New for 2010 - the first annual Binghamton Jazz Festival at Julyfest kicks off. You don't want to miss this great lineup taking place on Saturday, July 10th.
Lineup Includes:
- 8am - 9am SFB Quartet
- 10am - 10:45am - Don Godfrey & Company
- 11am - 11:45am - John Chapman
- 12pm - 12:45pm - Cookie Coogan
- 1pm - 1:45pm - Glenda Davenport w/ Miles Ahead
- 2pm - 2:45pm - The Eric Ross Blues Band
- 3pm - 3:45pm - Ronnie Leigh
- 4pm - 4:45pm - Nancy Kelly
- 5pm - 5:45pm - Bernie Clarke & The Ryhthm Sharks
- 6pm - 6:45pm - Ayana Del Valle & The Energee Jazz Trio
- 7pm - 7:45pm - E.S.P. Jazz Quartet
- 8pm - 8:45pm - Scott Freeman Band & The Revival Horns
About some of the artists:
GLENDA J. DAVENPORT - SINGER
Glenda began her singing career in June, 1992. She was a winner at The World Famous Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night in April, 1993; the opening act for Comedian Bill Cosby at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, April 2, 1994; and in July, 1995, she performed with the Carmen Leggio Quartet at the Saratoga Jazz Festival, Saratoga, NY.
She performs regularly throughout the tri-state area. Among the venues:
New York City: The Village Gate, Birdland, Central Park Boathouse, Ashford & Simpson’s “The Sugar Bar”, Saint Peter’s Church, the Red Eye Grill, and most recently THE KITANO HOTEL Bar & Lounge.
Westchester: Caramoor, Music Conservatory of Westchester, the Presbyterian Jazz Society (PJS), and Mt. Vernon’s “Summer Breeze Concert Series”, and currently bi-weekly at Red Hat on the River, in Irvington.
Connecticut: The Silvermine Tavern/Norwalk, Hot Tomato’s/New Haven,
Circa Bistro Restaurant, Waterbury Country Club, the Hills Golf Club all in Waterbury.
New Jersey: The Cornerstone Jazz Club/Metuchen.
The proud Executive Producer of her debut CD, “Sophisticated Lady” Glenda has recently released her second CD, “More Than You Know.” She can also be heard on the following CD’s: Harvey Kaiser’s “The Kansas City Sound”; Jimmy Hill’s “Remembering”; Connecticut’s “The Jazz Trio Alive with Glenda Davenport”; and Stephen Roane’s “Dancin’ In My Bones.”
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MILES AHEAD JAZZ QUARTET
The group performs their interpretations of traditional and contemporary Jazz in Southern New York night clubs and concert venues. Their song book of music includes such artists as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Victor Young, Wayne Shorter, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, Thelonius Monk, and Stanley Turrentine to name a few. Miles Ahead can currently be heard on an almost weekly basis at the Number 5 Restaurant and The Lost Dog Café.
The Miles Ahead group is:
Gene Cothran on piano
Tom Westcott on bass
Joe Roma on drums
Mike Carbone on saxophone & flute
www.milesaheadjazz.net
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NANCY KELLY
Nancy Kelly's vocal style is a study in phrasing, style and swing. She's both old school and new. She?s experienced, yet her delivery and ideas are fresh. She can take a song and turn it up or down, and leave you believing that it was meant to be exactly that way. It takes great jazz chops to do that, and Kelly?s are superb. She has earned many awards and enlisted fans from around the globe.
She began her musical career at age four in her hometown of Rochester, New York, with piano lessons. She continued her music studies to include clarinet, drama and dance. When she enrolled at the Eastman School of Music, she decided to concentrate on voice. At sixteen, she formed a combo and performed at clubs around Rochester. In the early 70s, she joined a rock band as lead singer and went on tour of the East Coast and the Midwest. Enjoying the freedom to improvise, she gravitated to jazz, forming her own group.
As a jazz artist, she's performed on the West Coast, in the Far East and Europe. She performs regularly in New York City at the most prestigious clubs: The Blue Note, Birdland, and Dizzy's Coca Cola club at Lincoln Center. She has appeared at numerous jazz festivals and has sung with various symphony orchestras around the country.
Nancy was twice named "Best Female Jazz Vocalist" in the Down Beat Reader's Poll. She has recorded four CDs, the most recent being ?Well Alright" with guest tenor saxophonist Houston Person.
