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Kenny Barron
Soka Performing Arts Center
1 University Drive
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
9. Feb. 2024
20:00 GMT-8
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FEATURED ARTISTS: Kenny Barron, piano Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass Savannah Harris, drums Honored by The National Endowment for the Arts as a 2010 Jazz Master, Kenny Barron has an unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms. The Los Angeles Times named him “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” and Jazz Weekly calls him “The most lyrical piano player of our time.” Barron has earned eleven Grammy Award nominations and consistently wins the jazz critics and readers polls, including Downbeat, Jazz Times and Jazziz magazines. The famed Spanish ceramist Lladro honored Mr. Barron with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater SUNY Empire State in 2013 and from Berklee College of Music in 2011. In 2009 he received the Living Legacy Award from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and was inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame and won a MAC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He is a six-time recipient of Best Pianist by the Jazz Journalists Association.
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Glen
18. April 2023
Kenny and his trio are wonderful. It was a joy being in the audience for this concert.
Aliso Viejo, CA@Soka Performing Arts Center
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Soka Performing Arts Center is located on the beautiful hilltop campus of Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo. Our facility includes the 1,032-seat Concert Hall fea...
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Kenny Barron Biography
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943 in Philadelphia), is a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. His talent first came to wider recognition when he took the piano chair in the 1960s Dizzy Gillespie quartet. He has gone on to work with hundreds of well-known musicians including Yusef Lateef, James Moody, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Buddy Rich, Ron Carter, Chet Baker, Benny Carter, Stan Getz, Regina Carter and Ornette Coleman. He also co-led the group Sphere and has led his own groups for performances and recordings.
He has been nominated nine times for Grammy Awards and for the American Jazz Hall of Fame.
For over 25 years, Barron taught piano and keyboard harmony at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Selected recordings:
* Voyage, with Stan Getz, Black-Hawk BKH 511-2
* Piccolo, with the Ron Carter Quartet, Milestone MCD-55004-2
* People Time, with Stan Getz, Verve 314 510 823-2
* Standards, Reservoir RSR CD 126
* It's Time, with Nick Brignola, Reservoir RSR CD 123
* Scratch, Enja CD 4092-07
* The Only One, Reservoir RSR CD 115
* The Moment, Reservoir RSR CD 121
* Live at Maybeck Hall, Concord CCD-4466
* Rhythm-a-ning, a live Kenny Barron-John Hicks Quartet recording, Candid CCD79044
Mehr lesenHe has been nominated nine times for Grammy Awards and for the American Jazz Hall of Fame.
For over 25 years, Barron taught piano and keyboard harmony at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Selected recordings:
* Voyage, with Stan Getz, Black-Hawk BKH 511-2
* Piccolo, with the Ron Carter Quartet, Milestone MCD-55004-2
* People Time, with Stan Getz, Verve 314 510 823-2
* Standards, Reservoir RSR CD 126
* It's Time, with Nick Brignola, Reservoir RSR CD 123
* Scratch, Enja CD 4092-07
* The Only One, Reservoir RSR CD 115
* The Moment, Reservoir RSR CD 121
* Live at Maybeck Hall, Concord CCD-4466
* Rhythm-a-ning, a live Kenny Barron-John Hicks Quartet recording, Candid CCD79044
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