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The APFJ Concerts
All concerts are at
7:30 pm in the
Great
Hall,
the beautiful listening-space in the
Unitarian
Universalist Society of Schenectady at 1221 Wendell Ave in Schenectady, NY.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students, and children under 12 are free
if they're with an adult.
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
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The 2018 Fall Concert Series
September 7: The Sharel Cassity Quintet
September 21: The Warren Wolf Quartet
October 5: Cliff Brucker and Full Circle
October 19: Jazzmeia Horn
November 2: Anat Cohen Quartet
Musician drawings © by Tony Avacato
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The Sharel Cassity Quintet
Saxophonist, multi reedist and
composer Sharel Cassity attended The Juilliard School
Jazz program under full scholarship for her
masters in music & earned her BFA from The New School
for Jazz. Listed as “Rising Star Alto Saxophone” in
Downbeat Magazine for the past 9 consecutive years,
Sharel has appeared on the Today Show, won the
2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award & has been inducted into
the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Cassity is a regular member of
the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars, Cyrus Chestnut Brubeck Quartet &
has performed with Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock. She has
released 4 albums as leader and recorded with Michael Camilo,
Natalie Merchant and local Michael Benedict’s Tribute to Gary
McFarland.
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The Warren Wolf Quartet
Vibraphonist Warren Wolf graduated from the Berklee College of Music
in 2001. As a sideman, he has performed and/or recorded with such
luminaries as Bobby Watson, Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis,
Christian Scott, Robert Glaspar, Esperanza Spalding and others. He is a
long-term member of the renowned San Francisco Jazz Collective. He
played A Place for Jazz with guitarist Mike Mereno in 2010.
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Cliff Brucker and Full Circle
Pianist/drummer/bandleader/educator Cliff Brucker
formed this outstanding sextet in 2016. It includes legendary
saxophonist Leo Russo, trumpeter Dylan Canterbury, guitarist Mike
Novakowski, pianist Larry Ham and stellar bassist Otto Gardner. Their
debut recording, “Full Circle Vol. 1,” in April 2016, led to
performances in area venues including the Albany Jazz Festival and the
Van Dyck. This led to their recent 2018 sophomore recording, “Vol. 2,”
which has been given excellent radio play and complimentary reviews.
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Jazzmeia Horn
This highly acclaimed vocalist won the 2015 Thelonious Monk
International Vocal Jazz Competition and 2013 Sarah Vaughan
International Jazz Vocal Competition. She has already earned a
reputation in New York as a “Rising Star.” After earning her degree at
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she began to appear in
jazz festivals and clubs around the world. Her 2017 debut recording,
“Social Call,” was positively received, including being nominated for a
Grammy as best Jazz Vocal recording.
Photo Credit: Shervin Lainez |
Anat Cohen Quartet
Clarinetist and saxophonist Anat
Cohen has
taken the jazz world by storm, winning hearts and minds the world over
with her expressive virtuosity and delightful stage presence. As JazzTimes says,
“With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad
scientist, laughing — musically — with the sheer delight of reaching
that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus.” An established
bandleader and prolific composer,
Anat
Cohen
offers a unique blend of modern and traditional jazz, classical music,
Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of
Afro-Cuban styles. The perennial winner of “Clarinetist of the Year”
titles from DownBeat, Jazz Times and the Jazz
Journalists Association, Fresh
Air‘s
Terry Gross credits Cohen with “bringing the clarinet to the world” and The
New York Times hails
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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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