The Sidney Bechet Society, Ltd.

10/26/2021

09/09/2021

Thanks Michael Steinman Jazz Lives for taking us back to July 20, 1975 to the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice, France with with these masters of the soprano saxophmone Kenny Davern & Bob Wilbur paying homage to the great Sidney Bechet

Monsieur Bechet. Masters of the soprano saxophone Kenny Davern (straight soprano) and Bob Wilber (curved soprano) plus Claude Luter, clarinet, who played alongside Sidney Bechet on dozens of record…

08/27/2020

09/03/2019

Enjoy this beautiful duet of Gershwin's SUMMERTIME between Sidney Bechet & acoustic guitarist Teddy Brun recorded in June of 1939! Although the calendar says September in the Northern Hemisphere, it IS still "SUMMERTIME"!! https://youtu.be/Po8J4NBdiSc

Performer(s): « Sidney Bechet » « Summertime » Audio : Very Hq - CD Quality Sound -- MP3 320 Kbps Album : « 65 Hits : Sidney Bechet » by « Sidney Bechet » Ge...

11/12/2018

N.Y.H.J.C. MUSIC SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!
Tremendous news. The New York Hot Jazz Camp (for adults) has secured funds to underwrite seven qualified applicant-musicians (ages of 18 and 28) to attend the upcoming April 2019 week-long program to work, play and be coached by some of traditional jazz's most notable artists, in small ensembles.

Details here: ----> https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/scholarships

10/25/2018

Attn: Traditional jazz lovers and musicians with a potential interest in participating in the New York Hot Jazz Camp. Here's an opportunity to see and hear the abilities of its world-class faculty-coaching musicians (ALL OF WHOM ARE BECHET SOCIETY PERFORMANCE ALUMNI) in performance. Also note that there is a scholarship fund in the making.

Birdland Jazz Club, Sun. Nov. 4th, at 6PM
THE NEW YORK HOT JAZZ CAMP presents "The Faculty All-Stars"

Catherine Russell - vocals
Jon-Erik Kellso - trumpet
Evan Christopher - clarinet
Vincent Gardner - trombone
Dalton Ridenhourn - piano
Nick Russo - guitar
Jared Engel - bass
Rob Garcia - drums
Hosted by Molly Ryan and Bria Skonberg

Tickets at: https://bit.ly/2z1toO2

Join these all-star musicians (who are also the faculty and alumni faculty of the NY Hot Jazz Camp) as they heat up Birdland's stage IN SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS for the NYHJCamp.
These notable and recognized traditional jazz artists will create their own versions of the classic favorites inspired by jazz greats such as Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and others.

To learn more about the New York Hot Jazz Camp (for Adults) go to https://www.facebook.com/events/248677309182766/?active_tab=about

10/04/2018

[THIS FROM OUR FRIENDS AND SBS CONCERT ALUMNI -BRIA SKONBERG AND MOLLY RYAN- AT THE NY HOT JAZZ CAMP FOR ADULTS]

REBECCA (Becky) KILGORE.
First in a series Focusing on our Faculty.

NEW YORK’s HOT JAZZ CAMP, for adults, is delighted to announce that Rebecca (Becky) Kilgore will be the faculty vocal instructor-coach for our up-coming camp session. To sign up now go to: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Ms. Kilgore is an American jazz vocalist based out of Portland, Oregon. She was recently referred to as "one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook."in her induction into the Oregon Musical Hall of Fame For her website go to: http://www.rebeccakilgore.com

Rebecca regularly performs worldwide at jazz festivals, jazz parties, and on jazz cruises. She has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, has appeared on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, and with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall and has performed with jazz pianist and composer Dave Frishberg , as well as trombonist Dan Barrett, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, and many other musicians.

The Rebecca Kilgore Quartet (formerly known as BED) was a popular favorite on the jazz festival circuit: with Eddie Erickson (guitar/banjo/voice), Dan Barrett (trombone), and Joel Forbes (bass).

She has been performed with the Statesmen Of Jazz, dedicated to perpetuating the art of jazz for future generations.
Other venues. New York: Feinstein’s at the Regency; New York: Birdland; San Francisco: The Plush Room at the York Hotel; Oakland, CA: Piedmont Pianos; Culver City, CA: The Jazz Bakery; Fullerton, CA: Steamers Jazz Club; Phoenix, AZ: The Nash; Madison, NJ: Shanghai Jazz; LA: The Westin at LAX; Toledo, OH: Murphy’s Place; Cleveland Heights, OH: Nightown; Ann Arbor, MI: The Firefly Club; Cincinnati, OH: The Blue Wisp; Southampton, UK: The Concorde Club; Sherman Oaks, CA: Spazio’s.

