Jazz Concert: Sheryl Bailey and the Sheryl Bailey Quartet
Arts Wayland in association with
First Parish in Wayland presents
Sheryl Bailey and the Sheryl Bailey Quartet
Sunday, November 3rd at 3 pm
at First Parish in Wayland
225 Boston Post Road, Wayland MA
Tickets for the concert are $20.
Online Ticket sale will end at 12:00 pm on the day of the concert.
The esteemed Arts Wayland Berklee Faculty Jazz Series,under the Direction of Neil Olmstead, Berklee College Professor, continues with Sheryl Bailey and the SBQ.
A highly respected, reliably swinging guitarist on the New York City jazz scene since 1998, Sheryl Bailey has made her mark through her eloquence of tone, abundant chops, rich chord voicings and long, flowing lines. Sheryl Bailey and the Sheryl Bailey Quartet’s “Homage” is her 12th recording as a leader, is a retrospective, of sorts. “It’s looking back and giving thanks to all the people that have influenced me and helped me in my career,”
The Sheryl Bailey Quartet will be performing music from “Homage” and past releases, featuring pianist Rebecca Cline, drummer Neal Smith, and bassist Harvie S.
To see and hear “Homage,” here’s a link to exclusive free access on YouTube
Please join us!
Sponsored by the Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund
The Downbeat Critics Poll
“Rising Star” in 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017/2018/2019
“One of the new greats of her chosen instrument” – Phillip Booth, Downbeat Magazine
As a bandleader, she has toured the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, and the UK with her many projects: The Sheryl Bailey 3, The Sheryl Bailey 4, The Electric Ladyland Project, and Plucky Strum.
She has 11 critically acclaimed releases as a leader.
She has toured and recorded with The Anat Cohen Tentet, Richard Bona, David Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove, Abraham Inc., John Zorn, Tommy Campbell’s Vocal Eyes, Irene Cara, Lea Delaria, George Garzone, Jack Wilkins, Shingo Okudaira, Steve Slagle, Harvie S, Ken Peplowski, Kim Plainfield, and Gary Thomas.
As an educator, she has been Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music since 2000, and was recently named the Assistant Chair of the Guitar Department at Berklee. She also is a Visiting Artist faculty at The Collective School of Music in NYC, and has hosted master classes and workshops worldwide. Her Mel Bay publication, “Moveable Shapes,” is a top seller in their Jazz Curriculum Series. Her latest adventure is “The Bebop Dojo Bootcamp,” an interactive, online jazz academy developed for Truefire.com. Her “Bebop Dojo Essentials” course, her “50 Bebop Licks Everyone Should Know,” and recent “Bebop Etudes” are also top Truefire titles
Sheryl plays her Signature McCurdy Mercury Model, Stonebridge Acoustic Guitars, and Acoustic Image Amplifiers
For two decades, Rebecca Cline has lived in Boston as an educator, presenter, and performer specializing in Latin and jazz piano. As the author of Latin Jazz Piano Improvisation: Clave, Comping, and Soloing on Berklee Press, she has led over twenty workshops in the US, Asia, Europe, South America and the Caribbean on improvising within the context of the clave and on Cuban piano improvisation styles. She has taught ensembles, Cuban piano styles, and jazz studies to undergraduate students for 17 years at Berklee College of Music.
Brazil
Ms. Cline has had the opportunity to study music in a variety of settings abroad. In 1993, she conducted original research in and around Manaus, Brazil in support of an honors thesis entitled The Festival do Boi-Bumba: Whose Festival?, which explored questions of cultural identity and indigenous rights in the context of the fraught song competition associated with the festival that year.
Puerto Rico and Cuba
In 1995, she moved to Puerto Rico in order to experience and study the “salsa” dance music that offered an entirely different role for the piano than the classical music she had studied since early childhood. That same year, she seized an opportunity to study folkloric percussion and dance at the National Art School for Music in Havana. Transfixed by the unparalleled work ethic and consequent virtuosity of musicians on the island, she arranged to return the following year for private studies with the great pianist and bandleader, Jesús “Chucho” Valdés.
