演出信息

日期/Date：2018年6月16日

入场时间/Door Time：6:00 PM

演出时间/Show Time：7:30PM

地址/Add：前门东大街23号 Blue Note Beijing

23 Qianmen East Street. Dongcheng District. Beijing

电话Tel：170-0000-0288 188-BLUE-NOTE

票价信息

B2剧场票价Ticket Price：

400（主座）RMB

（餐饮低消：60RMB） 

乐队成员

David Benoit - piano

Cory Ng - bass

Jeff Olson - drums

三十年来，格莱美提名钢琴家、作曲家、编曲家David Benoit无疑是当代爵士乐的创始人之一。他出生在加利福尼亚州的Bakersfield，在洛杉矶长大，在电视上看到Charlie Brown的节目，并在1965年听了Vince Guaraldi的音乐后，彻底成为了一名爵士发烧友。“我曾是连环漫画的超级粉丝，”他说，“但当我听到爵士钢琴三重奏的时候，我决定要像Vince Guaraldi一样演奏。”

在十三岁的时候，Benoit同钢琴家Marya Cressy Wright学习，并与Abraham Fraser练习钢琴，后者是*指挥家Arturo Toscanini的御用钢琴家。他还学习了音乐理论和作曲，后来又在El Camino Junior College师从Donald Nelligan学习管弦乐编曲，在UCLA师从Donald Ray学习电影配乐。他向来自洛杉矶爱乐乐团助理指挥家Heiichiro Ohyama学习了指挥，并同加州大学洛杉矶分校指挥部门负责人Jan Robertson以及加州大学圣塔巴拉交响乐团音乐总监Jeffrey Schindler进一步学习了音乐教育。

1976年，Benoit在与Lainie Kazan合作担任音乐总监和指挥后，于1977年至1984年在AVI厂牌发行了专辑。之后，他又在GRP发行了几张*唱片，包括《Freedom at Midnight》 (1987), 《Waiting for Spring》 (1989)和《Shadows》(1991)，这几张分别在Billboard当代爵士乐榜单上排名第5、第1和第2。他其他富有显著成绩的唱片包括《Letter to Evan》 (1992)，这是他对一名极富影响力的钢琴家Bill Evans的致敬。Benoit还与Russ Freeman共同录制专辑《The Benoit/Freeman Project》 (1994)，包括后续发行于Peak唱片公司的合作《2》(2004)。他在此唱片公司发行的其他专辑还有《American Landscape》 (1997)和《Orchestral Stories》(2005)，其中包括他的*首钢琴协奏曲《Centaur and the Sphinx》和一部交响乐作品《Kobe》。他*新的第三十五首录音《2 In Love》发行于2015年，这是他与歌手Jane Monheit的*次合作，并获得了格莱美奖的提名，这位来自纽约的女歌手曾在1998年的Thelonious Monk国际歌手大赛中荣获亚军。

Benoit获得了三次格莱美奖*当代爵士演出的提名，分别是《Every Step of the Way》 (1989), 《Best Large Ensemble Performance for GRP All-Star Big Band》(1996), 和《Best Instrumental Composition for "Dad's Room"》，后者是来自专辑《Professional Dreamer》 (2000)。2010年，Benoit获得了美国Lifetime Achievement Award 的Smooth Jazz 奖项，他还与包括Rippingtons, Emily Remler, Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Koz, Faith Hill, David Sanborn, CeCe Winans和Brian McKnight在内的众多音乐人合作。

Benoit曾做过的电影配乐包括由Clint Eastwood制作的《The Stars Fell on Henrietta》 (1995)，以及由Sally Field制作的《The Christmas Tree》，该电影配乐由Film Score Monthly评为1996年的*配乐。他曾担任过许多交响乐团的指挥，包括洛杉矶爱乐乐团、亚洲美国交响乐团和伦敦交响乐团。作为Holland先生基金会的长期客座教育工作者，他在2001年获得该组织的卓越音乐奖。他的音乐选集在The Weather Channel播放，他对Vince Guaraldi的*新解读《Cast Your Fate to the Wind》被收录在The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz 11(2008)中。Benoit目前还在长岛的KKJZ 88.1 FM上主持早间广播节目。

For three decades, the GRAMMY®-nominated pianist/composer/ arranger David Benoit has reigned supreme as one the founding fathers of contemporary jazz. Born in Bakersfield, California, he grew up in Los Angeles and was bitten by the jazz bug after watching a Charlie Brown special on television and listening to the music of Vince Guaraldi in 1965. “I was already a fan of the comic strip,” he says, “but when I heard that jazz piano trio, that was the defining moment when I decided that I wanted to play like Vince Guaraldi.”

At the age of thirteen, Benoit studied privately with pianist Marya Cressy Wright and continued his training with Abraham Fraser, who was the pianist for famed conductor Arturo Toscanini. He also studied music theory and composition, and later studied orchestration with Donald Nelligan at El Camino Junior College and film scoring from Donald Ray at UCLA. He studied conducting from Heiichiro Ohyama, assistant conductor of the L.A. Philharmonic, and furthered his musical education with Jan Robertson, head of the conducting department at UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara symphony orchestra music director Jeffrey Schindler.

