NC JazzGirls Day Concert
featuring Christine Jensen, saxophone
JazzGirls Day provides a day of mentoring, jam sessions, and
workshops with professional jazzwomen for young women around the state who are
interested in playing jazz. JazzGirls Day is a nationwide movement with events
held at SF Jazz, Jazz at Lincoln Center and across the country.
The day concludes with a concert by women in jazz.
Personnel
Lenora Helm Hammonds, vocals
Zoë Harris, trumpet (UNCW alumnus)
Lydia Salett, piano
Natalie Boeyink, bass (UNCW faculty)
Chris Hankins, drums
Program
To be selected from titles listed below (and more!)
Christine Jensen, composer:
A Shorter Distance
Seafever
Land of Me
Margareta
Marsh Blues
Natalie Boeyink, composer:
First Lady
Zoë Harris, composer:
It’s Alright
About the artists
Christine Jensen, a Montreal-based
saxophonist and composer, has been described as, “an original voice on the
international jazz scene…[and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,”
by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. She has collaborated with
a diverse array of musicians, including Geoffrey Keezer, Lenny Pickett, Brad
Turner, Karl Jannuska, François Théberge, Gary Versace, Donny McCaslin, Steve
Amirault, Franck Amsallem, in addition to her long-term musical relationships
with sister Ingrid and partner, saxophonist/composer Joel Miller. Jensen
performs and records regularly with her sister, performing around the world: from Seattle's Jazz Alley to New York's Museum of
Modern Art, from an SS Norway Jazz Cruise to a tour of Japan.
For more information about Christine Jensen, please visit:
Lenora Zenzalai Helm Hammonds is a jazz vocal
musician specializing in classic, traditional jazz standard and original
repertoire. She has six solo recordings and a touring and performance discography
with the biggest names in jazz. A former U.S. Jazz Ambassador, she mentors
emerging vocalists, and since 2005 has taught vocal performance and directs a
vocal jazz ensemble as a professor in the North Carolina Central University music department.
Zoë Harris is a classical and jazz trumpet
player/composer and recent graduate from North Carolina Central University
where she received her masters in Jazz Composition. She completed her
undergraduate studies in Music Education from the University of North Carolina
Wilmington. She is now a full time elementary band and music teacher in the
downtown Raleigh area.
Lydia Salett Dudley is a jazz pianist and
singer living in the Raleigh/Durham area. Her first exposure to music came from
a Baptist church in Cleveland Ohio, which was instrumental in providing
experience in playing for local groups of children and adults. In 2003, she
branched out into another genre of music under the guidance of Professor Ed
Paolantonio and Dr. Stephen Anderson, releasing her first single – Green – in 2008; her composition Sunsets was featured on UNC-Chapel
Hill’s project TENOR VIBE in 2010.
Natalie Boeyink is an accomplished bassist, violinist,
pianist, composer and educator based in Wilmington, NC. In 2015, she joined the full-time jazz
faculty at University of North Carolina Wilmington after completing a DM in
Music Education from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She holds a
MM in Jazz Performance from the University of Louisville, and a BM in Jazz
Studies at Indiana University. Boeyink has performed with Lorraine Feather,
Ingrid Jensen, Jovino Santos Neto, Joe Piscopo, David 'Fathead' Newman, and
John Hendricks. She has been an invited performer in Barbados, the Bahamas,
Perm and Moscow, Russia, and Natal, Brazil. In 2015, her group, Batuquê Trio,
released its debut album, Transparency, which highlights their fusion of
contemporary Brazilian, American and Afro-Cuban jazz.
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Chris Hankins earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and
Jazz Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Master of
Music in Jazz Studies from North Carolina Central University. She has performed
with such jazz greats as Reggie Workman, Curtis Fuller, Steve Wilson, Jimmy
Heath, Joey Calderazzo and Branford Marsalis. Notable performances include
the Newport Jazz Festival and Detroit Jazz Festival, and on North Carolina
Central’s CD Yesterdays and Forever. Hankins left Wake
Forest University’s faculty after five years to pursue a career as a
performer, clinician, and private instructor. Many of her students have gone on
to pursue degrees in music, as well as perform various styles of music all over
the country.
A special thank you for support from the UNCW Office of
Community Engagement, UNCW Office of the Arts, Jazz Education Network’s Jazz2U, and the Charlotte Jazz Arts
Initiative.