February 6, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
Sunday February 12, 2006 at 6:00pm The First Presbyterian Church 199 North Columbus Ave. (corner of East Lincoln Ave.) 10553-1196 1914-664-664-0623 Come out and party with us presbyterianjazzsociety.org
Master reed player, band leader and renowned session player Bill Easley is joined by Antoinette for a Pre-St Valentine's Day Jazz celebration, presented by the 25 year running Presbyterian Jazz Society of Mount Vernon, NY.
Bill Easley has had a amazing and diversified career, as a professional musician, spanning more than forty year. His arsenal of woodwind instruments includes; Tenor, Alto, and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute and Piccolo. In recent years he has played in banes led by such notables as Ruth Brown, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Bobby Short, Louie Bellson, Nicholas Payton, Charles McPherson, James Williams, Roland Hanna, Earl May, Illinois Jaquet, Ron Carter, Frank Foster, Mercer Ellington, Panama Francis and Grady Tate among many others.
In addition to his extensive discography as a sideman, he also has three recordings as a leader, “Easley Said (with the Bill Easley Sextet), Wind Inventions, and First Call and are available at Amazon.com. His Broadway credits include; Sophisticated Ladies, The Wiz, Black and Blue, Jelly's Last Jam, Swingin' On a Star, Play On, Fosse, and most recently, The Wild Party.
Bill Easley has recently appeared with the Cab Calloway Band in Japan; with Ruth Brown at the Jazz AuBar; with Bobby Short at the Hotel Carlyle (for his last performances); with Johnny Mathis at the Westbury Music Fair and with Michel Legrand at the Kennedy Center.
Antoinette Montague is a Jazz singer who loves people and thrills audiences with her crystal-clear tone, her range and her emotional intensity. “I enjoy and learn from Bill Easley's no-nonsense approach to music...he makes it look like magic."
Antoinette was in the Great Women in Music Festival at Birdland with the Duke Ellington Bank (filmed by Bet on Jazz), with Mike Longo's NY State of the Art Bank for the 88th Birthday Celebration of Dizzy Gillespie, and selected by a special panel of Judy Pitts, Sheila Jordan and Martin Mueller to perform at the 40th Anniversary of St. Peters Church and the 10 Anniversary of International Women in Jazz with Norman Simmons, Kenny Washington, and Bill Easley, Stan Hope, Tom Aalfs and others.
She has mc as a part of the JVC Jazz Festival, and performed at Madam X, The Cajun, Trumpets, The Dancing Goat Caf and the NAACP'S tribute to Milt Jackson.
Antoinette brings a business sensibility to Jazz as she is a VP at Bottomline Publications and contributes all she can to help Jazz organizations. She spent time learning and supporting some of the best in Jazz for many years including Carrie Smith, Etta Jones, Norman Simmons, Della Grifin, Inez McClendon, Jim Carson, and everyone she can listen and learn from. She will soon release, For the Love of This Music, with Mulgrew Miller, Bill Easley, Peter Washington, and Kenny Washington.
Contacts: [email protected] antoinettemontague.com
Sunday February 12, 2006 at 6:00pm The First Presbyterian Church 199 North Columbus Ave. (corner of East Lincoln Ave.) 10553-1196 1914-664-664-0623 Come out and party with us presbyterianjazzsociety.org
Master reed player, band leader and renowned session player Bill Easley is joined by Antoinette for a Pre-St Valentine's Day Jazz celebration, presented by the 25 year running Presbyterian Jazz Society of Mount Vernon, NY.
Bill Easley has had a amazing and diversified career, as a professional musician, spanning more than forty year. His arsenal of woodwind instruments includes; Tenor, Alto, and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute and Piccolo. In recent years he has played in banes led by such notables as Ruth Brown, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Bobby Short, Louie Bellson, Nicholas Payton, Charles McPherson, James Williams, Roland Hanna, Earl May, Illinois Jaquet, Ron Carter, Frank Foster, Mercer Ellington, Panama Francis and Grady Tate among many others.
In addition to his extensive discography as a sideman, he also has three recordings as a leader, “Easley Said (with the Bill Easley Sextet), Wind Inventions, and First Call and are available at Amazon.com. His Broadway credits include; Sophisticated Ladies, The Wiz, Black and Blue, Jelly's Last Jam, Swingin' On a Star, Play On, Fosse, and most recently, The Wild Party.
Bill Easley has recently appeared with the Cab Calloway Band in Japan; with Ruth Brown at the Jazz AuBar; with Bobby Short at the Hotel Carlyle (for his last performances); with Johnny Mathis at the Westbury Music Fair and with Michel Legrand at the Kennedy Center.
Antoinette Montague is a Jazz singer who loves people and thrills audiences with her crystal-clear tone, her range and her emotional intensity. “I enjoy and learn from Bill Easley's no-nonsense approach to music...he makes it look like magic."
Antoinette was in the Great Women in Music Festival at Birdland with the Duke Ellington Bank (filmed by Bet on Jazz), with Mike Longo's NY State of the Art Bank for the 88th Birthday Celebration of Dizzy Gillespie, and selected by a special panel of Judy Pitts, Sheila Jordan and Martin Mueller to perform at the 40th Anniversary of St. Peters Church and the 10 Anniversary of International Women in Jazz with Norman Simmons, Kenny Washington, and Bill Easley, Stan Hope, Tom Aalfs and others.
She has mc as a part of the JVC Jazz Festival, and performed at Madam X, The Cajun, Trumpets, The Dancing Goat Caf and the NAACP'S tribute to Milt Jackson.
Antoinette brings a business sensibility to Jazz as she is a VP at Bottomline Publications and contributes all she can to help Jazz organizations. She spent time learning and supporting some of the best in Jazz for many years including Carrie Smith, Etta Jones, Norman Simmons, Della Grifin, Inez McClendon, Jim Carson, and everyone she can listen and learn from. She will soon release, For the Love of This Music, with Mulgrew Miller, Bill Easley, Peter Washington, and Kenny Washington.
Contacts: [email protected] antoinettemontague.com
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