BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:KENNY WERNER QUINTET in New York City at Blue Note - Even tful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080113T200000 DTSTAMP:20080112T175830Z SUMMARY:KENNY WERNER QUINTET DESCRIPTION: FEATURING: Kenny Werner\, piano Randy Brecker\, trumpet D avid Sanchez\, tenor saxophone Scott Colley\, bass Antonio Sanchez\, d rums Kenny Werner was born on November 19\, 1951 in Brooklyn\, N.Y.\, U.S.A. At the age of eleven\, he recorded a single with a fifteen-pie ce orchestra and appeared on television playing stride piano. He atten ded the Manhattan School of Music as a concert piano major. In 1970\, he transferred to the Berklee School of Music. In 1977\, recorded firs t LP that featured of the music of Bix Beiderbecke\, Duke Ellington\, James P. Johnson and George Gershwin and later that year with Charles Mingus on "Something Like A Bird" In 1981\, Werner recorded his own so lo album of original compositions entitled Beyond the Forest of Mirkwo od . The following year\, Werner recorded the sounds heard coming from his Brooklyn-based studio - a hotbed of late-night jam sessions -- an d titled the record after his address\, 298 Bridge Street. In the earl y 80s he toured extensively and recorded with Archie Shepp. In 1984 he joined the Mel Lewis Orchestra. He was beginning to perform more and more in Europe and New York City as a leader and in duos with such not ables as Rufus Reid\, Ray Drummond and Jaki Byard\, also doing stints in the groups of Eddie Gomez\, Tom Harrell\, Joe Lovano and many other s. Since 1989 he has served as pianist\, arranger and musical director for the noted film\, television and Broadway star\, Betty Buckley. Si nce 1995 he has performed and recorded with TootsThielemans. Mostly in duo\, the two have also performed as a trio with Oscar Castro-Neves a nd as a quartet with Airto Moreira. Toots and Kenny have a wonderful d uo CD named after them. Kenny earned a Grammy nomination for his compo sition on that CD titled\, "Inspiration." Kenny has a deep connection to Brazillian music having played and recorded with Joyce and recently with Joyce and Dori Cayimi. Werner has received performance grants fr om the National Endowment for the Arts in both 1985 and 1987\, and was commissioned to compose and conduct a memorial piece for Duke Ellingt on at St. John of the Divine Church in New York performed by the Manha ttan School of Music's Stage Band and the New York City Choir. He has also won the distinguished Composer award from the New Jersey Council for the Arts. He has also written compositions for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra\, now known as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has since wri tten big band charts for groups such as the Cologne Radio Jazz Orchest ra (WDR)\, the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra\, The Metropole Orchestra ( Holland) and the Umo Jazz Orchestra (Finland). Throughout the mid 90s until today\, Werner has had numerous orchestra commissions. In Europe and America. Most recently he was asked to join and write music for a company formed by Quincy Jones. In 1981\, he formed his first trio wi th bassist Ratzo Harris and drummer Tom Rainey. Their first trio CD fo r Sunnyside records was entitled\, Ken Werner - Introducing The Trio. He would do another trio album for Sunnyside called Press Enter and a beautiful quintet album featuring Randy Brecker\, Joe Lovano\, and Edd ie Gomez entitled\, Uncovered Heart. The trio with Harris and Rainey w as an association that would last 14 years and record two more albums\ , Guru (TCB) and Live at Visiones (Concorde) That trio was generally a cknowledged as being the most creative\, intense and innovative heard in a long time. Kenny would record two more CDs for Concord\; Duo with Chris Potter and Live at Maybeck Hall in solo. Since 1999 he has had a trio with Ari Hoenig on drums and Johannes Wiedenmueller on bass. Th ey have released three CDs together\; Form and Fantasy\, Beat Degenera tion and Peace\, Live at the Blue Note. In July of 2006\, Kenny Werner released his next CD for Half Note records\, again live at the Blue N ote. This is a quintet featuring David Sanchez\, Kenny Wheeler\, Brian Blade and Scott Colley. In the fall of '06 he recorded and released h is first CD for Blue Note Records. Staying with the quintet form for t he moment\, he recorded again with Brian Blade and Scott Colley\, only this time was joined by Chris Potter and Dave Douglas. In 1996\, Kenn y published a book that has had a major impact on the music world titl ed Effortless Mastery. It features priceless information about the phy sical\, technical\, psychological and spiritual aspects of being an ar tist. This book continues to help thousands of artists. That has made him in great demand as a teacher and clinician at Universities all ove r the world. He currently teaches his own techniques in classes at New York University. Performed or Recorded with: Toots Thielemans Lee Kon itz\, Joe Henderson\, Archie Shepp\, Sonny Fortune\, Dave Liebman\, Ch ico Freeman\, Jim Pepper\, Bob Brookmeyer\, Tom Harrell\, Kenny Wheele r\, Eddie Henderson\, Dave Douglas\, Tim Hagans\, Mark Feldman\, Bobby Hutcherson\, Ron Carter\, Eddie Gomez\, Dave Holland\, Charlie Haden\ , Marc Johnson\, Ray Drummond\, Rufus Reid\, Mel Lewis\, Jack DeJohnet te\, Billy Hart\, Ed Blackwell\, Paul Motian\, Peter Erskine\, Steve G add\, Joey Baron\, Idris Mohamad\, Bob Moses\, Victor Lewis\, John Abe rcrombie\, Bill Frisell\, John Scofield\, Joe Williams\, Bobby McFerri n\, Jackie Paris\, Anne Marie Moss\, Roseanna Vitro\, Janus Seigel\, M arian McPartland\, Gunther Schuller\, Dizzy Gillespie\, Stan Getz\, El vin Jones\, Lou Rawls and shares a long and creative relationship with good friend Joe Lovano. 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