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The Albany Chill Swing Dance Weekend

Friday, Sept. 5 through Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008

All Welcome - No Partner Needed

->Get the flyer for the Albany Chill Swing Dance Weekend.

 

Performers & Schedule

Friday Evening, Sept. 5 - Ernestine Anderson & her band

First Friday Capital Swing Dance

NOTE:  September’s Capital Swing Dance is part of the Albany Chill Swing Dance Weekend!!!

The Albany Elks Lodge, 25 South Allen St., Albany (map)
Lesson 7:30-8:30pm, Dance 8:30pm-Midnight

Friday evening dance: $20 DFO Members, Students & Seniors; $25 General

Friday Day Pass: Includes the Friday evening dance, Friday late-night & the Sunday picnic with Skip Parsons, $45 DFO Members, Students, Seniors; $50 General

Text Box: Ernestine Anderson - From intimate trio formats to big band, she does it all with seductive sophistication. Her sultry, sensuous voice is intimate in small club settings and soars with passionate intensity in the festival arena. Whether it's Ellington or Sting, Ms. Anderson's interpretation of a song is infectious. On stage, she's charming and vivacious, her joy in the music delighting audiences from Sweden to Japan. Ms. Anderson has recorded more than 30 albums, performed at all the major jazz festivals, and has received four Grammy nominations. She was one of 75 women chosen for the book, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Brian Lanker, joining such company as Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Barbara Jordan, and Toni Morrison Ernestine Anderson

 

 

Saturday Evening, Sept. 6 - Benny Powell w/vocalist Catherine Russell

featuring Marcus McLaurine on bass, T.K.Blue on sax and Danny Mixon on piano,

all headliners on their own!!!

The Albany Elks Lodge, 25 South Allen St., Albany (map)
Lesson 7:30-8:30pm, Dance 8:30pm-Midnight

Saturday evening dance: $20 DFO Members, Students, Seniors; $25 General

Saturday Day Pass: Includes the Saturday evening dance, Saturday late-night & the Sunday picnic with Skip Parsons, $45 DFO Members, Students, Seniors; $50 General


 Text Box: Benny Powell is a journeyman trombonist whose bold sound bridges bebop and swing. His work employs the vocal color of great swing trombonists and the technical fluidity of bop practitioners. Powell plays both tenor trombone and the bigger-bored bass trombone broadening the colors he brings to an ensemble. Known exclusively as a sideman, he's made valuable contributions to several notable bands, ranging from the rocking swing of Lionel Hampton to the roots-informed avant-garde of John Carter. A native of New Orleans, Powell started performing professionally at 14. By age 18, he had joined Lionel Hampton, and three years later he left to join the Count Basie Orchestra just as Basie was re-establishing his band as one of the benchmarks of the field.

Benny Powell

 

Text Box: Catherine Russell is a native New Yorker, born with an enviable musical pedigree. Her father, the late Luis Russell, was born in Panama and moved to New Orleans and then New York City, becoming a pioneering pianist/bandleader, and Louis Armstrong's long-time musical directory. Her mother, Carline Ray, is an outstanding bassist and vocalist and holder of advanced degrees from Julliard and Manhattan School of Music, who has performed with Mary Lou Williams and Wynton Marsalis. Not surprisingly considering her roots, Catherine Russell is a one of a kind vocalist. She has toured the world, performing and recording with a wide array of trend setting artist, including Paul Simon, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne and Rosanne Cash. Catherine Russell

Marcus McLaurine is a bassist, composer, leader and sideman, who has become one of the most sought-after artists in jazz, sharing bandstands with Dizzy Gillespie,   Kenny Burrell, James Moody, Lou Donaldson, Dame Cleo Laine, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, Abbey Lincoln and the Count Basie Orchestra. For the past 25 years, Marcus has toured with legendary trumpeter Clark Terry.


