Results for "Dion TUCKER"

Dion Tucker

Dion Tucker is an accomplished trombonist, composer, and music educator with an oeuvre that defies genre. Boston-born and Miami-bred, Dion moved to New York in 1998 to study at The New School under the tutelage of pioneering trombonists Benny Powell and Steve Turre, among others. In 2001, he had the privilege of touring with the rock band Matchbox 20, and was lead trombonist in The Duke Ellington Orchestra from 2003 until 2013. Since 2007, Dion has been a member of The Harry Connick, Jr. Big Band and has had the unique opportunity to perform with Harry for President Barack Obama at the 2012 Governors Ball, at the Papal Mass for Pope Benedict at Yankee Stadium in 2008, as lead trombonist in the 2011 Broadway revival of “On A Clear Day,” and as trombonist in the 2018 stage adaptation of the Academy Award winning film, “The Sting,” performed at the historic Paper Mill Playhouse. As an educator, Dion has taught in over 20 New York City public schools through the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz For Young People program and was a faculty member at Jazz House Kids, a music education program in New Jersey fronted by Christian McBride

Creole Orchestra

By Etienne Charles

Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old School;Poison; Think Twice; I Wanna Be Evil; Holy City; Ten to One is Murder; Centerpiece; Douens; A Shade of Jade; Colorado River Song; Stompin' at the Savoy; Take my breath away; Night Train.

Introducing Baritone Saxophonist Evan Gongora

by Sanford Josephson
May 1, 2024

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Evan Gongora's father, Oscar, is a classical saxophonist and Founder and Director of The Vitral Saxophone Quartet. “So," recalled the 18-year-old Evan, “he put a saxophone in my mouth at a very early age." Evan “fell in love with the baritone saxophone. I loved the sound. ...

Introducing Pianist Samvit Prem Singhal

by Sanford Josephson
December 2, 2022

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Growing up in Delhi, India, Samvit Prem Singhal always had a love for jazz, although he played classical piano. “I was playing piano since I was three years old," he recalled. “I started playing Indian classical music. Then, I transitioned into western classical music. But my ...

Early Blue Evening

By Andy Farber

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley; Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?

It's All Your Fault

By Mike LeDonne

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: It’s All Your Fault; Matador; Rock with You; Still; Party Time; Bags and Brown; Biggest Part of Me; Blues for Jed.

Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2021

Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the ...

Eddie Allen: Push

by Everett R. Davis
April 8, 2014

Seasoned trumpeter, composer and educator Eddie Allen's highly awaited Push is a mix of mainstream jazz with generous sprinklings of urban flavors and reggae thrown into the mix. Allen and the excellent group of musicians he assembled for this release is simply riveting, with pure jazz and catchy flowing rhythms from start to finish. Allen states ...

David Murray Big Band @ Birdland, NYC, from Jan. 18 to 22

January 11, 2011

From January 18 to 22 at 8.30pm and 11.00pm Reservations: birdlandjazz.com or 212-581-3080 David Murray began writing for big band in 1978 in preparation for a concert at the Public Theatre in New York. At this time Loft Jazz was in full swing and David had surfaced as one of the progenitors of the ...