BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Valery Ponomarev's Big Band in New York City at Garage Re staurant - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080624T190000 DTEND:20080624T220000 DTSTAMP:20080611T055159Z SUMMARY:Valery Ponomarev's Big Band DESCRIPTION:PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE\n\nMr. Ponomarev worked with Art B lakey & the Jazz Messengers for 4 years. With the Messengers\, perform ed at major concert halls\, clubs\, and festivals all over the world\, recorded eleven record albums. Also made numerous television appearan ces with the Messengers in Europe\, Japan\, and Brazil. In the United States has made television appearances on "To Tell The Truth"\, on PBS network\, National Geographic Today and on CNN.\n\nClifford Brown Mem orial Concert\, Wilmington\, Delaware\, 1991: featuring the music of t he legendary Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet with Max Roach (leader) on drums\, Harold Land\, tenor sax\, George Morrow\, bass\, Sam Docker y\, piano\, and Valery Ponomarev\, trumpet.\n\nFirst time Mr. Ponomare v returned to Russia in 1990 after a 17 year absence to participate in the First International Jazz Festival in Moscow along with many of th e world's greatest jazz superstars. Since then Mr. Ponomarev regularly travels to Russia with American musicians\, Benny Golson\, Curtis Ful ler\, Bobbie Watson\, James “Sid” Simmons\, Bradford Leali\, Vince nt Lewis\, Byron & Robert Landham\, Sean McGloin\, Evelyn Blakey\, joi ning local stars for concerts and tours of the major cities in Siberia \, Moscow and St Petersburg.\nAs a solo artist\, Mr. Ponomarev has com pleted two tours of Australia\, China and numerous European tours\, in cluding a special tour with Harold Land featuring the music of Cliffor d Brown. He was also featured as a European superstar at the Charlie P arker in Paris Festival.\n\nValery has also played concerts with Benny Golson\, featuring Mr. Golson's music. \n\nMr. Ponomarev is a current member of the memorial “Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers” band le d by Mr. Golson.\n\nMr. Ponomarev is frequently heard as a sideman in live performances and recordings.\n\nFeatured in the movie "Frozen In Amber" a documentary about the contributions of Russian ex-patriots to art and the performing arts in the USA. \n“Messenger from Russia” a documentary by independent producer Jason Scadron about Valery Pono marev’s life was aired on the National Geographic Today channel for the first time in March 2002 and most recently in January 30th & 31st 2003.\n\nIncluded in many publications including: Oxford University Pr ess\, the Grove Encyclopedia of Music\, Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD by Richard Cook & Brian Morton\, All Music Guide to Jazz\, Hard Bop Acad emy by Alan Goldsher\, Top Brass by Bob Bernotas\, Trumpet Kings by Sc ott Yanow and many other.\n\n\n\nAS A LEADER\n\nValery Ponomarev's gro up Universal Language performs in concerts\, festivals\, clubs\, schoo ls\, and colleges. Valery's most recent recording\, The Messenger\, fe aturing Jimmy Cobb\, drums\; Martin Zenker\, bass\, James “Sid” Si mmons\, piano\, Michael Karn\, tenor sax\, Valery Ponomarev - trumpet\ , was released on Reservoir Music Records in 2001 (RSR CD 166).\nA Sta r For You\, featuring Bob Berg\, tenor sax\; James “Sid Simmons”\, piano\; Ken Walker\, bass\; and Billy Hart\, drums\, was released on Reservoir Music in late 1997 [RSR CD 150]. \nThe group's previous CD [ vj006] was recorded live in Denver with Valery (trumpet)\, Francesco B earsetti on tenor sax\; Sid Simmons\, piano\; Kenny Walker\, bass\; Be n Riley\, drums. \nUniversal Language has another four releases on the Reservoir record label: \nA live recording at Sweet Basil's in NYC\, recorded in July of 1993\, Live At Sweet Basil's [Reservoir RSR CD 131 ] features Valery on trumpet and his quintet Universal Language: Victo r Jones (drums)\, Peter Washington (bass)\, John Hicks (piano)\, Don B raden (tenor sax). \nProfile [RSR CD 120] (December 1991) features Val ery\, Victor Jones (drums)\, Essiet Okun Essiet (bass)\, Kenny Barron (piano)\, and Joe Henderson (tenor sax). \nTrip To Moscow (December 19 88) [RSR CD 107]\, features Valery and Ralph Moore\, with Larry Willis (piano)\, Dennis Irwin (bass)\, and Victor Jones (drums). \nThe group 's first recording\, Means of Identification was released in April 198 7 [RSR CD 101]\, featuring Valery\, Ralph Moore (tenor sax)\, Hideki T akao (piano)\, Dennis Irwin (bass) and Kenny Washington (drums).\n\n\n \nAS A SIDEMAN\n\nWorked in clubs\, tours\, festivals\, and concerts w ith: Joe Morello quintet\, Frank Foster concert band\, Joe Farrell\, P epper Adams quintet\, Paquito D'Rivera\, Jack Mcduff\, Harold Land\, L ou Donaldson\, Walter Bishop\, Charles Mingus "Epitaph"\, Lionel Hampt on orchestra (solo chair)\, Mercer Ellington orchestra\, Paul Ellingto n orchestra\, Warne Marsh\, and the Lee Konitz nonet to name a few.\n\ n\nTEACHING EXPERIENCE\n\nPanelist at International Jazz Educators Con vention in New York\, 1998\, along with \nWayne Shorter\, Arturo Sando val\, Cassandra Wilson: "Jazz Around The World."