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| Kenny Barron and Eliane Elias on Two Steinway Grand Pianos with Marc Johnson, bass and Satoshi Takeishi, drums |
Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 7 and 9 P.M. The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway & 60th Street, NYC |
| Festival Productions Chairman George Wein
and Jazz Forum Arts Executive Director Mark Morganelli are joining
forces once again to produce a spectacular piano event for the 2007 JVC Jazz
Festival New York, which includes nearly 200 concerts and events June
17-30. Steinway Summit will feature two of today’s premier jazz
pianists, Kenny Barron and Eliane Elias, performing on Two
Steinway Grand Pianos at 7 and 9pm on Sunday, June 24,
2007 in The Allen Room at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of
Jazz at Lincoln Center at Broadway and 60th Street. The pianists will
perform in solo, duo, trio and two-piano quartet settings with bassist Marc
Johnson, drummer Satoshi Takeishi, and guitarist Freddie Bryant.
Steinway Summit is the fourth piano event at Frederick P. Rose Hall presented by Jazz Forum Arts, which reprised its “Two Steinways, Bass and Drums” series in 2005 with concerts by Dave Frishberg and Dick Hyman, and later Hank Jones and Barry Harris in The Allen Room. Mark Morganelli began the original series in 1981 at his Jazz Forum loft/club in Greenwich Village. Jazz Forum Arts also presented Piano Masters Salute Piano Legends at The Rose Theater for the 2005 JVC Jazz Festival. Launched by Morganelli in 1985, Jazz Forum Arts also produces events at the Tarrytown Music Hall and other area venues. Kenny Barron is a nine-time GRAMMY® nominee who consistently wins critics’ and readers’ polls in Downbeat, JazzTimes, and Jazziz as well as Jazz Journalists Association awards. As a teenager in Philadelphia he played professionally with Mel Melvin’s orchestra, along with his brother, late tenor saxophonist Bill Barron. Moving to New York at 19, he performed with James Moody, who recommended him to Dizzy Gillespie. Barron developed his appreciation for Latin rhythms during his five years in Dizzy’s band. He later played with Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Buddy Rich, and Yusef Lateef, who encouraged him to pursue a college education. In 1973 Barron joined the faculty at Rutgers University, where he was professor of music until 2000. In 1974 he released his first of over 40 albums as a leader, Sunset to Dawn (Muse). The ‘80s saw collaborations with Stan Getz and the birth of the quartet Sphere with Buster Williams, Ben Riley, and Charlie Rouse. In the ‘90s Barron recorded several CDs for Candid Records, including Two Duo-Piano discs (with John Hicks, then Barry Harris) produced by Mark Morganelli. Barron released the quintet album Images (Sunnyside) in 2004. Eliane Elias, pianist, vocalist, and composer, began studying piano at age seven in her native Sao Paulo. By age fifteen she was teaching at one of Brazil’s most prestigious music schools, and at 17 was touring with bossa nova’s best composers and interpreters. In 1981 she headed for New York, joining the acclaimed supergroup Steps Ahead, with Eddie Gomez, Michael Brecker, Peter Erskine, and Mike Mainieri. After her debut album, 1984’s collaboration with Randy Brecker, Amanda, she signed to Blue Note Records, becoming the label’s most prolific artist. Her solo career has spawned eighteen Billboard chart-topping albums -- fifteen on Blue Note, including 1995’s GRAMMY®-nominated Solos and Duets with Herbie Hancock, and three on RCA. 2006’s Around the City (RCA) fuses Latin, jazz, and pop, showcasing her voice on originals and such covers as Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va,” Bob Marley’s “Jammin’,” and Beck’s “Tropicalia” from 1998’s Mutations, an homage to the mid-‘60s Brazilian Tropicalia movement led by such artists as Gilberto Gil, one of Elias’s early influences. Tickets for Steinway Summit: Kenny Barron & Eliane Elias (presented by JVC Jazz Festival and Jazz Forum Arts) on Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 7 and 9pm at The Allen Room, are $75, $60, and $45 and can be purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office (Broadway and 60th St., ground floor) Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 12-6pm, or through CenterCharge, 212.721.6500, or at www.jalc.org. For information about Jazz Forum Arts, call 888.99.BEBOP, or visit www.jazzforumarts.org. For more information on JVC Jazz, call 646.862.0458, or visit the official JVC Jazz Festival New York website at www.festivalproductions.net. For additional information, photos, interview requests, please contact: Leah Grammatica / LGPR / 212.243.6052 / Leahgram@aol.com |
