DOORS @9PM, SHOWTIME @9:30PM
The UM Jazz Faculty quintet features critically acclaimed jazz artists currently on the SMTD Jazz faculty performing with world-renowned guest artist trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.
The U-M Jazz faculty group includes trombonist and composer Dennis Wilson, who has had has a significant association with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra since 1977 as trombonist and arranger and has toured, performed, and recorded with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, the American Jazz Orchestra, the Benny Carter Orchestra, and Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones.
Saxophonist and woodwind specialist Andrew Bishop is a versatile improviser and composer whose three recordings as a leader, De Profundis, Time and Imaginary Time, and the Hank Williams Project (Envoi Recordings) received widespread acclaim from The New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, The Chicago Reader, All Music Guide, Cadence Magazine, All About Jazz – New York, All About Jazz – Los Angeles, The New York Jazz Record, Stereophile Magazine, and The Detroit Free Press, among others.
Pianist Ellen Rowe has released six albums as a leader, receiving critical accolades including "The album… is a master class in small-band, straight-ahead, jazz." (Bruce Lindsay, AllAboutJazz.com) and “...as soon as she began to improvise, the effect was indescribably melodic. The audience was entranced; you could hear a pin drop.” (Die Oberlander, Switzerland).
Drummer Jonathan Barahal Taylor is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in Detroit. An avid collaborator, he co-leads a number of diverse projects, Including the art-rock quartet saajtak, Teiku, which reimagines aurally transmitted ancestral Jewish melodies in a Creative Music context, Root Beneath Bones, a solo project for drums and electronics, and Mover, which performs a constantly shifting modular suite of Taylor’s compositions and graphic scores.
UM Jazz Faculty Ensemble
Andrew Bishop - Saxophone
Dennis Wilson - Trombone
Ellen Rowe - Piano
Rob Bickley - Bass
Jonathan Barhal Taylor - Drums
Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet