FEATURING:
MIKE RODRIGUEZ –
TRUMPET
JON COWHERD –
PIANO
YASUSHI NAKAMURA
– BASS
ERIC DOOB – DRUMS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH,
2008 AT 8 PM AT THE
PLAYERS THEATRE,
115 MacDougal Street, NY, NY
The Juilliard School's Student Performance Productions
present The Marshall
Gilkes Quintet in
a special
evening off
campus, downtown
at The
Players Theatre,
located at 115 MacDougal Street between
Bleecker and
West 3rd.
The program
features
original
compositions by
young trombone
virtuoso Marshall
Gilkes.
Tickets
are $10 for students
and seniors, and $20
general admission
and can be purchased
at www.ThePlayersTheatre.com or
at the door on the
day of the show.
For more information
please call The
Players Theatre at
(212) 475-1449 or
visit www.ThePlayersTheatre.com.
Young trombone
virtuoso Marshall
Gilkes is forging
new grounds and
receiving high
acclaim from critics
in the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Born in Camp
Springs, Maryland,
Mr. Gilkes spent his
childhood growing up
in many different
parts of the country
traveling with his
father, a musician
in the Air Force,
including Washington
D.C., New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Alabama,
Illinois, and
Colorado. He
currently calls Brooklyn, New York home.
A graduate of The
Juilliard School as
well as Interlochen Arts Academy, Mr. Gilkes’ teachers include Joe
Alessi, Conrad
Herwig, Buddy Baker,
Ed Neumeister, and
Wycliffe Gordon.
Mr. Gilkes is
currently a member
of the
internationally
acclaimed Edmar
Castañeda Trio as
well as the Maria
Schneider Orchestra,
and David Berger's
Sultans of Swing.
In addition he has
performed with Billy
Cobham, the Village
Vanguard Orchestra,
Duke Ellington
Orchestra, Stanley
Turrentine, and
Benny Golson. In
the Latin community,
he has performed
with Machito,
Giovanni Hidalgo, Chico O’Farrell, Tito Nieves, Big 3
Palladium Orchestra,
Raulin Rosendo, Ray
Sepulveda, Eddie
Santiago, Jose
Alberto, and Iroko
La Banda.
During the fall of
2001-fall of 2002
Mr. Gilkes played
for the National and
Japanese tours of
the Broadway show
“Swing”, and in 2003
was a finalist in
the Thelonious Monk
International Jazz
Competition.
His album credits
include two solo
releases: the
Marshall Gilkes
Quintet “Lost Words”
and the Marshall
Gilkes Quartet
"Edenderry", in
addition to
appearances on Edmar
Castañeda’s "Cuarto
de Colores" David
Berger "Marlowe",
Ryan Keberle’s
"Double Quartet",
Maria Schneider’s
"Sky Blue", Big 3
Palladium
Orchestra’s “Live at
the Blue Note”, and
John Fedchock’s "Up
and Running". Mr.
Gilkes has toured
extensively
throughout Europe, Japan,
and the Caribbean,
and has performed at
the Tanglewood Jazz
Festival, Umbria
Jazz Festival,
Vienna Jazz
Festival, JVC Jazz
Festival, Telluride
Jazz Festival,
Panama Jazz
Festival, Lincoln Center, Tokyo’s Orchard Hall, and the Moscow
Conservatory.
Garnering
much acclaim for his
latest album “Lost
Words”, Gilkes many
positive reviews give
credit to his much
established reputation.
Of his last album,
Thomas R. Erdman of Jazz
Review wrote:
“Lost Words is Gilkes’
second CD as a leader.
Accompanied by some of New
York City’s
best and most musically
astute young jazz
musicians, Gilkes’ disc
is one of those rare
releases that has so
much good music on it
the listener can be
ensured of solid
artistic sentiments and
beautiful playing
throughout its entire
length. Joining Gilkes
is trumpeter Michael
Rodriguez, who’s worked
with both Charlie Haden
and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.
Rodriguez brings a
unique sense of musical
extrapolation, with
regard to melodic
fragment use in his
solos, that is
masterful. His solo on
“Titeuf” is wonderfully
both in and out at the
same time. It’s almost
as if he’s crossing the
styles of Freddie
Hubbard and Dave Douglas
with some type of inner
demon, but the result is
marvelous.
Pianist Jon Cowherd has
raised eyebrows in his
work with the Brian
Blade Fellowship.
Cowherd’s playing shows
an artful touch to the
keys in ways Thelonious
Monk used to; emphasis
on just the right
dynamic at just the
right time and a sense
of harmonic imagination
that is tied to the
music of the moment and
not some preconceived
music-school taught
voicing concept.
Cowherd’s playing on the
mid-tempo ballad “Five
Nights,” with his use of
occasionally
non-traditionally voiced
single line
juxtapositions to
trumpeter’s Michael
Rodriguez’s incredible
solo, is worth the price
of the disc alone.
The drum - bass tandem
of Clarence Penn and
Yasushi Nakamura are
stellar in their utter
support of the soloists,
yet so incredibly
colorful behind melodies
it’s hard to believe
they’re playing
traditional jazz
instruments.
Gilkes himself is a
monster. Sweet and
angular at the same
time, in his playing he
finds ways to say
something new in this
post J.J. Johnson
world. His solo on
“What’s Next” is sublime
beauty if one doesn’t
mind this overused
description. The
difference with Gilkes
however, is that it’s
true. As a composer
Gilkes’ writing will
most assuredly soon show
up in the repertoire of
collegiate combos; it’s
supremely artful as a
wonderful jumping off
point for improvisations
and intricate enough
that it’s performance
will make wonderfully
mature study material
for young artists.” (www.jazzreview.com)