Larry Ham

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Larry Ham (* around 1960) is an American jazz musician ( piano , organ , arrangement , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Ham holds a Bachelor of Arts in Musicology from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and a Masters in Jazz Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, City University of New York . He began his professional career as a musician from 1986 to 1987 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. He was then a pianist in the Illinois Jacquet Big Band from 1990 to 1995 and also worked with Junior Cook and Dakota Staton . The first recordings were made around 1980 with Ray Rivera ( Let Me Hear Some Jazz ), in the following years also with JR Monterose ( Bebop Loose & Live ), Hugh Brodie , Bob Merrill , Scott Robinson , Bill Easley , David Glasser and Earl May . He has performed at numerous jazz festivals, concerts and nightclubs in the USA, Europe, West Africa and Japan. In New York City he gave concerts a. a. at Lincoln Center , Carnegie Hall , Iridium , Village Vanguard , Smalls , Kitano Hotel and Lenox Lounge in Harlem.

Ham recorded the trio album Carousel (2006, with Lee Hudson , Tom Melito ) and the solo album Just Me, Just You ... (2007, Arbors Jazz ) under his own name ; on the latter he interpreted standards such as “My Romance”, “ How About You? ”,“ It Could Happen to You ”,“ If I Should Lose You ”and“ I Can't Get Started ”. In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 1980 and 2011, most recently with Catherine Russell and Chris Flory . Since 2016 he is the co-leader of the Larry Ham / Woody Witt Quartet , with Woody Witt (tenor saxophone), Lee Hudson (bass) and Tom Melito (drums).

Ham also appeared in the jazz film Texas Tenor and was a guest on television programs such as The Today Show (NBC), Breakfast Time (FX) and NPR programs such as Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater and Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired . As a jazz ambassador for the US State Department, he traveled to eleven West African nations from 2001 to 2002 as part of a cultural exchange, performed in concerts and led workshops on jazz. From 2002 to 2005 he was the pianist and musical director of the New York Tapdance Festival and toured the USA and Russia, Greece and Italy. He currently teaches at State University in New Paltz, New York, Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Larry Ham, piano. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Ham, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, organ)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1960