Thursday, July 22, 2010

Monday-August 9th ! The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra - NYC Blue Note

Monday , August 9 th -
- Blue Note Jazz Club-
Sets 8 pm. and 10:30 pm.
$10. cover -
Grammy nominated; Pete McGuinness -
Arranger, Composer, Trombonist and Singer
Extraordinaire
Special Guest: Roseanna Vitro

( Pete and I are collaborating on a new Johnny Mandel project. I will be featured with Pete on
"Emily" and solo on "A Time for Love" )

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

More Photos from our Istanbul Concert !

Dean Johnson, Ferit Odman, Ro, Onder Focan
Zuhal Focan (4th-p-Onder Focan, 7th-p-Ferit Odman, Ro, Mark Soskin
The Turkish girls - Ro & Sibel Kose, Zuhal (someone will soon help me with the names that I'm missing in these photos!
our concert
I am lucky that Zuhal and Onder Focan from the Nardis Club in Istanbul took some photos. I am anxiously awaiting the D Channel's interview and video from our concert.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

June 30th Concert in Istanbul, Turkey






We've just returned from a great two days in Istanbul. The Sheraton Atakoy (http://www.sheratonistanbulatakoy.com.tr/) is putting on a jazz festival this month. Bennie Golson and Ingrid Jensen among others have been featured. I was thrilled to bring Mark Soskin, Dean Johnson and Tim Horner for this gig. We did miss our girl, Sara Caswell (she was in concert elsewhere). I've got some pics of our concert. We would like to Thank: Onder & Zuhal Focan and Manifesto Productions for everything! We had a great show and a Lot of good Turkish food.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

June 30th - Istanbul, Turkey - Concert!


World Travelers and Jazz Lovers in Istanbul - Just Jazz Series of Istanbul Sheraton Atakoy Hotel” featuring ; Mark Soskin, Dean Johnson and Tim Horner http://www.sheratonistanbulatakoy.com.tr/ 10 pm. concert

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Sail Away Video - New ! - The Randy Newman Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefRTToU5Yg


Our first video of the amazing Randy Newman composition: Sail Away.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Randy Newman Project - Video and Group/ New Photo



Friday, May 14th, 2010 - The Randy Newman Project band is Mark Soskin-piano, Dean Johnson-bass, Sara Caswell -violin, Tim Horner-drums and moi' -we met at the arts building located at NJPAC (The New Jersey Performing Arts Center). Special 'Thank you' to Jeff Griglak for allowing us to use the black box theatre at NJPAC's Arts Building to record our video. I have been teaching in the Wachovia Jazz for Teens Program for ten years and this is a performance theatre where the teachers and students perform and record.
Paul Wickliffe, great recording engineer, photographer and videographer agreed to make a video of three of our new Randy Newman tunes which are part of the new Randy Newman cd. project. (Paul@Skylinepro.com) I could not 'Thank' Paul enough for his help and unwavering support! I would also like to thank; Jeff Levenson, my manager and best friend for his support, shuttling musicians, 2nd camera men, Sokphalla, the make up artist, making coffee, running the sound board, wearing all hats that we could put on him and he neary' complained! Thank you!! We are nearing completion of the record that Mark Soskin and I have worked on for over a year. The Randy Newman Project is just about to officially lift off. Stay tuned for news of our release date, the label and a tour.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

May 13th - NJCU Jazz Vocalists in Concert, Hosted by Roseanna Vitro


Dear Friends,

I have four fantastic students that I have been working with at New Jersey City University. Please join us at Cleopatra's Needle, Thursday May 13th at 7 pm., 8:30 pm. and 10 pm. As always we will be performing with an amazing group comprised of Mark Soskin (piano), Dean Johnson (bass) and Jon DiFiore (drums). Kristen Dziuba, Gabriella Gurtler, Vanessa Perea (graduating this semester!) and Kyo Kim. All beautiful and interesting singers. I will perform some tracks from the new, Randy Newman Project: Sail Away.
Please join us for this special night of music.
Cleopatra's Needle -Broadway between 91st. and 92nd. NYC . 212 769 6969