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07/08 Tuesday

7:00 PM Daniel Ian Smith and Lewis Porter duet!

Daniel Ian Smith is one of the outstanding saxophone and flute performers in the Boston area and beyond. He is a professor at Berklee College of Music and is in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and private teacher. He has performed throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, and England with his own ensembles and with such noted artists as Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Steve Gadd, Gloria Estefan, Johnny Mathis, Rebecca Paris, The Temptations, The O’Jays, Sheila Jordan, George Garzone, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, and many many others! Yet he finds time to direct his own groups, A Collective Directive, TREE-OH. The New World Jazz Composers Octet, and The Big and Phat Jazz Orchestra. As the recipient of the prestigious Uchida Fellowship in 1996 (from the Japan Foundation), Mr. Smith spent 6 months performing and touring around Japan and studying Japanese traditional music and culture. He was the featured soloist at the Yokohama Port Festival, Yokohama, Japan in June of 1996. He is also the founder/artistic director of the Jazz in the Sanctuary Concert Series in Brookline, MA which has produced over 80 concerts in the last 10 years. For more info go to DanielIanSmith.com

Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist and Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark, where he directs the Master's program in jazz history. He is known worldwide for his teaching and for his many books and articles, especially John Coltrane: His Life and Music (published in English in 1998; published in French and Italian editions in 2007). He founded and co-edited the journal Jazz Perspectives, and edited the John Coltrane Reference which appeared in January 2008. As a pianist and keyboardist, he has performed recently with such artists as Wycliffe Gordon, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Morris, Jane Ira Bloom, and Judi Silvano with Joe Lovano; he performed in Europe in November 2007 with Dave Liebman and others. His latest CD, recorded live at Siena Jazz, is Italian Encounter, and it has received only rave reviews. For example, Jazz Times says that Porter is "a helluva piano player." He is a regular member, with Badal Roy and Vic Juris, of the indian-inspired group Dharma Jazz. His performance schedule and extended audio and video clips are at Lewisporter.com