From: Bob Davis (earthjuice_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 2004-10-16 15:12:24
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CHILDREN ON THE CORNER
(the winners of Soul-Patrol's Jazz CD of 2003)
Iridium Nightclub/NYC: Oct 26 - Oct 28, 2004
Shows @ 8pm & 10pm
1650 Broadway (51st st.)
New York, NY 10019
Tel : 212 582 2121
Fax: 212 974 0833
Damage: $25.00
Student Discount: Students get half price admission every night at door except Sat. First and
Second Set
Minimum: $5.00 Minimum in Cocktail Section Tues.-Thurs. & Sun. $10.00 Minimum at Tables
Call Iridium Box Office
at 212-582-2121
I'll be in the house & there will be a surprise or two...
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Five of these six men have a common bond : they played in Miles Davis' band between 1969 and
1975, his groundbreaking "electric years". That music remains not only ahead of its time, but
timeless. Its influence across contemporary music spans genres - records like "Bitches Brew",
"A Tribute to Jack Johnson", "Live-Evil", "On the Corner", "Dark Magus", "Agharta", and
"Pangaea" have inspired artists from Public Enemy to Parliament-Funkadelic to Brian Eno to
Radiohead to The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and hundreds of others. Collectively, these men have
helped to build a wall of sound that is still reverbating. You've heard them on records,
you've felt their influence directly or indirectly in much of the music that you've heard. Now
they're here, working together to bring funk and fusion to new heights. Individually, these
men have played on over 35 Grammy-winning records and have sold over 35 million records.
MICHAEL HENDERSON Michael played with several Motown artists (Fantastic Four, Detroit
Emeralds, Billy Preston) from age 13, and toured with Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin by age
19 before being plucked away by Miles Davis. He spent 1970 - 75 providing a musical anchor for
the Miles Davis band. He later became famous as a singer and songwriter - wrote and performed
on several Top 10 hits, including Normon Connors' Grammy award-winning "You Are My Starship"
as well as his own "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Wide Receiver". He has recorded with Phyllis
Hyman, Bobby Womack, and Johnny Taylor, as well as producing The Dramatics. Michael's music,
as well as the Miles Davis recordings he contributed to, have been sampled frequently during
the last decade. It has been said of Miles Davis' Live-Evil album, "Mostly to blame for the
raw music on Live-Evil was the addition of funk bassist Michael Henderson." Michael is
emerging from a hiatus to lead the Children on the Cornero back into the central
jazz/fusion/funk scene.
NDUGU CHANCLER - Chancler is known not only as a world-class drummer and percussionist, but
also a producer, composer, clinician and teacher. A three-time Grammy nominee, he has to his
credit an extensive list of performances, recordings, original compositions and productions.
As a studio musician, he has performed and recorded with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, George
Duke, Patrice Rushen, Hubert Laws, The Crusaders, Frank Sinatra, Weather Report, Lionel
Richie, Kenny Rogers, Thelonious Monk and John Lee Hooker. He was the drummer on the biggest
selling pop album by Michael Jackson, Thriller, providing the beat on ³Billie Jean.² As a
producer and songwriter, he has written hits for The Dazz Band and George Duke, and produced
for Flora Purim, Bill Summers, Toki and his own solo recordings. He has co-produced recordings
for Santana, The Crusaders, George Duke, Tina Turner, Joe Sample, Wilton Felder and The
Meeting, the group he co-leads with Patrice Rushen and Ernie Watts. He is currently on the
faculty in the jazz studies department at the Thornton School, he is on staff at the United
States Percussion Camp at Eastern Illinois University, the Stanford University Jazz Workshop,
Jazz America and the Thelonious Monk Foundation.
MICHAEL WOLFF Michael began his professional career at age 19 with Latin jazz pioneer Cal
Tjader. In 1975, Wolff was hired by the great alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, which was
followed by stints with Sonny Rollins, Airto Moreira and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
before Wolff became the musical director, arranger and pianist for singer Nancy Wilson. Taking
his talents to television, Wolff became the musical director for the popular "Arsenio Hall
Show." Wolff then jumped back into the jazz scene with a string of highly regarded recordings
including Michael Wolff, Portraiture -- The Blues Period and two piano trio outings --
Jumpstart and 2AM -- with jazz drumming legend Tony Williams and the young upright bass star
Christian McBride. After meeting Indian tabla master Badal Roy, Wolff formed the band known as
Impure Thoughts, featuring saxophonist and former high school classmate Alex Foster (a
longtime member of the "Saturday Night Live" band as well as a member of Jaco Pastorius' Word
Of Mouth band, and currently musical director of the Mingus Big Band), percussionist Frank
Colon, drummer Victor Jones and bassist John B. Williams (his bandmate from "The Arsenio Hall
Show"), recently releasing their new album, ³Intoxicate,² to wide acclaim.
