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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The Hewitt Pantaleoni Memorial Concert Series at
the SUNY College at Oneonta will present the Jazz Composers & Improvisors
Project in a concert in the Hunt Union Ballroom on Friday, April 4, at 7:30
p.m. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of the community
are invited to attend.
The Jazz Composers & Improvisors Project features Erica Lindsay on tenor
sax, Francesca Tanksley on piano, John Davey on bass, and Jeff Siegel on
drums.
Erica Lindsay has performed and toured with many of the biggest names in
contemporary jazz. A member of the music faculty at Bard College, she
composes for theater, television, and dance. She is featured in the film
documentary Women in Jazz and the book American Women in Jazz.
Her album Dreamer features her quintet, and she currently performs
with the Oliver Lake Big Band, the Baikida Carroll Quintet, the Howard
Johnson Hojo5 Quintet, the Jeff Siegel Quartet, and Trace Elements.
Francesca Tanksley is an internationally-acclaimed jazz pianist and
composer, having performed with such notable groups as the Billy Harper
Quintet and the Erica Lindsay Quintet throughout Europe, East and Southeast
Asia, Scandinavia, South America, and the United States. Her compositions
are featured on two of the Billy Harper Quintet's CDs, as well as her own
recently released CD entitled Journey. She has been a featured artist
on the National Public Radio series Piano Jazz and appears in the
documentary Women in Jazz.
John Davey teaches jazz bass at SUNY-Oneonta and Hartwick College. His
first CD as a leader, entitled Sound Bites, features compositions by
Davey with pianist Jeremy Wall, guitarist Chuck D'Aloia, percussionist Brian
Melick, and vocalist Lorena Guillen. His chamber-jazz string trio, From The
Bridge, released the CD 9 views from the bridge, and he recently
released the CD You Are Here with his co-operative jazz/world music
trio, GlobeTrotting.
Jeff Siegel, leader of The Jeff Siegel Quartet, released a CD of original
compositions, Magical Spaces, and is at work on a new CD, Live in
Europe. Siegel is co-leader of The Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson Trio and
The New York Trio Project. He performs regularly throughout Europe at
festivals, clubs, and concerts, and he has conducted drum clinics throughout
Germany and in the U.S.
The appearance of the Jazz Composers & Improvisors Project is
co-sponsored by the SUNY-Oneonta Music Department, Public Events Committee,
College Union Activities Council, and Catskill Conservatory. More
information about the event is available from John Davey of the
Music Department at
(607) 436-3415.
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