Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM VIEW THIS EMAIL IN YOUR BROWSER FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS January 8, 2020 Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450 Tickets & Information: 212/854-7799 [email protected] millertheatre.com Lauren Bailey Cognetti, 212/854-1633 [email protected] “A substantial figure in the modern jazz mainstream.” —The New York Times Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 2019-2020 Jazz series with Jimmy Greene Quintet Saturday, February 1, 2020, 8:00 P.M. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Tickets: starting at $20; Students with valid ID: starting at $7 https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-jimmy-greene-quintet?e=076444d635 Page 1 of 8 Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-jimmy-greene-quintet?e=076444d635 Page 2 of 8 Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM Jimmy Greene, photo by Jimmy Katz. Jazz Saturday, February 1, 2020, 8:00 P.M. Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway at 116th Street) Jimmy Greene Quintet Saxophonist Jimmy Greene is “without doubt one of the most striking young tenors of recent years” (Jazzwise). In addition to his recordings and performances as a bandleader, he can be heard on over 75 albums and has appeared with artists Freddie Hubbard, Harry Connick, Jr., and Horace Silver, to name a few. He makes his Miller debut with his Quintet in tow. ARTISTS: Jimmy Greene, saxophones Lage Lund, guitar Aaron Goldberg, piano Reuben Rodgers, bass Kendrick Scott, drums Jimmy Greene, saxophones jimmygreene.com A native of Hartford, CT, Jimmy Greene is a GRAMMY® nominated saxophonist, composer, and arranger. First runner-up in the 1996 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition and one of DownBeat’s "25 Young Rising Stars in Jazz” in 1999, Greene is considered one of the most respected saxophonists of his generation. In 2014, Greene wrote and recorded an album that no parent should ever have to make: Beautiful Life, which celebrated the life of Ana Márquez-Greene, his six-year-old daughter who was murdered along with 19 other children and six educators on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. He continues to honor and memorialize her spirit with Flowers (2017), his second release for Mack Avenue Records. Greene has toured and/or recorded with Horace Silver, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, Harry Connick, Jr., Avishai Cohen, Kenny Barron, Lewis Nash, Steve Turre, the New Jazz https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-jimmy-greene-quintet?e=076444d635 Page 3 of 8 Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM Composers Octet, and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, among many others. As a member of Harry Connick Jr.'s Big Band, he is a featured soloist on 2 DVD releases, Harry for the Holidays and Only You. Greene’s solo recordings include GRAMMY® nominated Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue); Live at Smalls (SmallsLive); Mission Statement (RazDaz/Sunnyside); The Overcomers Suite (NuJazz); Gifts and Givers, True Life Stories, Forever, and Introducing Jimmy Greene (Criss Cross); and Brand New World and Live at Birdland (RCA Victor). The Jimmy Greene Quartet performs regularly in jazz venues, festivals, and clubs worldwide, including the Jazz Standard (New York), Le Club (Moscow), Casa del Jazz (Rome), Sunside Jazz Club (Paris), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Lapataia Jazz Festival (Uruguay), and Amazonas Jazz Festival (Brazil). As a composer, Greene has won numerous awards including the ASCAP/IAJE Commission in honor of Ornette Coleman; the State of Connecticut Governor's Arts Award in Music; and the City of Hartford's Innovator Award in Music, among others. Greene holds a D.M.A. in Jazz Arts Advancement from the Manhattan School of Music, an M.M. in Music Education from Boston University and a B.M. in African-American Music Studies from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford. He is Associate Professor of Music and Co-Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT. He is a clinician for Borgani Saxophones and Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds, and ligatures and uses their products exclusively. Lage Lund, guitar lagelund.com Lage Lund is considered to be of the finest guitarists of his generation. Born and raised in Norway, Lund relocated to Boston after high school on a scholarship to Berklee College of Music. In 2002, he moved to New York City and became the first electric guitarist ever to enroll at The Juilliard School of Music. A regular in DownBeat Critic’s Poll “Rising star – Guitar” category, he has been hailed by Pat Metheny as a favorite young guitarist, and is “all music and all soul” according to Russell Malone, one of the judges who awarded Lund top prize in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. In the years since