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Sambanova! CD Release Party on September 21st at the Artists Quarter Print E-mail

 St. Paul, MN. The Twin Cities Jazz Society’s “Jazz From J to Z” series will get underway on September 21st at 7 pm at the Artists Quarter in St. Paul with “Sambanova!,” a special CD release concert featuring two of the Twin Cities most acclaimed performers/composers, guitarist Joan Griffith and pianist Laura Caviani, with percussionist Gary Gauger, recorder master Clea Galhano, and special guest, vocalist Lucia Newell.

A noted teacher, composer and performer, Joan Griffith has toured and recorded as a classical and jazz guitarist, bassist and mandolinist. Head of the Jazz Studies Department at the University of St. Thomas, Joan is also a guitar and bass instructor at the College of St. Catherine and director of the MacJazz Workshop at Macalester College. With Lucia Newell, Joan released Enter You, Enter Love, named to the Top Ten list of recordings for 1996 by KBEM radio.



Joan’s partner on Sambanova!, Laura Caviani earned a Masters of Music in Improvisation from the University of Michigan and teaches at Carleton and St. Olaf Colleges in Northfield. Last summer she was a guest artist/educator in residence in Cordoba, Argentina. A veteran of over 15 years of performing, recording and composing, Laura has performed with Toots Thielemans, Bob Mintzer, and Dave Liebman, toured with star vocalist Karrin Allyson, and regularly appears with her own trio and Pete Whitman’s X-Tet. Laura has released a series of excellent recordings, most recently Going There, featuring Bob Bowman and Todd Strait.

Vocalist Lucia Newell spent her early career singing and studying in Los Angeles, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, returning to her native Twin Cities as a backup vocalist for Jimmy Jam Harris, Terry Lewis and Monte Moir of Flyte Time. A linguist as well as vocalist, she writes lyrics in both English and Portuguese, and has translated many of her favorite Brazilian songs. Lucia is a favorite performer at venues such as the Artists Quarter and Dakota.

Sambanova! is Joan Griffith’s first release in over a decade, a showcase of her compositions that infuse the poetry and rhythms of traditional Brazilian forms with modern jazz idioms. The original tunes include examples of samba, bossa nova, baiao, and choro along with arrangements of some of Brazil’s most lauded composers, including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Cesar Mariano and Helio Delmira.  The warmth and passion of Sambanova! will bring the soul of Brazil to the stage of the Artists Quarter on September 21st. This first “Jazz From J to Z Concert” offers an inspiring beginning for a season that brings a wide sampling of jazz in its rich and varied styles to the Twin Cities community.

Tickets for Sambanova! (Sunday, September 21st at 7 pm) will be available at the door for $10 ($7 TCJS members). The Artists Quarter is located in downtown St. Paul at 408 St. Peter Street in the lower level of the Hamm Building, enter on Seventh Street Place. Free on-street parking on Sundays and inexpensive parking available at the Macy’s Ramp on Wabasha north of Sixth Street. CDs will be available at the show and at CD Baby.
 
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