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Wayne Wallace in Chicago
Wayne Wallace in Chicago
Date Posted: April 20 2010
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Master trombonist, composer, arranger, producer and three-time Grammy nominee WAYNE WALLACE will perform with the Merit Latin Jazz Big Band on Sunday, April 25 at 7 p.m. as part of the Merit School of Music's Fourth Annual Jazz Festival. The band will perform Wallace's music as well as music by other Latin jazz greats with Wallace on trombone. The concert takes place at Gottlieb Hall at the Merit School of Music, in rhe Joy Faith Knapp Music Center, 38 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL. Tickets are $15. Call 312-786-9428 or log on to www.meritmusic.org for more information. Wallace will also host a master class at the school at 4:30 p.m. which is free and open to the public.
With a formidable career that has seen him on the stage and in the studio with countless luminaries of contemporary music from all genres - Count Basie, Ray Charles, Joe Henderson, Celine Dion, Carlos Santana, Lionel Hampton, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Sonny Rollins, Pearl Bailey, Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Lena Horne, Pete Escovedo, Stevie Wonder, John Lee Hooker, Earl "Fatha" Hines and cellist Jean Jeanrenaud of the Kronos Quartet to name a few - Wayne Wallace's light is burning bright with a growing catalog of critically acclaimed releases on his Patois label. After being on the "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" list in DownBeat's Critics' Poll for two years in a row, in 2009 he was "recognized," making it to the trombone pantheon in DownBeat's 57th Annual Critics' Poll. His most recent CD, ¡BIEN BIEN! with The Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet, is an intriguing collection of Wallace originals, a Memo Acevedo tune, and "straight ahead" tunes that Wallace has masterfully reconfigured into extremely satisfying Latin Jazz vehicles. The CD has earned critical acclaim including a 4.5-star review in DownBeat, a place on numerous top 10 CDs of the year lists. "A fine player, musical thinker and soloist," exclaims JazzTimes. "When you think of Afro-Cuban music, maybe the trombone is not the first instrument that comes to mind. But the trombone has always been essential in order to make a band really swing. And no one embodies that axiom more than San Francisco's Wayne Wallace," says Maria Hinojosa on NPR's Latino USA: http://latinousa.kut.org/2009/10/15/wayne-wallace-latin-jazz-quintet/
But beyond the accolades, Wallace is a dedicated musician whose love of Latin jazz inspires him to create music that not only radiates joy but educates listeners. He is known to many as "The Doctor" for his production skills, but he is also a lauded composer and is also active as an educator teaching at San Jose State University, Stanford University and the Jazz School in Berkeley. His own teachers included Julian Priester, Bobby Hutcherson and Will Sudmeier. In addition, he studied at La Escuela Nacional in Havana, Cuba, and continues to travel to the culturally rich island nation as both a student and educator.
Merit School of Music provides high-quality music education to students in metropolitan Chicago. Its primary goals are to help young people achieve their full musical potential, to remove economic barriers to participation, and to stimulate personal and educational growth through music.
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