Past Events: Jazz at the Trout
Gene Bertoncini, Ike Sturm,
& Zach Harmon
Saturday, July 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Gene Bertoncini | guitar
Gene is one of the finest guitarists and most entertaining teachers in the world. He is a veteran of the Benny Goodman and NBC Tonight Show orchestras as well as hundreds of recordings and performances with just about everyone who’s anyone in jazz.
Ike Sturm | bass
Ike is a bassist, composer, and leader of the Ike Sturm Ensemble in New York and serves as the Music Director for Jazz at Saint Peter’s Church (the renowned “Jazz Church”) in Manhattan. Ike has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Wheeler, Gene Bertoncini, Maria Schneider, Peter Erskine and Benny Powell.
Zach Harmon | (drums)
He may be only 25, but Zach has already toured with jazz legends Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock and is featured on tabla on trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s Grammy Award-winning album A Tale of God’s Will (Blue Note).
Steve March-Tormé & Janet Planet
Thursday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m.
Steve March-Tormé | www.stevemarchtorme.com
Singer-songwriter Steve March-Tormé performs classic standards, original songs and shares personal stories from his never boring life. From Broadway to The Beatles, from Mercer to Mel, Steve always entertains. Steve is the 91.1 Avenue host from 3 to 7 p.m. weekdays and Sunday noon to 6 p.m.
Janet Planet | www.janetplanet.com
A productive recording artist, performer, teacher and clinician, Janet has performed with legends such as Jackie and Roy, George Benson, and Nancy King. She has 23 recordings in her discography to date, and is the Avenue host on 91.1 The Avenue on Planetary Rotations from 7 p.m. to Midnight, and Sunday Jazz Brunch Sunday Mornings from 6 a.m. to noon.
991.1 The Avenue will broadcast the performance live. Preceding the concert (7:15 p.m.), the U.S. Postal Service will pay tribute to jazz music and musicians by unveiling its new Commemorative Jazz Stamp.
Battle of the Big Bands
featuring Lawrence University Jazz Ensembles
Saturday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Vocalist JACKIE ALLEN QUARTET
featuring DANE RICHESON, drums
Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m.
BILL CARROTHERS, piano & MATT TURNER, cello
Thursday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Bill Carrothers | www.carrothers.com
Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for 30 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival in Brussels, the Nevers Jazz Festival (where he shared the bill with Abbey Lincoln), the Montreal Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, and the Marciac Festival in France. In October of 2000, Mr. Carrothers headlined the prestigious Rising Star Tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and more recently, headlined a week with his trio at the famed Village Vanguard in New York City. He has been a leader on eighteen recordings, all of which have received critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the greatest names in jazz including Scott Colley, Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Eric Gravatt, Drew Gress, Tim Hagans, Billy Hart, Billy Higgins, Ari Hoenig, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Gary Peacock, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, James Spaulding, Bill Stewart, Ben Street, Ira Sullivan, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Wallace.
Matt Turner | improvcellist.com
Turner performs in a myriad of styles and has shared the stage with Cape Breton fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster, avant-garde musicians Marilyn Crispell, Peter Kowald, and John Butcher, country musician Wanda Vick, singer-songwriter LJ Booth, and jazz musician Bobby McFerrin and has performed in Canada, Europe and Asia. He appears on over 100 recordings on Sketch/Harmonia Mundi, Illusions, Ayler, Music and Arts, Accurate, Polyvinyl, Cadence Jazz and others and has recorded with Fantastic Merlins, goth vocalist/pianist Jo Gabriel, singer-songwriters Mark Croft and Tret Fure, punk artist Kyle Fischer, Kitty Brazelton’s chamber rockestra Dadadah, alt-country band Heller Mason and with the Pointless Orchestra. Turner teaches improvisation at Lawrence University and at the Renaissance School for the Arts. Turner is a Yamaha Performing Artist and currently performs and records with Bill Carrothers, Janet Planet, John Harmon and Randy Sabien.
Terell Stafford, Trumpet
with Lawrence Jazz Faculty Trio
(Dane Richeson, drums; Lee Tomboulian, piano; Mark Urness, bass)
Thursday, January 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Since the mid-1990’s Terell Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s Sextet, the Kenny Barron Sextet, the Frank Wess Quintet, the Jimmy Heath Big Band, the Clayton Brothers Quintet, and the Jon Faddis Orchestra. Currently, he is a member of the GRAMMY award winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as drummer Matt Wilson’s group, “Arts and Crafts,” and drummer Alvin Queen’s group, “Alvin Queen and the Organics.”