PLEASE Kenny Werner NOTE Trio

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FEBRUARY Friday 26, 8:30pm Saturday 27, 8:30pm Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre, Fairmont Southampton By arrangement with MarsJazz Booking Agency

Kenny Werner piano Kenny Werner Johannes Weidenmueller bass Ari Hoenig drums Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years. His prolific output of compositions, recordings and publications continue to impact audiences around the world. In 1996 he wrote his The performance will proceed landmark book, Effortless Mastery, Liberating the Master Musician Within. without intermission Werner has since created videos, lectured world-wide and authored many articles on how musicians, artists or even business people can allow their “master creator” within to lift their performance to its highest level, showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and in our life.

Kenny was recently awarded the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, No Beginning No End. No Beginning No End is a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next. Utilising over 70 musicians, Kenny’s third album for Half Note Records is an expansive composition featuring Joe Lovano, Judy Silvano, Wind Ensemble, Choir and String Quartet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 19, 1951 and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Kenny began playing and performing at a young age, first recording on television at the age of 11. Although he studied classical piano as a child, he enjoyed playing anything he heard on the radio. In high school and his first years of college he attended the Manhattan School of Music as a classical piano major.

His natural instinct for improvisation led Kenny to the Berklee School of Music in 1970. There he sought tutelage of the renowned piano teacher Madame Chaloff. Her gracious wisdom and inspiration became a driving force in Kenny’s conception: A music conscious of its spiritual intent and essence.

From Boston, Kenny traveled to Brazil with the saxophonist Victor Assis Brasil. There he met Victor’s twin brother, Brazilian pianist Joao Assis Brasil. He studied with Joao, who provided another piece of the puzzle for Kenny’s conception that would lead to Effortless Mastery, his landmark opus on how to allow the master musician from within to manifest. Johannes Weidenmueller Ari Hoenig

“One of the most interesting and explosive bass players to Born on November 13, 1973 in Philadelphia, Ari Hoenig, was come along in a long time” reads a quote from a review in the exposed at an early age to a variety of musical experiences. French newspaper Le Monde, referring to bassist Johannes His father is a conductor and classical singer, his mother a Weidenmueller. violinist and pianist. Accordingly, at 4 years of age, Ari began studying the violin and piano. He began playing drums at Bassist Johannes Weidenmueller has been a first call age twelve, and by age fourteen he was honing his skills with performer with a long list of jazz greats since settling in New other young jazz musicians at Philly clubs such as Ortlieb’s York City 20 years ago He has been a member of the Hank JazzHaus. Jones trio, Ray Barretto’s New World Spirit, the Carl Allen- Vincent Herring quintet, the John Abercrombie quartet, the Ari attended the prestigious University of North Texas for Joe Lovano trio and the Kenny Werner trio. Other associations three years, where he studied with Ed Soph while playing with include Brad Mehldau, George Benson, John Scofield, Dewey the “One O’Clock” Lab Band. Wanting to be closer to New Redman, Randy Brecker, Kenny Wheeler, Toots Thielemans, York City, in 1995 Ari transferred to William Patterson College Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Gary Bartz, Jonny Coles, in northern New Jersey. He soon found himself playing for Clifford Jordan, Joe Chambers, and many others. legendary Philadelphia organist Shirley Scott and working regularly in New York City. Born in Heidelberg, Germany Johannes was introduced to music early on. He started playing cello at the age of 6 and Shortly thereafter, Ari moved into Brooklyn and found kept a busy performance schedule throughout his high school himself started playing extensively with a variety of groups, years, participating in many local and regional chamber music including Jean Michel Pilc Trio, Kenny Werner Trio, Chris Potter and orchestral events. After switching to the double bass at Underground, Kurt Rosenwinkel Group, Joshua Redman age 16, he went on to study jazz bass at the Conservatory Elastic band, Jazz Mandolin Project and bands led by Wayne in Cologne and soon after made the move to study at the Krantz, Mike Stern, Richard Bona, Pat Martino, and Bojan prestigious Jazz and Contemporary Music programme of the Z. He has also shared the stage with such artists as Herbie New School University in New York. Here he was able to study Hancock, Ivan Linz, Wynton Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, Dave with jazz greats such as Ron Carter, Dave Holland and Buster Holland, Joe Lovano, and Gerry Mulligan. Williams. In 1991 he joined the trio of legendary pianist Hank Jones and performed with him throughout North America. Both of Ari’s self-produced solo drum CDs, “Time Travels” Playing with Hank Jones paved the way to becoming a full time (2000) and “The Life Of A Day” (2002), document his professional bass player and countless performances with exploratory nature and they represent an ambitious tribute to many other jazz greats have since followed. the melodic possibilities of the drum set. Today, Ari continues to build on the concepts of these two records by playing While being busy performing over 200 concerts a year largely improvised solo concerts using a regular four piece around the world, Johannes is also a committed educator. drum kit and no percussion. He has been on the faculty of the New School’s jazz and contemporary music program since 1997 where he teaches Ari leads a number of ensembles, including a trio, a quartet, a bass and ensemble and ear-training. He also is in demand as a quintet and a nonet. With his quintet, he has recently released clinician, teaching workshops and clinics at the Banff Center The Pauper and the Magician on AH-HA Records. In this for the Arts, NYU, New England Conservatory, U of Green Bay, recording, Ari explores the link between storytelling and jazz the Amsterdam Conservatory, U of West Virginia, U of N.C by creating a soundtrack to the improvised and sometimes Chapel Hill and many others. In addition he is also the author twisted stories he tells his two small children. of two bestselling books on metric modulation published by Mel Bay. In 2013 Ari won the prestigious BMW Welt (World) award in Munich, an international competition for best band led by a He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants drummer. including the young European jazz artist of the year award in 1993 and 1996, the Hennessey jazz prize 1996, grants from As an educator, Ari teaches privately and is on faculty at Arts international and the New School faculty development New York University and the New School for Social Research grant. in New York. He gives clinics and lectures at music schools and universities worldwide, and writes a regular educational column for Modern Drummer magazine.

Ari currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and 2 kids.

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