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Introducing Trumpeter Kal Ferretti

by Sanford Josephson
When she was attending the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Kal Ferretti rode the subway to Manhattan from her home in Staten Island. The music on her phone was Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). I would wear that out every train ride," she said. The 22-year-old Ferretti always wanted to play the trumpet, but she soon became bored with performing in a classical setting. I ended up not totally digging just sitting there in the orchestra," she ...
Continue ReadingGrace Fox Big Band: Eleven O'Seven

by Jack Bowers
In the long history of jazz, it is rare for a teenage musician to establish a big band, let alone lead one. In fact (historians will have to verify this), it may never have happened. One thing is certainno teenage woman has ever formed a big band and become its leader. Until now. Meet trumpeter Grace Fox, a nineteen-year-old student at the Manhattan School of Music, founder and leader of the seventeen-member, all-female Grace Fox Big Band, which has recorded ...
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