Dobbs Ferry Summer Music Series

in association with the
Village of Dobbs Ferry presents the
Seventeenth Annual
Dobbs
Ferry
Summer
Music
Series
Presented by
Ten FREE Wednesday evening concerts at
Waterfront Park, Foot of High St, Dobbs Ferry
June 22 – August 24, 6:30–8pm
Rain location: indoors at Hudson Social, 11 Station Plaza (across from Waterfront Park)
Co-Sponsored by
SUMMER
JAZZ CAMP
SUMMERARTS
WORKSHOPS
Includes ensembles and private
instruction in: Brass, Reeds,
Winds, Percussion, Keyboard,
Guitar, Bass, Strings, & Vocals
Entering our 33rd year,
SUMMERARTS ‘16 offers a
series of multi-disciplinary arts
workshops for children. Led by
professional artist-educators the
atmosphere is always friendly,
creative and fun!
Plus: Master Classes, Jam Sessions,
Jazz Theory, & Performance
Directors:
Ron Vincent and Nancy Kennedy
Plus Saturday Recording
Session: in Studio
For: Aspiring musicians from
5th grade and up
Dates: Aug 1-13
Time: 9am - 3pm Mon to Sat;
$600/week.
Dates: Aug 15 - Sept 2
Time: 9am - 2pm
Place: First Reformed Church,
Hastings
For more information
contact the director
Call: Helen Elliott 917.657.3545
Email: summerarts4kids@riverarts.org
Register online at riverarts.org Email: info@riverarts.org Call: 914.412.5120
RiverArts is a proud co-sponsor
of the Jazz Forum Arts’ Summer
Concert Series
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$9.95 – 12 & under
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$3 Drafts All Night on Wednesdays after the concerts
Wednesday, June 22
Orange Julius & The Big Beat
All my life I’ve only known music.
M​ y name is Julius and I am 17 years old. I’ve been playing
music all my life and love it. I began studying classical
piano while teaching myself drums at the age of 4, began
playing regularly in my church at 9, and was enrolled into
the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division where I
studied classical piano, and currently study jazz piano, drums,
I have had the wonderful privilege to study under and work
and composition at 10. I will begin my studies as a Jazz Piano
with many great musicians and teachers including: John
student at the Juilliard School of Music in the fall of 2016.
Senakwami, Ubaldo Díaz-Acosta, Jeremy Manasia, Richard
My hard work has earned me recognition from the Charles Huntley, Kenny Washington, Craig Weinrib, Javon Jackson,
Mingus High School Festival & Competition, Downbeat Benny Green, Todd Coolman, Jim Saltzman, Lisa Nelson, Dennis
Student Music Awards, NAACP National ACT-SO (Academic, Mackrel, Andra Day, Cyrus Chestnut, Jason Moran, and more.
Cultural, Technological, and Science Olympics), the Next
My playing appears on the recordings of Kate Gratson, Lauren
Generation Jazz Festival High School Competition, NFAA’s
Gayle, Morgan Guerin, Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, and my debut
YoungArts, the Grammy Foundation, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead
album, Introducing Orange Julius and the Big Beat, is now
at the Kennedy Center, and most recently, the Monterrey Next
available on iTunes, Bandcamp, and many other platforms. 
Generation Jazz Orchestra.
Wednesday, June 29
Brian Charette Organ Quartet
New York City organist/pianist Brian Charette has established
himself as a leading voice in modern jazz. Charette is a
Grammy-nominated, Hammond-endorsed artist who was
the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics’ Poll in the “Rising
Star: Organ” category and has climbed to 4th place in The 2015
Critic’s Poll in the main Organ category. This year Brian also
won The Hot House Magazine Fan’s Decision Jazz Award for
Best Organist in New York and had three releases on the Jazz
Week Top 20.
Chaka Khan, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, and many more.
