Howard Johnson & Scott Robinson Multi-Instrument Salon, FREE

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Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is delighted to present a Howard Johnson & Scott Robinson multi-Instrument Salon. This event presents a rare opportunity to see true master musicians at work in an intimate, conversational setting. Open to the public, free admission. Brooklyn Conservatory is located at 58 7th avenue (corner of Lincoln Place), Park Slope, Brooklyn. 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza, Q/B to 7th ave.

Howard Johnson & Scott Robinson Multi-Instrument Salon, Sunday, March 27, 6pm, Free!
Free and open to the public this and students from all 5 boroughs this salon will focus on multi-instrumentalists Howard Johnson and Scott Robinson. Both musicians will explore and explain how they move from one instrument to another seamlessly and demonstrate technique while showcasing a wide range of rare and unique instruments. The salon will involve discussion and live performance making it a “must see” event for any student, musician or music lover.

Howard Johnson was born in Montgomery, Alabama on August 7, 1941. He taught himself the baritone sax in 1954 and the tuba a year later. He moved to New York in 1963—at a time when the tuba was not a fashionable jazz instrument (outside of the New Orleans-style bass-line chores, the only visible player was Ray Draper) but Charles Mingus welcomed Howard into his workshop in 1964. In 1965 he toured with soul jazz alto saxophonist Hank Crawford, playing baritone sax, but returned to the Mingus’ workshop for a year beginning in July 1965. In 1966 he played with the Archie Shepp band for some months and appeared with him at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966 and 1968. Gil Evans used his multi-instrumental capacity at various points between 1966 and 1988.

One of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton's band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton's quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera's clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz's greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Scott has been heard numerous times on film, radio and television, and his discography now includes more than 190 recordings. His releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, Down Beat Magazine and other sources worldwide. One, Melody From the Sky (featuring the seldom-heard C-Melody saxophone), was recently the subject of a Wall Street Journal article by Nat Hentoff. His newest, Forever Lasting (featuring the compositions of Thad Jones and with guest artist Hank Jones), appeared on four "Best Of" lists for 2008 including All About Jazz and Jazz Improv Magazine.

This project has been made possible be the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.

Programs at the Conservatory are supported by The Achelis Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Barclays/Nets Community Alliance, The Beatrice S. Wind Charitable Remainder Trust, Bloomberg, Brooklyn Community Foundation, ConEdison, Fund for the City of New York/Open Society Foundations’ Performing Arts Recovery Initiative, Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, National Guild for Community Arts Education/MetLife Foundation, Park Slope Civic Council, The Rudin Foundation, and Youth, I.N.C., as well as numerous individual donors. Programs at the Conservatory are also supported in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

[ginnboonmiller]

This one, too. If you haven't heard Scott Robinson, you should check him out for sure. We already know about HoJo, of course.