IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB
1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st)
NEW YORK, NY 10023
RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com
Tuesday, January 9th 6:30 to 8PM
$15 Music Charge, $10 Min.
The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present the Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) Tuesday January 9 6:30 to 8PM.
The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) is comprised of five fine musicians who met and played jazz at Princeton in the '50's and for the next 50 years went their separate ways pursuing a variety of careers. Two chose music as a profession but all stayed close to music in some way.
They came to Princeton from different places: Alan from New York, Ed from Newark, New Jersey, Dick from Massachusetts, Pete from California and Tom from down the street in Princeton New Jersey. They played in various jazz groups on campus including the Nassau Jazz Band, Stan Rubin's Tigertown Five and finally Dick, Ed and Alan were members of the Johnny Eaton Quartet a unique group that recorded three albums for Columbia Records produced by the legendary producer, George Avakian. One unreleased album included Ed's tenor sax playing friend from Newark, Wayne Shorter, this legend's very first recording.
The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) repertoire focuses on the Great American Songbook with a liberal dose of bebop, latin and other music from the mainstream jazz tradition.
“The Great American Songbook in the straight ahead jazz idiom"
Tom Artin (trombone & flute)
Tom Artin began playing jazz in Junior High School in a band organized by the now celebrated American composer John Harbison. He has played throughout the U.S. and Europe with a number of world renowned jazz groups including the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble (1981-84), the Louis Armstrong Alumni All-Stars, the World of Jelly Roll Morton, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and Wild Bill Davison. During the '80's Tom was a regular member of the house band at Eddie Condon's and also led the Friday noontime band, Condon's Hot Lunch.
Dick Lincoln (vibes & keyboards)
Dick Lincoln is from Southeastern Massachusetts where he started playing violin as a young boy. He studied mallet percussion and jazz from age fourteen until graduating high school in the Boston suburbs. At Princeton University in the fifties he played vibes with all the PJQ members, briefly with Stan Rubin and the Tigertown Five and joined the John Eaton Quartet with Alan Bergman and Ed White. That group made three recordings with George Avakian at Columbia Records. Dick moved permanently to the Princeton NJ area in 1966 and has played both piano and vibes in the Trenton NJ area for forty years. Alan Bergman (drums & percussion)
Alan Bergman has been able to combine his love for jazz and other music with a rewarding career as an attorney in the music business. He was born in Brooklyn, attended public high school and then Princeton and NYU Law School. His first job was as Counsel to Frank Loesser and his music publishing and Broadway production companies. He then became an attorney with ABC Records during the Golden Age of Impulse Records of John Coltrane, Ray Charles and the Mamas and the Papas. He formed his own law practice in New York City in 1973 specializing in the music business. He has continued to play music with various community orchestras, jazz groups and finally the PJQ.
Pete Blue (piano & keyboards)
Pete Blue was born in Los Angeles, went to Beverly Hills High School, and was a philosophy major at Princeton (and student conductor of the Concert Band under Richard Franko Goldman). After a year of law school at Columbia and another at Stanford, Pete left to become a professional musician (keyboards) for long periods in: Seattle (where the Seattle Times music critic called him “one of the best jazz pianists in the Pacific Northwest"); Las Vegas (the Flamingo) and Reno /Tahoe (Harrah's) during the Elvis era; Nashville (Grand Ole Opry). He was onstage pianist for the long running Broadway hit, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and was one of the original creators of Forbidden Broadway the long running spoof of the Broadway musical scene.
Ed White (bass & bass guitar)
Ed started his musical career by studying violin at the age of six. Violin wasn't his first choice, but his arm was “too short to box with God" or play trombone. Six years and a somewhat longer arm later, he switched to double bass. Ed studied classical bass for the next six years during five of which he played in the New Jersey All State High School Orchestra. At Princeton and later in Cairo Ed studied the Arabic language and literature which proved invaluable for a later career embracing six years as a Peace Corps Deputy Country Director in Iran, and Country Director in Libya, Barbados and Kenya. The next period consisted of 22 years with the United Nations, including headquarters postings in New York and Geneva and field assignments as UN Development Programme Country Representative and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran, Mauritania and Samoa.
1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st)
NEW YORK, NY 10023
RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com
Tuesday, January 9th 6:30 to 8PM
$15 Music Charge, $10 Min.
The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present the Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) Tuesday January 9 6:30 to 8PM.
The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) is comprised of five fine musicians who met and played jazz at Princeton in the '50's and for the next 50 years went their separate ways pursuing a variety of careers. Two chose music as a profession but all stayed close to music in some way.
They came to Princeton from different places: Alan from New York, Ed from Newark, New Jersey, Dick from Massachusetts, Pete from California and Tom from down the street in Princeton New Jersey. They played in various jazz groups on campus including the Nassau Jazz Band, Stan Rubin's Tigertown Five and finally Dick, Ed and Alan were members of the Johnny Eaton Quartet a unique group that recorded three albums for Columbia Records produced by the legendary producer, George Avakian. One unreleased album included Ed's tenor sax playing friend from Newark, Wayne Shorter, this legend's very first recording.
The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) repertoire focuses on the Great American Songbook with a liberal dose of bebop, latin and other music from the mainstream jazz tradition.
“The Great American Songbook in the straight ahead jazz idiom"
Tom Artin (trombone & flute)
Tom Artin began playing jazz in Junior High School in a band organized by the now celebrated American composer John Harbison. He has played throughout the U.S. and Europe with a number of world renowned jazz groups including the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble (1981-84), the Louis Armstrong Alumni All-Stars, the World of Jelly Roll Morton, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and Wild Bill Davison. During the '80's Tom was a regular member of the house band at Eddie Condon's and also led the Friday noontime band, Condon's Hot Lunch.
Dick Lincoln (vibes & keyboards)
Dick Lincoln is from Southeastern Massachusetts where he started playing violin as a young boy. He studied mallet percussion and jazz from age fourteen until graduating high school in the Boston suburbs. At Princeton University in the fifties he played vibes with all the PJQ members, briefly with Stan Rubin and the Tigertown Five and joined the John Eaton Quartet with Alan Bergman and Ed White. That group made three recordings with George Avakian at Columbia Records. Dick moved permanently to the Princeton NJ area in 1966 and has played both piano and vibes in the Trenton NJ area for forty years. Alan Bergman (drums & percussion)
Alan Bergman has been able to combine his love for jazz and other music with a rewarding career as an attorney in the music business. He was born in Brooklyn, attended public high school and then Princeton and NYU Law School. His first job was as Counsel to Frank Loesser and his music publishing and Broadway production companies. He then became an attorney with ABC Records during the Golden Age of Impulse Records of John Coltrane, Ray Charles and the Mamas and the Papas. He formed his own law practice in New York City in 1973 specializing in the music business. He has continued to play music with various community orchestras, jazz groups and finally the PJQ.
Pete Blue (piano & keyboards)
Pete Blue was born in Los Angeles, went to Beverly Hills High School, and was a philosophy major at Princeton (and student conductor of the Concert Band under Richard Franko Goldman). After a year of law school at Columbia and another at Stanford, Pete left to become a professional musician (keyboards) for long periods in: Seattle (where the Seattle Times music critic called him “one of the best jazz pianists in the Pacific Northwest"); Las Vegas (the Flamingo) and Reno /Tahoe (Harrah's) during the Elvis era; Nashville (Grand Ole Opry). He was onstage pianist for the long running Broadway hit, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and was one of the original creators of Forbidden Broadway the long running spoof of the Broadway musical scene.
Ed White (bass & bass guitar)
Ed started his musical career by studying violin at the age of six. Violin wasn't his first choice, but his arm was “too short to box with God" or play trombone. Six years and a somewhat longer arm later, he switched to double bass. Ed studied classical bass for the next six years during five of which he played in the New Jersey All State High School Orchestra. At Princeton and later in Cairo Ed studied the Arabic language and literature which proved invaluable for a later career embracing six years as a Peace Corps Deputy Country Director in Iran, and Country Director in Libya, Barbados and Kenya. The next period consisted of 22 years with the United Nations, including headquarters postings in New York and Geneva and field assignments as UN Development Programme Country Representative and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran, Mauritania and Samoa.
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