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BRADFORD HAYES, a native of Petersburg, Virginia has been a force on the jazz scene in the Northeastern U.S. for many years now. He has performed at a number of club, colleges and concert halls that include Birdland (NYC), Tavern on the Green (NYC), and the Beacon Theater (NYC). Bradford has performed in different musical settings with Jimmy Heath,
Al Grey, Cecil Payne, Rufus Reid, Ray Bryant, Winard Harper, Ben Riley, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Cecil Brooks III, Jerry Butler, and The Dells. Mr. Hayes has also opened for Chico Freeman, Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, Max Roach, Marlena Shaw, Pieces of A Dream, and Hilton Ruiz among others. In addition to leading his own band, Bradford served as Musical Director for Babatunde Olatunji’s Drums of Passion Band for several years, until Mr. Olatunji’s passing. Bradford also performed with Mr. Olatunji at Yankee Stadium during Nelson Mandela’s 1st historical trip to the United States after his release from a South African prison. Recently, Bradford has also been performing with The Spirit of Life Ensemble.
In October 2003, Bradford along with 4 other musicians became the subjects of a photograph taken by the late, legendary jazz photographer William Gottlieb. This was the first photo of musicians taken by Mr. Gottlieb since 1948. In addition to this photo session Bradford and the other musicians selected, are also featured as part of a soon to be released PBS documentary about Mr. Gottlieb. Bradford also recently composed and recorded music for an upcoming documentary about cartoonist Will Eisner.
According to Dorothaan Kirk at WBGO-FM in Newark, NJ, “Bradford is a young man who deserves more recognition”. Mr. Hayes has also been a successful music educator in the Newark, New Jersey Public Schools for 24 years. This connection to education, and his knowledge of jazz, makes him an excellent clinician.
Education
Mr. Hayes holds a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Music Education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. He has also studied privately with George Coleman and Charles Davis.
Recordings
Bradford’s latest recording is entitled “The Jazz Life” is beginning to draw a lot of attention. The CD features pianist Michael Cochrane, bassist Calvin Jones, drummer Gregory Searvance, trumpeter Duane Eubanks, and trombonist Cornell McGhee. Bradford also released 2 other CDs entitled “Bianca’s Dance”, and “Our Fathers”. He is also featured on a new by The Spirit of Life Ensemble entitled “That Healin’ Feelin’”. He is also featured on a compilation CD released by BMG Direct entitled “A Jazz Discovery Showcase.”
Some Accomplishments and Affiliations
Member – Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Member – Grammy Recording Academy
Featured on the cover and in an article of the e-magazine @ www.blacknj.com
Photographed by legendary jazz photographer William Gottlieb, along with Javon Jackson, Hilton Ruiz, John Lee, and Bill Saxton, and featured as a part of a PBS documentary about Mr. Gottlieb. (October 2003)
Featured in a TV commercial for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, shot at Birdland (NYC).
Featured in a stage production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grille” with
Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale,” “Dream Girls”, etc.)
A featured finalist on Black Entertainment Television’s “Jazz Discovery”
Resident Artist - NJPAC’s United Way Arts Academy.
Received a proclamation from the City of Irvington, NJ for his musical accomplishments.
Selected as an “Outstanding Young Man of America” for 1998.
Member - International Association of Jazz Educators.
Member – ASCAP
Some of the places Bradford’s Horn has been heard
Festival International Nuits D’Afrique MONTREAL CANADA
New York State Museum Albany, NY
The Wetlands NYC, NY
The Priory Newark, NJ
Jersey Share Jazz & Blues Festival Red Bank, NJ
The Miller Outdoor Theater Houston, TX
The Montclair Art Museum Montclair, NJ
SOB’s NYC, NY
The Lexington Theater St. Louis, MO
Trinity Lutheran Church Jersey City, NJ
University of Mass Amhearst, MA
Birdiand NYC, NY
Africare House Washington, DC
Newark Jazz Festival Newark, NJ
The Bottom Line NYC, NY
Penn State University State Park, PA
Aaron Davis Hall NYC, NY
Kilamonjaro’s Washington, DC
Montclair Blues & Jazz festival Montclair, NJ
The Beacon Theater NYC, NY
The PECO Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA
The Townpoint Jazz and Blues Festival Norfolk, VA
The Park West Theater, Chicago, Ill
Ortlieb's Jazzhaus Philadelphia, PA
NJPAC (Prudential Hall), Newark, NJ
Arts Centre - Accra, Ghana WEST AFRICA
The Panasonic Jazz Festival NYC, NY
Sweet Basil's NYC, NY
Cleopatra’s Needle NYC, NY
Bethany Baptist Church Newark, NJ (Jazz Vespers)
Trinity Lutheran Church Jersey City, NJ (Jazz Vespers)
The China Club PARIS FRANCE
Bradford Hayes (908) 354-7344 (o) / (908) 370-7793 (c)
E-Mail: hayes.bradford@verizon.net
Also visit Bradford @ www.BradfordHayes.com or www.myspace.com/bradfordhayesjazz
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Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
Events
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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Luigi Ruberti Quintet
December 4, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 12pm – Naples
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Betty Blue Jazz Band
December 5, 2009 from 6pm to 9:30pm – The Crystal Lounge( near Brooklyn College area)
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ROME NEAL in Concert
December 5, 2009 at 9pm to December 6, 2009 at 1am – The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
December 19, 2009 at 8:30pm to December 20, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 7:15pm to 7:30pm – Hilton Hotel - New York Suite
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 10pm to 10:15pm – Hilton Hotel - Beekman Suite
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Glad to connect with you, thanks for keeping it real!
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Keep Swinging!
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