Corcoran Holt Spirituality (Episode 50)
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Corcoran is one of the most influential musicians on the music scene today. His connection to the art form and the people is unparalleled. We had a great time dissecting the relationships between life, love, music and fatherhood. When you listen to this podcast do your absolute best to hold on to the words and emotions that he expresses so eloquently. Enjoy the show.
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Corcoran Holt, a son of Washington, DC, began playing djembe and other West African percussion at the age of 4 as a member of Wose Dance Company. As a keeper of the rhythm, Corcoran began his study of upright bass at age 10 with the renowned DC Youth Orchestra (DCYOP). Soon he learned that his great- grandfather, with whom he shares a birthday, was a bass player who grew up in High Point, NC and lived next door to a very young John Coltrane. Legend has it that he gave Trane music lessons. Corcoran feels called to the bass and his work is about honoring the ancestors.
While continuing his classical training at DCYOP, Corcoran attended the prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC from 1996 to 2000 where he studied classical bass with Carolyn Kellock, and jazz music with educators Davey Yarborough, the late great Keter Betts and Steve Novasel. During these high school years, Corcoran realized his affinity for the jazz music and honed his performance skills by working frequently on the Washington DC jazz scene.
Always performing, he completed a Bachelors of Arts in Jazz Studies from Shenandoah Conservatory in 2004 where he studied bass with Michael Bowie. He received his Masters degree in Jazz Studies from Queens College in New York City in 2006 under the tutelage of Buster Williams, Michael Phillip Mossman, and Antonio Hart.
Corcoran has been blessed and has worked with numerous pioneers and greats of the music such as Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, Harold Mabern, Steve Turre, Billy Hart, Kenny Garrett, Javon Jackson, and Wycliffe Gordon to name a few.
Corcoran is currently the regular bassist with the world renown alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett. Holt performs regularly at many of the top music festivals and venues around the world. Some have included The North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note (NYC Tokyo Milano), and Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola to name a few. Corcoran has performed throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. In 2009, he toured the Middle East as a Jazz Ambassador representing the United States under the US State Department. In September 2010, he traveled part of The Rhythm Roads tour with Nasar Abadey and Supernova to East Africa, a collaboration between the U.S. State Department and Jazz at the Lincoln Center.
Corcoran is honored to have been a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Bass Competition in 2009.
Currently Corcoran leads his own group and has a new release titled “The Mecca”. He is also a part of three grammy nominated recordings, Kenny Garrett’s 2013 recording “Pushing the World Away” recorded on Mac Avenue Records, Jamison Ross’s 2014 recording “Jamison” recorded on Concord records, and The Baylor Project’s Recording “The Journey” 2017.
Corcoran also works with numerous bands throughout the world and is based in NYC. He also serves as a djembe drummer/music therapist at Greater Harlem Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he plays for his elders.
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Curating the life you want with Chris Pattishall
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Grammy-nominated pianist Chris Pattishall is a master curator of life and music. He and I discuss the challenges young musicians face in today's super competitive musical landscape. We also dive deep into his old school musical education and the community that supported his growth. We also listen to his transformative creations and discussed what it means to defy labels.
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Recently named by Wynton Marsalis as one of the top five jazz musicians under 30 to watch, Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Chris Pattishall is steadily generating a noted presence in the jazz world. Combining an impressive technique and deep jazz feeling, Pattishall embodies a music that is at once intelligent, soulful and joyous. He has appeared with Wynton Marsalis, Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, George Coleman, Billy Hart, Jamey Aebersold, Wycliffe Gordon, Fred Wesley, Steve Wilson, Steve Nelson, Billy Kilson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Russell Malone, Mark Whitfield Sr. and Rafiq Bhatia. Pattishall can be heard on Jamison, the Grammy-nominated debut of vocalist and drummer Jamison Ross.
Pattishall has toured internationally as a leader and sideman, presenting original music as well as inventive readings of a broad range of jazz repertoire. In August 2016 he premiered Fictions, a chamber music suite based on the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges. In December 2015 Pattishall was the Music Director for “Divas of the Silver Screen,” a tribute to Ethel Waters, Lena Horne and Rosemary Clooney as part of the 2015-16 Jazz at Lincoln Center season. Recent programs have presented distinctive interpretations of the music of Nat “King” Cole, Fletcher Henderson, and Mary Lou Williams, as well as pairing works by Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel with those of Duke Ellington and George Gerswhin.
