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Kanoa Mendenhall
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Bassist Kanoa Mendenhall was born in Yokohama, Japan. Raised by two pianists in Monterey, California, she started playing jazz cello at age 10 and upright bass at age 12. A regular participant of Monterey Jazz Festival’s summer camp, at a young age she was fortunate to learn from masters such as Bruce Forman, Vince Lateano, Scott Steed, and Peck Allmond. By age 13, she was regularly performing in the Monterey and San Francisco Bay areas. Now 20, Kanoa resides in NYC, where she studies East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, and has participated in the Columbia-Juilliard exchange program
Tom Pierson: Last Works
by Doug Hall
As musicians make choices and pursue a passion for music which also directs their musical orbit, looking at jazz composer, arranger and pianist Tom Pierson's resume, it is clear that a creative search for originality and exploration was paramount, from the very beginning. Gifted at the start, Pierson was a piano prodigy and a soloist with ...
Atlanta Jazz Festival 2019
by Mark Sullivan
Atlanta Jazz Festival Atlanta, GA May 25-26, 2019 Last year the festival operated under the threat of rain all weekend. This year's 42nd edition saw record-tying high temperatures: 93 and 94 degrees Fahrenheit (ten degrees above the historical averages). No doubt it is a coincidence that the programming was cooler than last ...
