The APFJ Concert Series
All concerts are at 8:00 pm at the Whisperdome, the beautiful listening-space in the First Unitarian Society at 1221 Wendell Ave in Schenectady, NY.
To order tickets, call 518-393-4011, email
Tim Coakley or use this order form.
But first, read about the benefits of
membership.
For directions to the Whisperdome,
click here.
[NOTE: cash and checks are the only acceptable forms of payment at the
door; we're not equipped to accept credit cards.]
For a history of previous
concerts, click here.
The 2010 Concert Series:
Friday, September 10 Lou Donaldson
Quartet
Friday, September 24 The
Mike Moreno Quartet
Friday, October 8 Jeanne O'Connor and
Nat Phipps
Friday, October 22 The Bruce Barth
Trio; J.D. Allen
Trio
Friday, November 5 The
Hot Club of Detroit
The best of jazz in an intimate space with great acoustics, no smoke, no clattering of glasses ...
just great music in a place meant for listening.
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The
Lou Donaldson Quartet
Friday, September 10
On
Sept. 10,
one of the legends of jazz, alto saxophonist
Lou Donaldson
will kick off our season. From his early recordings with Milt Jackson and
Thelonious Monk, and the famous “A Night at Birdland” with Art Blakey and
Clifford Brown, LouDonaldson has had a long and distinguished career. His latest
quartet is sure to get our season off to a brilliant start.
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The
Mike Moreno
Quartet
Friday, September 24
Guitarist
Mike Moreno
and his quartet will bring a mixture of standards and originals to our
stage. He has played with Joshua Redman, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis
and others. His debut CD was “Between the Lines,” with a follow-up CD on
Criss Cross. He also plays on Capitol Region saxophonist Brian Patneaude’s
CD “River View.”
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Jeanne O'Connor and
Nat Phipps
Friday, October 8
Capital Region favorites
Nat Phipps,
piano, and
Jeanne O’Connor,
vocals, are two of our local heroes. They will bring their swinging stylings
to the First Unitarian Society, backed by an outstanding bassist and
drummer.
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The
Bruce Barth Trio;
The
J.D. Allen
Trio
Friday, October 22
On
Oct. 22,
we have
A Pair of Threes;
two unique trios. Pianist
Bruce Barth
will play the first half of the concert with Gregg August, bass, and Rudy
Royston, drums. Barth has made three solo piano tours of Japan, and has also
performed with his trio throughout the United States and Europe. All About
Jazz has described his trio as “marked by keen empathy, sensitivity, and
power.”
The brilliant young saxophonist
J.D. Allen
will take the stage for the second half with the same fiery rhythm section.
His first CD, “In
Search Of,”
won him the Best New Artist in Italy that year. His follow-up release, “Pharaohs
Children,”
was one of Jazziz magazines CritiConcertPix/ Picks Top 10 Albums of 2001.
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The
Hot Club of
Detroit
Friday, November
5
Finally, in the centennial year of the great guitarist Django Reinhardt, we
close out our season
on Nov. 5
with
The Hot Club of Detroit.
The group specializes in performing the repertoire of Reinhardt, and a
whole lot more. The group includes the amazing Julian Labro on button
accordion, and is a four-time winner of Detroit Music Awards: Best
Traditional Jazz Group.
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This concert series is made possible by public
funds from
the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. |
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