Active as both a pianist and composer, Chris holds an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award, and participated in the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program and the Ravinia Festival Stean’s Young Artist Program.
Pattishall is an engaged music educator, teaching privately and at William Paterson University. Chris also conducts masterclasses with high school jazz ensembles throughout the United States, and he regularly presents masterclasses on jazz and its socio-historical context in the New York City public school system.
Pattishall currently resides in New York City, where he performs at many of the city's renowned jazz clubs including Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Small's, Iridium, Smoke, the Kitano and The Blue Note. He holds a B.A. in Jazz Studies (Magna Cum Laude) from Florida State University and a M.M. in Jazz Performance from William Paterson University and has studied with Harold Mabern, Mulgrew Miller, Marcus Roberts and Gary Kirkpatrick.
Newark Academy Jazz Stablemates Essentially Ellington 2019
In 2019 the Newark Academy Jazz Program performs for it's 5th time at the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival.
Newark Academy was founded in 1774, and is the second-oldest independent day school in New Jersey. The student body is comprised of 550 students from sixth grade to twelfth grade. The school prides itself on its strong arts programs, including Visual Arts, Dance, Film, Theatre and Vocal and Instrumental Music. The band has been involved in state and national competitions, placing first in New Jersey’s State Jazz Band Competition the last nine years (2010-2018), the Mingus Competition (2014, 2015), the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival (2018). Chameleon has been one of the fifteen finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival and Competition in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Members of the big band are also involved in other auditioned groups such as Jazz House Kids, Jazz for Teens, Jazz Regions, Jazz All States, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the Grammy Session Band. The band is honored to have had the opportunity to work with talented clinicians such as Eddie Bert, Vincent Gardner, Steve Turre, Victor Goines, Steve Davis, David Gibson, Bob Cranshaw, Alvin Atkinson, Marcus Printup, Kenny Rampton, Andre Hayward, Bob Cranshaw, and Ali Jackson to name a few.
JTole Music creates programs and events that bring communities together, from performances and festivals to summer workshops, jam sessions, lessons, and educational videos. Students and music educators alike benefit from Julius Tolentino’s extensive experience as an award-winning performer and educator, reaching for new goals and expanding their potential time and time again. Julius has assembled an all-star team to provide the same high standard of excellence for all JTole Music programs.
Saxophonist and educator Julius Tolentino has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In this capacity, he has played and recorded with numerous small groups and big bands including Louis Haye’s Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band and the Louis Hayes Quartet, Eric Reed’s Sextet, Jeremy Pelt’s Quintet, Natalie Cole, Wycliffe Gordon, Connie Francis, Gloria Gaynor, the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, the Christian McBride Big Band, Cecile Mclorin, Michael Feinstein, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Heath, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Julius studied with NEA Jazz Master and alto saxophone legend Jackie McLean, who introduced him to his second musical father, Illinois Jacquet. He has played in top jazz venues and festivals throughout the United States, including Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, the Village Vanguard, Birdland, Blue Note, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Coca Cola. As a leader, his debut album, “Just the Beginning,” on the Sharp Nine label, reached No. 8 on the jazz charts in 2006.
Renowned as a gifted music educator, “Mr. T” has worked with hundreds of students nationwide. He joined Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey, as jazz director in 2007, and currently conducts five nationally known student ensembles. He also holds positions at the New Jersey Youth Symphony as director of the NJYS Jazz Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a middle school jazz academy director as well as a JALC traveling clinician.
Julius served as New Jersey Association of Jazz Educators Region I president from 2009-2011 and received NJAJE’s Jazz Education Achievement Award in 2018. He was also the director of large ensembles at Montclair-based Jazz House Kids from 2010-2017. His groups have won and been finalists in several national festivals and competitions, including Essentially Ellington (2012-2018), the Charles Mingus Competition (2011-2018) and the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival. At the state level, Newark Academy has won first place at the NJAJE State Finals for nine years running, from 2010-2018.
Julius is currently serving on the board of the Jazz Education Network and has presented clinics at the JEN Conference as well as the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference. He has conducted All-State and All-City Jazz Bands for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, MMEA and the New York State School Music Association, NYSMA. Julius Tolentino has been awarded Best of NJ, category Jazz Musician Inside Jersey/Star Ledger in 2010, the Illinois Jacquet Jazz Educator of the Year award courtesy of the Illinois Jacquet Foundation in 2013, and the NJ Jazz Education Achievement Award by NJAJE in 2018.
