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| Event: | Joe Carter and Ali Ryerson in Concert | ||||||
| Date: | April 2nd, 2015. | ||||||
| Time: | 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM | ||||||
| Location: | Windsor Art Center, 40 Mechanic St., Windsor, CT | ||||||
| Contact: | 860-688-2528 or info@windsorartcenter.org | ||||||
Ali Ryerson grew up in New York City, the daughter of renowned Jazz and session guitarist Art Ryerson. She later graduated from The Hartt School. Her career spans four decades and she has toured the world, playing with many musical greats, including Kenny Barron, Stephane Grappelli, Roy Haynes, Joe Beck and Luciano Pavarotti. Ali has appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Guinness Festival in Scotland, JVC in New York and at Carnegie Hall. Ryerson has a background in Classical music and more than a dozen releases in her own name. Her latest Jazz disc is Con Brio! (2011). She is also the leader of The Jazz Flute Big Band, a unique all-flute ensemble. Joe Carter started guitar studies at an early age, eventually focusing on Jazz. While earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in Jazz Performance and starting his Jazz Ph.D. studies at New York University he studied privately with guitarists Sal Salvador, John Scofield, Allan Hanlon, saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Don Friedman. After several performance and teaching trips to Brazil his current specialty is Brazilian Jazz, combining Straightahead and Bebop styles of Jazz with Samba, Bossa Nova and Northeast styles of Brazilian music. During the course of his career Carter has recorded and/or performed with Jazz artists such as Art Farmer, Lee Konitz, Cecil Payne, Rufus Reid, Harvie Swartz. Akira Tana, Stafford James, and many others. He is currently an instructor at Sacred Heart University and Hartford Conservatory, both in Connecticut, where he specializes in Guitar, World Music and Jazz courses. In addition to this, and also teaching privately in New York City, Joe Carter has taught clinic/ workshops in Europe, South America and the United States. He is also the author of four textbooks for guitar. Suggested donation is $15.00 at the door.    | |||||||
