[Dixielandjazz] A hell of a Jazz Show in NYC.

[Steve barbone]

Shows like this one are why NYC is still the Jazz Capitol of the World. If
you are in the area, don't miss it. Bargain priced too.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

"HIGHLIGHTS IN JAZZ" PRESENTS Thursday, May 12, 2005 8PM

KEEPERS OF THE FLAME

Dick Hyman
Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks
Marcus Belgrave Salute To Doc Cheatham
With Randy Sandke, Theodore Cheatham Croker, Chuck Folds and others
Special Guest Peter Cincotti

Dick Hyman (born Mar 8, 1927 in New York, NY) is a versatile virtuoso
pianist. He has investigated ragtime and the earliest periods of jazz and
has researched and recorded the piano music of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll
Morton, James P. Johnson, Zez Confrey, Eubie Blake and Fats Waller. In
addition to being an accomplished pianist, organist, arranger, music
director, and composer his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz is featured on
Dick Hyman¹s 100 Years Of Jazz Piano, a CD-ROM based on his frequent
recital-lectures.  For his ³Highlights in Jazz,² appearance Dick will be a
Œkeeper of the flame¹ for the piano music of James P. Johnson (1891 - 1955),
the grand-daddy of stride piano who composed ³Carolina Shout², ³You¹ve Got
To Be Modernistic², ³Caprice Rag²,  ³Eccentricity², ³Old Fashioned Love² and
³Charleston². 

Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks band are renowned on the New York scene
for their commitment to preserving and authentically presenting 1920s and
1930s jazz. Each piece they perform is inspired by, and arranged from,
original recordings from greats of the era. The 11-piece group has been
featured on movie soundtracks including Ghost World, Cotton Club, Finding
Forrester, Bloodhounds on Broadway, and most recently Martin Scorsese¹•s
Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator.

Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave is a versatile performer who plays avant-garde and
traditional New Orleans jazz, blues, and ragtime. Belgrave has performed
with Ray Charles, Max Roach, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett,
Sammy Davis Jr., and Dizzy Gillespie. For his ŒHighlights¹ appearance he
will be saluting jazz trumpet great Doc Cheatham (1905- 1997) Doc Cheatham
recorded with Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday, and, during the 1950s, he
alternated playing with Dixieland and Latin bands. He was a sideman in
several big bands in the 1920s and started to make a name for himself as an
improviser in the 1960s. In 1980, Cheatham's career took off, and he became
a fixture at music festivals and began to steadily release recordings, which
include The 87 Years of Doc Cheatham and Doc Cheatham and Nicholas Payton.

Special guest Peter Cincotti (born July 11, 1983 in New York City), started
tinkling the keys of a toy piano when he was three years old. By age 12 he
was already appearing professionally. His first jazz concert appearances as
a teenage was at "Highlights in Jazz". And at 18 he became the youngest
performer to headline at the prestigious Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in
New York City. In 2003 he was signed to Concord Records, and his self-titled
debut album was produced by Phil Ramone. Being born and raised in Manhattan
he was exposed to everything from rock concerts at Madison Square Garden to
jazz clubs to Broadway shows. Cincotti bends the Great American Songbook
into new and interesting shapes and like his mentor, Harry Connick, Jr., he
can swing and sing everything from W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" to Cole
Porter's "I Love Paris", to Goffin and King's "Some Kind Of Wonderful". USA
Today declared Peter "a prodigiously gifted pianist and an interpretive
singer of considerable charm."

There will be a special surprise guest on this show.

This concert will take place at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough
of Manhattan Community College), 199 Chambers Street (between Greenwich and
West Street). The tickets are $27.50, $25.00 for students.  They can be
purchased at the theater box office or by calling (212) 220-1460.