REBECCA (Becky) KILGORE. Focus on our Faculty, first in our series for the 2019 session.:

NEW YORK’s HOT JAZZ CAMP, for adults, is delighted to announce that Rebecca (Becky) Kilgore will be the faculty vocal instructor-coach for our up-coming camp session. To sign up now go to: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Ms. Kilgore is an American jazz vocalist based out of Portland, Oregon. She was recently referred to as "one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook."in her induction into the Oregon Musical Hall of Fame For her website go to: http://www.rebeccakilgore.com

Rebecca regularly performs worldwide at jazz festivals, jazz parties, and on jazz cruises. She has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, has appeared on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, and with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall and has performed with jazz pianist and composer Dave Frishberg , as well as trombonist Dan Barrett, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, and many other musicians.

The Rebecca Kilgore Quartet (formerly known as BED) was a popular favorite on the jazz festival circuit: with Eddie Erickson (guitar/banjo/voice), Dan Barrett (trombone), and Joel Forbes (bass).

She has been performed with the Statesmen Of Jazz, dedicated to perpetuating the art of jazz for future generations.
Other venues. New York: Feinstein’s at the Regency; New York: Birdland; San Francisco: The Plush Room at the York Hotel; Oakland, CA: Piedmont Pianos; Culver City, CA: The Jazz Bakery; Fullerton, CA: Steamers Jazz Club; Phoenix, AZ: The Nash; Madison, NJ: Shanghai Jazz; LA: The Westin at LAX; Toledo, OH: Murphy’s Place; Cleveland Heights, OH: Nightown; Ann Arbor, MI: The Firefly Club; Cincinnati, OH: The Blue Wisp; Southampton, UK: The Concorde Club; Sherman Oaks, CA: Spazio’s.

07/02/2018

SONGBOOK SUMMIT: The reed playing Anderson Brothers productions; it's "must attend listening", at the SBS's former home: Symphony Space, NYC.

This is going to be an exceptional series with a terrific line-up of composers, lyricists, musicians, and vocals.

The works of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Hoagy Carmichael and Jimmy Van Heusen, performed by Peter and William Anderson (reeds & flute), Molly Ryan (vocals), Steve Ash / Tardo Hammer (piano), Clovis Nicholas (bass) & Phil Stewart (drums)

Aug 7, to Sept. 2. Here's the link to the tickets and details goo.gl/xoW9pF

05/09/2018

Saturday, May 19th The annual SCOTT JOPLIN MEMORIAL CONCERT & BBQ! Queens, NY......FREE.

It’s a rare chance to catch (SBS friend and concert alumni) DAN LEVINSON and his CANARY COTTAGE ORCHESTRA with a rare guest appearance of, THE VICTROLIAN VAUDEVILLE BARBERSHOP QUARTET.

The program we’ll feature ‘rag-a-jazz’ songs of the late 1800s and early 1900s (written during the transition period between Rag and early Jazz), in concert at the historic grave site of composer, SCOTT JOPLIN (the ‘King of Ragtime’) approximately on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of his death.

Several of Joplin's original works will be featured including several rarely heard pieces he composed for a vocal quartet (one from his opera 'Treemonisha').

In addition there will be opening commentary, providing historic context, by author and noted Joplin scholar, Ed Berlin PLUS FREE BBQ and a sing-along starting at 1:30. Come early or bring a lawn chair and an adult beverage.

This is an exceptional opportunity to hear and enjoy early American popular commercial music in its original style performed live, let alone with the musicality, authenticity and spirit of this amazing group of musicians:

Dan Levinson, C-melody saxophone/clarinet
Rob Hecht, violin
Leigh Stuart, cello
Conal Fowkes, piano
Joanna Sternberg, bass
Kevin Dorn, drums

THE VICTROLIAN VAUDEVILLE BARBERSHOP QUARTET
Bill Lundy, tenor
Hal Cohen, lead
Paul Santino, baritone/bass/ lead
Neal Siegal, bass/baritone/ lead

https://www.facebook.com/events/2027892397453167/?active_tab=about

12/29/2017

GOING IT ALONE? NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION:
GET OUT & PLAY WITH (lots of) OTHERS!