Corcoran Holt | B-Side
Corcoran Holt is a classically trained bass player whose affinity for jazz would eventually turn into his professional calling. Some of the festivals and venues which he has graced the stage for include The North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola to name a few. Corcoran hasperformed through North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. In 2009, he toured the Middle East as a Jazz Ambassador representing the United States, under the US State Department with Alvin Atkinson & the Sound Merchants. Corcoran also works with numerous bands throughout the world and he is based in NYC and also serves as a djembe drummer/music therapist at Greater Harlem Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he plays for his elders.
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SAN: The EarRegulars, KELLSO, SAGER, GILL, NALEPKA at The Ear Inn (August 13, 2017)
If Beale Street could talk, it might say, Take me to The Ear Inn (326 Spring Street, Soho, New York City) any Sunday night when The EarRegulars are making those wondrous noises. On August 13, 2017, the Creators were Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; David Sager (making a rare guest appearance), trombone; John Gill, banjo; Brian Nalepka, string bass. Recorded by Michael Steinman for JAZZ LIVES (
Moonlight in Vermont Suzanne Kirsh, Pianist
A dreamy, romantic piece for solo piano, written in the 1940s, inspired by the New England state of Vermont in the United States.
Peter and Will Anderson Trio
”Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone,” (New York Times) Peter and Will Anderson are one of the most extraordinary set of brothers performing music today. Known for their unique renditions of classic jazz songs and innovative original music, they hail from Washington, DC, but moved to New York City to attend Juilliard. Peter and Will have performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Village Vanguard Orchestra, Jimmy Heath Big Band, Wycliffe Gordon, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Paquito D’Rivera, Kenny Barron, Bob Wilber, Albert “Tootie” Heath, live on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, and are featured on the 2014 Grammy Winning Soundrack of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks.
The Anderson’s have headlined at The Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Sarasota Florida Jazz Festival, South Carolina’s Jazz Corner, Seattle’s Triple Door, Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, DC’s Blues Alley, and Arizona Music Festival. Their ensemble has performed in over 40 U.S. States, toured Japan, and featured four times in NYC’s famed “Highlights in Jazz” series, alongside Lou Donaldson, Ken Peplowski, and Warren Vache. As guest clinicians, Peter and Will have visited Temple University, Xavier University, University of South Florida, University of Central Oklahoma, Florida State University, Ohio State University, Michigan State University, University of Scranton and others.
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Eric Dolphy in Stockholm - Miss Ann
Eric Dolphy Quintet - Miss Ann
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Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002, both in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a bop and hard bop trumpeter. He toured Europe in 1961 with Oscar Dennard, and stayed, settling in Stockholm at first, and then moved to....
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Raven's Wing by Corcoran Holt | B-Side
Corcoran Holt is a classically trained bass player whose affinity for jazz would eventually turn into his professional calling. Some of the festivals and venues which he has graced the stage for include The North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, The Village Vanguard, The Blue Note, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola to name a few. Corcoran hasperformed through North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. In 2009, he toured the Middle East as a Jazz Ambassador representing the United States, under the US State Department with Alvin Atkinson & the Sound Merchants. Corcoran also works with numerous bands throughout the world and he is based in NYC and also serves as a djembe drummer/music therapist at Greater Harlem Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he plays for his elders.
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Mozart's Blue Dreams, Joe Burgstaller and Hector Martignon
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The BurgstallerMartignon4 are Joe Burgstaller (trumpets), Hector Martignon (piano), Hans Glawischnig (bass) and John Ferrari (percussion). Formed in 2005, they creatively mix together jazz and classical music.
Trumpeter and crossover artist JOE BURGSTALLER has performed and taught in 48 states, 21 countries and hundreds of cities throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia, and has performed and taught at over 70 universities, conservatories and colleges around the world. He tours worldwide as a soloist in recital and with orchestra and band, with his crossover group BM4 (BurgstallerMartignon4), and as a clinician and teacher. Joe is a Distinguished Faculty member at The Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore, MD, and teaches each summer at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. He is an active arranger and composer, and is in his second decade as a Yamaha Performing Artist. Burgstaller is a former full-time member of both Canadian Brass and Meridian Arts Ensemble, and was one of the all-time most popular soloists at Columbia Artists Community Concerts (alumni include Van Cliburn and Heifetz). His extensive discography includes his solo CD The Virtuoso Trumpet and three Top-10 Billboard hits with Canadian Brass. BM4s most recent release, Mozarts Blue Dreams, vaulted immediately into the Top-50 JazzRadio Charts.
