El Golfo
8739 Flower Avenue
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2023JuneMAJFSeries
We are so proud to announce the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series starting Thursday, June 29, 2023 with The Sean Jones Quartet - Sean Jones on trumpet, Allyn Johnson on piano, Kris Funn on bass, Jevon Ruston on drums!
El Golfo @ 8739 Flower Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20901
The Jazz Academy of Music, Inc.
coordinator@jazzacademy.org
Share Thursday, June 29 - The Sean Jones Quartet - Sean Jones on trumpet, Allyn Johnson on piano, Kris Funn on bass, Jevon Ruston on drums!
El Golfo Restaurant
7:00-9:30pm
$20/$25
Summer Series $55/3 shows
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Sean Jones Quartet
Music and spirituality have always been intertwined in the artistic vision of trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator, and activist Sean Jones. Mr. Jones sang and performed as a child with the church choir in his hometown of Warren, Ohio, and switched from playing the drums to the trumpet at the age of 10.
Mr. Jones is a musical chameleon, comfortable in any musical setting no matter the role or genre. After a six-month stint with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis offered him a permanent position as lead trumpeter of the ensemble, a post he held from 2004 until 2010. In 2015, Mr. Jones was tapped to become a member of the SFJAZZ Collective. During this time, he has managed to keep a core group of talented musicians together under his leadership, forming the foundation for groups that have produced and released eight recordings on Mack Avenue Records. His most recent is the 2017 release Sean Jones: Live from Jazz at the Bistro.
Mr. Jones has been prominently featured in recordings and performances with many major figures in jazz, including Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Nancy Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Gerald Wilson, and Marcus Miller. He was selected by Mr. Miller, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter for their A Tribute to Miles tour in 2011. He has also performed with the Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown symphony orchestras, as well as Soulful Symphony in Baltimore and a chamber group at the Salt Bay Chamberfest.
Mr. Jones is an internationally recognized educator. He is president of the Jazz Education Network and holds the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair in Jazz Studies at The John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Baltimore. As well as artistic Director for the NYO JAZZ Program of Carnegie Hall. Previously, he served as chair of the Brass department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
NO REFUNDS! ALL SALES ARE FINAL
We are so proud to announce the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series produced by the Jazz Academy of Music and Sponsored by the Toretsky Family! This event will take place at El Golfo Restaurant in Silver Spring, which features great music, food, drink and free parking. This series is a fundraiser for the MAJF!
El Golfo
8739 Flower Avenue
The Jazz Academy of Music Inc, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, established in 2002, is a manifestation of a longtime dream of Paul Carr, its Music Director, to extend the music education opportunities afforded him, as an inner city youth, to others. The Jazz Academy produces the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival which is an annual "Real Jazz" music program with activities under one roof ... A CRUISE ON LAND!
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