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Celebrate Hadley CalimaN
Seattle Art Museum, downtown, 7:30, $18 general, $10 students BUY ONLINE
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The concert, which will cap a six-city run of performances coordinated by Singer and Simpson Productions, will celebrate Caliman’s lifetime contributions to American jazz music by featuring an outstanding ensemble of artists to perform with Caliman, who has played, recorded and toured with a list of luminaries, including Gerald Wilson, Dexter Gordon, Elvin Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, and Freddie Hubbard, among many others.
A resident of the Pacific Northwest since the 1980s, Caliman, now 77, grew up in Los Angeles, where he played in the Jefferson High School jazz band with trumpter and flugelhorn player Art Farmer. Known as “Little Dex” for his playing style and tutelage under Dexter Gordon, Caliman cut his teeth on the 1950s Central Avenue jazz scene. By the 1960s, he was performing, recording and touring with Mongo Santamaria, Gerald Wilson’s Big Band, Willie Bobo, and Don Ellis. In the 1970s, Caliman moved to San Francisco, where he played and recorded with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Nancy Wilson, Hampton Hawes, Jon Hendricks, and Bobby Hutcherson. Caliman also produced four albums during this period.
After relocating to the Northwest, Caliman became a sovereign member of the Northwest jazz scene, playing regularly and joining the faculty of the Cornish College of Arts, where he taught jazz music for 22 years. More recently, Caliman’s close collaboration with trumpeter and flugelhorn player Thomas Marriott produced Gratitude, Caliman’s first album in thirty years (vibraphonist Joe Locke and drummer Joe La Barbera join Caliman and Marriott on the recording).
Accompanying Caliman in a special appearance at the tribute will be Curtis Fuller, considered one of the greatest trombonists of the hard bop and post-bop eras. Originally making his mark in Detroit in the 1950s, Fuller enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1953, where he met and played with Cannonball Adderley. He later joined the New York jazz scene, where his prodigious talent earned him spots with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Benny Golson, Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, and Cedar Walton, along with many others. The Seattle Art Museum concert will be his first appearance with Caliman.
Pianist Larry Vuckovich’s association with Caliman dates back to 1973 in San Francisco, where the two played in their own quartet for nearly three years. They also performed in Jon Hendricks’s show, “Evolution of the Blues,” which toured from New York to Los Angeles. Vuckovich has also played with Anita O’Day, Joe Williams, and Cab Calloway.
It was Vuckovich who introduced Caliman to bassist Jeff Chambers, whose performing credits include work with Benny Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann, Nat Adderley, and Eddie Harris. The two have performed together in San Francisco during the last two years. Caliman and veteran drummer Eddie Marshall go back to their days touring with Bobby Hutcherson and bassist James Leery. “We performed 30 one-nighters in 31 days,” Caliman remembers about his first tour to Europe. Marshall’s resume includes extensive work with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Caliman, whose lifetime work has made him an integral contributor to the West Coast bop experience, says that at this point in his life, he would like to continue imparting his musical knowledge through private instruction and exposing more African American and other youth to jazz.
Tonight’s tribute will feature special guest appearances by Seattle jazz celebrities and friends.
Concert attendees are invited to a post-concert reception at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, 114 1st Ave So, in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood.
—Kimberly Reason
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