Pianist HECTOR MARTIGNON is a multiple Grammy nominee (most recently in 2008 for his latest solo album Refugee) and has performed, recorded, composed, produced, and arranged music in a myriad of styles and genres for his own projects and for top musicians around the world. Hector, a native of Columbia, has toured the world as a featured pianist with the bands of Tito Puente, Mario Bauzá, Steve Turre, Don Byron, Chico OFarrill, Paquito DRivera, Max Roach, and Ray Barretto. During his eight-year association with Barretto, Hectors contributions as pianist, arranger, and composer were fundamental in shaping the sound of the New World Spirit Sextet. He also collaborated as conductor, arranger, and co-composer in the production of many Broadway musicals including Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Paul Simon's The Capeman (1998 Tony nominee for musical score) and Selena Forever. His film and television credits include the Oscar-nominated film Eat, Drink, Man, Woman by Ang Lee, and spots for HBO Latino and Coca-Cola.
JOHN FERRARI enjoys a multi-faceted career as a versatile classical and hand percussionist, drummer, conductor and educator. Musically active in chamber, orchestral, pop, jazz, Broadway, dance, film and television, he has toured extensively as both a performer and a clinician in the U.S., Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean and Asia. John is a Naumburg Award Winner (as a founding member of New Millennium Ensemble), a member of Meridian Arts Ensemble, a frequent guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has performed and recorded with Bang On A Can All-Stars, Orion String Quartet, New Band and Solisti New York. John holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he has been on the faculty since 2002. Dr. Ferrari is also a resident-artist at the Manhattan School of Music for a trail-blazing degree program in Contemporary Music Performance.
Bassist HANS GLAWISCHNIG tours and performs around the world with such jazz and latin-jazz luminaries Chick Corea, Ray Barretto, Phil Woods, Ravi Coltrane, James Moody and David Sanchez. Hans received two Grammy nominations as part of Sanchez Melaza Sextet, and has more than 50 album appearances to his credit, including solo releases Panorama (2008) and Common Ground (2003). Originally from Graz, Austria, Hans started playing violin at age six, then switched to bass in his early teens, studying jazz with his father, a renowned European jazz pianist. Hans attended Berklee School of Music (B.A. magna cum laude), and completed his Masters at the Manhattan School of Music. After playing with Bobby Watson and Maynard Ferguson, Hans joined Ray Barretto's sextet, which led to a long association with David Sanchez' acclaimed groups. Recently Chick Corea invited Hans to participate in the premiere of the pianists 2nd piano concerto, The Continents, and to tour with his Spirit of Mozart project.
Marie Dickerson Coker Home Movies: Marie and Her Musician Friends
Home movies shot by Marie Dickerson Coker, an accomplished musician, dancer, and pilot. As a performer she appeared in clubs all over Los Angeles and the U.S. including the world famous Cotton Club in Harlem. In 1929 after a performance at the club The Chicken Coop, Marie was convinced by a group of African American aviators to try flying. They offered her lessons through the newly formed Bessie Coleman Aero Club and there she found a new stage for performance. One of Marie's most famous flights was December 6, 1931 when she flew with The Five Blackbirds for the Colored Air Circus at the Los Angeles Eastside Airport.
Marie Dickerson Coker's home movies were originally shot on 8mm during the 1940's. This clip was shot in Hawaii where she moved to with her husband, jazz trombonist Henry Coker. While in Hawaii, Marie was contracted with a dancing team, performed in many USO shows for the troops, and started an all-girl band that she led. Marie's entire home movie collection has been preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
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3 Horns and Georgia - Sunset Jazz at The Sandbar
This is one of those once in a lifetime moments. Sunset Jazz at the Sandbar, Folly Beach, SC. You just never know who is going to show up. Here
In this clip, Legendary Charleston and South Carolina Sax Men Skip Pearson, George Kenny and Oscar Rivers with Starr Acheson bringing Georgia to crescendo and back again... Jamie Harris on Bass, Patience Clements on Keyboards and Max Moore on Drums.