Attention Musicians: Resolve to sign-up now for the 2018 New York Hot Jazz Camp for adults.https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Come play with, learn from, and network among a world-class faculty of professional, traditional Jazz artists and your peers in a very relaxed, unintimidating, sociable environment.

Sessions include: One-on-one coaching, ensemble formations and active performances, improvisational work, structured and unstructured jams, historic-venue field excursions, notable guest lecturers, and opportunities to perform in New York’s 2018 Gotham Jazz Festival.

Limit openings are left for: Clarinet (with Evan Christopher); Bass (with Nicki Parrott); Trombone (with Jim Fryer); Drums (with Rob Garcia); Guitar-banjo (with Justin Poindexter), Piano (with Dalton Ridenhour). FIRST COME -FIRST SERVED

Wait lists only for: Voice (with Catherine Russell and Trumpet (with Randy Reinhardt).

On Facebook: goo.gl/P2jDPQ
On Youtube: goo.gl/8xMnX8

Under the co-direction of: vocalist, Molly Ryan & Sony Records trumpeter/vocalist, Bria Skonberg.

12/13/2017

Attention MUSICIANS Of ALL LEVELS: Here are eleven great reasons to SIGN-UP NOW for New York's only Hot-Jazz Camp (for adults).
Go to : www.nyhotjazzcamp.com

The musical faculty: come learn, play, network, and be inspired by some of the world's top traditional jazz musicians in a completely non-intimidating participatory intensive week of sectional and small ensemble combos, improvisational playing and performances; plus guest lecturers, evening jams and optional field excursions to historic NY Jazz venues.

Not to mention that newly offered nearby DISCOUNTED HOUSING IS AVAILABLE &
Apply now: FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED.

Top left to bottom right:
1) Randy Reinhart (trumpet),
2) Jim Fryer (trombone),
3) Friedwald (author guest lecturer),
4) Nicki Parrott (bass),
5) Catherine Russell (vocals),
6) Rob Garcia (drums),
7) Evan Christopher (clarinet),
8 & 9) Bria Skonberg & Molly Ryan: Co-founding Directors),
10) Justin Poindexter (guitar-banjo),
11) Dalton Ridenhour (piano)

PLUS PARTICIPATION IN THE GOTHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL
https://www.facebook.com/nyhotjazzcamp/

12/11/2017

The Sidney Bechet in Switzerland box set.

https://www1.hnewsletter.ch/hosting/unitedmusic/index.php?action=&news=11&style_lang=en

12/06/2017

ATTENTION SWING & TRAD JAZZ MUSICIANS OF ALL LEVELS!
Directors of The New York Hot Jazz Camp (for adults) and SBS performing alumni, Molly Ryan and Bria Skonberg, have a message for you.

Sign-up NOW: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

11/24/2017

11/15/2017

ATTN MUSICIANS: Whether you're an aspiring, intermediate, semi-professional or even professional (who are not quite so fluent in pure traditional, improvisational jazz): Come to New York's Only Hot-Jazz Camp for Adults (18 and up).

Here's your chance to work, play, perform and network, closely, with some of the world's most recognized masters of Traditional Jazz and peers, in a fun, relaxed, informal, productive setting.

Out-Of-Towners note: There's discount housing now available too!

LIMITED OPENINGS: FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED
Openings still on: *Piano *Bass *Trombone * Banjo-Guitar * Drums & *Reeds Note: Trumpet & Vocals wait-list only

Sign-up, online, NOW here: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/registration

Poster Art by Joe Busam Sr.

10/24/2017

HOTEL DISCOUNTS FOR VISITING MUSICIANS OF NEW YORK’S HOT JAZZ CAMP (FOR ADULTS). ACT NOW. GREAT NEWS! The New York Hot-Jazz Camp (for adults) has partnered with Doubletree Hilton, in Chelsea, as our official hotel for camp, near our camp facility at the Greenwich House School of Music!
Register before March 12th for our camp (to be held April 2nd to 8th 2018) and you can book a room at our special group rate. BUT NOTE: These rates only apply to registered campers and will only be available until March 12th or until the group block is sold-out, whichever comes first! So, ACT NOW.

Details about the New York Hot Jazz Camp (for adults), our world class faculty of Trad-Jazz Specialists, our hotel discount and more can be found at https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/
Info on the hotel discount at : goo.gl/uQoaZL

10/09/2017

Eleven great reasons Hot-Jazz Musicians of all levels should
SIGN-UP NOW for New York's only Hot-Jazz Camp (for adults). www.nyhotjazzcamp.com.

Look at the music faculty; many are Bechet Society concert veterans: Come learn, play, network, and be inspired by eleven of the world's top traditional jazz musicians in a sociable, non-intimidating participatory intensive week of sectional and small ensemble combos, improvisational playing and performances; guest lecturers, evening jams and optional field excursions to historic NY Jazz venues.

Not to mention SPECIAL DISCOUNTED HOUSING.
SPACES LIMITED: FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED

Top left to bottom right:
1) Randy Reinhart (trumpet),
2) Jim Fryer (trombone),
3) Will Friedwald (author guest lecturer),
4) Nicki Parrott (bass), 5) Catherine Russell (vocals),
6) Rob Garcia (drums),
7) Evan Christopher (clarinet),
8 & 9) Bria Skonberg & Molly Ryan: Cofounding Camp Directors),
10) Justin Poindexter (guitar-banjo),
11) Dalton Ridenhour (piano)

10/04/2017

Renowned author, music critic, columnist, and noted Jazz authority, WILL FRIEDWALD will be the guest lecturer- clinician at the April, 2018, New York Hot Jazz Camp (for adults).

Topics to be announced, but valuable, instructive and undoubtedly amusing insights into the elements of great hot-jazz performances and /or the secrets of promoting your music to the press and the world are most likely on the agenda.

MUSICIANS of all levels: This is just another reason, among many, to SIGN-UP NOW for the New York Hot-Jazz Camp; the only in New York -staffed by some of the world’s top early, traditional, hot-jazz music musicians and specialists. https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & VANITY FAIR (and reviews current shows for THE OBSERVER and Citiview https://thecitiview.com/nyc/entertainment/.

He also is the author of eight books including the award-winning A BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP SINGERS, SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU, STARDUST MELODIES, TONY BENNETT: THE GOOD LIFE, LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES, and JAZZ SINGING.

He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received ten Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and other documentaries. He is also a consultant and curator for Apple Music.

New Books: THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP VOCAL ALBUMS (Pantheon Books / Random House, October 2017)

SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU - NEW REVISED EDITION (Chicago Review Press, May 2018)

Photo by Aidan Grant

09/29/2017

Attn: Jazz Vocalists & Musicians:

CATHERINE RUSSELL (Vocalist) is the last of the eight faculty members featured this series of profiles of the up-coming, 2018, New York Hot Jazz Camp (for adults) instructional-coaching team. [ https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/]

Returning for her second year, Catherine proved to be one of our most sought after, enthusiastically received instructor-coaches. Her return could not be more welcome, exciting or eagerly anticipated by our campers or the members of the rest of our world class traditional Jazz music faculty!

Catherine’s professional life began after graduating with honors from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts; she embarked upon musical adventures with Carrie Smith, Steely Dan, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, Levon Helm, and Rosanne Cash, among others.

Her 2006 debut album Cat (World Village/Harmonia Mundi), garnered rave reviews, paving the way for her 2008 sophomore release, Sentimental Streak. She was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, PBS-TV’s Tavis Smiley Show, and NPR's "Fresh Air", “Piano Jazz”, “Mountain Stage”, “World Café”, and “JazzSet”. Russell's third album, Inside This Heart of Mine, reached #1 on JazzWeek and Roots Music Report’s radio charts, while also charting on Billboard and reaching #1 on iTunes jazz charts. A fourth album, Strictly Romancin’, was awarded Prix du Jazz Vocal (Vocal Album of The Year) by the French Jazz Academy, Grand Prix du Hot Club de France, and a Bistro Award for Outstanding Recording. That same year Russell won a Grammy® Award as a featured artist on the soundtrack album for the HBO-TV series, Boardwalk Empire. Her fifth solo album, Bring It Back (Jazz Village) received a five-star review in DownBeat.

Catherine is a native New Yorker, born into musical royalty. Her father, the late Luis Russell, was a legendary pianist/composer/bandleader and Louis Armstrong's long-time musical director. Her mother, Carline Ray, was a pioneering vocalist/guitarist/bassist who performed with International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Mary Lou Williams, and Sy Oliver. Russell notes, “My mother was born and raised in Harlem and my father led one of the leading orchestras in Harlem, which was part of the inspiration for this album.”

In April 2016, Russell appeared at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to sing the grand finale at the 2016 NEA Jazz Masters Award Ceremony, and then traveled to Los Angeles for a live taping of Radio Deluxe with John Pizzarelli. Her concerts, “Catherine Russell: Sunny Side of The Street”, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room in April, which saluted her personal connection to Sy Oliver, were featured on NPR’s “Jazz Night In America.” To support her newest, Grammy Nominated album (her 6th among Grammy Award winners) “Harlem On My Mind”, she did extensive worldwide touring including a tour in as guest vocalist with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on their annual Big Band Holidays tour.

Not surprisingly they say:
"A wonderfully charismatic performer with
a show-stopping voice." - The Washington Post
"The best blues and jazz singer going today." - The Wall Street Journal

Here's Catherine's web site: http://www.catherinerussell.net/live/

Here's The New York Hot Jazz Camp's site: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Photo by Lynn Redmile (www.lynnredmile.com)

09/22/2017

AN INVITATION TO MUSICIANS OF ALL LEVELS.FROM THE NYHJC
#7 in their series highlighting the members of their up-coming, New York Hot-Jazz Camp's instructional faculty.
[The camp for adults info is at: www.nyhotjazzcamp.com ]

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DALTON RIDENHOUR (Piano)
It's no wonder why, or that, the NEW YORK HOT JAZZ CAMP (for adults) has called back Dalton Ridenhour, for a second year, to be our 2018 piano instructor. His playing, his sensibilities, his experience and credits added to his affable nature and his proven ability to coach and inspire our campers and fellow musicians made it an easy call.

Dalton, a Missouri native, has been a student of the ragtime and stride piano tradition since the age of 8. He has been featured at many ragtime and early jazz festivals including The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, The West Coast Ragtime Festival, The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, and The Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival.

Dalton has degrees from the Berklee College of Music and The Eastman School of Music where he studied with Harold Danko, Joanne Brackeen, Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano and Hal Crook.

He performs locally and internationally and frequently with various groups including Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band, Naomi and Her Handsome Devils, Mike Davis and The New Wonders, Goodbye Picasso, and Mona's Hot Four. He has a solo album, "Eccentricity," on the Rivermont Records label.

What Other Are Saying About Dalton:
“Ridenhour is a talented player. I’ll be seeing him again. If you’d like to be transported back in time to hear piano music from a bygone — but still very fresh and alive — age, you should see him, too." -- Jason Crane, The Jazz Session

"Ridenhour’s stride chops take a back seat to no one ..." -- Jack Rummel, Ragtime America

DALTON RIDENHOUR (Piano):
F.O.O.F. (Focus On Our Faculty) #7 in our series spotlighting the extraordinary members of the 2018 New York Hot-Jazz Camp's instructional faculty.

It's no wonder why, or that, the N.Y.H.J.C. has called on Dalton Ridenhour to be our 2018 piano instructor. His playing, his sensibilities, his experience and credits added to his affable nature and his proven ability to coach and inspire our campers and fellow musicians made it an easy call.

Dalton, a Missouri native, has been a student of the ragtime and stride piano tradition since the age of 8. He has been featured at many ragtime and early jazz festivals including The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, The West Coast Ragtime Festival, The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, and The Blind Boone Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival.

Dalton has degrees from the Berklee College of Music and The Eastman School of Music where he studied with Harold Danko, Joanne Brackeen, Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano and Hal Crook.

He performs locally and internationally and frequently with various groups including Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, Dan Levinson's Roof Garden Jass Band, Naomi and Her Handsome Devils, Mike Davis and The New Wonders, Goodbye Picasso, and Mona's Hot Four. He has a solo album, "Eccentricity," on the Rivermont Records label.

What Other Are Saying About Dalton:
“Ridenhour is a talented player. I’ll be seeing him again. If you’d like to be transported back in time to hear piano music from a bygone — but still very fresh and alive — age, you should see him, too." -- Jason Crane, The Jazz Session

"Ridenhour’s stride chops take a back seat to no one ..." -- Jack Rummel, Ragtime America

09/18/2017

RANDY REINHART (Trumpet, Cornet) #6 in the New York Hot-Jazz Camp's series, spotlighting the extraordinary members of the up-coming 2018 New York Hot-Jazz Camp's instructional faculty.

