(New York, NY - February 10, 2005) New School University’s Jazz & Contemporary Music Program will open its spring 2005Jazz Presents serieswith the Gerry Hemingway Quartet on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 8:00 p.m., at New School University’s Jazz Performance Space, 55 West 13th Street, 5th Floor, NYC. (By subway: Take the #1 or “F”train to 14th Street.)
Tickets are $10 per show or $30 for the four concert series and may be purchased at the New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, NYC, or at the door on the day of the show. (Box office hours are Monday through Thursday, 1:00 - 8:00 p.m., Friday, 1:00 - 7:00 p.m.) Tickets may also be charged by call (212) 229-5488. Admission to any “Jazz Presents” performance is free for college students with valid ID, children and young adults, grades K-12.
Thursday, February 24, 2005, 8:00 p.m.
Gerry Hemingway Quartet (Ray Anderson, trombone, Ellery Eskelin, tenor, Mark Helias, bass/electric bass, Gerry Hemingway, drums, with guest artist Ben Greenberg, electric guitar)
Percussionist and composer Gerry Hemingway has been at the forefront of creative improvised music for over two decades. He was a member of the ground-breaking Anthony Braxton Quartet for twelve years, and has worked extensively with Reggie Workman, Anthony Davis and countless others. Since 1997, he has developed and led his own quartet with outstanding international acclaim. His quartet’s third recording, The Whimbler (Clean Feed), is to be released this spring. Opening this spring’s Jazz Presents series, he and his accomplished collaborators, Ray Anderson, Ellery Eskelin and Mark Helias, will draw from the Hemingway’s original repertoire and premiere new works that explore the addition of guitar into the group’s unique texture.
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New School University's Jazz & Contemporary Music Program offers a B.F.A. degree program in Jazz Performance, and in Composing/Arranging. The faculty includes such renowned artists as Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, Buster Williams, Jimmy Owens, Benny Powell, Joanne Brackeen, and Jane Ira Bloom. Alumni of the program include many of today's most prominent jazz artists - Larry Goldings, Brad Mehldau, Roy Hargrove, Miri Ben-Ari, Peter Bernstein, Ali M. Jackson, and Marcus and E.J. Strickland. Martin Mueller is the Executive Director of the Jazz Program. For more information, visit the Web site at www.newschool.edu/jazz.