Sundays 5 - 8 pm Sandbar Seafood and Steak, Folly Beach SC
Newark Academy Jazz It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing Essentially Ellington 2019
In 2019 the Newark Academy Jazz Program performs for it's 5th time at the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival.
Newark Academy was founded in 1774, and is the second-oldest independent day school in New Jersey. The student body is comprised of 550 students from sixth grade to twelfth grade. The school prides itself on its strong arts programs, including Visual Arts, Dance, Film, Theatre and Vocal and Instrumental Music. The band has been involved in state and national competitions, placing first in New Jersey’s State Jazz Band Competition the last nine years (2010-2018), the Mingus Competition (2014, 2015), the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival (2018). Chameleon has been one of the fifteen finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival and Competition in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Members of the big band are also involved in other auditioned groups such as Jazz House Kids, Jazz for Teens, Jazz Regions, Jazz All States, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the Grammy Session Band. The band is honored to have had the opportunity to work with talented clinicians such as Eddie Bert, Vincent Gardner, Steve Turre, Victor Goines, Steve Davis, David Gibson, Bob Cranshaw, Alvin Atkinson, Marcus Printup, Kenny Rampton, Andre Hayward, Bob Cranshaw, and Ali Jackson to name a few.
JTole Music creates programs and events that bring communities together, from performances and festivals to summer workshops, jam sessions, lessons, and educational videos. Students and music educators alike benefit from Julius Tolentino’s extensive experience as an award-winning performer and educator, reaching for new goals and expanding their potential time and time again. Julius has assembled an all-star team to provide the same high standard of excellence for all JTole Music programs.
Saxophonist and educator Julius Tolentino has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In this capacity, he has played and recorded with numerous small groups and big bands including Louis Haye’s Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band and the Louis Hayes Quartet, Eric Reed’s Sextet, Jeremy Pelt’s Quintet, Natalie Cole, Wycliffe Gordon, Connie Francis, Gloria Gaynor, the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, the Christian McBride Big Band, Cecile Mclorin, Michael Feinstein, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Heath, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Julius studied with NEA Jazz Master and alto saxophone legend Jackie McLean, who introduced him to his second musical father, Illinois Jacquet. He has played in top jazz venues and festivals throughout the United States, including Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, the Village Vanguard, Birdland, Blue Note, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Coca Cola. As a leader, his debut album, “Just the Beginning,” on the Sharp Nine label, reached No. 8 on the jazz charts in 2006.
Renowned as a gifted music educator, “Mr. T” has worked with hundreds of students nationwide. He joined Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey, as jazz director in 2007, and currently conducts five nationally known student ensembles. He also holds positions at the New Jersey Youth Symphony as director of the NJYS Jazz Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a middle school jazz academy director as well as a JALC traveling clinician.
Julius served as New Jersey Association of Jazz Educators Region I president from 2009-2011 and received NJAJE’s Jazz Education Achievement Award in 2018. He was also the director of large ensembles at Montclair-based Jazz House Kids from 2010-2017. His groups have won and been finalists in several national festivals and competitions, including Essentially Ellington (2012-2018), the Charles Mingus Competition (2011-2018) and the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival. At the state level, Newark Academy has won first place at the NJAJE State Finals for nine years running, from 2010-2018.
Julius is currently serving on the board of the Jazz Education Network and has presented clinics at the JEN Conference as well as the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference. He has conducted All-State and All-City Jazz Bands for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, MMEA and the New York State School Music Association, NYSMA. Julius Tolentino has been awarded Best of NJ, category Jazz Musician Inside Jersey/Star Ledger in 2010, the Illinois Jacquet Jazz Educator of the Year award courtesy of the Illinois Jacquet Foundation in 2013, and the NJ Jazz Education Achievement Award by NJAJE in 2018.
Baldwin and Bebop: Jazz at Lincoln Center's Candice Hoyes in Performance and Conversation
October 10, 2018
As part of the collaboration between CUNY ARTS and Jazz at Lincoln Center, singer and recording artist Candice Hoyes, along with her trio, will perform songs inspired by Baldwin's iconic story Sonny's Blues. A conversation about themes from the story will be integrated into the performance, making the event a multidisciplinary experience.
