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May 17 will be Mark Walker and the World Jazz Orchestra with special guest:
sax giant George Garzone
Other Festival Events:
May 14 @ Common Ground - TBA
May 15 @ Common Ground - TBA
May 16 @ Town Tavern - TBA
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Mark Walker and the World Jazz Orchestra
with George Garzone
May 17, 2020 7:00–9:30 pm
Regent Theatre, 11 Medford St, Arlington, MA
Grammy award-winning drummer, percussionist, author, and educator Mark Walker hails from “Central America” (Chicago, Illinois). He began playing drum set at the age of 10 and played his first professional club, concert, and recording gigs barely out of high school. After studying with the great Roy C. Knapp, he gained valuable experience performing a wide range of styles in the Chicago area and later became a first-call session drummer and percussionist, playing on film scores, jingles, and record dates.
Since moving to New York in 1995, he has performed on many Grammy Award winning albums and earned several Grammy nominations (including Best Instrumental Composition in 2008) for his work with various artists, including Oregon, Donato Poveda, Paquito D’Rivera, and Caribbean Jazz Project. He has also earned the Indy award and the Jazz award (German record manufacturers) for his work with Oregon. In addition to these artists, he has performed and recorded extensively with Michel Camilo, Dave Samuels, Andy Narell, WDR Big Band, NDR Big Band, Eliane Elias, Lyle Mays, David Liebman, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Rosa Passos, and many more. He has appeared on major television shows such as “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “PBS presents…,” and “BET On Jazz.” He also appears on screen with Paquito D’Rivera in Fernando Trueba’s Latin jazz documentary Calle 54 (Miramax).
Walker currently resides in the Boston area, where he is a professor in the Percussion department at Berklee College of Music. At Berklee, he has created new curriculum, served on the Education Committee, and taught drummers, percussionists, and ensembles since 2001. He has also served on the faculty at Drummers Collective in New York City and has conducted master classes, clinics, and workshops in South America, North America, and Europe, both as a solo artist and with such groups as Oregon, Paquito D’Rivera Quintet, the Caribbean Jazz Project, Sakesho, Lyle Mays Quartet, Chucho Valdes, Bill Watrous, and others. His book World Jazz Drumming (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard), which features recorded performances by Paquito D’Rivera, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. He also wrote for the all-star instructional drum set book Killer Grooves, published by Carl Fischer.
Walker continues to tour with Oregon and Paquito D’Rivera. He writes for and leads Rhythm of the Américas, a jazz octet incorporating Caribbean and South American rhythms. His solo projects include the sample/loop discs Chameleon Drums, Vol 1 & 2 (Sonic Emulations) and Ritmo De Las Americas (Sampleheads).
Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, the iconic trio founded in 1972 that included bassist John Lockwood and the late drummer, Bob Gullotti. A veteran jazzman, George Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. He began on the tenor when he was six, played in a family band and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.
In addition, George Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z and John Patitucci among others.
Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, currently teaching at the Berklee College of Music. He has also previously taught at New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Northeastern University and the New School University.
He has pioneered the Triadic Chromatic Approach, an improvisation concept which has his own signature in the jazz improvisation vocabulary.
The first edition of the Triadic Chromatic Approach was released in DVD format. In 2020 George Garzone is releasing the second part of the Triadic Chromatic Approach and other educational books related with his concept and his music.
In his never ending teaching career, great musicians of the actual scene have been students of George Garzone, like Joshua Redman, Teadross Avery, Seamus Blake, Chris Cheek, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates, Danilo Perez and the Grammy-Winning Drummer Antonio Sanchez, to name a few.
In 1995 he recorded a fine tribute to Stan Getz on NYC called Alone; Four’s and Two’s followed a year later with compatriot Joe Lovano which earned him four stars in Downbeat magazine, and in 1999 Garzone returned with Moodiology. Fringe in New York was released in summer 2000. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Joe Lovano Nonet, and performed and recorded with this group On This Day … Live At The Vanguard in September 2002.
In January 2019 George Garzone with Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles had a three night concert-recording session which became a Three CD recording called Three Nights in L.A., which became a favorite of many critics like Downbeat Magazine and All about jazz.
