Jill McCarron

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Jill McCarron (* around 1970 in Minneapolis ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , also keyboard , composition ), stylistically following the hardbop tradition.

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McCarron spent childhood and adolescence in Canada. She first studied classical music, drama and theory at Manitoba College. she then studied jazz at Humber College in Toronto, where she took classes in jazz performance and arrangement with Ron Collier , and at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta. In Toronto she played in city clubs such as George's Spaghetti House and the Montreal Bistro . On a Canada Council scholarship , she moved to New York City, where she studied jazz at The New School with Richie Beirach , Jim Hall , Kenny Werner and Hal Galper . The first recordings were made in 1992 with the female formation Unpredictable Nature ( Dedication , with Carol Chaikin, Melissa Slocum, Sherrie Maricle ). After completing her studies, she won the Cognac Hennessy Jazz Competition with her quintet ; In 1993 she was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Competition at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. In 1995 she won the Great American Jazz Piano Competition , which was held in Jacksonville. In the same year she performed with Lindy Huppertsberg's formation The Swinging Ladies at the 26th Burghausen International Jazz Week .

In the course of her career, McCarron has worked with musicians such as Randy Brecker , Vincent Herring , Yōichi Kobayashi , Don Braden , Russell Malone , Harvie Swartz and Jay Leonhart . She has also performed in New York venues such as Dizzy's Jazz Club in Lincoln Center , Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, Smalls , Blue Note , Knickerbocker Bar and Grill and the Iridium Jazz Club ; in their quartet / trio played u. a. Don Falzone, Eric Halvorson, Don Braden, Steve LaSpina , Steve Johns , Paul Gill, Chris Haney and Phil Stewart. For several years she had an engagement at the Harvard Club in New York ; She also appeared in Marian McPartland's program Piano Jazz , as a soloist / interview guest in 1993 and as a member of the Randy Brecker Quintet in 2009. In the field of jazz, she was involved in six recording sessions between 1992 and 2015, a. a. with Sherrie Maricle , Kit McClure , Ronaldo Folegatti, Ada Rovatti ( Airbop ), James Silberstein , most recently with Bill Warfield And The Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra. In 2019 McCarron led a quartet consisting of Lee Hogans (trumpet), Tom DiCarlo (bass) and Phil Stewart (drums).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jill McCarron. Smalls, January 16, 2019, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Cartwright-Oppenheim hace gala del buen jazz en Casa de Teatro (2004)
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 16, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME McCarron, Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis