Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Festival With Esteemed Miles Davis Award June 26

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African American, Bass, Jazz, Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom.

Stanley Clarke

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB June 17, 2011) Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The award will be presented before his festival performance with Return To Forever. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician’s influence in regenerating the jazz idiom.

“Awards such as this make me remember and appreciate all the work I’ve done over the past forty-plus years. Personally, I have to thank those who gave me opportunities such as Horace Silver, Stan Getz, Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon,” says Clarke. “I also thank my early collaboration with Chick Corea for laying the foundation to who I am today as a musician. It is an honor to now be included among such an acclaimed group of past winners of the Miles Davis Award.”

Orrin Evans -][- CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND [Posi-Tone Records]

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African American, Jazz, Orrin Evans, Piano

Orrin Evans - CAPTAIN BLACK

Orrin Evans -][- CAPTAIN BLACK -(MP3)- [Posi-Tone Records, 2011]

Evans was born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Rutgers University, and following this studied with Kenny Barron. He worked as a sideman for Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, Duane Eubanks, and Lenora Zenzalai-Helm, and released his debut as a leader in 1994. He signed with Criss Cross Jazz in 1997, recording prolifically with the label. He was awarded a 2010 Pew Fellowships in the Arts.[1]

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Grace Kelly -][- GRACE [PAZZ]

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Grace Kelly, Jazz, Saxophone

Grace Kelly - GRACE

Grace Kelly -][- GRACE -(MP3)- [PAZZ, 2011]

To say that we were thrilled when Grace Kelly agreed to perform at the Festival of Homiletics, an interdenominational preaching conference, would be a huge understatement. We only became aware of Grace shortly before the Festival, and it took some schedule shuffling for both parties but it was worth it! We’ve been fortunate to have many outstanding musicians at the Festival, and Grace has joined that storied tradition with a uniqueness and energy all her own.

We asked Grace to take traditional hymns/spirituals and perform them creatively on her saxophone at the Festival. The attendees of the Festival received these interpretive variations with delighted ears and thunderous applause. The arrangement of these hymns is simple and respectful. Grace Kelly and her accompanists are not self-indulgent when they play. They use their talents in service of the songs, reminding us of the good news. Yet we’ve never heard anyone expand upon “Let There Be Peace on Earth” the way Grace does. Listen for the chanting and saxophone at the end. In her concerts as well as on this cd, Grace will surprise you with her vocals. It’s like receiving yet another blessing when you thought all the blessings had already come.

Brian Settles -][- SECRET HANDSHAKE [Engine Studios]

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Brian Settles, Jazz, Saxophone

An inexpressably inventive premier musician. —Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival

Brian Settles - SECRET HANDSHAKE

Brian Settles -][- SECRET HANDSHAKE – [Engine Studios, 2011]

Brian Settles brings his buttery, powerful sax tone to his Engine Studios debut recording, along with a longstanding playing relationship with the musicians who make up Central Union. The listener hears mindful improvisation from those years of playing together, and the unexpected compositional dynamics of an inside/outside leader.

The record combines two sets one with piano, bass, and drums (tracked at an opera singers rehearsal space near Carnegie Hall) and a smaller more rhythmic session with drums, percussion, and sax. Secret Handshake deftly respects the jazz tradition while trying to extend it at the same time.

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