Charette is also an active author and educator, writing for
Charette was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, and was
Keyboard magazine, New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat,
introduced to music by his mother, Catherine. By the age of
and the Czech magazine Muzikus. Brian teaches masterclasses
17, he was playing with jazz luminaries Lou Donaldson and
all over the world and is on the faculty of the Czech Summer
Houston Person. After graduating on the Dean’s List from
Jazz Workshop at Jesek Conservatory in Prague. His first book,
UConn in 1994 with a BA in Classical Piano Performance, Charette
101 Hammond B3 Tips, was released in fall 2014 through
began touring Europe and was drawn to the culture and scene
publisher Hal Leonard, and he has a popular instructional
of Prague, Czech Republic, where he now works often.
video on the website, mymusicmasterclass.com. Outside of
Besides being a critically acclaimed composer and bandleader, music, Charette is passionate about chess and White Crane
Brian has worked with notable artists such as Joni Mitchell, kung fu, in which he holds a black sash. 
Thank you, JAZZ FORUM ARTS
for bringing The Music to our community..
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Wednesday, July 6
Jackie Gage Group
A velvet voice, rich as smooth wine... San Jose’s Jackie Gage is
the Sade of jazz; she possesses a musical grace that channels
torch singers of decades past, mixing elements of jazz, soul,
and modern R&B into her sound.
As a 2014 Jazz Search
West finalist, she has
been seen at nationally
recognized
venues
Yoshi’s Oakland, the
Freight and Salvage
in Berkeley, and
The Sound Room in
Oakland—with notable
past
performances
at the Fillmore Jazz
Festival (2015), San Jose Jazz Summer Fest (2013, 2012), and
Berkeley Juneteenth (2015, 2014) among many other venues.
She grew up surrounded by icons Billie Holiday and Dionne
Warwick, and grew fond of singing their lovely, and haunting
tunes--those that are beautifully classified as torch songs. The
mixture of powerful big bands and intimate combos, oddmeter melodies loved by Burt Bacharach, and smooth solos
from live instruments fueled her identity. This modern sound
is a testament to her daring perception of what “Jazz” is today. Among her musical endeavors, Gage founded Fatale, a
California music house focused on presenting and promoting
Fresh from her sold out album release at Yoshi’s in Oakland,
female artists. 
Gage has created a musical identity in her own vein. She recently
relocated to NYC, and can be seen visiting California regularly,
touring the state yearly from Sacramento to San Diego.
Her music has been heard internationally, from KCSM, KCRW
and Hawaii’s CUH, all the way to Jazz FM in England.
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Vic Juris  Cameron Brown  Tony Jefferson
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Wednesday, July 13
Michael Rabinowitz Quartet
Although the bassoon had been used in jazz on a rare basis
since Don Redman and Frankie Trumbauer in the 1920s, Michael
Rabinowitz is the first jazz musician ever to specialize on the
difficult instrument. He played clarinet in junior high school
but switched to bassoon in high school. He played locally in
New Haven, studied with Sal Mosca, and after college spent
two years in Europe. Upon his return, he recorded on part
of an Ira Sullivan Muse record (1981) and with Eddie Buster.
Rabinowitz moved to New York in 1986, was part of the avantgarde group Mosaic in 1988, and performed Charles Mingus'
"Epitaph" with Gunther Schuller in 1989. Michael Rabinowitz We welcome bassoonist Michael Rabinowitz and his Quartet
led his own groups throughout the 1990s, showing on quartet to the newly reopened Waterfront Park. 
recordings for Cats Paw and Jazz Focus that the bassoon can
effectively assume the role of an improvising saxophonist.
Wednesday, July 20
Mala Waldron Group
Mala Waldron is a native of NYC whose first paid gig was
playing keys and singing back-up vocals with a local R&B
band, "Liquid Pleasure" at the Elk's club at age 15. Shortly after
joining the band, they were signed to a record deal with RCA
records. She later enrolled at SUNY, Old Westbury to study
jazz piano, voice & composition with Makanda Ken McIntyre,
Richard Harper, Warren Smith and Amina Claudine Myers,
ultimately earning a B.A. Degree. Her career has enabled Mala
to share her music all over the world in such places as Japan,
France, Italy, Belgium, Russia and most recently Belarus.
