[Dixielandjazz] Eddie Daniels + Ken Peplowski +Ron Odrick + Paquito DeRiviera = Great Music

[Steve Barbone]

More on this event. Some Reed Giants on Opening Night. If in MYC, be sure to
check out this session. There will be some Benny Goodman music here in
addition to the more esoteric jazz sounds.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB
1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023
RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com
8:30 & 10:30PM, Fri. & Sat. 3rd Sets AT MIDNIGHT

Oct. 19-22 EDDIE DANIELS 65TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Joe Locke vibes, David Finck bass, Joe LaBarbera drums
Special Guests, Thurs. Oct. 19 PAQUITO DeRIVERA, KEN PEPLOWSKI & RON ODRICH
Live Recording For IPO Recordings This Week at Club!

The Iridium Jazz Club and IPO Recordings are pleased to present
world-renowned clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Eddie Daniels in his first
New York City club appearance in over a decade.

Eddie, who will turn 65 on October 19th has this to say about this
appearance. 

³At my appearance at the Iridium, I will be featuring some of the music from
my new IPO CD ³Mean What You Say², which featured my return to the tenor
saxophone, after having made the clarinet my voice for so many years. The
sets at the Iridium will also feature the clarinet and tenor in a new
setting with vibist Joe Locke,and pianist Tom Ranier, bassist Dave Finck,
and drummer Joe LaBarbera. For me this group will bring a new sound to
today's jazz, with some of the music remembering the MJQ.....the soft
beautiful lyrical quality.,.with some hard driving qualities of today's
music. ³We will perform some of the great standards, and some  original
material written for this  quintet.²  ³I am also pleased that the great alto
saxophonist Paquito DeRivera and my fellow clarinet colleagues Ken Peplowski
and Ron Odrich will be joining me on opening night.²
 
Eddie Daniels is that rarest of rare musicians who is not only equally at
home in both jazz and classical music, but excels at both with breathtaking
virtuosity. 

Expert testimony from the jazz world comes from the eminent jazz critic
Leonard Feather, who said of Eddie, "It is a rare event in jazz where one
man can all but reinvent an instrument bringing it to a new stage of
revolution." 

>From the classical side, Leonard Bernstein said "Eddie Daniels combines
elegance and virtuosity in a way that makes me remember Arthur Rubenstein.
He is a thoroughly well-bred demon."

Eddie first came to the attention of the jazz audience as a tenor
saxophonist with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. When Thad and Mel first
organized their band in 1966 to play Monday nights at the Village Vanguard
in New York (where it still plays), Eddie was one of the first musicians
they called. Later that year, he sank $400 in a round-trip flight to Vienna
to enter the International Competition for Modern Jazz, a contest organized
by the pianist Fredrich Gulda and sponsored by the city of Vienna, and won
first prize on saxophone. He continued working with Thad and Mel over the
next several years and toured Europe extensively with them.

A single clarinet solo recorded with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis orchestra,
"Live at the Village Vanguard" garnered sufficient attention for him to win
Downbeat Magazine's International Critics New Star on Clarinet Award. This
conversion to clarinet was not new, for Eddie began clarinet at age 13 and
received his Masters in Clarinet from Juilliard. Winning numerous Grammy
awards and nominations, Eddie Daniels revolutionized the blend of jazz and
classical.

Eddie Daniels is clearly a renaissance musician, a virtuoso in both jazz and
classical music, recipient of unreserved accolades from his peers, from
critics, and from the public. Eddie's overriding ambition is to reach as
many people as possible with his music, to enlarge the audience for both
jazz and classical music and at the same time to tear down the walls
separating them. In Eddie's hands, the music of Mozart can be as engaging as
that of Charlie Parker and a concert featuring both can be a uniquely
rewarding experience for the audience.

For more about Eddie Daniels visit: http://www.eddiedanielsclarinet.com/