BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1992552:Event:410033 DTSTAMP:20260410T222512Z SUMMARY:Eric DeFade / Paul Thompson / Thomas Wendt DESCRIPTION:Join us for Celebrating Sonny Rollins’ Freedom Suite & More, a concert featuring the jazz talents of Eric DeFade, Paul Tho mpson and Thomas Wendt. \nEric DeFade is in demand as a performing a rtist and studio musician. He has toured internationally with the Tomm y Dorsey Orchestra, the Artie Shaw Big Band, and has led his own combo in Tokyo. Mr. DeFade has played with Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, New York Voices, Roger Humphries, John Scofield, Dave Liebman, and has been a featured soloist for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Currently, Mr. DeFade is participating in concerts and workshops for the Pennsyl vania Arts On Tour Program and filming a series of music specials for public television. He uses a pragmatic approach to understanding the j azz language while emphasizing sound, improvisation concepts, and vers atility.\n\nPaul Thompson is proud to have been a part of Pittsburgh s jazz community for over 20 years. He can be seen performing locall y with Roger Humphries, Sean Jones, Salsamba, OPEK, the Pittsburgh Jaz z Orchestra, and many others. In addition to sharing the bandstand wit h such greats as Milt Jackson, Jon Faddis, Marlena Shaw, and Geri Alle n, Paul was bassist/musical director for trumpeter Maynard Ferguson as well as playing bass in saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s last touri ng group. Paul is an adjunct music teacher at his alma mater: Pittsbur gh CAPA 6-12 Performing Arts School, as well as being a guest artist/l ecturer at West Virginia University and West Virginia Weslyan College. \nThomas Wendt has been playing the drums professionally since the ag e of 14.  A graduate of The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative a nd Performing Arts, he has studied with master drummers Roger Humphrie s, Joe Harris, and Kenny Washington.  Thomas maintains a busy freelan cing schedule with Pittsburgh’s top jazz artists such as Dwayne Dolp hin, Joe Negri, Sean Jones, Dave & Maureen Budway, Kenia, the Latin ja zz group, Salsamba, and the newly re-formed Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra.   He has also played with many visiting international artists like Da vid “Fathead” Newman, Donald Byrd, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Freddy Cole, Monty Alexander, Bill Watrous, Paqu ito D’Rivera, Curtis Lundy, Wycliffe Gordon, and Javon Jackson.  In 2008, Thomas played on the Emmy Award winning soundtrack for the PBS documentary, “Fly Boys” and in 2010 he recorded an album featuring trombonists Jay Ashby and Steve Davis. Thomas has also recorded album s with Gene Ludwig, Sandy Staley, Salsamba, David and Maureen Budway, and Joe Negri. Recently, he appeared at The 2012 Litchfield Jazz Festi val with jazz legend Hubert Laws and in 2013 performed with pianist Al an Broadbent for the Nyack NY Library Concert Series. Thomas has been on the faculty at the Afro-American Music Institute in Homewood since 1998 and in 2014/15 taught drumset fundamentals at Duquesne University .\n\nFor more information visit https://jazzburgher.ning.com/events/er ic-defade-paul-thompson-thomas-wendt DTSTART:20170707T190000Z DTEND:20170707T200000Z CATEGORIES:jazz, concert LOCATION:City of Asylum @ Alphabet City WEBSITE:http://www.alphabetcity.org/events/eric-defade-paul-thompson-t homas-wendt/ URL:http://www.alphabetcity.org/events/eric-defade-paul-thompson-thoma s-wendt/ CONTACT:412-435-1110 ORGANIZER;CN="City of Asylum/Pittsburgh":https://jazzburgher.ning.com/ profile/CityofAsylumPittsburgh ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1045056917?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="City of Asylum/Pittsburgh":https://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/CityofAsylumPi ttsburgh END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR