Edmar Colón Quartet
Original works by Colón, and selections from the Puerto Rican Songbook
Saturday, March 16, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Tickets: $35 General Admission | $30 Senior | $20 Student
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Sponsored by Patty Jackson Your Local Realtor, Lynch Marini & Associates, and Napier Financial. Also sponsored in part by the Norwell and Scituate Cultural Councils, local cultural councils supported by the Mass Culural Council, a state agency.
Puerto Rican saxophonist, pianist, and composer Edmar Colón explores the connections between the West African musical heritage in the Americas and the idiosyncrasies of classical music from Europe and beyond. By amplifying the similarities of these and other musical traditions, Colón achieves a distinctive homogenous blend of sounds, textures, and rhythms in his original work. This program will also include some selections from the expansive and ever-so-beautiful Puerto Rican songbook by composers such as Bobby Capó, Julio Guitiérrez, and Sylvia Rexach.
Edmar Colón - Saxophones
Alain Mallet - Piano
Ian Ashby - Bass
Julian Miltenberger - Drums
Meet the Band
Edmar Colón - Puerto Rican-born Edmar Colón is a saxophonist, pianist, and composer. Some highlights in Colon’s career include: performing and touring with an expansive list of world-class artists, arranging/orchestrating selections in the GRAMMY AWARD-winning albums “12 Little Spells” by Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington’s “New Standards” and the GRAMMY-nominated “Waiting Game” by Carrington. Other highlights include being the copyist for Wayne Shorter’s opera, Iphigenia, composing a 30-minute orchestral piece for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, arranging 16 pieces for the National Symphony Orchestra, and most recently, finishing two new works for the legendary Boston POPS, which have lead to numerous new commissions.
Alain Mallet - Born in France, Alain Mallet moved to the States at the age of 21 to attend Berklee College of Music where he is now a professor in the piano and ensemble departments. He has toured and recorded with some of the biggest names in Jazz and Pop music including Phil Woods, Paul Simon, Paquito D'Rivera, Marc Johnson and Madeleine Peyroux. He is a critically acclaimed producer, particularly for his work with Jonatha Brooke. His original compositions have been recorded by jazz greats such as Gary Burton, Dave Samuels and Paquito D'Rivera and are published in the European Real Book. Most recently he was working Jam Band sensation Club D'Elf and recording with saxophonist Andy Snitzer, flamenco singer Jose Merce, and singer Janis Siegel of Manhattan transfer.
Ian Ashby - Ian is a bassist and composer from Ohio earning a jazz bass performance major and creative writing minor as a part of his bachelors degree from Oberlin Conservatory. Coming from a musical family, Ian has been performing internationally since childhood and has worked and recorded with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Badi Assad, Danilo Perez, The New York Voices, and the Manhattan Transfer. This past year, Ian received his masters in global jazz and performed internationally at venues such as the JAZZCAMPUS in Basel, Switzerland, and the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Netherlands as a part of the Berklee global jazz institute.
Julian Miltenberger - Drummer and composer from Philadelphia, PA, Julian Miltenberger has performed internationally in countries such as Togo, France, Switzerland, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada. He frequently accompanies musical artists such as Yosvany Terry, Alain Mallet, and Darren Barrett, and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.