Javon Jackson and Friends celebrate Freddie Hubbard
For a celebratory holiday season music event, you can't do better than taking in this all star jazz group at the Friends of Santa Fe Jazz 2009 Holiday Party.
Tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson has performed and recorded with Terrence Blanchard, Kenny Garrett, Wallace Roney and Benny Green and performed with the Jazz Messengers until 1990. He has 125 recordings to his credit including numerous CD's as leader. Some of his music collaborations include Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller and Stanley Turrentine.
Trumpeter Eddie Henderson first received worldwide recognition for his jazz trumpet playing from the popular recordings he made with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi group during the early '70's. Other jazz performers Eddie has played with include Pharaoh Sanders, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Max Roach, Jackie McLean, Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes and Joe Henderson. Eddie Henderson has been on the faculty at Juilliard School of Music since 2007.
Pianist Benny Green is said to be next to the late Oscar Peterson, as the world's finest jazz pianist. In 1993, Peterson chose Benny as the first recipient of the City of Toronto's Glen Gould International Prodigy Prize in Music. That year Green replaced Gene Harris in Ray Brown's Trio, working with the veteran bass player until 1997. From 1997 on Benny lead his own trios and concentrated on his solo piano performances. His impressive recording career includes over one hundred sessions. He has recorded as a sideman with: Betty Carter (including Grammy award winner Look What I Got), Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Watson, Milt Jackson and Diana Krall. He is particularly featured in Ray Brown's trio series of CD's for Telarc: Bass Face (1993), Don't get Sassy (1994), Some of My Best Friends (1994), Seven Steps to Heaven (1995), Super Bass (1996) and Live at Sculler's (1996). With the 2002 release of Green's Blues, Benny returned to his roots with an exciting solo collection of jazz standards by Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner and George Gershwin.
Bassist Peter Washington is perhaps the most recorded bassist of his generation. He performed with the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the late 1980's and then joined the Tommy Flanagan trio until 2002. Along the way, he is jazz' first call bassist, appearing on more than 350 recordings and often grouped with such legends as George Duvivier, Milt Hinton, and Ron Carter.
Drummer Carl Allen was Freddie Hubbard's drummer for eight years and led Carl Allen and the Manhattan projects. He has recorded with George Coleman, Art Farmer, Benny Green, Woody Shaw and Jackie McLean and serves as artistic director of The Juilliard School's Jazz Program.
Javon Jackson and Friends is presented in collaboration with Albuquerque's Outpost Performance Space where Jackson will perform the preceding evening. Go to www.Outpostspace.org.
Special thanks for event production collaboration to Miriam Singer and John Simpson of Singer and Simpson Productions.
Site: Vanessie's of Santa Fe
434 W. San Francisco Street
Tickets: $45 per person available through the Lensic Box Office, 988.1234 (www.lensic.com)
Time: 8 PM |