Nancy Kelly continues to dazzle audiences with her take-no-prisoners, back-to-the-roots swinging style. In a market place where wispy voices and shallow emotions abound, Ms. Kelly is a breath of fresh air...or should we say, smoky air; she takes us back to the time when jazz - and that includes vocal jazz -- was an authentic expression of real emotion.
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E.S.P. JAZZ QUARTET
E.S.P. is a tasteful, jazz quartet who's new CD, "Time?s Up!" is #3 on CMJ for New Jazz Adds and Chartbound on JAZZWEEK. JAZZIZ says "Clearly inspired by the tradition of true jazz improvisation, yet "Time?s Up!" glistens with a contemporary sound." E.S.P. has opened for many big names in jazz like Chris Boti, The Rippingtons, and Jeff Kashiwa's Sax Pack to name a few. The members of E.S.P. also have played in the bands of some great performers like New York Voices, Joey DeFrancisco, and Martha Reeves.
Bassist Matt Vacanti and Saxophonist Brian Scherer grew up in snow bound Buffalo NY, practicing and learning from local groups like Spyrogyra, Bobby Milletello and Grover Washington Jr. They are both graduates from Fredonia State college with majors in Music Education. Scherer?s stage presence propels the band forward and creates an electric energy that listeners easily relate to. Vacanti plays fretless bass melodically and lyrically.
Guitarist John Magnante comes from Syracuse NY, and got his start in rock and fusion. He has come a long way from those days. Today he plays strictly arch top and nylon string jazz guitars, searching for that purest and cleanest jazz guitar tone. He also composes like he majored in composition, although his years at the Guitar Institute in California were spent perfecting his playing.
Newest member drummer Karl Sterling, grooves and swings skillfully on the new TIMES UP! CD, bringing urgency to the music. Karl grew up in central NY studying from his father, who was a well known drummer and band leader across the state in the sixties and seventies. Karl got his degree 'on the road' gigging from a very young age and becoming the drummer of choice for many bands in the region.
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ERIC ROSS
Eric performs on piano, guitars, synthesizers, and the Theremin. For over twenty years, he has led his own ensemble that has featured jazz greats John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Byard Lancaster, new music virtuosos Robert Dick, Lydia Kavina, Youseff Yancy and many others. He has also played with Blues Legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and appeared with BB King on Danish RTV.
http://www.ericross.info
- 8am - 9am SFB Quartet
- 10am - 10:45am - Don Godfrey & Company
- 11am - 11:45am - John Chapman
- 12pm - 12:45pm - Cookie Coogan
- 1pm - 1:45pm - Glenda Davenport w/ Miles Ahead
- 2pm - 2:45pm - The Eric Ross Blues Band
- 3pm - 3:45pm - Ronnie Leigh
- 4pm - 4:45pm - Nancy Kelly
- 5pm - 5:45pm - Bernie Clarke & The Ryhthm Sharks
- 6pm - 6:45pm - Ayana Del Valle & The Energee Jazz Trio
- 7pm - 7:45pm - E.S.P. Jazz Quartet
- 8pm - 8:45pm - Scott Freeman Band & The Revival Horns
About some of the artists:
GLENDA J. DAVENPORT - SINGER
Glenda began her singing career in June, 1992. She was a winner at The World Famous Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night in April, 1993; the opening act for Comedian Bill Cosby at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, April 2, 1994; and in July, 1995, she performed with the Carmen Leggio Quartet at the Saratoga Jazz Festival, Saratoga, NY.
She performs regularly throughout the tri-state area. Among the venues:
New York City: The Village Gate, Birdland, Central Park Boathouse, Ashford & Simpson’s “The Sugar Bar”, Saint Peter’s Church, the Red Eye Grill, and most recently THE KITANO HOTEL Bar & Lounge.
Westchester: Caramoor, Music Conservatory of Westchester, the Presbyterian Jazz Society (PJS), and Mt. Vernon’s “Summer Breeze Concert Series”, and currently bi-weekly at Red Hat on the River, in Irvington.
Connecticut: The Silvermine Tavern/Norwalk, Hot Tomato’s/New Haven,
Circa Bistro Restaurant, Waterbury Country Club, the Hills Golf Club all in Waterbury.
New Jersey: The Cornerstone Jazz Club/Metuchen.
The proud Executive Producer of her debut CD, “Sophisticated Lady” Glenda has recently released her second CD, “More Than You Know.” She can also be heard on the following CD’s: Harvey Kaiser’s “The Kansas City Sound”; Jimmy Hill’s “Remembering”; Connecticut’s “The Jazz Trio Alive with Glenda Davenport”; and Stephen Roane’s “Dancin’ In My Bones.”