Mala has performed in numerous international tours and
festivals including the Hennessy-Moet Asian XOXO Jazz Tour
(with shows in China, Taiwan & Malaysia), the Catania Jazz
Fest, Corinaldo Jazz Fest and Farfa Voice Fest (Sabina) as well
as festivals in the U.S., a highlight of which was the Annual
Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival (JALC) opening for Patrice
Rushen. As an educator, Mala has done vocal workshops in
Italy, and participated in the WBGO Kids Jazz Concert Series
at the Newark Museum. She was featured in the recently
published book: "Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative
Music" (Renate da Rin and & William Parker editors) and
can be seen in the documentary film, 'The Girls in the Band"
directed by Judy Chaikin. Recordings as a featured artist
include: "Lullabye," (solo debut and tribute to godmother,
Billie Holiday) "He's My Father" (duo project with father,
pianist/composer - Mal Waldron) and "Always There" named
one of JazzUSA's TOP 10 CDs of 2006. Her new CD is entitled
"Deep Resonance." 
Wednesday, July 27
Alison Shearer Quintet
Alison Shearer is a saxophonist with tremendous style, lyricism,
and intuition whose talents have brought her around the
world. Since graduating from the Manhattan School of Music
in 2010, Alison has been involved in many diverse musical
projects. Her debut album, I Am You, will be out in 2016.
Alison's love for music began early on, and by age 8 she was
already an accomplished flute player. Practicing was always fun
for Alison, which helped her get into many advanced groups
and programs throughout her childhood. Alison attended the
Manhattan School of Music precollege program during high
school, now with a focus on saxophone, which affirmed her
love of jazz and set the tone for the career ahead of her.
in 2010. PitchBlak's debut album "You See Us" was released
in 2014.
In addition to playing with PitchBlak, Alison is a member
of FlowState, the contemporary classical ensemble led by
guitarist and composer Ben Brody. Flowstate's self-titled EP
was featured on NPR's New Sounds in 2014, and their second
College at the Manhattan School of Music introduced Alison
EP was released in 2015.
to many of the musicians she works with today. One of the
notable groups to emerge from MSM during Alison's time was In 2013 Alison formed her own group, Alison Shearer Group,
PitchBlak Brass Band, a ten piece hip-hop brass band that has which is now her main musical focus. Alison has been writing
received critical acclaim from publications like DownBeat and a tremendous amount of music for this group which has been
Live for Live Music. Alison is a founding member of PitchBlak playing regularly in the tristate area and releasied their debut
and has toured with the group extensively since its beginning album, "I Am You" in 2016. 
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Wednesday, August 10
The New York Jazz Exchange
The New York Jazz Exchange is a NYC/Stockholm collective
forged in the 60's Blue Note tradition of Hard Bop, Ballads
and Boogaloo. The tour in August is their 5th in the US and
the tour in October/November will their 4th in Scandinavia.
They're also excited to announce that they will be expanding
Swedish born, New York based bass player Lars Ekman is an
to Germany and Belgium this time around.
integral part of today's music scene. Mr Ekman, born and raised
Sean Nowell is a tenor saxophonist and composer from
in Stockholm, Sweden spent the first years of his career on the
Birmingham, Alabama steeped in the southern traditions of
thriving Swedish jazz scene, playing with highly respected
blues, gospel, jazz, and funk fused with the complex harmonic
musicians. He has recorded over 30 albums as a sideman and
and world rhythmic concepts that permeate the music of New
in 2008 he recorded his debut album Introducing Lars Ekman
York City. Fredrik Olsson is a guitar player and composer from
and released it on Stockholm Jazz Records to critical acclaim.