Newark Academy Jazz Rocks in My Bed Essentially Ellington 2019
In 2019 the Newark Academy Jazz Program performs for it's 5th time at the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival.
Newark Academy was founded in 1774, and is the second-oldest independent day school in New Jersey. The student body is comprised of 550 students from sixth grade to twelfth grade. The school prides itself on its strong arts programs, including Visual Arts, Dance, Film, Theatre and Vocal and Instrumental Music. The band has been involved in state and national competitions, placing first in New Jersey’s State Jazz Band Competition the last nine years (2010-2018), the Mingus Competition (2014, 2015), the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival (2018). Chameleon has been one of the fifteen finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival and Competition in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Members of the big band are also involved in other auditioned groups such as Jazz House Kids, Jazz for Teens, Jazz Regions, Jazz All States, Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, and the Grammy Session Band. The band is honored to have had the opportunity to work with talented clinicians such as Eddie Bert, Vincent Gardner, Steve Turre, Victor Goines, Steve Davis, David Gibson, Bob Cranshaw, Alvin Atkinson, Marcus Printup, Kenny Rampton, Andre Hayward, Bob Cranshaw, and Ali Jackson to name a few.
JTole Music creates programs and events that bring communities together, from performances and festivals to summer workshops, jam sessions, lessons, and educational videos. Students and music educators alike benefit from Julius Tolentino’s extensive experience as an award-winning performer and educator, reaching for new goals and expanding their potential time and time again. Julius has assembled an all-star team to provide the same high standard of excellence for all JTole Music programs.
Saxophonist and educator Julius Tolentino has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In this capacity, he has played and recorded with numerous small groups and big bands including Louis Haye’s Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band and the Louis Hayes Quartet, Eric Reed’s Sextet, Jeremy Pelt’s Quintet, Natalie Cole, Wycliffe Gordon, Connie Francis, Gloria Gaynor, the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, the Christian McBride Big Band, Cecile Mclorin, Michael Feinstein, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Heath, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Julius studied with NEA Jazz Master and alto saxophone legend Jackie McLean, who introduced him to his second musical father, Illinois Jacquet. He has played in top jazz venues and festivals throughout the United States, including Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, the Village Vanguard, Birdland, Blue Note, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Coca Cola. As a leader, his debut album, “Just the Beginning,” on the Sharp Nine label, reached No. 8 on the jazz charts in 2006.
Renowned as a gifted music educator, “Mr. T” has worked with hundreds of students nationwide. He joined Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey, as jazz director in 2007, and currently conducts five nationally known student ensembles. He also holds positions at the New Jersey Youth Symphony as director of the NJYS Jazz Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a middle school jazz academy director as well as a JALC traveling clinician.
Julius served as New Jersey Association of Jazz Educators Region I president from 2009-2011 and received NJAJE’s Jazz Education Achievement Award in 2018. He was also the director of large ensembles at Montclair-based Jazz House Kids from 2010-2017. His groups have won and been finalists in several national festivals and competitions, including Essentially Ellington (2012-2018), the Charles Mingus Competition (2011-2018) and the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival. At the state level, Newark Academy has won first place at the NJAJE State Finals for nine years running, from 2010-2018.
Julius is currently serving on the board of the Jazz Education Network and has presented clinics at the JEN Conference as well as the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference. He has conducted All-State and All-City Jazz Bands for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, MMEA and the New York State School Music Association, NYSMA. Julius Tolentino has been awarded Best of NJ, category Jazz Musician Inside Jersey/Star Ledger in 2010, the Illinois Jacquet Jazz Educator of the Year award courtesy of the Illinois Jacquet Foundation in 2013, and the NJ Jazz Education Achievement Award by NJAJE in 2018.
Umbria Jazz Feat. Funk Off - Kevin Harris Trio
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Professional Biography
- David Lo Cascio native of the island of Sicily in Italy has toured and performed as a recording artist and drummer all over Europe , United States and Asia with Jazz legends such as Lee Konitz, Charlie Mariano (C. Mingus), vocalist Sheila Jordan, bassist Giovanni Tommaso during the Italian 2005 best-selling jazz album of the year “La Dolce Vita” tour dedicated to Italian cinema’s music, George Garzone, Kenny Werner, Lin Biviano (C.Basie ), Hal Crook, Joe Lovano and with 8 times Jazz grammy and academy awards nominee for Spike Lee’s soundtracks Terence Blanchard with whom he has performed at Schuller’s jazz club, Boston’s finest Jazz club.