After working with Lainie Kazan as her musical director/conductor in 1976, Benoit released albums on the AVI label from 1977 to 1984. He later released several chart-topping recordings for GRP, including Freedom at Midnight (1987), Waiting for Spring (1989) and Shadows (1991), which both topped Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Charts at #5, #1, and #2, respectively. His other noteworthy recordings include Letter to Evan (1992), his tribute to another piano influence, Bill Evans, and Here’s to You, Charlie Brown: Fifty Great Years (2000). Benoit also recorded with Russ Freeman on their album The Benoit/Freeman Project (1994), and on their follow-up collaboration, 2 (2004), which was released on Peak Records. His other recordings for the label include American Landscape (1997) and Orchestral Stories (2005), which featured his first piano concerto, “The Centaur and the Sphinx,” and a symphonic work, “Kobe.”. In 2012, he released Conversation on Concord’s Heads Up International imprint. His latest and thirty-fifth recording as a leader and his first with a vocalist, 2 In Love, was released in 2015 featuring Jane Monheit, the GRAMMY®-nominated, cool-toned chanteuse from New York, who burst on the scene in 1998 as the first runner-up in the Thelonious Monk International Vocalist Competition.

Benoit received three GRAMMY® nominations in the categories of Best Contemporary Jazz Performance for “Every Step of the Way” (1989), Best Large Ensemble Performance for GRP All-Star Big Band (1996), and Best Instrumental Composition for “Dad’s Room,” the latter from the album Professional Dreamer (2000). In 2010, Benoit received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Smooth Jazz Awards, and he’s worked with an impressive potpourri of musicians including the Rippingtons, Emily Remler, Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Koz, Faith Hill, David Sanborn, CeCe Winans and Brian McKnight.

Benoit’s film scores include The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995), produced by Clint Eastwood, and The Christmas Tree, produced by Sally Field, which was voted Best Score of 1996 by Film Score Monthly. He has served as conductor with a wide range of symphonies including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Asia America Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. A long-time guest educator with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, he received that organization’s Excellence in Music Award in 2001. His musical selections have been featured on The Weather Channel and his version of Vince Guaraldi’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” is included on compilation The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz 11 (2008). Benoit also currently hosts a morning radio show on KKJZ 88.1 FM in Long Beach, CA.

Cory Ng - bass

Cory10岁时开始弹奏贝斯。他的父亲是一名鼓手，他总是被音乐围绕，他爸爸家有几把贝斯被搁置。在学习贝斯之前，Cory在学钢琴和一些音乐的基本理论知识。然而，他开始害怕上钢琴课，因此拿起鼓，贝斯和吉他，他特别喜欢Verdine White的演奏，让Earth Wind and Fire的低音承载着灵魂，他决定开始追求自己在贝斯上的演奏技巧。Cory研究R&B和灵魂乐，经过几年的自学，他开始上正规的课程，并且在高中和大学的爵士乐队中演奏。在加州Santa Barbara大学期间，Cory开始接到加州大学洛杉矶分校的同学打来的电话，那些同学称Cory是各种融合、爵士、放克乐和流行音乐艺术家。在毕业后的6个月里，Cory获得社会学学位，并获得了格莱美提名的钢琴家/作曲家David Benoit的邀请。除了Benoit的旅行计划之外，Cory还在LA的教堂工作，在几个爵士乐融合乐队中做兼职乐手，并教授私人课程。通过他之前对钢琴的掌握，Cory经常为流行音乐和R&B音乐家，如澳大利亚的X-Factor明星Joey演奏键盘，其中Donald Alford Jr.对他影响深远，他敬佩他多才多艺的表演和对耶稣基督的热情。

Cory began playing the bass at the age of 10.  Born to a drummer father, he was always around music and his dad had basses laying around the house.  Before bass, Cory took piano lessons and learned to read music and basic theory.  He began dreading piano lessons and picked up drums and bass guitar.  However, he was especially drawn to Verdine White’s playing that drove Earth Wind and Fire’s low end and decided to pursue his craft on bass. Cory began studying RnB and soul music.  After a few years of being self-taught, he began taking formal lessons which prepared him to play in his highschool and college jazzbands.  During his time at the University of Santa Barbara California, Cory started to get calls from peers in UCLA. Jazz majors at UCLA called Cory to play in various fusion, jazz, funk ensembles and for pop artists as well.  Six months after graduating in the class of 2017 with a degree in Sociology of all things, Cory got the call to play for Grammy-nominated pianist/composer David Benoit.  Aside from Benoit’s traveling schedule, Cory works in the LA gospel church scene, freelances in several jazz fusion groups, and teaches private lessons.  Also, putting to use his previous piano training, Cory often plays keybass for pop and RnB artists such as Australian X-Factor star Joey.  His biggest influence is Donald Alford Jr. whom he admires for his versatile playing and his passion for Jesus Christ.

JEFF OLSON BIO

Jeff Olson被描述为“一名恰好被鼓击中的音乐家”。尤其是他风格多样性，Jeff曾与多位艺术家合作演出，包括David Garfield，Scott Wilkie，David Benoit，Tim Weisberg，Peter Tork，Deanna Bogart，Sara Niemietz，Pat Kelley，Ahn Trio，David Pack，Asia America交响乐团等等。他的演奏也可以在许多CD、电视节目和电影配乐中听到，作为一名自由艺术家和录音室音乐家，Jeff因专注音乐的律动而引人注目。Jeff在菲律宾、印度尼西亚、韩国、欧洲、美国和加拿大都有过巡回演出，他的独特表演在整个南加州都能听到。

Jeff Olson has been described as, “a musician whose instrument just happens to be the drums”. Known particularly for his stylistic versatility, Jeff has performed in many genres with artists such as David Garfield, Scott Wilkie, David Benoit, Tim
Weisberg, Peter Tork, Deanna Bogart, Sara Niemietz, Pat Kelley, the Ahn Trio, David Pack, Asia America Symphony, and many others. His playing can also be heard on numerous CDs, TV shows and movie soundtracks. As a freelance artist and studio musician, Jeff is sought after for his compelling focus on time and groove. Having spent time touring in the Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Europe, the U.S. and Canada, Jeff’s distinctive performances can be heard regularly throughout Southern California.