JJ Kirkpatrick trumpet, Steven Lugerner sax, Malcolm Campbell piano,
Shimpei Ogawa bass, Michael Mitchell drums. Filmed by Darryl Jones.
San Francisco alto and baritone saxophonist Steven Lugerner continues
his explorations of
the music of jazz legend Jackie McLean with Jacknife, a hard-hitting
West Coast post-bop quintet.
https://www.jacknifejazz.com/
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, Steven Lugerner
maintains musical ties between multiple music scenes including his home
of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Lugerner has released six albums as a leader, most recently JACKNIFE:
The Music of Jackie McLean (2016), as well as two recordings with the
cooperative group Chives.
He has collaborated with a heavyweight roster of jazz masters including
pianists Fred Hersch, Jason Moran and Myra Melford, drummers “Tootie”
Heath, Matt Wilson, John Hollenbeck, and Allison Miller, saxophonists
Charles McPherson, Jane Ira Bloom, Dayna Stephens, Chris Cheek, Anat
Cohen and Miguel Zenon, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, flutist Jamie Baum, and
bassist Todd Sickafoose.
He performed previously at Chez Hanny with Chives, and Jacknife.
http://www.stevenlugerner.com/Danny Lubin-Laden is a trombonist and 2010 graduate
of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.
A Bay Area resident, he played in the Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble and
the SFJazz High School All-Star Orchestra,
and was honored as a soloist at the Monterey Jazz Festival high school
competition.
He’s played in bands in Brooklyn and the Bay Area spanning genres from
Ghanaian Highlife to rhythm and blues,
New Orleans brass band to jazz. Danny currently performs with the
Electric Squeezebox Orchestra,
and Brass Magic, an eight-piece brass ensemble featuring many of
Danny’s compositions.
Danny is an instructor for the Stanford Jazz Workshop and has taught at
the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.
As the first jazz musician in the Harvard/New England Conservatory dual
degree program, Malcolm studied under Danilo Perez, Frank Carlberg,
Fred Hersch, Jason Moran and Jerry Bergonzi. He graduated from Harvard
in 2010, and from the New England Conservatory in 2011.
He has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the New England
Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall, the Panama Jazz Festival,
the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Aspen Jazz Festival, and the Monterey
Next
Generation Jazz Festival.
He has performed with Don Byron, Billy Hart, Roy Hargrove, Cecil McBee,
Lee Konitz, and Makoto Ozone.
http://www.malcolmcampbellmusic.com
Bass player Josh Thurston-Milgrom lived for twelve
years in Chicago and three in Berlin before returning to his native Bay
Area, performing along the way with luminaries such as Von Freeman,
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Taylor Eigsti, and Yosvany Terry.
He's a 17-year veteran of the Stanford Jazz Workshop faculty, and
teaches at the Harker School in San Jose.
He performed previously at Chez Hanny with Jacknife.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Mitchell has been behind the drums since the age of 8.
Michael soon began studying with NYC session-drummers Mike Mechem and
Geoff Clapp, and started playing professionally at the age of 13, in
and around the New York City area. Those relationships provided
opportunities to study with Greg Hutchinson, Damion Reid, and Rodney
Green, and after graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School in
Brooklyn, Michael went on to Manhattan School of Music, where he
studied with Justin Dicioccio, and earned a Bachelors Degree in Drumset
Performance.
Michael currently teaches at the Stanford Jazz Workshop.
He performed previously at Chez Hanny with Jacknife.