and received 4 stars in Downbeat magazine.
As a pianist, Versace performed in a two-piano recital with Marian
McPartland, and in April of 1999 appeared on her acclaimed National
Public Radio program, "Piano Jazz."
McPartland has called him "...endlessly inventive...(Versace) really
has an extraordinary talent."
Hear the Sheryl Bailey 3 Thursday,
September 7 at The Fat Cat, 75 Christopher St., (212-675-6056) at 10pm.
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