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MILES AHEAD JAZZ QUARTET
The group performs their interpretations of traditional and contemporary Jazz in Southern New York night clubs and concert venues. Their song book of music includes such artists as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Kenny Dorham, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Victor Young, Wayne Shorter, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, Thelonius Monk, and Stanley Turrentine to name a few. Miles Ahead can currently be heard on an almost weekly basis at the Number 5 Restaurant and The Lost Dog Café.
The Miles Ahead group is:
Gene Cothran on piano
Tom Westcott on bass
Joe Roma on drums
Mike Carbone on saxophone & flute
www.milesaheadjazz.net
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NANCY KELLY
Nancy Kelly's vocal style is a study in phrasing, style and swing. She's both old school and new. She?s experienced, yet her delivery and ideas are fresh. She can take a song and turn it up or down, and leave you believing that it was meant to be exactly that way. It takes great jazz chops to do that, and Kelly?s are superb. She has earned many awards and enlisted fans from around the globe.
She began her musical career at age four in her hometown of Rochester, New York, with piano lessons. She continued her music studies to include clarinet, drama and dance. When she enrolled at the Eastman School of Music, she decided to concentrate on voice. At sixteen, she formed a combo and performed at clubs around Rochester. In the early 70s, she joined a rock band as lead singer and went on tour of the East Coast and the Midwest. Enjoying the freedom to improvise, she gravitated to jazz, forming her own group.
As a jazz artist, she's performed on the West Coast, in the Far East and Europe. She performs regularly in New York City at the most prestigious clubs: The Blue Note, Birdland, and Dizzy's Coca Cola club at Lincoln Center. She has appeared at numerous jazz festivals and has sung with various symphony orchestras around the country.
Nancy was twice named "Best Female Jazz Vocalist" in the Down Beat Reader's Poll. She has recorded four CDs, the most recent being ?Well Alright" with guest tenor saxophonist Houston Person.
Nancy Kelly continues to dazzle audiences with her take-no-prisoners, back-to-the-roots swinging style. In a market place where wispy voices and shallow emotions abound, Ms. Kelly is a breath of fresh air...or should we say, smoky air; she takes us back to the time when jazz - and that includes vocal jazz -- was an authentic expression of real emotion.
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E.S.P. JAZZ QUARTET
E.S.P. is a tasteful, jazz quartet who's new CD, "Time?s Up!" is #3 on CMJ for New Jazz Adds and Chartbound on JAZZWEEK. JAZZIZ says "Clearly inspired by the tradition of true jazz improvisation, yet "Time?s Up!" glistens with a contemporary sound." E.S.P. has opened for many big names in jazz like Chris Boti, The Rippingtons, and Jeff Kashiwa's Sax Pack to name a few. The members of E.S.P. also have played in the bands of some great performers like New York Voices, Joey DeFrancisco, and Martha Reeves.
Bassist Matt Vacanti and Saxophonist Brian Scherer grew up in snow bound Buffalo NY, practicing and learning from local groups like Spyrogyra, Bobby Milletello and Grover Washington Jr. They are both graduates from Fredonia State college with majors in Music Education. Scherer?s stage presence propels the band forward and creates an electric energy that listeners easily relate to. Vacanti plays fretless bass melodically and lyrically.
Guitarist John Magnante comes from Syracuse NY, and got his start in rock and fusion. He has come a long way from those days. Today he plays strictly arch top and nylon string jazz guitars, searching for that purest and cleanest jazz guitar tone. He also composes like he majored in composition, although his years at the Guitar Institute in California were spent perfecting his playing.
Newest member drummer Karl Sterling, grooves and swings skillfully on the new TIMES UP! CD, bringing urgency to the music. Karl grew up in central NY studying from his father, who was a well known drummer and band leader across the state in the sixties and seventies. Karl got his degree 'on the road' gigging from a very young age and becoming the drummer of choice for many bands in the region.
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ERIC ROSS
Eric performs on piano, guitars, synthesizers, and the Theremin. For over twenty years, he has led his own ensemble that has featured jazz greats John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, Byard Lancaster, new music virtuosos Robert Dick, Lydia Kavina, Youseff Yancy and many others. He has also played with Blues Legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and appeared with BB King on Danish RTV.
http://www.ericross.info