- Since 2005 he has served as assistant-professor for Berklee College of Music faculty at Umbria Jazz clinics in Italy for drums department and ensemble and has worked as a staff member for Vocal and Piano departments at Berklee in Boston USA.
David holds a degree in Literature and Languages at the prestigious university of Rome La Sapienza, he graduated from the Conservatory of Ferrara Italy in Jazz studies and further honored his skills with a bachelor’s degree at Berklee College of Music with concentrations in Boston in Performance, Music Production & Engineering and Music Education.
He has recently completed his Master’s program at Berklee College in Valencia, Spain in Performance and Music Production concentration with a full-bright scholarship where he has performed in over 150 concerts in Spain during this time.
- Has attended clinics and studied all over the world with the greatest masters of his instrument such as Ron Savage chair of Performance division and Yoron Israel Interim chair of Percussion department at Berklee, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Jimmy Cobb, Peter Erskine, Dennis Chambers, Dave Weckl, Billy Kilson, Vinnie Colaiuta, Jonathan Blake, Jeff Tain Watts, Adam Nussbaum, Jeff Ballard among others and has served as Italian ambassador during the Italian American Heritage Month at the State House chamber in Boston with the Project “Scanzonati” led by Berklee Contemporary writing and production chair Andrea Pejrolo .
- Has also worked and recorded in several published recordings and keeps a flourishing activity as a performer in the Boston area ( S.Marchese “Scanzonati”, Les Sampou) and is primarily based in New York City as an active performer and faculty (Brooklyn school of Music).
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Saxophonist and educator Julius Tolentino has been a staple of the New York jazz scene for over 20 years. In this capacity, he has played and recorded with numerous small groups and big bands including Louis Haye’s Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band and the Louis Hayes Quartet, Eric Reed’s Sextet, Jeremy Pelt’s Quintet, Natalie Cole, Wycliffe Gordon, Connie Francis, Gloria Gaynor, the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, the Christian McBride Big Band, Cecile Mclorin, Michael Feinstein, Dianne Reeves, Jimmy Heath, the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
A graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Julius studied with NEA Jazz Master and alto saxophone legend Jackie McLean, who introduced him to his second musical father, Illinois Jacquet. He has played in top jazz venues and festivals throughout the United States, including Lincoln Center, the Newport Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, the Village Vanguard, Birdland, Blue Note, the Jazz Standard and Dizzy’s Coca Cola. As a leader, his debut album, “Just the Beginning,” on the Sharp Nine label, reached No. 8 on the jazz charts in 2006.
Renowned as a gifted music educator, “Mr. T” has worked with hundreds of students nationwide. He joined Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey, as jazz director in 2007, and currently conducts five nationally known student ensembles. He also holds positions at the New Jersey Youth Symphony as director of the NJYS Jazz Orchestra, and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a middle school jazz academy director as well as a JALC travelling clinician.
Julius served as New Jersey Association of Jazz Educators Region I president from 2009-2011 and received NJAJE’s Jazz Education Achievement Award in 2018. He was also the director of large ensembles at Montclair-based Jazz House Kids from 2010-2017. His groups have won and been finalists in several national festivals and competitions, including Essentially Ellington (2012-2018), the Charles Mingus Competition (2011-2018) and the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival. At the state level, Newark Academy has won first place at the NJAJE State Finals for nine years running, from 2010-2018.
Julius is currently serving on the board of the Jazz Education Network and has presented clinics at the JEN Conference as well as the New Jersey Music Educators Association Conference. He has conducted All-State and All-City Jazz Bands for the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, MMEA and the New York State School Music Association, NYSMA. Julius Tolentino has been awarded Best of NJ, category Jazz Musician Inside Jersey/Star Ledger in 2010, the Illinois Jacquet Jazz Educator of the Year award courtesy of the Illinois Jacquet Foundation in 2013, and the NJ Jazz Education Achievement Award by NJAJE in 2018.
CCN TV6 - NYC PAN JAZZ - FOLKLORE EVENT (2010)
CCN TV6's Anselm Gibbs reports on the 2010 NYC Pan Jazz - Folklore event put on by Abstract Entertainment. (Edited by Alvin Chan)