ATTN: MUSICIANS OF ALL LEVELS. LEARN, NETWORK AND PLAY AMONG NY's BEST TRAD-JAZZ MUSICIANS.
https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

Encouraged by last year's campers, New York's only Hot-Jazz Camp, for adults, is excited that Randy Reinhart will be returning for his second year as the camp's cornet-trumpet specialist. It's no surprise that last year's campers felt they took away so much from his lifetime of professional, Hot/Trad-Jazz experience for concerts, recordings, festivals and mentoring.

He's been playing cornet and/or trumpet since he was nine and played his first gigs when he was a teenager, making jazz his profession at age 18 by becoming an ongoing substitute at Eddie Condon's legendary club on 54th street in 1973.

In 1976 Randy learned that the trombone position with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band was open and he taught himself that instrument and then spent the next ten years with the Cullum group filling the trombone position and second cornet.

He has played with some of the finest players on the New York scene including Vic Dickenson, P*e Wee Erwin, Herb Hall and drummer Connie Kay. In the mid-1970’s he began doubling on trombone while touring with Paul Lavalle's Band Of America, as well as having played with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, and performing at Michael’s Pub, Lincoln Center and Dick Hyman’s Jazz in July series at the 92nd St. “Y”. He has toured with Ed Polcer and with Warren Vache, Jr., as well as with Banu Gibson’s Hot Jazz.

You can hear his cornet in many Bix Beiderbecke tribute recordings and in concert orchestras. The Arbors release, “Celebrating Bix”, places Randy with three cornetists, Jon-Erik Kellso, Randy Sandke and Dan Barrett.

He has collaborated with many other artists too, including Kenny Davern, Marty Grosz, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dan Barrett, Jake Hanna, Howard Alden, Warren Vache.

Randy Reinhart can be heard on various recordings for the Arbors, Audiophile, Jump and Nagel-Heyer labels.

At present Randy does not have a website.

Photo by Lynn Redmile: http://www.LynnRedmile.com/reinhart/e1b9b9fa

08/31/2017

Attn Musicians: The New York Hot-Jazz Camp -for adults, is pleased to announce that world-renowned bassist and jazz vocalist and SBS concert alumni, NICKI PARROTT will be the bass instructor for the 2018 season: April 2-8.

This is #4 in a series, highlighting the extraordinary members of the 2018 N.Y.H.J.C.'s staff faculty.

"Nicki Parrott could make anyone love jazz." Cabaret Scene
“Nicki brings clear articulation, beautiful tone, a sense of rhythmic assuredness and a touch of allure to inventive arrangements.” Jazz Times “She has that special gift you cannot buy in a music store.” Les Paul “...a rarity, a first-class bassist whose playing is as sublime as her vocals.” Limelight

About Nicki: https://youtu.be/6O2P1huSAhc

Born in Newcastle, Australia, Nicki started her musical training at age four with the piano and flute. Nicki switched to double bass at the age of 15. After graduating high school she moved to Sydney to study jazz at the New South Wales Conservatory of Music where she was granted funds by the Arts Council to study in New York with Rufus Reid.

Nicki was bassist and vocalist for the legendary Les Paul for over 10 years. In addition to performing at most of the world's top jazz venues and festivals, Nicki has performed with such jazz greats as Randy Brecker, Clark Terry, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Michel Legrand, and Arif Mardin.

She has recorded over 23 vocal records for Venus Records (Japan), Arbors Records (USA) and Ooroo Records (USA).

Come to the New York Hot-Jazz Camp and learn from and play with the world’s best and a cadre of your comparably able peers

Sign up on our web site: www.NYHotJazzCamp.com
Or on FB page: https://www.facebook.com/nyhotjazzcamp/

08/26/2017

Attn. Friends of Sidney Bechet and Trad-Jazz & Dixieland Musicians:

Drummer, Rob Garcia is this week's faculty member being featured among the New York Hot Jazz Camp's many, noteworthy, 2018 instructors. Come learn and play with some of NYC's finest and surround yourself with a network of your comparably able peers.

Capital New York called Rob Garcia, "one of New York’s great jazz drummers and composers.” He’s a strong presence in the New York and international jazz scene as a sideman, a bandleader and even as an avant guard, featured experimental percussion soloist. Yet while his musical endeavors span the full spectrum of jazz, his work and experience in the traditional jazz world is also extensive and highly respected and sought after.

He has performed and/or recorded with many important groups and band leaders in the traditional (Hot) and swing scene including Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band (8 years), Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Wynton Marsalis, Catherine Russell, Wycliffe Gordon, Bria Skonberg, The Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra, Anat Cohen, Professor Cunningham and his Old School, Tamar Korn, Gordon Webster, Gordon Au and is a member and the principal arranger for Svetlana and the Delancey Five.

