The Hilton School District Jazz Department and Hilton Music Boosters present the 20th annual Hilton Evening of Jazz on Friday, February 9, at 7 p.m. at Hilton High School auditorium, 400 East Avenue, Hilton. This year’s program features the Chris Minh Doky All Stars Band, including Dennis Chambers and Bill Evans.
“This concert gives our students an amazing experience every year,” said music teacher and Hilton’s Jazz Ensemble director Jared Streiff. “These are world-renowned artists, and they’ve been nominated for multiple Grammys. They’ve performed at the Jazz Festival last year, and we’re excited to welcome them back to Rochester, and this time it will include our community’s young musicians.”
Electric and acoustic bass guitarist, Chris Minh Doky first performed as a young musician in Denmark, but, still in his teens, moved to New York where famed jazz guitarist Mike Stern added him to his band. Throughout his career, Doky has earned four Grammy® nominations and remains a strong player on the international jazz stage. He bolstered his career and earned a rock star aura by appearing in arenas with stars of the pop world. In what might seem a paradox, Doky also captured ears and hearts in the classical universe and has performed in opera houses, with symphony orchestras, ballet companies and opera singers.
Every member of this band with Chris Minh Doky – including Bill Evans (sax), Dennis Chambers (drums), George Whitty (keys) and David Gilmore (guitar) – has collaborated for many years with Doky, both as members of his bands, world tours, recordings, and Bill Evans’ Soul Bop Band.
Evans is a world class saxophonist and producer who made his debut on the international music scene in the 1980s with Miles Davis. This led to touring and recording with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, and Mick Jagger to name but a few.
Chambers is an American drummer who has recorded and performed with John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin, Niacin, Mike Stern, CAB, Greg Howe, and many others.
Whitty is a Grammy-award winning keyboardist and has spent decades as a musician performing some of the best-selling records of all time: Santana’s “Supernatural” (with Dave Matthews), Celine Dion’s “Falling Into You” and “These are Special Times,” and more than 100 other CDs.
Gilmore, born in Boston, studied piano, drums and percussion, taking up guitar studies at 15 with John Baboian and Randy Roos and then at New York University with sax titan Joe Lovano and pianist Jim McNeely. In addition to recording and touring, Gilmore teaches Guitar Studies at Berklee College of Music and conducts master classes around the world.
Tickets are $25 and include performances by the Merton Williams Middle School and Hilton High School Jazz Ensembles and will take place at the Hilton High School auditorium, 400 East Avenue, Hilton. The event is a Hilton Music Boosters fundraiser, supporting the cost of student music group trips.
To purchase tickets, visit http://www.showtix4u.com or contact Jared Streiff at 392-1000, ext. 2293.
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