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2003-2004 Performers
The smoking duo of Benny Green and Russell Malone open this season’s series. Known for his vigorous stride left hand, adventurous yet subtle harmonics, and absolute technical mastery of the piano, Benny Green has been hailed as a young master of the bebop phrase. Rapid–fingered, humorous, known for lush harmonies that don’t always go where one expects, Russell Malone can play just about anything he wants to on the guitar and is every bit the hard-swinging player as is Green.
Renee Rosnes
has been called a pianist with “a unique personal vision” (Los Angeles
Times), who “stretches boundaries while never relinquishing her admiration
for jazz’s past” (The Globe and Mail), and who “offers exquisite balances of
delicacy and power, witty and weighted ideas, assertiveness and deference”
(Down Beat).
Taking inspiration from Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, and
the other immortal musicians of the period, David Ostwald’s Louis Armstrong
Centennial Band is keeping the musical flame which warms hearts worldwide and
lights fires under dancing feet.
Vincent Herring began making waves when he joined Lionel Hampton’s
big band in the 1980’s and has been in demand ever since. He has been called
a virtuoso with a voice that is uniquely intense and vigorous with energy and
direction.
Multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan is a rarity in the music world, a virtuoso on
each instrument that he plays, and he plays manyalto, tenor, and soprano
saxophones, trumpet, flugelhorn, peckhorn, flute, and an occasional round of
drums.
>> Past Performers (1991-2003) >> View Photos of Past Performance
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The Benny Green and Russell Malone Duo (October 19, 2003)
The
Renee Rosnes Quartet (November 16, 2003)
David Ostwald's Louis
Armstrong Centennial Band 
