Wall Street Jazz Festival 2015 We are proud to announce the stellar line-up of our 12th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival, Friday & Saturday, September 4th & 5th, outdoors at the corner of Wall Street & North Front Street. THE ART OF THE DUO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4TH, 7:30 PM OLD DUTCH CHURCH 272 WALL STREET, KINGSTON, 12401 Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown Sheila's preference to the bass and voice set led to another remarkable collaboration with bassist Cameron Brown, whom she has been performing with all over the world for more than ten years so far and they have released the live albums “I’ve Grown Accustomed to the Bass” and “Celebration”. Entirely non-derivative, Jordan is one of only a tiny handful of jazz singers who fully deserve the appellation and for whom no other term will do. For more about Sheila Jordan see www.sheilajordanjazz.com Su Terry & Peggy Stern For many years, Su & Peggy have evolved as a duo, culminating in a live CD recorded in St. Petersburg a few years ago, entitled The Art of the Duo. More recently Peggy compiled a suite of original music and scored it for tiny orchestra, featuring Su on clarinet ( her preferred instrument these days), with flute, trombone, cello, bass, piano, drums which will be released on the Estrella label in September. Cruise www.sueterry.net and www.peggystern.com Teri Roiger & John Menegon Teri Roiger (vocalist) and John Menegon (bassist) have been collaborating musically for over 20 years, and during this time their music has taken many exciting twists and turns. Teri is a jazz vocalist, but also plays piano. John is a jazz bassist, but also sings and plays guitar. They both compose music and lyrics, and often collaborate on writing. The depth of their experiences and love of jazz are apparent when they bring all of their combined experience together in live performance, the recording studio, and in their compositions. Cruise www.teriroiger.com SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH - 6 PM TO 10:30 PM 12TH ANNUAL WALL STREET JAZZ FESTIVAL CORNER OF WALL STREET AND N.FRONT, KINGSTON, NY Yard Byard: The Jaki Byard Project Exploring the music of pianist/bandleader/educator Jaki Byard (1922-1999) features Jamie Baum - flutes, Adam Kolker - sax/clarinets, Jerome Harris - guitar, Essiet Essiet - bass, George Schuller -drums. These long-time friends and fellow New England Conservatory alumni teamed up in 2010 to pool several of former teacher, Jaki Byard’s old charts, dust them off, and bring them back to life. This cooperative group’s highly anticipated CD, Inch By Inch on Gunther Schuller’s GM Recordings came out in May 2014 with a four star rating in DownBeat and was celebrated with a performance in NYC and in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center's KC Jazz Club this past January. Cruise www.jamiebaum.com "The music was all Byard’s, played lovingly and a bit loosely...Most of the songs in the first set were fine examples of standard form gone just slightly haywire. The absence of a pianist in the group is good strategy...” -- Nate Chinen, New York Times Dena DeRose Dena DeRose, American Jazz Vocalist and Pianist, has 12 recordings to her credit, all of which have recieved at least 4 stars in Downbeat, feature articles in JazzTimes and many other jazz publications, alot of radio play across the world/internet, and have been considered for Grammy’s. DeRose will be joined by drummer Jeff Siegel and bassist Rich Syracuse. They'll be playing songs from Dena's 2 most recent recordings on the HighNote Record Label and will feature Ingrid Jensen on a few tunes. Cruise www.denaderose.com Ingrid and Christine Jensen Sisters Ingrid and Christine Jensen grew up in Canada in the lush and beautiful Vancouver Island countryside by the sea. The music they will bring to the festival will echo their inspired early surroundings, as well as branch out into reflections from their vast global journeys from which their musical gifts have sent them on. Ingrid Jensen is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and Malaspina University in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She has been nominated for several Juno awards, winning one with her first release, Vernal Fields (featuring Lenny White, George Garzone and Larry Grenadier). Ingrid spends much of her time touring with her own projects, playing with the Grammy award winning Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and guesting at prestigious universities around the world.With Christine on soprano and alto saxophones, Ingrid on trumpet and electronics, their deep sense of trust and communication will take the listeners on an ear journey beyondjust the tunes they will perform. Expect a mix of both sister’s original compositions with a spice of standard material as well. Bassist Doug Weiss and guitar player Jesse Lewis , drums (TBA) will join in on the joyful night of musical adventuring. Cruise www.ingridjensen.com and www.christinejensenmusic.com Claire Daly Claire Daly, baritone sax. Claire is returning to the Wall Street Festival. She has been a long standing poll winner in Downbeat and Jazz Times Magazines, and was nominated in 2015 for Jazz Journalist Baritone of the Year. Her first CD, "Swing Low" is in the Bill Clinton Presidential Library as a CD significant to him while in office. Her most recent recording "2648 West Grand Blvd" on Glass Beach Jazz will be released in October, featuring 11 Motown tunes from the Detroit years. Cruise www.clairedalymusic.com Su Terry Su Terry, saxophonist and clarinetist, is an internationally known soloist and recording artist. In the press, she's been hailed as "simply extraordinary" (Die Wahrheit, Berlin Germany) and "Superwoman of Jazz" (Hartford Courant). "If Kerouac were alive he'd write about her," says poet Michael J. Wetmore. Her new release is Live at the Deer Head Inn on the Deer Head Records label. She's the author of two non-fiction books, For The Curious and Greatest Hits of The Blog That Ate Brooklyn: Inside the Mind of a Musician. When Su is not playing music or writing, she's practicing martial arts, in which she's an 8-time USKSF Championship Tournament gold medalist in taijiquan. Articles, audio, video and photos are available on her website, www.suterry.com. Suzi Stern Originally from Buffalo N.Y. vocalist songwriter and poet Suzi Stern now hails from Austin, Texas where she performs, teaches, records and produces a jazz and latin music concert series called “ Casa Karen”. She has released 7 CD’s to date under her own name (Viewpoint Records, Aardvark Records and Bus Biscuit Records), all receiving glowing reviews from Jazz Times, Downbeat, Cadence, All About Jazz and more. Her latest release "Romancing the Dark" steps out of the jazz idiom for which she is known, and is a collection of Stern’s own original compositions and arrangements. Stern’s lyrics from collaborations with Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Denny Zeitlin and Bill Evans appear in several Hal Leonard Real Book publications. Suzi is so happy to have the remarkable jazz pianist Peggy Stern recently relocate to Austin where the two Stern women can collaborate to wake up the call for more jazz in the heart of Texas! Cruise www.suzistern.com Peggy Stern Peggy Stern is a pianist, composer, and arranger, currently making her home in Austin, Texas to be near her tiny grandchildren. She has most recently compiled a Cd of original music, to be released in time for the Festival this year. Along the way, aside from Salsa, free jazz, Bossa Nova, Peggy, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do..." has picked up Texas Swing, and plays with a number of bands in Texas. Cruise www.peggystern.com Along with Executive Producer John Bilotti, Peggy has been the Artistic Director of The Wall Street Jazz Festival, for 12 proud years. Estrella Salsa Estrella Salsa will feature Su Terry, Suzi Stern, Claire Daly, Ingrid and Christine Jensen, Peggy Stern, Lew Scott, and Peter O'Brien... It should be a pretty fun, raucous set!