Results for "Rochester"

Frank Valente

Born: July 18, 1995

The Rita Collective

The Rita Collective is a chamber group from Rochester, NY that plays original and world music with a jazz slant. Performances by the Rita Collective include original compositions written for the group’s unusual instrumentation - bass clarinet, marimba, acoustic bass, and percussion - melodies from the Middle-East or Africa, re-invented jazz tunes from one of the masters like Miles, and re-imagined pop tunes from Rage Against the Machine or the Beatles. The unifying thread for this group is the improvisatory approach to the music, and the deft playfulness of the musicians that create it

Frank Strazzeri

Born: April 24, 1930

Frank Strazzeri was an American jazz pianist. He was born in Rochester, New York. Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at age 12, then switched to piano soon after. He attended the Eastman School of Music, then took a job as a house pianist in a nightclub in Rochester in 1952. While there he accompanied visiting musicians such as Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday. He relocated to New Orleans in 1954, playing with Sharkey Bonano and Al Hirt in a Dixieland jazz setting, but his main focus since has been bebop. He played with Charlie Ventura in 1957-58 and Woody Herman in 1959 before moving to Los Angeles in 1960

Kyle Vock

Born: December 12, 1985

Kyle Vocks Profile Kyle Vock is a free-lance bassist and music teacher from the 1000 islands region of New York. After Graduating from SUNY New Paltz and The Eastman School of Music in 2010, he has been an in demand player in Western New York and Rochester having performed with The Mighty High and Dry, Steve Grills and the Roadmasters, the Rick Holland Little Big Band ,The Rita Collective, My Plastic Sun , Carl Adkins’ Culture Clash, The Westview Project, Jon Greeno , and Connie Deming. While at Eastman Kyle was also a member of the renowned Eastman Jazz Ensemble. He has played at the Rochester International Jazz festival for the last 5 years. Most notably, Kyle has had the opportunity to perform with Lee Konitz, Marvin Stamm, Jeff Beal, Wycliff Gordon,Bill Dobbins,Bob Sneider, Rufus Reid,John Menegon, Teri Roiger, Paul Smoker,Mike Kaupa, Dean Keller, Kristin Shiner Mcguire, Adam Falcon, Rebecca Coupe Franks, Dave Bixler, And Al Defino. While an undergrad Kyle Coestablished The New Paltz Jazz Society

John Nyerges

Born: June 26, 1958

John Nyerges lives in Rochester, NY writing music and performing as a jazz pianist. BM, MM-Eastman School of Music, Jazz Performance. The John Nyerges Quartet performed at the Syracuse Jazz Fest & the Time Warner Fest in Rochester. As a guest pianist, John has performed with conductor/trumpeter Jeff Tyzik with the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Erie, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Stamford & Hartford CT, and Wilmington, DE Orchestras. John has performed with Doc Severinson, Allen Vizzutti, Don Potter, Linda Hopkins, Chris Vadala, Gerry Niewood, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Daniels, Ray Ricker, Tony DiPaulo, Steve Lipia

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Bob Sneider

Guitarist/composer/educator Bob Sneider is currently the Jazz Guitar Professor at the world-renowned Eastman School of Music. Sneider performs a multi-faceted role at Eastman as Instructor of Jazz Guitar at the Eastman's Community Education Division and Jazz & Contemporary Media Department. Before joining the Eastman faculty in 1997, Bob Sneider won Downbeat's 1989 "Outstanding Performance in High School Jazz" award; an award he duplicated at the collegiate level in 1993. Sneider toured with two-time Grammy Award Winner Chuck Mangione for nearly four years. Other notable performers with whom Sneider has performed include: Nat Adderley, Don Menza, Nick Brignola, Houston Person, Etta Jones, Nnenna Freelon, Gene Ludwig, Steve Gadd, Gerry Niewood, Ralph Lalama, Roy McCurdy, Freddie Cole, Jon Faddis, Keeter Betts and frequent appearances with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Pops(guitar/banjo)

David Finck

Born: August 26, 1958

Music can only be described with words, but for David Finck, music is a language all its own. “I hear music as a spoken language,” he says. “When I listen, I’m conscious of the breaths that are taken during a phrase; I hear the vocabulary, the inflection, and the syntax. I listen for all of it.”It’s a statement that makes sense given David’s skills as a bassist and the diverse artists he has played and recorded with " among them; Dizzy Gillespie, Aretha Franklin, Sinead O’Connor, Natalie Cole, Rod Stewart, Herbie Hancock, Ivan Lins, Al Jarreau, Tony Bennett, Paquito D’Rivera, George Michael, Rosemary Clooney and Andre Previn, to name just a few.

Gerry Niewood

Born: April 6, 1943

Gerry Niewood is an instrumentalist (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone saxophones; flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, clarinet) who has lent his melodic invention to artists as diverse as:{{Chuck Mangione = 9031}}, {{Peggy Lee = 8659}}, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinead O'Connor, Anne Murray, {{Thad Jones = 8200}}, {{Mel Lewis = 8733}}, {{Mark Murphy = 9692}}, {{Gil Evans = 6596}}, {{Astrid Gilbeto}}, Judy Collins, {{Frank Sinatra = 4364}} and {{Gerry Mulligan = 9681}} to name only a few. Gerry is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Following graduation, he embarked on a recording and concertizing schedule with the Chuck Mangione Quartet with which he performed for a total of nearly fourteen years

Roy McCurdy

Born: November 28, 1936

Roy McCurdy will probably always be best-known for his important contributions to Cannonball Adderley’s Quintet (1964-1975), but he has been a tasteful and stimulating participant in many other sessions through the years. Early on, he worked with Chuck and Gap Mangione in the Jazz Brothers (1960-1961). McCurdy gained recognition for his playing with the Jazztet (1961-1962), Bobby Timmons, Betty Carter (who was fairly obscure during his stint with her in 1962-1963), and Sonny Rollins (1963-1964) before joining Adderley. The supportive drummer was flexible enough to evolve with Cannonball’s popular group during the decade of change