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SUMMARY:Thursday Jazz Series- Alex Brown Featuring Oscar Stagnaro & Ma
 rk Walker
DESCRIPTION:ALCHEMIST\n10:30 PM at Thursday Jazz Series- Alex Brown Fe
 aturing Oscar Stagnaro & Mark Walker\n435 South Huntington Avenue, Jam
 aica Plain, 02130\nCost: Always Free\nAbout Alex Brown Jazz pianist an
 d composer Alex Brown is quickly establishing both a national and inte
 rnational reputation. In 2007, Alex joined the group of ten-time Gramm
 y-Award-winner Paquito D’Rivera. Alex has also performed with musici
 ans including Jane Bunnett, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, the New York Vo
 ices, Terell Stafford, Gary Thomas, Dave Valentin, Miguel Zenon, and W
 ynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In January 2010,
  Alex was featured in Keyboard Magazine. Alex was also a 2010 Grammy n
 ominee for his work as a part of Paquito D’Rivera’s 2009 release, 
 \"Jazz-Clazz.\" Alex has performed at a wide array of venues and event
 s including Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and Dizzy’s Club
  Coca-Cola, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Birdland in New Y
 ork, the Blue Note in New York and Tokyo, Carnegie Hall, the Heineken 
 Jazz Festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel, the Panama Jazz Fe
 stival, Baltimore’s Artscape Festival, the Greater Hartford Jazz Fes
 tival, the Curacao Jazz Festival, and Blues Alley in Washington, DC. I
 n 2007, Alex was a winner as a pianist in the Jazz Soloist category of
  Downbeat Magazine’s Student Music Awards. In 2009, the group LaTimb
 istica, which he is a part of, won for best college group. He has also
  won four \"Outstanding Awards\" including one for his Latin-jazz arra
 ngement of Kol Han’shama, a traditional Jewish folksong which is inc
 luded on his CD, \"Montrose Towing.\" Alex had received the other thre
 e awards in 2005 for his piano and violin performances, and for his Bi
 g Band composition, \"Superman.\" Recently in 2007, Alex received his 
 second Honorable Mention from the ASCAP Foundation in their annual You
 ng Jazz Composer Awards. In 2003, ASCAP awarded Alex with an Honorable
  Mention for his composition, \"Take the T,” which was inspired by t
 he Boston transit system. Subsequently, “Take the T” was performed
  in concert by the U.S. Army’s premier Big Band, the Jazz Ambassador
 s. In the fall of 2004, Alex was the youngest member ever accepted int
 o the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers’ Workshop in New York City, whi
 ch he attended for a year. Alex is also an accomplished classical musi
 cian. He has recorded and performed with the group Imani Winds as well
  as with the clarinetist Sabine Meyer. In 2008, Alex performed Ernesto
  Lecuona’s \"Ante el Escorial\" with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
  as part of the Canary Islands Music Festival in Spain. In November 20
 07, along with Paquito D’Rivera and soprano Brenda Feliciano, Alex p
 erformed with Mexico’s National Symphony, under the direction of con
 ductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. In 2001, at the age of 13, he performed G
 ershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in its entirety with a full orchestra. In
  addition to touring nationally and internationally with Paquito D’R
 ivera,\n\nOfficial Site: http://alchemistlounge.com\n\nFor more inform
 ation visit http://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/thursday-jazz-seri
 es-alex
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CATEGORIES:jazz
LOCATION:The Alchemist Lounge
WEBSITE:http://alchemistlounge.com
URL:http://alchemistlounge.com
CONTACT:617-477-5741
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