T.K.Blue is a saxophonist of the highest caliber who is at the peak of his creative output.  Mr. Blue’s artistry is found on over sixty recordings and has performed with a long list of great international artists such as Don Cherry, Abdullah Ibrahim, Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Melba Liston, Johnny Copeland, Billy Higgins, Reggie Workman, Chico Hamilton, Stefon Harris, Eric Reed, Regina Carter, Bobby McFerrin, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Benny Powell, James Moody, Paquito d’Rivera, and Jimmy Scott, just to name a few.

 

Daniel Mixon is a prolific piano virtuoso. Danny has worked with such legendary performers as Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Dannie Richmond, Joe Williams, and Frank Foster, and continues to be in Frank’s Loud Minority Big Band and his Non-Electric Company. Danny also plays, composes, and arranges for his own group “The Danny Mixon Trio.” He has also performed, toured and/or recorded with Yusef Lateef, Hank Crawford, Savion Glover, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, Eubie Blake, Noel Pointer, Jimmy Witherspoon, Grant Green, Eddie Jefferson, Charles McPherson, Marlena Shaw, Irene Reid, Houston Person, Dakota Staton, Ben Vereen, Leon Tomas, Chaka Khan, Cassandra Wilson, Lou Rawls, Gloria Lynne, Lisle Atkinson, Oscar Brown, Jr., John Hendricks, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Earl May, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham and many others.

 

Sunday Afternoon, Sept. 7 - Skip Parsons Riverboat Band

Peeble's Island, 1 Delaware Ave., Cohoes (map)
Picnic & Dance in this beautiful park by the Hudson River, 1-6pm

$12 DFO Members, Students, Seniors; $15 General

 

Text Box: Skip Parsons has been swinging the Northeast and other areas since 1956 playing clubs, dances and festivals. You can expect to hear some Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Walter Donaldson, Glenn Miller, and on and on .... They have a repertoire of music from the 30's and 40's ...They even touch on music from the 20's, and 50's, with perhaps a hint of Latin and the Blues. They cater to up-beat, medium and slower music to keep you on your feet and swingin'. They play traditional jazz -- true early jazz, the band leader will tell you. It's music where the clarinet players' fingers flutter over the keys, the band keeps the two-beat with an um-pa, up-pa and the music stands out big and bold like sequins on a Mardi Gras mask. The music is danceable, listenable, happy, and sweet hot!!! Skip Parsons

 

 

 

Friday & Saturday Late-Night DJ'd Dances

RPI's Academy Hall, 15th St. & College Ave, Troy (map)
Let our incredible mix of local and imported DJs keep your bodies moving 'till the wee hours.

Dance: 1-4am

The Chill DJs

Meghan Fitzpatrick (Albany, NY)

Camille Fontanella (Northampton, MA)
Leslie Stevenson (Albany, NY)
Rayned Wiles (Baltimore, MD)
Alain Wong (Montreal, QC)

 

More Albany Chill information

- Flyer

- Last Minute Updates, Registration, Volunteering, Hosting, Housing and DJ Bios:

   http://www.albanychill.com/?q=node/5

 

PLUS: Enjoy Saturday Afternoon at the Albany Jazz Festival

Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008, 12 noon-7:30pm

At the Albany Riverfront Park Amphitheatre, Corning Preserve, by the Hudson River.

Offsite link:  http://www.albanyevents.org/other_events/index.cfm

(Rainsite for the Jazz Festival is the Palace Theater, corner of Clinton Avenue and North Pearl Street, Albany)

Note: The Albany Jazz Festival is presented by the City of Albany. It is not a Dance Flurry Organization or Albany Chill event.

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Capital Swing Dance - Every First Friday in Albany!

After the above, the next First Friday Capital Swing Dance is on

October 3rd featuring Patti-O & the Hip Hooligans!!!

 

No partner needed ... Meet new people ... Beginners Welcome ... No formal attire required.
Soft-soled shoes, please ... No spike heels.

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