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SUMMARY:Virginia Mayhew Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Four Stars...A fresh\, intelligent\, polished player...Vir
	ginia Mayhew\, remember her name. - Downbeat Saxophonist-composer-arra
	nger VIRGINIA MAYHEW has been an active participant in the New York ja
	zz scenesince 1987. A native of San Francisco\, Virginia came to New Y
	ork to enroll in the New School’s Jazz Performance program\, and was
	 awarded its Zoot Sims Memorial Scholarship. In the course of her care
	er\, Virginia has worked with such renowned artists as Earl “Fatha�
	� Hines\, CabCalloway\, Frank Zappa\, James Brown\, Norman Simmons\, A
	l Grey\, Junior Mance\, Toshiko Akiyoshi\, DocCheatam\, Joe Williams\,
	 Leon Parker\, Clark Terry\, Terry Gibbs\, Kenny Barron\, Chico O’Fa
	rrill\, Dena DeRose\, Ingrid Jensen\, Claudio Roditi\, and many others
	.Virginia has appeared in most of the City’s jazz venues\, including
	 the Blue Note\, the Village Vanguard\, the Village Gate\, Sweet Basil
	\, Sweet Rhythm\, Birdland\, Carnegie Hall\, the Jazz Standard\, Linco
	ln Center\, andTown Hall\, as well as performing throughout the United
	 States\, Europe\, the Newly Independent States\, the Caribbean\, Berm
	uda\, Australia\, and Southeast Asia. Virginia has performed at many j
	azz festivals as a leader\, including the Monterey Jazz Festival\, JVC
	 Jazz Festival\, Floating Jazz Festival\, Verizon Jazz Festival\, Mary
	 Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the KennedyCenter\, San Francisco Jazz 
	Festival\, San Jose Jazz Festival\, East Coast Jazz Festival\, Panason
	ic Jazz Festival\, Guinness Cork (Ireland) Jazz Festival\, Verizon Mus
	ic Festival\, Perth International Arts Festival\,Melbourne Jazz Festiv
	al\, Llangollen International Music Festival\, Jazz At Sea\, and other
	 smaller festivals. Virginia has traveled twice as a representative of
	 the United States as a Jazz Ambassador. The first tour (2001 to the N
	ewly Independent States\, formerly the USSR…Kazakhstan\, Moldova\, A
	rmenia\, Belarus\, Ukraine) featured the music of Louis Armstrong\, an
	d the second (2003 to Southeast Asia (Thailand\, Laos\, Viet Nam\, Mal
	aysia\, India and Bangladesh) demonstrating the Latin and Brazilian in
	fluence on Jazz Music. In addition\, Virginia has established her cred
	entials in the field of jazz education\, both as a teacher of privates
	tudents\, as faculty at numerous jazz camps\, (including Stanford Jazz
	 Workshop\, Monterey Jazz Festivalsummer camp\, and Jazz Camp in Pesca
	dero\, CA)\, and as an experienced clinician and Artist-In-Residence\,
	 (including Univ. of Mass\, Univ. of Louisville\, Bloomington Univ. an
	d others). She has traveled around the U.S.A. working as an adjudicato
	r\, teaching master classes\, and working with school ensembles large 
	and small.She teaches at the Greenwich Music House\, a 100-year-old co
	mmunity music center\, where she is the directorand founder of the Gre
	enwich House Jazz Workshop. Her own quartet performed at the 2002 IAJE
	Conference to rave reviews. For several years\, Virginia worked with v
	eteran trombonist Al Grey. She is featured on his 1992 release\, FAB(C
	apri)\, and contributed several arrangements to his 1995 CD\, "Centerp
	iece" (Telarc). Her arrangements were also performed during the “Bat
	tle Royale: Trombones and Alto Saxophones” concert\, which was part 
	of Jazz At Lincoln Center. Virginia is the Musical Director and saxoph
	onist of the Duke Ellington Legacy\, a 9-piece group led byEllington�
	�s grandson\, Edward Kennedy Ellington II. The Ellington Legacy is ded
	icated to keeping Ellington’s music through performances in schools\
	, retirement communities\, prisons\, public concerts\, and clubs. The 
	group featurespiano great\, Norman Simmons. Virginia also is a member 
	of Brazilian trumpet and flugelhorn player/composer/arranger Claudio R
	oditi’s group.
LOCATION:Garage Restaurant @ 99 Seventh Avenue South, New York, New Yo
	rk 10014 United States
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