Umeå, Sweden, with deep roots in jazz and rock music, as well
Drummer Joe Abbatantuono, a native New Yorker, born in the
as Swedish folk lore. For the past decade he has been deeply
Bronx and raised in Dutchess County, began playing drums at
involved in the Swedish jazz scene, performing and recording
age nine and has continued to this day. He holds a B.M. from
with his own projects, as well as a sideman. Leo Lindberg,
The Crane School of Music and an M.A. from NYU and has been
piano, was born in 1993 in Stockholm into a musical family
playing drums & percussion for over twenty years.
with a bassist father and a harpist mother. Since the age 5
he was joining his father who is a jazz musician on his gigs This band's music is mainly groove and funk oriented, while still
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Wednesday, August 17
Tony Jefferson & Groovocity
Tony Jefferson, a New York native, is an accomplished
drummer and has been a fixture on the New York jazz scene
for many years. He has toured around the globe playing both
festivals and clubs with world class musicians.
Tony has performed and recorded with many jazz artists
and groups including Eddie Harris, Kenny Drew Jr., Lonnie
Smith, Eddie Henderson, Lou Donaldson, Frank Wess, Don
Friedman, Cyrus Chestnut, Mark Whitfield, Jerry Bergonzi,
Joey Calderazzo, Freddy Cole, Hank Jones, Benny Golson,
Cedar Walton, Vic Juris, Steve Slagle, Charles McPherson, Gary
Smulyan, John Abercrombie, Marc Copland, Kevin Hays, Rick
Margitza, Cameron Brown (Danny’s Calypso and The Here &
Now), Paul Beaudry and Pathways (Jazz Ambassadors Tour for
Jazz at Lincoln Center), Don Byron (Ivey Divey Trio/New Gospel
Quintet), James Weidman, Harvie S, Sheila Jordan, Nancy
King, Ernestine Anderson, Annie Ross and the Westchester
Jazz Orchestra.
He has been a guest clinician in high school and college
workshops, has taught Master classes nationally and abroad
and endorses Paiste Cymbals.
Although specializing in jazz, Tony Jefferson is a versatile
musician whose inventive playing is influenced by his diverse
musical experiences. Tony’s passion for woodwinds and
his melodic approach on the drums has also lead him to
performing as a vocalist. 
Wednesday, August 24
Mike Freeman Zona Vibe
Vibraphonist Mike Freeman has been hailed as "masterful”, a
"superb" vibes player, and “wildly talented” for work with his
own groups and performances as a featured member of other
notable groups. Energetic, rhythmic, soulful, and melodic,
Mike’s performances have taken him from North America and
Europe, to the Azores, Caribbean, and South America. His six
recordings of original music (ranging from jazz, Latin Jazz,
salsa, Brazilian, fusion, and R&B) have gained national and
international attention, have been both Grammy and Latin
Grammy entries, and received extensive radio airplay charting
on jazz, contemporary jazz, and world music radio. Mike
Freeman & Spellbound's 1985 self-titled debut recording was
followed by the drive-time success of “Street Shuffle.” “Wiggle
Stomp" reflects a deeper immersion into the Latin music scene
that, for him, began in the mid-1990s. On “In the Zone,” Mike
brings salsa forms into a jazz context. "The Vibesman" 2012,
takes that exploration
further with a set of
music that captured the
attention of many. His
newest production “Blue
Tjade” (a tip of the hat to
Cal Tjader) blends some
of his early Spellbound
writing styles into
clave-based music. Past
performance highlights
as a leader include
the Trinidad & Tobago
Steelpan & Jazz Festival, Festival Internacional (Terciera,
Azores), Central Park’s Harlem Meer concert series in New York
City, performing for Flood Relief in Des Moines, Iowa, Joslyn Art
Museum’s Jazz on the Green in Omaha, NE, and the Hennessy
Greenwich Village, JVC Newport (at Saratoga) Jazz Festivals. 
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