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Lenore Raphael at St. Peter's Church Jazz Ministry
Concert Dates: 02/10/10
Ticket Cost: $7.
Show Time(s): 1PM
Event Description: Jazz pianist Lenore Raphael has performed at MidTown Jazz At Midday at St. Peter's Church and filled the room in two previous performances. This time, with bassist Hilliard Greene, they will once again swing hard with jazz standards and some original tunes. Raphael and Greene have recorded together and their CD Class Act has been named a Top Pick for 2009 CDs on CKCU.FM This will be a very swinging, inventive performance of great straight-ahead jazz.
Artist / Group Bio: Called "one of the top pianists in the creative jazz mainstream", Lenore Raphael is gaining an international reputation for her swinging, upbeat and delightful interpretation of standards and jazz original compositions. With three highly successful recordings and a fourth to be released soon, she is busy with touring and conducting jazz Master Classes. She has performed at the East Coast Jazz Festival, Cape May Jazz Festival, S.S. Norway Floating Jazz Festival, 16th Annual Jazz Showcase in New Bern NC with Wycliffe Gordon and Ken Peplowski. Her concerts and club appearances have steadily been sold out and reviews are glowing. Her Master Classes have received praise from the director of the International Association for Jazz Education and she is an Outreach Artist for the IAJE. She has done jazz workshops at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Denver School of the Arts, Colorado Springs Conservatory, The New School (NYC), and high schools throughout Denver. Her recordings have received major airplay on jazz stations internationally including WGBH (Boston), KUVO (Denver), WDNA (Miami), WUCF (orlando), ASFM (Australia), Copenhagen, and JazzFM in Spain. Lenore was co-Director or Project JOY, a 4-week intensive jazz workshop at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Her jazz theory book JAZZ MASTER CLASS was published by Hansen Music and is now available from www.swinginfox.com She has won numberous ASCAP awards for her jazz compositions. She has developed an original story and songs for children with co-writer Marcia Hillman called "Scat Cat's Adventures in Jazzland" which will be available as a book and companion cassette.
Artist's Website: http://www.lenoreraphael.com
Jazz Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic
St. Peter's Church Jazz Ministry Address: 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York NY 10022 U.S.
About the Venue:
The Jazz Ministry is an outreach program of Saint Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City. It is a Christian pastoral ministry of love and celebration infused with the joyful notes of a music with deep religious roots and native to America. The Rev. Dale Lind is Saint Peter's Pastor to the Jazz Community.
The Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's Church has been serving the jazz community since 1965, providing a home for diverse individuals and organizations to celebrate the dignity and vitality of jazz as a thriving, creative and cohesive force for spiritual nourishment and inclusive community.
The Jazz Ministry provides vibrant worship and pastoral care, and utilizes cooperative partnerships to offer jazz programs, education and services. The e-jazz community internet service was created as an extension of the Ministry, to distribute up-to-date information about jazz events held at Saint Peter's and throughout the tri-state area, and to provide a free networking service for musicians and others involved with the jazz community.
The Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's Church was founded in 1965 by the late Reverend John Garcia Gensel who developed its most important form of worship: Jazz Vespers. Jazz Vespers is a religious service featuring a wide range of jazz styles and musicians and is held each Sunday at 5:00 PM.
The Jazz Ministry has given musicians opportunities to communicate with God through the music they feel and in an atmosphere of love, understanding and acceptance. The highly personalized pastoral services provide both emotional and spiritual support, through counseling musicians, their families and friends in homes, clubs, hospitals or wherever needed. Pastor Lind presides at marriages, baptisms, funerals and memorial celebrations of the lives of musicians.
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St. Peter's Church Jazz Ministry Address: 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York NY 10022 U.S.