Jazz
Ms. Cline continued to study, and eventually perform, Cuban and Puerto Rican music in the Caribbean for several more years before returning to the U.S. Realizing that the music of her inspiration (Irakere, Gonzalo Rubalcaba) also borrowed heavily from the tradition of North American jazz, she spent much of that time studying jazz vocabulary.
Jerry González
Her education was greatly supplemented by attending weekly performances by Jerry González, often with his brother, Andy, on bass, at Café Matisse in San Juan. Jerry mentored her and eventually hired her for local quintet gigs, sometimes offering severe yet priceless feedback. An invigorating four-day workshop led by a group of inspiring educators from Berklee College of Music in Puerto Rico ultimately lured her to Boston.
Berklee & Giovanni Hidalgo
As a student at Berklee, Rebecca joined the small, yet industrious, community of Boston musicians who performed Latin dance music, providing an opportunity to develop what she had learned in Puerto Rico and Cuba. Shortly after joining the faculty at Berklee, she returned to San Juan for a memorable trio concert with Giovanni Hidalgo and Polito Huerta at the Nuyorican Café.
Enclave & Obbini Tumbao
In Boston, together with co-leader Hilary Noble (sax, percussion), she formed Enclave, a quartet that performed original material that sought to build on the tradition laid primarily by the Fort Apache Band, led by Jerry González. After releasing two CDs, Enclave (2003) and Diaspora (2008), Ms. Cline went on to form the dance band, Obbini Tumbao, with co-leader Anita Quinto on timbales. In Caracas, Venezuela, Obbini Tumbao recorded Llegó La Hora on Cacao Música (2008), with Pedrito Martínez on vocals and congas.
Mango Blue & RC Trio
Ms. Cline joined the Cuban-influenced Latin-pop band, Mango Blue, led by Alex Alvear, in 2006, and recorded Mango in 2009. In addition, she has collaborated with many Boston-based groups on performances and recordings, and for the past decade has focused primarily on performing with the Rebecca Cline Trio. Ms. Cline holds a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies, with a Minor in Music, from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Music in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music.
Born and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Neal Smith has been playing drums since the age of five. By the time he completed high school he had achieved a remarkable list of performance accomplishments and earned an impressive array of awards, scholarships, and honors. With the support of his family, Neal continued his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies and Performance, the first African-American to earn a degree in Jazz Studies from the Conservatory.
In addition to his academic training, Neal has studied with Vernell Fournier, Greg Bandy, Paul Samuels, Jeff Hamilton,Tom Freer, Bruce Collie, and Gordon Gottlieb.
Neal performs regularly in clubs and concert halls, at colleges and universities, and at U.S. and International Jazz Festivals. Neal leads his own group, which performs original compositions as well as classic arrangements of jazz standards.
Neal also performs regularly with internationally recognized artists and has shared the stage with the likes of Tom Harrell, Anita Baker, John Hicks, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Fortune, Jimmy Owens, Eddie Harris, Isaac Hayes, Gary Bartz, Marlena Shaw, Benny Golson, Donald Walden, Frank Morgan, Brian Lynch, Benny Green, Cyrus Chestnut, Russell Malone, Frank Foster, Dewey Redman, Mark Whitfield, Ronnie Mathews, Rufus Reid, Wendel Logan, James Moody, Marlena Shaw, Charles Davis and Vanessa Rubin.
Neal also leads his own group, which performs original compositions as well as classic arrangements of jazz standards.
Beyond performing, Neal loves to teach developing drummers. He is currently a Professor at Berklee College of Music, The New School and Longy School of Music.
Recognizing the need for a record label that focuses exclusively on the production of jazz recordings, Neal founded the NAS label in 2004.
Neal Smith endorses Sonor Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, Vic Firth Sticks + Brushes and Accessories, Hamilton Cymbal Stands and Axis Pedals.
Bassist Keala Kaumeheiwa has performed with Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, T.S. Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and James Moody as part of the first graduating class of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance. Currently, he is teaching Jazz Combo Ensembles at MIT and Phillips Exeter Academy, as well as freelancing around Boston and New England.