his Monk Competition award, he has become a sought-after sideman with the David Sanchez Quartet, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Mark Turner, Seamus Blake, and many more, with frequent appearances and tours in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and other countries. Recordings include three releases featuring bassist Ben Street and https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-jimmy-greene-quintet?e=076444d635 Page 4 of 8 Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM drummer Bill Stewart and, most recently, Terrible Animals (2019). With a growing and impressive body of original compositions, and mastery of the standard repertoire, Lund is among those setting the agenda for jazz improvisation in the twenty-first century. Aaron Goldberg, piano aarongoldberg.com Hailed by DownBeat for his “quick-witted harmonic reflexes, fluid command of line and cut-to-the-chase sense of narrative logic,” Aaron Goldberg is considered one of jazz’s most compelling pianists. He has produced five acclaimed trio albums and over 80 others as a co-leader and collaborator. After receiving awards from Berklee College of Music and DownBeat Magazine, Goldberg moved to New York City at the age of 17 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. He returned to Boston a year later to finish his degree at Harvard College, juggling his studies with performing in Boston and New York City, including a multi-year association with Betty Carter. He returned to New York City after graduation and formed his first long-standing trio featuring Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland, and began touring worldwide with Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis, Al Foster, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. For 16 years, Goldberg has produced and performed in Jazz for America’s Future—benefit concerts for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. He is also a frequent visitor to Haiti for educational and musical projects, the co-arranger and composer of the Baby Loves Jazz collection of books and CDs, and the musical director of All Souls at Sundown, a jazz and poetry series in New York City. Goldberg is a faculty member at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and William Paterson University. Reuben Rodger, bass reubenrogers.com Reuben Rogers combines the calypso and reggae rhythms of his native Virgin Islands with the gospel sounds of the church and the freedom and improvisation of jazz to create a unique chemistry that makes make him one of the most distinctive and in-demand bassists in modern jazz. Born in 1974, Rogers was always drawn to music and dabbled with the https://mailchi.mp/alebaco/miller-theatre-presents-jimmy-greene-quintet?e=076444d635 Page 5 of 8 Jimmy Greene Quintet performs on Miller Theatre's Jazz series, 2/1 1/8/20, 600 PM clarinet, piano, drums, and guitar before discovering his true passion in the bass. Rogers’ mastery of both the acoustic and electric bass has led to opportunities alongside many notable artists including Charles Lloyd, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Tomasz Stanko, Marcus Roberts, Nicholas Payton, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean, and Dianne Reeves, among others. Over the last two decades, he has been featured on more than 100 recordings—including his sole release as a leader, the 2006 all-star session The Things I Am—and countless international tours. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Rogers leads numerous workshops, clinics, and master classes around the world. Kendrick Scott, drums kendrickscott.com Kendrick Scott was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in a family of musicians. By age eight he had taken up the drums and later attended Houston’s renowned High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), a school which has produced an impressive array of musical talent including Scott’s label mates Jason Moran and Robert Glasper, as well as pop-star Beyoncé, among others. While still attending HSPVA, Scott won several DownBeat student awards, as well as the Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Award from the International Association of Jazz Educators. He was later awarded a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music, where he majored in music education. Scott moved to New York City in 2003, performing and recording for Blue Note in trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s band, appearing on several of the trumpeter’s Blue Note albums including Flow (2005), A Tale of God’s Will (2007), and Magnetic (2013). In addition to Blanchard, Scott has toured with Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd, The Crusaders, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Kurt Elling. He has released three albums as a bandleader including two previous albums with his band Kendrick Scott Oracle: The Source (2007) and Conviction (2013).