Tim Price
04-02-2003, 12:28 AM
I thought I'd share this with you guys in case there were some people who would be interested.
On Saturday I had the extreme pleasure of sharing a concert-clinic in Pennsylvania with my buddy Antonio Hart. Antonio was there with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, which featured John Faddis, Slide Hampton, John Lee, Ignazio Berrozia, and anothere good friend of mine, Mulgrew Miller. The nice thing was that all these high school kids were exposed to this band in concert and clinic. As well as an entire afternoon of judications and clinics by a number of excellent college professors and my good friend Kristy Norter, the alto Sax player who is in Diva now.
During the day, Kristy and I did something very unusual. We tag teamed the sax clinics and improvisition clinics. Kristy and I spoke very briefly about this before hand, and it worked out great. The kids loved it. The highlight with Antonio was hearing him in a standard setting playing tunes associated with Dizzy and going in a more traditionial groove. He is one of the younger guys that I have a tremondous amount of respect for. For starters, he came from studying with Andy McGhee, who I also did, and is very into Cannonball. I heard him a year ago with Dave Holland Big Band and he was killing it. Modern and very personal.
On Saturday, he had the pots on and was dipping back into his roots. It was a pleasure to hear him with Faddis and Mulgrew. To bad the record companies are not paying attention to these kinds of players as much as they should be. This band tore the house up. The support from the audience was very strong. Antonio was using his Yani alto and coming from the darker side of the horn sonically.
I urge you all if you see this band with Antonio...go see it. People like this need all the support they can get. What's happening is the people who book these festivals are weighing bands like this against some of the smooth bands.We must get out more and start to support this music in any way, shape, or form. Numbers count!!!!!!!
Antonio Hart is somebody you really need to hear. he's having fun when he plays and he's telling a story on his horn. Look for him!
On Saturday I had the extreme pleasure of sharing a concert-clinic in Pennsylvania with my buddy Antonio Hart. Antonio was there with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, which featured John Faddis, Slide Hampton, John Lee, Ignazio Berrozia, and anothere good friend of mine, Mulgrew Miller. The nice thing was that all these high school kids were exposed to this band in concert and clinic. As well as an entire afternoon of judications and clinics by a number of excellent college professors and my good friend Kristy Norter, the alto Sax player who is in Diva now.
During the day, Kristy and I did something very unusual. We tag teamed the sax clinics and improvisition clinics. Kristy and I spoke very briefly about this before hand, and it worked out great. The kids loved it. The highlight with Antonio was hearing him in a standard setting playing tunes associated with Dizzy and going in a more traditionial groove. He is one of the younger guys that I have a tremondous amount of respect for. For starters, he came from studying with Andy McGhee, who I also did, and is very into Cannonball. I heard him a year ago with Dave Holland Big Band and he was killing it. Modern and very personal.
On Saturday, he had the pots on and was dipping back into his roots. It was a pleasure to hear him with Faddis and Mulgrew. To bad the record companies are not paying attention to these kinds of players as much as they should be. This band tore the house up. The support from the audience was very strong. Antonio was using his Yani alto and coming from the darker side of the horn sonically.
I urge you all if you see this band with Antonio...go see it. People like this need all the support they can get. What's happening is the people who book these festivals are weighing bands like this against some of the smooth bands.We must get out more and start to support this music in any way, shape, or form. Numbers count!!!!!!!
Antonio Hart is somebody you really need to hear. he's having fun when he plays and he's telling a story on his horn. Look for him!