\n\nTeaching and lectu ring (Master Classes in improvisation\, ensembles\, performance\, jazz theory and history):\n\nAnnual Summer Workshop at the Vermont Jazz Ce nter\, Putney\, Vermont. \n\nConservatory of Groningen\, Holland. \n\n New Jersey Center for Performing Arts\n\nThe New School\, New York Cit y. L.I. University\, New York City.\n\n\nTaught at:\n\nInternational A rt of Jazz\, Inc.\, 5 Saywood Lane\, Stony Brook\, NY 11790\n\nFestiva l of Music\, Inc.\, Jazz program\, 80 Westervelt Avenue\, Tenafly\, NJ 07670.\n\nPrivate instruction\, clinics and lectures. \n\n \n\nCOMPO SITIONS\n\nMr. Ponomarev has written over 20 compositions which have b een recorded. His compositions Envoy\, Dialogue\, and Take Care (from "Means of Identification") are published in combo format\, available f rom Second Floor Music\, 130 West 28th Street\, New York\, NY 10001.\n \n\nEDUCATION\n\nMoscow Art School.\nMoscow Music College.\nBachelor o f Arts\, State University of New York\, Empire State College.\nComplet ed Don Sebesky's advanced composing & arranging course.\n\nMr. Ponomar ev fluently speaks Russian and English.\nHe also speaks good Italian.\ n\nValery Ponomarev’s book\, “On The Flip Side Of Sound” was wri tten both in English and Russian. It was published by "AGRAF" publishi ng house and came out in Moscow\, Russia in January 2003.\nIt’s bein g prepared for publication in English language in America.\n\n\n\nCOMM ENTS IN THE PRESS\n\nConsider Valery Ponomarev\, the Russian émigré trumpeter who immediately preceded Wynton Marsalis in the Jazz Messeng ers. Abandoning the land of giant steppes for the Harvard of hard bop should have made Ponomarev something of a celebrity . . .. [On Trip To Moscow] Ponomarev is writing relaxed lines with inviting twists that are straight out of the Blakey/Silver axis. He is also blowing with a wide\, cozy sound and ideas that . . . never outstrip his technique." \nThe Boston Phoenix\n\n“ . . . a major new soloist . . . from the S oviet Union. Listening to Valery Ponomarev on a blindfold-test basis\, you could not possibly distinguish him from one of the more inspired and authentic of America's great black trumpeters in the driving\, har d-bop jazz genre that is his chosen idiom." Leonard Feather\, Los Ange les Times\n\n“ . . . he's the most biting trumpet player Art Blakey has had since Lee Morgan." \nTim Price\, Reading\, PA News\n\n"But the most provocative soloist in the group is Valery Ponomarev\, a Russian trumpeter who combines bristling attack with dazzling execution and a very neat\, compact\, controlled development of his solos." \nJohn S. Wilson\, The New York Times\n\n"The star of the show is the amazing P onomarev\, With a gritty yet clean sound a neo-bop style\, the trumpet er suggests the approach of his idol\, the immortal Clifford Brown." \ nChuck Berg\, Lawrence Journal-World\n\n"Ponomarev is a force to be re spected . . . his musicianship\, long evident as a trumpeter\, extends to composition and arranging as well." \nStuart Troup\, Newsday\n\n"O n the ballad I Remember Clifford\, Ponomarev adds both guts and a sens e of grandeur to the classic melody\, stretching out long languid line s\, then spewing tongue-twisting notes and shaping them into graceful phrases." \nStephen Israel\, The Times Herald Record\n\n“ . . . an o utstanding young trumpeter . . . who has mastered a classically straig ht-ahead\, Clifford Brown-inspired style distinguished as much by the pin-point accuracy and logic of his ideas as by its unwavering beat." \nThomas Albright\, San Francisco Chronicle\n\n"And Valery moves all o ver the music with a multitude of cadenzas each more brilliant." Night hawk\, \nThe Gazette\, Montreal\n\n"Ponomarev plays powerfully\, with a staccato brilliance and burnished tone modeled upon his trumpet hero es-Clifford Brown\, Lee Morgan\, and Fats Navarro." \nHollie I. West\, The Washington Post\n\n"Russia's contribution to the jazz world is an unassuming chap named Valery Ponomarev who blows trumpet like a man p ossessed and who can write with the best of them." \nMaria Klemen\, Aq uarian\n\n"Ponomarev is a fine\, bright-toned trumpeter of considerabl e ability whose misfortune was to be succeeded in Art Blakey's Jazz Me ssengers by the younger son of Ellis Marsalis. As a result\, Valery's subsequent activities have attracted less attention than they might ha ve deserved. A symptom of this is that it has taken so long for his ba nd\, Universal Language\, to make this\, its recording debut [on 'Mean s Of Identification']." \nChris Sheridan\n\n"Ponomarev's bristling ori ginals have a jaunty martial kick . . . ["Means Of Identification" is] an exhilarating hard-bop outing." \nGeorge Kanzler\, The Newark Star- Ledger\n\n"Ponomarev is now a solid hard bopper and he more that holds his own in the stalwart company of Henderson\, Barron and the rhythm section. His tone is crisp\, clean and has a welcome coating of mellow smoothness on slow numbers. His inventive phrases and bright\, melodi c attack mark him out as an original trumpet stylist . . . Ponomarev's glowing choruses on Time make this the jewel in the album's crown\, a lthough the entire CD is full of bristling\, biting mainstream jazz." \nDerek Ansell\, Jazz Times LOCATION:Garage Restaurant @ 99 Seventh Avenue South, New York, New Yo rk 10014 United States SEQUENCE:1213163519 UID:E0-001-012835956-2 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-012835956-2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR