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Do you want to know who Dizzy Gillespie idolized? Did you ever wonder who inspired Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey? Who was the pianist that mentored Monk, Bud Powell, Tad Dameron, Elmo Hope, Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme? Who was Art Tatum’s idol and Nat Cole’s mentor? What musical quartet pioneered the concept adopted later by the Modern Jazz Quartet? Were you ever curious to know who taught saxophone to Stanley Turrentine or who taught piano to Ahmad Jamal? What community music school trained Robert McFerrin, Sr. for his history-making debut with the Metropolitan Opera? What virtually unknown pianist was a significant influence on young John Coltrane, Shirley Scott, McCoy Tyner, Bobby Timmons and Ray Bryant when he moved to Philadelphia from Pittsburgh in the 1940s? Would you be surprised to know that Erroll Garner attended classes at the Julliard School of Music in New York and was at the top of his class in writing and arranging proficiency?
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Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Quintet Project 2011
Event Details
Time: April 9, 2011 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: Lincoln Park Performing Art Center
Street: One Lincoln Park
City/Town: Midland, PA 15059
Website or Map: http://sites.google.com/site/…
Phone: (724) 643-9004
Event Type: musical, tribute
Organized By: Dale Fielder
Latest Activity: Apr 6, 2011
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Event Description
Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Tribute Project
performed by the
DALE FIELDER TRIBUTE SEXTET
Dale Fielder - baritone sax
Jamie Moore - trumpet
Eric Johnson - guitar
Dave Budway - piano
Paul Thompson - bass
Tom Wendt - drums
The Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Quintet of 1958-1961 was one of the great unsung groups in jazz history. Over shadowed by a golden age of great jazz groups, they were a favorite of musicians and fans alike. Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams were each a product of the fertile Detroit jazz scene of the late 1940s and early 1950s. They were the right musicians at the right time when they arrived in New York in the mid fifties, particularly in the rapidly expanding realm of jazz recording that was spurred by the new 12-inch, 33 1/3 rpm long-playing record. They were each in demand and heard frequently on numerous historical recordings that influenced the next generation of jazz trumpeters and saxophonists. Finally in 1958, they decided to consolidate their partnership by co-leading a jazz quintet and began touring the country non-stop for the next three years as well as documenting their partnership on recordings. They recorded a number of timeless jazz albums and contributed a number of new jazz standards to the jazz canon as well as discovering and introducing to the world two great pianist/composers: the great Herbie Hancock and Duke Pearson. Tonight the Dale Fielder Tribute Sextet reprises compositions and arrangements that the Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams Quintet performed. Big thank you to Sal Aloe and Lincoln Park Performing Art Center for making this possible. It is our honor to perform these classic jazz pieces and bring them back to life for one evening as our way of paying homage to one of the great partnerships in jazz.
~Dale Fielder
Call (724) 643-9004 for details and tickets
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Dale Fielder endorses and performs on Jupiter XO and Artist Saxophones.
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