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The SIP and SOUL CAFÉ presents Jazz Thursdays featuring The Continuing Evolution of Sound ~The Chris Sullivan Trio at SIP and SOUL CAFÉ
January 21, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Continuing Evolution of Sound.docx"clink on link above"^This Engagement is growing and growing every week. VIRGO'S SIP and SOUL CAFÉ is the Place to Be on Thursday's. Bring your Instrument, your Poetry, your Voice and your Dance it's all welcome. I trust to See You There, a great time is guaranteed, you digg, peace.See More
Christopher Dean Sullivan posted a videoLive at the Cornelius Café, Greenwich Village, NYC from Christopher D. Sullivan on Vimeo.
Live at the Cornelius Café, Greenwich Village, NYC
Bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan
Reedist Joe Giardullo
Duo Performance at the Cornelius Café, Greenwich Village, NYC.
Recorded by: Michael T. A. Thompson
...Chris Sullivan, a bassist whose authoritative and bluesy bendings of the notes honor his…
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- Chicago, IL born, raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Artisan Bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan is a renowned highly versed bassist of many musical languages: Jazz, Funk, Reggae, Latin, Fusion, Caribbean, Indian, African, and Eurocentric perceptions, rock, country, and more. Chris is well traveled throughout the US, the Caribbean Islands and Europe. He has shared the stage with Stanley Jordan, Pete Seeger, Archie Shepp, Charli Persip, Yusef Lateef, Judi Silvano, Grant Green, Horace Parlan, Della Griffin, Joe McPhee, Sonny Simmons, Irene Reed, Cecil Payne, Joe Lovano, Roy Campbell Jr., Lillie Bryant-Howard, Charles Gayle, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, to name a few, and led his own ensembles within the U.S. and abroad which opened for such national commercial acts as The Barkays, Ohio Players, New Birth, The Trinairs, The Moments and Sam and Dave. Chris Sullivan can be heard on various records and CDs from jazz and blues to acoustic folk, funk and gospel. His discography includes Live in New York (Black Saint / Soul Note) with reedist Michael Marcus and drummer Codaryl Cody Moffett, Language of Swans (Drimala) with reedist Joe Giardullo and soundrhythium Michael T.A. Thompson, Under the Moon (A440 Music Group) with Barbara Sfraga, Paul Wertico, John McLean, Kevin Patrick, Stepping Around the Giant (C.I.M.P./Cadence) with Carl Grubbs, Odean Pope and Newman Taylor Baker, Word Riffs with poet Golda Solomon, Timelessness Frozen in Time (SyncTimiCity) - a collaborative project featuring Barbara Sfraga, Michael T.A. Thompson, Mala Waldron and Allen Won, A Mother's Heart - a voice and bass rendition with Sheila Jordan of the Bobby Timmons/Oscar Brown Jr. tune "Dat Dere" for the (Sound Visions Media Group) compilation release, Alan Glover Cool Fire (Omolade Music), Alan Glover The Blue Shift (Olmolade Music), Rituals from the marrow: Recipe for a jam session with Poet E. J. Antonio; this particular release also has a featured track where Christian McBride and Christopher Dean Sullivan are performing together on the first track.
In July 2008 Christopher Dean Sullivan is the last bassist to have recorded with Freddie Hubbard before the master trumpeter’s passing in 2008. Produced by alto saxophonist Floyde King for Freddie, with Jeff “Tain” Watts, Laura Kahley, Mamoru Takahashi, Noriko Kamo, Hideo Kitawga and Tom Baker. Chris Sullivan also performs with the Cotton Club All Star Orchestra and has toured with various 50's/60's groups: the Marcel's, The Drifters, Sharelles and many others. Also an actor, Chris can be seen in the movie Dawn of the Dead, as well as TV commercials and magazines (most notably a Vanity Fair photo shoot with Janet Jackson by Annie Leibowitz.) He worked with The Jazz Workshop, in Pittsburgh, PA, under the direction of saxophonist Harold Young where Chris Sullivan produced and hosted his own Warner Communication award winning television show The Tree of Arts Alive where he produced performances and conducted interviews with Max Roach, Roger Humphries, Chic Corea, Stanley Clark, George Duke, Robert Bell ( Kool and the Gang), Patrice Rushen, Larry McGee, The Whispers, Chaka Chan, Lenny White, The Pittsburgh Repertory Theater, Betty Carter, to name a few. In recent years, Chris Sullivan has received various community and arts services, municipal, congressional and Senate Proclamation awards, as well as, Orange County Council of the Arts of New York State – Champion of the Arts Award.
