2010 HHH Performing Artists

The second annual Healing, Harmony & Heart concert has two featured programs. The Geri Allen Project - Celebrating Eric Dolphy.  This impressive group of progressive jazz figures includes pianist and 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient Geri Allen; clarinetist/composer and 2007 USA Gund Foundation Fellow Don Byron; saxophonist/flutist/composer and 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship Award  and 2006 Melon Jazz Living Legacy Award recipient Oliver Lake; bassist Dwayne Dolphin who performed on Nancy Wilson's Grammy Award winning R.S.V.P. cd; and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts whose career recognitions include 14 Grammy nominations and 5 Grammies for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.  JUST IN: Ms. Allen, Don Byron, and Tain Watts were just awarded Downbeat Magazine's Critic's Poll TOP 10 Jazz Artists in 2010.  Anything is possible with this Geri Allen All Star Band!

Antonio Ciacca will open the evening with a special solo piano program. He is a fresh and exciting Italian jazz pianist whose playing is shaking the ground with fury here on US soil.  To no surprise, Mr. Ciacca is also the Director of Programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

BIOS

Jazz pianist and 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient Geri Allen is also a producer and music educator who has collaborated with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Mary Stallings and Charles Lloyd. She is an Associate Professor of Jazz Piano and Improvisation Studies at the University of Michigan and has more than 15 cd’s to her credit on Telarc, Polygram, Storyville, Blue Note and Polygran labels. She has been described as the quintessence of what a present day mainstream jazz pianist should be.

Clarinetist/composer and 2007 USA Gund Foundation Fellow Don Byron has recorded with Uri Caine, Dean Bowman, Vernon Reid, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry and others. He has composed for silent film, served as director of jazz for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and scored for television. His stylistic sweep covers everything from jazz atonal improvisation to straight ahead exploration of traditional jazz to klezmer. He is a jazz historian with more than 10 cd’s to his credit as leader.

Saxophonist/flutist/composer, poet, and painter Oliver Lake is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and a 2006 Melon Jazz Living Legacy Award recipient. He is a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet  and has received music commissions from the Library of Congress, Rockefeller Foundation, McKim Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Arts Partners Program. Lake appears as a leader/player on at least 100 recordings and has collaborated with a veritable “who’s  who” of progressive jazz.

Bassist Dwayne Dolphin is a veteran of the acoustic, electric, and piccolo bass and has performed with Hank Jones, Abbey Lincoln, Stanley Turrentine, Maceo Parker and notably on Nancy Wilson’s Grammy Award winning R.S.V.P. cd. Dolphin continues to
be an international presence in bass as a performing and recording artist.

Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker and many other leading jazz figures. He holds the unique distinction of being the only musician to appear on every Grammy Award winning jazz recording by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis.  Watts has worked in both the film and television industry(Tonight Show with Jay Leno) and has half a dozen cd’s of his own as leader and performs on 30 or more well recognized recordings of other name jazz figures. His career recognitions include 14 Grammy nominations and five Grammies for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance-Group, all on Columbia Records, two with Branford Marsalis and three with Wynton.

Past Performing Artists
Jon Hendricks & Co. (2009) Jazz Legend
Awadagin Pratt (2009)  Renowned Concert Pianist

Jazz pianist and 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship Award recipient Geri Allen is also a producer and music educator who has collaborated with many of the greats of modern jazz, including Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Ornette Coleman, Betty Carter, Mary Stallings and Charles Lloyd. She is an Associate Professor of Jazz Piano and Improvisation Studies at the University of Michigan and has more than 15 cd’s to her credit on Telarc, Polygram, Storyville, Blue Note and Polygran labels. She has been described as the quintessence of what a present day mainstream jazz pianist should be.

 

Clarinetist/composer and 2007 USA Gund Foundation Fellow Don Byron  has recorded with Uri Caine, Dean Bowman, Vernon Reid, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry and others. He has composed for silent film, served as director of jazz for the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and scored for television. His stylistic sweep covers everything from jazz atonal improvisation to straight ahead exploration of traditional jazz to klezmer. He is a jazz historian with more than 10 cd’s to his credit as leader.

 

Saxophonist/flutist/composer, poet, and painter Oliver Lake is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship Award and a 2006 Melon Jazz Living Legacy Award recipient. He is a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet  and has received music commissions from the Library of Congress, Rockefeller Foundation, McKim Foundation, and the Lila Wallace Arts Partners Program. Lake appears as a leader/player on at least 100 recordings and has collaborated with a veritable “who’s  who” of progressive jazz.

 

Bassist Dwayne Dolphin is a veteran of the acoustic, electric, and piccolo bass and has performed with Hank Jones, Abbey Lincoln, Stanley Turrentine, Maceo Parker and notably on Nancy Wilson’s Grammy Award winning R.S.V.P. cd. Dolphin continues to

be an international presence in bass as a performing and recording artist.

 

Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker and many other leading jazz figures. He holds the unique distinction of being the only musician to appear on every Grammy Award winning jazz recording by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis.  Watts has worked in both the film and television industry(Tonight Show with Jay Leno)   and has half a dozen cd’s of his own as leader and performs on 30 or more well recognized recordings of other name jazz figures. His career recognitions include 14 Grammy nominations and five Grammies for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance-Group, all on Columbia Records, two with Branford Marsalis and three with Wynton.

 

Past Performing Artists
Jon Hendricks & Co. (2009) Jazz Legend
Awadagin Pratt (2009)  Renowned Concert Pianist

Our Sponsors (2009)
COMCAST, Qwest, Southwest Gastroenterology, NM Bank & Trust, Fairfield Investment Advisors, Scalo Northern Italian Grill, Local IQ, Grandma's Music, NM Masonic Charities, Vernon's, Hydra Aquatics, Garcia Infiniti, Bruce & Kathleen Leonard, Hotel Albuquerque, Tristan Pittard & TaGG Studios, John & Kim Jarvis, Allegra Print & Imaging, Outpost Performance Space, Los Poblanos Inn & Cultural Center, Elixir Studios, National Distributing Company, Strell Design, TAL Realty, Model Pharmacy, Monte's Pueblo Pipe Shop, Luxury Limousines

Ambassadors
Accelerated Cure Project, Robert Reck (Elixir Studios & RR Photography) KUNM, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, KUNM, Dr. Lee Berk (Berklee School of Music President Emeritus), Tom Guralnick (Outpost), Nancy Laflin (NM Music Commission), Dan Mayfield (Abq Journal), Leah Black (KOB-FM), Kevin Hopper (Local IQ), Robb Requard (MassMutual), ABQ the Magazine, Mike Baird (Vernon's), Sam & Jackie Bregman (ABQ Thunderbirds), NM Jazz Workshop, Hutton Broadcasting, Tickets For Joy, NHCC, Amanda Myrick (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation), Mary & Steve Elkins, Janet Helpern (Flores By Delores), Carolina Girimonte (Girimonte & Associates), Jim Sutton (Unica Real Estate), Jeff Pfohl (Gourmet Delights)

 

Advisory Board Members
Tommy Gearhart
Founder/Director

Audra Charity
Eileen Devereux
Casey Stone
Jamie Jett Walker

Fiscal Sponsor
New Mexico Community Foundation