[jazzblues] JIM SNIDERO in concert 2/22 at Smith Music Hall room 25, 7pm

[Jeff Machota]

From: 	Jeff Helgesen <jeff.helgesen at gmail.com>




This Thursday, February 22
7pm
UI Music Campus / Smith Music Hall, room 25 (downstairs)
free admission!!

New York alto saxophonist, composer, and educator JIM SNIDERO

featuring

Jim Sindero - alto sax
Paul Bollenbeck - guitar
Mike LeDonne - organ
George Fludas - drums

Jim Snidero is considered to be one of the top alto saxophonists and
authors in jazz today. A resident of New York City for over 20 years, he
has made numerous recordings as a leader, and has performed and/or
recorded with many important jazz artists. Snidero is on the faculty at
the New School University, is an active jazz clinician for the Selmer
Company, and author of the best selling 3 series of books entitled Jazz
Conception, Easy and Intermediate Jazz Conception, published by Advance
Music.

Jim Snidero's recordings have received critical acclaim by leading jazz
critics. Several have received 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine, in which
critics hailed Snidero as "a master musician" and "alto sax virtuoso".
'Strings'- which he both composed and arranged, was released on
Milestone Records in March 2003, his first recording for a major label.
Jazziz magazine called it "a masterful blend of composition, arranging
and improvisation", while Swing Journal, Japan's #1 jazz magazine,
stated "this is miraculously wonderful jazz... a masterpiece".
Celebrated jazz critic and author Gary Giddens, featured on Ken Burns
PBS Jazz Series, said Snidero has " a wonderfully aggressive broadsword
of a sound, recalling Bird in its sheer jubilance" (Village Voice),
while the New York Times called his solos "dazzling". His second
recording on Milestone was entitled "Close up" , which features tenor
great Eric Alexander.

Read more about Jim Snidero here:

http://www.jimsnidero.com/home.htm

Thursday, Smith Music Hall Room 25, 7pm, free admission!