Ted Rosenthal is one of America’s great jazz pianists.
He won the Thelonius Monk piano competition in 1988. His first album as leader featured Ron Carter, Billy Higgins and Tom Harrell. Fifteen CDs later, he is a Steinway artist who serves on the faculties of both Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music. Most recently, he has composed the acclaimed jazz opera Dear Erich, premiered by New York City Opera, based on letters from his grandmother in Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1941.
Over the years, he's collaborated with giants of this music including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Lee Konitz, Bob Brookmeyer, Randy Brecker, George Mraz and Lewis Nash. He has been the go-to collaborator for vocalists like Mark Murphy, Helen Merrill, Barbara Cook and Ann Hampton Calloway....
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Ted Rosenthal is one of America’s great jazz pianists.
He won the Thelonius Monk piano competition in 1988. His first album as leader featured Ron Carter, Billy Higgins and Tom Harrell. Fifteen CDs later, he is a Steinway artist who serves on the faculties of both Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music. Most recently, he has composed the acclaimed jazz opera Dear Erich, premiered by New York City Opera, based on letters from his grandmother in Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1941.
Over the years, he's collaborated with giants of this music including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Lee Konitz, Bob Brookmeyer, Randy Brecker, George Mraz and Lewis Nash. He has been the go-to collaborator for vocalists like Mark Murphy, Helen Merrill, Barbara Cook and Ann Hampton Calloway.
Joining Ted Rosenthal for this salon are Quincy Davis and Noriko Ueda.
Noriko Ueda started piano in Japan at age 4 and majored in jazz composition at Berklee. She has performed, toured and recorded with Frank Wess Quintet, Sherrie Maricle and The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Five Play, Grady Tate, Harry Whitaker, Marion Cowings, Makoto Ozone, Terumasa Hino and the spectacular Artemis.
Quincy Davis began drumming at age 6 with his brother, pianist Xavier Davis. He studied with Billy Hart, moving to NYC in 2000. He has played with a raft of great artists—Wynton Marsalis, Frank Wess, Russell Malone, Eric Reed, Paquito D'Rivera, Kurt Elling, George Coleman, Eric Alexander, Mike LeDonne, Lew Tabackin, Ron Blake, Jon Faddis, Clayton Brothers, Peter Bernstein, David Hazeltine, Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Tom Harrell, Bobby Watson, Benny Golson, Stefon Harris, Benny Green and Aaron Diehl among them.
Please join us for another sublime piano jazz trio. Thanks to David Wolfsohn for making the introduction. And please don’t forget to vote (if you haven’t already) for @exuberance at allaboutjazz before the April 15 deadline. We care about piano jazz.
Ted Rosenthal Trio
7-10pm Sunday, May 5
1220 N. Mascher St. (steps away from the Girard Ave. El stop)
We contemplate a $30 donation to support the musicians and provide appropriate refreshments.
Click RSVP to this invitation (https://forms.gle/4fzbiviYLmZzGkABA) to get on the guest list. Invitation expires when we reach 85 attendees. Looking forward to seeing you.
Matt Yaple
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@exuberance parties at Matt’s are by invitation only to provide a dignified, comfortable and acoustically ideal setting for worthwhile art and ideas. Cellphones and other devices are to be holstered during the performances. Between sets, conviviality rules.
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