SONNY FORTUNE Sonny began his career with with Elvin Jones and Frank Foster, eventually
joining McCoy Tyner, during which period he started playing the soprano sax and cemented an
already solid reputation as an instrumental innovator with his contributions on Tyner's albums
Sahara, Song For My Lady, and Song of the New World. In 1974, he joined Miles Davis, recording
four LPs, Big Fun, Agartha, Pangaea and Get Up With It. In June 1975 Sonny formed his own
group, marking his debut as a leader with two critically-acclaimed LPs for A&M Horizon,
Awakening and Waves of Dreams. He's had many albums released since then. Sonny's three Blue
Note CD's received rave reviews. Four In One, his album of the music of Thelonious Monk, was
released in the Fall of 1994. His second Blue Note CD, A Better Understanding was released
September of 1995, and consists of all original material in groupings from duo to septet.
Sonny's third CD for Blue Note, From Now On, was released in September 1996 and consists of
both original material and compositions by other artists. The raves have continued and it was
featured on many year-end Ten Best lists. Over the years Sonny has also recorded with such
greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson, George Benson and Nat Adderly, to name a few.
Sonny's groups have always featured his own compositions, and he has toured around the world,
including the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. CBS TV's 48 Hours with Dan Rather did a feature
on Sonny, which was broadcast in late 1993. He is a featured soloist on the soundtrack for the
Jack Nicholson film, The Crossing Guard, and was the subject of a recent CBS Sunday Morning
feature with Billy Taylor. He headlined the first Chicago Playboy Jazz Festival and was the
featured jazz performer at the 1995 Atlanta Montreaux International Music Festival. His recent
release on Shanachie, In the Spirit of John Coltrane, received acclaim in the April 2000
issues of Jazz Times and Downbeat). Sonny has had major media attention, with features on 48
Hours and CBS Sunday Morning.
BADAL ROY - Badal Roy is the foremost exponent of tabla in jazz music. He has played with not
only Miles Davis and John McLaughlin, but also artists as diverse as Herbie Mann, Dave
Liebman, Don Cherry, Pharaoh Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie, Lonnie Liston Smith, Andreas
Vollenweider, and Yoko Ono. He has been an integral part of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time since
1988 and is presently collaborating with Brazil s Duofel, an instrumental guitar duo. In
addition to his own recordings, One in The Pocket, Asian Journal, (with Nana Vasconcelos and
others), Basic Tendencies (with Mike Richmond and Glen Velez), Yantra (with Steve Gorn), and
Songs for Sitar and Tabla (with Arooj Lazewal), Badal has made appearances on other classic
recordings, such as On The Corner (Miles Davis Columbia), Sun Belt (Herbie Mann Atlantic),
My Goals Beyond (John Mclaughlin Ryko), Drum Ode (Dave Liebman ECM) and Satisfied Shells.
BARRY FINNERTY - Barry, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, has had a long and
distingushed career, collabotaing and recording with Chico Hamilton, Airto and Flora Purim,
Hubert Laws, Joe Farrell, Ray Barretto, the Brecker Brothers(Heavy Metal Bebop), the
Crusaders(Street Life), Miles Davis(The Man With The Horn), Billy Cobham, Blood, Sweat and
Tears, Jon Hammond, Taj Mahal. Didier Lockwood, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, Teruo Nakamura, and The
Negatives, among others. He has toured frequently throughout the USA, Europe, and Japan, and
released six albums as a solo artist. Barry works out of the San Francisco bay area, touring
and recording worldwide. In addition to CHILDREN ON THE CORNER, Barry has recently toured
Germany and recorded a live CD of TRAZZ (trance jazz), an electronic groove-based style with
the Yamaha RS7000; and a spontaneous live jam band , DEEP DOWN & OUT.
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Bob Davis
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