Christopher Dean Sullivan's approach is heartfelt and is accessed first of all by intensive listening -- to himself, to the elemental structure of a tune, to the soul of his fellow musicians, and to his own quest for the purest, more direct expression of sound and feeling, and is a prime advocate for perpetuating entertainment into the Jazz Perfomance...
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- Pop, Blues, Jazz, Latin Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Soul Jazz, Acoustic, Traditional, Classical, Folk, Country, Rap / Hip-Hop, Funk, R&B / Soul, Caribbean / Reggae, Ambient, New Age, Cajun / Zydeco, World Fusion, World, Gospel, SKA Jazz, Big Band, American Standards
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On The Passing Of Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard not only was — he still is, as others before him — the inspiration of the generation in the course of its growth through the time period of now. His innovative expressions vibrate a sound of peace, assurance and continual elevation within a structural groove. As a young musician I would study Freddie. I would learn the tunes he performed on and break them — theoretically — apart. Freddie Hubbard became the school of study for many of my students, along with John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Archie Shepp, Odean Pope and Yusef Lateef, for whom, the last three mentioned here, I've had the opportunity to perform and travel with, as well as record with Odean. My reverence as well as my study of Freddie Hubbard have come full circle with his passing. I met Freddie many years ago at Pitt University, in Pittsburgh PA, where he was conducting a clinic and performance. I met him again very recently in NYC when we both played on alto saxophonist Floyde King’s latest project. That was to be Freddie Hubbard’s last recording. Also on that recording were Jeff “Tain” Watts, Laura Kahley, Mamoru Takahashi, Noriko Kamo, Hideo Kitawga and Tom Baker. Floyde King, who was a former student of mine, started a music collaboration with Freddie and produced the independent session in July, 2008. The last tune, the only piece I performed on, is an open form piece entitled "Free". As I sit back feeling and listening to this particularly expressive composition, I find myself reflecting on the 1960 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz release on Atlantic Records, "a collective improvisation of the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet" with Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Scott LaFaro, Ed Blackwell and Eric Dolphy. I feel very much honored within a beatifical realm to have been able and capable to perform with the masterful spirit of Freddie Hubbard. Of him the Evolution of the American Classical Music Art form shall continue to revolutionize...you digg. In Memory of Freddie Hubbard who has passed on; For You continued to formulate and innovate Our American Classical Music...and like the Vibration of the Water Fall... The Spirit of Your Sound is Placed within the Great Gift to the World... Thank You Freddie Hubbard...My Brotha' and Vibrational Mentor, peace.
Freddie Hubbard not only was — he still is, as others before him — the inspiration of the generation in the course of its growth through the time period of now. His innovative expressions vibrate a sound of peace, assurance and continual elevation within a structural groove. As a young musician I would study Freddie. I would learn the tunes he performed on and break them — theoretically — apart. Freddie Hubbard became the school of study for many of my students, along with John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Archie Shepp, Odean Pope and Yusef Lateef, for whom, the last three mentioned here, I've had the opportunity to perform and travel with, as well as record with Odean. My reverence as well as my study of Freddie Hubbard have come full circle with his passing. I met Freddie many years ago at Pitt University, in Pittsburgh PA, where he was conducting a clinic and performance. I met him again very recently in NYC when we both played on alto saxophonist Floyde King’s latest project. That was to be Freddie Hubbard’s last recording. Also on that recording were Jeff “Tain” Watts, Laura Kahley, Mamoru Takahashi, Noriko Kamo, Hideo Kitawga and Tom Baker. Floyde King, who was a former student of mine, started a music collaboration with Freddie and produced the independent session in July, 2008. The last tune, the only piece I performed on, is an open form piece entitled "Free". As I sit back feeling and listening to this particularly expressive composition, I find myself reflecting on the 1960 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz release on Atlantic Records, "a collective improvisation of the Ornette Coleman Double Quartet" with Freddie Hubbard, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Scott LaFaro, Ed Blackwell and Eric Dolphy. I feel very much honored within a beatifical realm to have been able and capable to perform with the masterful spirit of Freddie Hubbard. Of him the Evolution of the American Classical Music Art form shall continue to revolutionize...you digg. In Memory of Freddie Hubbard who has passed on; For You continued to formulate and innovate Our American Classical Music...and like the Vibration of the Water Fall... The Spirit of Your Sound is Placed within the Great Gift to the World... Thank You Freddie Hubbard...My Brotha' and Vibrational Mentor, peace.
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