Naturally, therefore, the New York Hot Jazz Camp is especially delighted to have him on board, in his inaugural role, as our drum instructor for the 2018 session.

Rob grew up in Pelham, New York, hearing jazz and popular music from the 1920's and 30's via his father who is an architect, bass player and collector of 78 records from that period.

Learn more about Rob at: http://www.robgarciamusic.com/html/about.php

Or sign-up now to join the NY Hot Jazz Camp for adults at: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.co

ROB GARCIA (Drummer): Focus On Our Faculty: FOOF #3 in our series spotlighting the members of the 2018 NY Hot-Jazz Camp's noteworthy instructional faculty.

Capital New York called Rob Garcia, "one of New York’s great jazz drummers and composers.” He’s a strong presence in the New York and international jazz scene as a sideman, a bandleader and even as an avant guard, featured experimental percussion soloist. Yet while his musical endeavors span the full spectrum of jazz, his work and experience in the traditional jazz world is also extensive and highly respected and sought after.

He has performed and/or recorded with many important groups and band leaders in the traditional (Hot) and swing scene including Woody Allen’s New Orlean Jazz Band (8 years), Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Wynton Marsalis, Catherine Russell, Wycliffe Gordon, Bria Skonberg, The Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra, Anat Cohen, Professor Cunningham and his Old School, Tamar Korn, Gordon Webster, Gordon Au and is a member and the principal arranger for Svetlana and the Delancey Five.

Naturally, therefore, the New York Hot Jazz Camp is especially delighted to have him on board, in his inaugural role, as our drum instructor for the 2018 session.

Rob grew up in Pelham, New York, hearing jazz and popular music from the 1920's and 30's via his father who is an architect, bass player and collector of 78 records from that period.

Learn more about Rob at: http://www.robgarciamusic.com/html/about.php

Or sign-up now to join the NY Hot Jazz Camp for adults at: https://www.nyhotjazzcamp.com/

08/10/2017

The NY Hot Jazz Camp's: "Focus on our Faculty" series: (F.O.O.F. #1 for 2018) EVAN CHRISTOPHER

Following the announcement of the faculty for the 2018 New York Hot-Jazz Camp (for adults), they now proudly start to introduce each of the eight, genuinely distinguished, musician-instructors (in alphabetical order on the Camp's FB page) in a series of individual weekly mini-bios.

World class musician-instructor-coaches and a whole lot more.

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Focus on our Faculty (F.O.O.F. #1 for 2018) EVAN CHRISTOPHER

Following the announcement of the 2018 faculty, we'll proudly introduce (in alphabetical order) each of our eight, genuinely distinguished, musician-instructors here, starting now, in a series of individual weekly mini-bios.
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EVAN CHRISTOPHER (CLARINETIST) combines virtuosity, immaculate taste, and enthusiasm with a commitment to exploring the full range of possibilities in the New Orleans clarinet tradition. His highly personal brand of “contemporary, early jazz” extends the legacies of early Creole clarinetists such as Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, and Omer Simeon.

Critics remarking on Christopher’s dynamic expressiveness have coined his style “close-encounter music” (NEW YORK TIMES) and have called his respect for the music traditions of New Orleans, “a triumph, joining the present seamlessly to a glorious past.” (THE OBSERVER, UK).

He is a veteran performer of far too many esteemed concert performances to do justice here; but, in New York, alone, he has been enthusiastically welcomed repeatedly by audiences and fellow musicians in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space to the Ear Inn.

His diversified freelance work includes gigs with musicians such as Al Hirt and veterans of Preservation Hall to funk and brass bands including the Nightcrawlers and Galactic. He appeared nightly for three years with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and recorded several public radio programs for "Riverwalk: Live from the Landing".

His European based quartet fuses Gypsy Swing with Latin-tinged grooves of New Orleans and was distinguished for an acoustic intimacy paired with driving swing. Three CDs they produced were for Lejazzetal (London), in partnership with Frémeaux & Associés (Paris)—Django à la Créole (2007), Finesse (2010), and LIVE! (2014)—earned the group critical attention worldwide for its elegant character.

The NY Hot Jazz Camp is honored and delighted to have his extraordinary talent and good fellowship in our 2018 faculty.

____Photo courtesy of Hinrich Wulff