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06/20 Friday
8:00 PM Josh Rosen, piano, compositions; Stan Strickland, voice, saxophone, flute
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland have been performing as a duo project since last Fall and have been warmly received in standing-room-only concerts. They have a deep rapport, with Stan's sparkling instrumental colors playing off Josh's expressive piano. They perform Rosen's compositions and unique arrangements of favorite standards and cover tunes. Josh and Stan also love to engage in some "freeplay" as they improvise in tandem with ease.
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Ehrlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Pianist and composer Josh Rosen is a co-leader of 3play+, a band with "a breadth of vision and diversity... ranging from free-improv space jam to reggae to straight-ahead swing to rock to jazz waltz”. Their second CD, “American Waltz”, will be released this summer. Rosen has performed/recorded with world music performers Mulatu Astake and Mindia Devi Klein, folk artists Bob Franke and Dean Stevens, and jazz greats Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Bob Moses, Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood among many others. Performer Magazine says: “Josh Rosen evokes a refreshingly relaxed openness, yet burns with the best...”