The APFJ Concert Series
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All concerts are at 8:00 pm at the Whisperdome, the beautiful listening-space in the First Unitarian Society at 1221 Wendell Ave in Schenectady, NY.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $7 for students, and children under 12 are free
if they're with an adult.
To order tickets, call 518-393-4011, email
Tim Coakley or use this order form.
But first, read about the benefits of
membership.
For directions to the Whisperdome,
click here.
[NOTE: cash and checks are the only acceptable forms of payment at the
door; we're not equipped to accept credit cards.]
For a history of previous
concerts, click here.
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On
Friday, April 15th, APFJ presented a special concert to celebrate its 25th anniversary
and Jazz Appreciation Month. The concert was in conjunction with
APFJ's annual meeting.
To show our appreciation to our members, whose contributions
help us to keep Butch Conn's vision going, we offered free
admission to this concert by Houston Person.
Houston Person
is known for his soulful, deep-blue saxophone sound, which
he displayed for A Place for Jazz in 1994, with his longtime
vocalist Etta Jones.
He first became known for a series of albums for Prestige
records in the 1960s.He has recorded more than 75 albums under
his own name as a bandleader, as well as recording with Bill
Charlap, Horace Silver, Lena Horne and others. Most recently, he
has made a series of CDs for the High Note label.
Moment to Moment
E Nada Mais
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The 2011 Concert Series:
Friday, September 16
Terell Stafford Quintet with Dick Oatts
Friday, September 30
Tia Fuller Quartet
Friday, October 14
Kenny Barron Trio
Friday, October 28
Sensemaya
Friday, November 11
Freddy Cole Quartet
The best of jazz in an intimate space with great acoustics, no smoke, no clattering of glasses ...
just great music in a place meant for listening.
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The
Terell Stafford Quintet with
Dick Oatts
Friday, September 16
Bridging the Gap
I Love You
Trumpeter Terell Stafford last played at
A Place for Jazz in 1996. He has performed with such groups as Benny Golson’s
Sextet, the Kenny Barron Sextet, the Jimmy Heath Big Band, and the Grammy
award-winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has been professor of music and
director of jazz studies at Temple University.
Dick Oatts became interested in the
saxophone due to his father, Jack Oatts. He began his professional career in
Minneapolis in 1972 and in 1977 he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band. He
began releasing his own CDs in the 1990s and has been a faculty member at the
Manhattan School of Music since 1989 and joined the faculty at Temple University
in 2006.
The Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts Quintet's most recent CD
is "Bridging the Gap" on Planet Arts.
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The
Tia Fuller
Quartet
Friday, September 30
Kissed by the Sun
I Can't Get Started
Saxophonist Tia Fuller is the
granddaughter of longtime Capital Region bassist Bill Fuller. She earned a
bachelor of arts degree in music from Spelman College in Atlanta
and a master’s degree in
jazz pedagogy and performance from the University of Colorado.
She
was selected to be a member of the all-female band touring with R&B
star Beyoncé. She has played in
various venues throughout the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. She is
a featured soloist on the Beyoncé
Experience DVD (Me, Myself and I).
An accomplished performer in her own right, Tia has
recorded three CDs with her quartet. The third, “Decisive Steps,” was
released last year on the Mack Avenue label. She was featured on the cover
of Jazz Times magazine in June 2010.
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Kenny Barron
Trio
Friday, October 14
So What
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Pianist
Kenny Barron will be another return visitor to A Place for
Jazz, having played for us in 1994.
He first gained recognition when he
took the piano chair in the 1960s Dizzy Gillespie Quartet. Between 1987 and
1991, he recorded several albums with Stan Getz, most notably "Serenity,"
"Anniversary" and "People
Time." He has been nominated nine times for
Grammy Awards and for the American Jazz Hall of Fame.
For over 25 years, he taught piano and keyboard harmony at
Rutgers University. He now teaches at the Juilliard School of Music. Many
Capital Region fans will remember his outstanding series of performances
with Nick Brignola at the Van Dyck Restaurant in Schenectady.
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Sensemaya
Friday, October 28
Shake It!
Sao Paolo Sensemaya was created by music
teacher David Gleason after he returned to Albany from Tufts University with
a degree in ethnomusicology. Calling upon the Capital Region's finest
musicians, the group set out to bring the rich sound of Cuban and Puerto
Rican rhythms to local audiences. As their own blend of salsa, funk,
and jazz emerged, Sensemaya soon became one of the region's most
sought-after acts.
Sensemaya has since played major
festivals and concert series including the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival,
the Albany Latin Festival, Alive at Five, Schenectady Summer Night and
Schenectady's Jazz on Jay. Additionally, they have been featured on WAMC's
Laurel Massé Jazz Show, the Saratoga Race track, and at other local clubs
including Gafney's, Justin's, Chameleon on the Lake and 9 Maple Ave.
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Freddy
Cole Quartet
Friday, November
11
Never Let Me Go
How Little We Know
A Circle of Love
I'm Not My Brother, I'm Me Freddy Cole, Nat King Cole's younger
brother, studied at the Juilliard School of Music, then went on to get a
master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music.
He later spent several months on the road with
Johnny Coles
and
Benny Golson
as a member of an
Earl Bostic
band before returning to hone his skills in the bistros of New York. He was
inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. In 2009, he released a
recording featuring his own quartet (guitarist
Randy Napoleon,
drummer Curtis Boyd, and bassist Elias Bailey), along with alto saxophonist
Jerry Weldon and pianist John DiMartino playing live at Dizzy's jazz club in
Lincoln Center. His 2010 album, "Freddy Cole Sings Mr. B," was nominated for
the Grammy in the category Best Vocal Jazz Album.
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This concert series is made possible in part by public
funds from
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