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DC Jazz Festival - George V Johnson Jr Quintet Comes to Blues Alley - JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION Dedicated to Eddie Jefferson - One Night Only! Monday, June 7, 2010 Featuring Yaacov Mayman-sax, Raymond An
celebrated artists as Paquito D'Rivera; Roberta Flack; the Eddie
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Claudio Roditi; Edmar Castaneda; Michael Philip Mossman; Akua Dixon and Quartette Indigo; the Berklee World Jazz Nonet; Roberta Gambarini; the Marshall Keys Quartet; the Marian Petrescu Quartet featuring Andreas
Öberg; Tony Madruga, Uri Gurvich; and many others,
RobertaFlack to Replace Dianne Reeves at the Lisner Auditorium
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George V Johnson Jr
GEORGE V JOHNSON JR - VOCALS
Yaacov Mayman - Tenor sax
Raymond Angry - Piano
James King - Bass
Nasar Abadey - Drums
George V Johnson Jr & James Moody
Jazz Mobile Concert @ Grants Tomb August 3, 1985
Eddie Jefferson's Birthday
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Throughout the 80's George was mentored and performed regularly with “James Moody & Lou Donaldson”.
Two of the greatest saxophonist in the history of Jazz. His close association with both Moody and Donaldson led to over a dozen Local & National Live Radio and Television Broadcasts as well as clubs, festivals and concert halls throughout the U.S. Johnson says, playing with Lou Donaldson is almost like singing with Charlie Parker. On Bird's classic "Now's the time" George and Donaldson sing and play together note for note without missing a beat. Swinging hard!
Johnson latest endeavors include skillfully writing lyrics to over 40 of Hank Mobley’s classic compositions. Critics are already saying this is one of the most important and extensive projects to be presented to the public from the Art of Jazz Vocalese realm in many years.
One of my students from Washington DC George V Johnson Jr,
He's Next in Line, Next In Line
A breath of fresh air and the best I've seen on the scene~~ E.J.
1977 Eddie Jefferson & George V Johnson Jr
Left Bank Jazz Society, Baltimore MD
Passing the Torch
He's NEXT IN LINE~~~Eddie Jefferson
Imagine listening to a seasoned jazz musician rip into a bebop solo so sizzling and smooth it makes your senses tingle. Close your eyes and play along. Try and picture the sweat bouncing off the performer like the notes that leap through the air. See if you can hear the mesmerizing melodies go up and down, bringing you through joy and sadness, taking your emotions on a sensory experience unlike any other. Now picture that musician and his beloved instrument: His voice. That's the Art of Jazz Vocalese, and that's what native D.C. son George V Johnson Jr. has been doing for over 40 years. Working as a performer, a D.C. Metrobus driver and a New Jersey train conductor at different times throughout his life, Johnson's latest work has taken the form of pedagogy. He has become a teacher and mentor to both aspiring and established vocalists from around the area, and most recently he has lent his years ofexperience and talent to AU,
leading the AU jazz vocal ensemble.
By Ben Lozovsky~~~THE EAGLE - American University
Dizzy Gilespie's "A NIGHT IN TUNISIA" featuring
George V Johnson Jr & Yaacov Mayman
@ Israel International Jazz Super Jazz Festival Ashdod 10/09
YAACOV MAYMAN
Originally born in Moscow and hailing from Israel, for the past 9 years Yaacov Mayman has been contributing his unique musical voice to the vibrant New York Jazz scene, equally earning high praise, as from his peers and musical critics, as from his multi-faceted audience. Read more..
BLUES MARCH Featuring Benny Golson & Yaacov Mayman
RAYMOND ANGRY - Piano
Featured in music player "A Night In Tunisia Live" & "Mother Africa Live"
Live @ Blues Alley 2004
Pianist and organist Raymond Angry was born in Miami, Florida. After completing his M.A. at Howard University, Angry made his move to New York. In the period that he has been here, his musicianship has earned the respect of fellow musicians, performing with such notables as Mulgrew Miller, Sting, John Legend, Roy Hargrove, Ralph Peterson, Jaleel Shaw, Daru Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Queen Latifah, Gill Scott, Mos Def and Rapper "Rick Ross". Angry also has extensive experience in church music, R&B and Hip-Hop.
Roy Ayers and Raymond Angry Backstage Jimmy Fallon Show 4/15/10
Sting and Raymond Angry @ Earth Day 4/25/10 Washington DC
Raymond can be heard occasionally week nights on the Jimmy Fallon Show.
JAMES KING
James King, born in Houston Texas has made the Washington DC area his musical home for the last 30 years. Working with both local and national acts such as Stanley Turrentine, Gary Bartz, Buck Hill, Shirley Horn, John Malachi, Sharon Clark, Max Roach, Sonny Fortune, Harold Mabern, Gary Thomas, Geri Allen, Ronnie Mathews, Ronnie Burrage, John Hicks, James Williams, Jon Hendricks, Junior Cook, James Moody, Pharoah Sanders, Eddie Henderson, Steve Williams, Barry Harris, Rueben
Brown, Dick Morgan, Freddy Cole, George V Johnson Jr, to name a few.
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James King is a very gifted composer with a lyrical bass style and one of the most sort after bassist in the Metropolitan area. He can be found at one of the many National and International Jazz festivals that keep on the forefront of the Jazz scene.
James King currently performs and tours with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
NASAR ABADEY
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Drummer and Composer Nasar Abadey is the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA®. His debut CD, Mirage was released in 2000 on the Amosaya Record Label, and a follow-up CD is planned to be released later this year (2006). He has performed with Amiri Baraka, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Rouse, Gary Bartz, David Sanchez, Cyrus Chestnut, Sonny Fortune, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, Kenny Kirkland, Gary Thomas, Stanley Turrentine, Sun Ra, Frank Morgan, Bobby Hutcherson, Pharaoh Sanders, Malachi Thompson and many others.
Additionally, he has appeared in various festivals including, San Remo (Italy), Montreal (Canada), Cap City (DC), Virgin Island (Caribbean), JVC (NYC), Morocco (Africa), Chicago Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, D.C. Loft Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Mellon Bank Jazz Festival, (Philadelphia), The East Coast Jazz Festival, the Free World Jazz Festival (DC), International Children's Festival (Seattle), Guatemala City Jazz Festival, among others.
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Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is a Grammy Award-winning American jazz saxophonist.
Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world." Emerging from John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound." Sanders is an important figure in the development of free jazz; Albert Ayler famously said: "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost
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A saxophonist, composer, producer and educator, Bobby Watson grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He trained formally at the University of Miami, and he proceeded to earn his doctorate on the bandstand -- as musical director of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
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