Arlington High School Jazz Band – 7:00 - 7:30
Mark Walker - 7:45 - 9:30 pm
Tickets info coming soon
with George Garzone
May 17, 2020 7:00–9:30 pm
Regent Theatre, 11 Medford St, Arlington, MA
Grammy award-winning drummer, percussionist, author, and educator Mark Walker hails from “Central America” (Chicago, Illinois). He began playing drum set at the age of 10 and played his first professional club, concert, and recording gigs barely out of high school. After studying with the great Roy C. Knapp, he gained valuable experience performing a wide range of styles in the Chicago area and later became a first-call session drummer and percussionist, playing on film scores, jingles, and record dates.
Since moving to New York in 1995, he has performed on many Grammy Award winning albums and earned several Grammy nominations (including Best Instrumental Composition in 2008) for his work with various artists, including Oregon, Donato Poveda, Paquito D’Rivera, and Caribbean Jazz Project. He has also earned the Indy award and the Jazz award (German record manufacturers) for his work with Oregon. In addition to these artists, he has performed and recorded extensively with Michel Camilo, Dave Samuels, Andy Narell, WDR Big Band, NDR Big Band, Eliane Elias, Lyle Mays, David Liebman, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Rosa Passos, and many more. He has appeared on major television shows such as “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “PBS presents…,” and “BET On Jazz.” He also appears on screen with Paquito D’Rivera in Fernando Trueba’s Latin jazz documentary Calle 54 (Miramax).
Walker currently resides in the Boston area, where he is a professor in the Percussion department at Berklee College of Music. At Berklee, he has created new curriculum, served on the Education Committee, and taught drummers, percussionists, and ensembles since 2001. He has also served on the faculty at Drummers Collective in New York City and has conducted master classes, clinics, and workshops in South America, North America, and Europe, both as a solo artist and with such groups as Oregon, Paquito D’Rivera Quintet, the Caribbean Jazz Project, Sakesho, Lyle Mays Quartet, Chucho Valdes, Bill Watrous, and others. His book World Jazz Drumming (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard), which features recorded performances by Paquito D’Rivera, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. He also wrote for the all-star instructional drum set book Killer Grooves, published by Carl Fischer.
Walker continues to tour with Oregon and Paquito D’Rivera. He writes for and leads Rhythm of the Américas, a jazz octet incorporating Caribbean and South American rhythms. His solo projects include the sample/loop discs Chameleon Drums, Vol 1 & 2 (Sonic Emulations) and Ritmo De Las Americas (Sampleheads).
Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, the iconic trio founded in 1972 that included bassist John Lockwood and the late drummer, Bob Gullotti. A veteran jazzman, George Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. He began on the tenor when he was six, played in a family band and attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.
In addition, George Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z and John Patitucci among others.
Garzone is well-known as a sought-after jazz educator, currently teaching at the Berklee College of Music. He has also previously taught at New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, New York University, Manhattan School of Music, Northeastern University and the New School University.
He has pioneered the Triadic Chromatic Approach, an improvisation concept which has his own signature in the jazz improvisation vocabulary.
The first edition of the Triadic Chromatic Approach was released in DVD format. In 2020 George Garzone is releasing the second part of the Triadic Chromatic Approach and other educational books related with his concept and his music.
In his never ending teaching career, great musicians of the actual scene have been students of George Garzone, like Joshua Redman, Teadross Avery, Seamus Blake, Chris Cheek, Luciana Souza, Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Doug Yates, Danilo Perez and the Grammy-Winning Drummer Antonio Sanchez, to name a few.
In 1995 he recorded a fine tribute to Stan Getz on NYC called Alone; Four’s and Two’s followed a year later with compatriot Joe Lovano which earned him four stars in Downbeat magazine, and in 1999 Garzone returned with Moodiology. Fringe in New York was released in summer 2000. He is a member of the Grammy-winning Joe Lovano Nonet, and performed and recorded with this group On This Day … Live At The Vanguard in September 2002.
In January 2019 George Garzone with Peter Erskine, Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles had a three night concert-recording session which became a Three CD recording called Three Nights in L.A., which became a favorite of many critics like Downbeat Magazine and All about jazz.
Arlington High School Jazz Band – 7:00 - 7:30
Mark Walker - 7:45 - 9:30 pm
Tickets info coming soon
