Mark Morganelli

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Mark Morganelli (born before 1979) is an American jazz - trumpet , flugelhorn player and promoter and producer.

Mark Morganelli became known in the field of jazz in New York City especially since 1979 as a promoter of the series Jazz Forum Arts and producer of the reactivated label Candid Records ; He also recorded a few albums under his own name at irregular intervals, such as the 1990 album Speak Low - Live at Birdland with Kenny Barron , Ron Carter and Jimmy Cobb , which he organized as part of the jam sessions of the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference arose. In 1991 he worked alongside Claudio Roditi on Paquito D'Rivera's candidate album Who's Smoking? With. Together with the Count Basie - Alumni Harry Sweets Edison , Clark Terry , Seldon Powell , Roland Hanna , Bucky Pizzarelli , Milt Hinton and Bobby Durham he took 1992 album Swinging for the count on. A second album under his own name was created in 2002 with saxophonist Houston Person .

Morganelli organized performances from the hard bop scene in particular , such as Art Blakey , Wynton Marsalis , Woody Shaw , Red Rodney , Carmen McRae , Barry Harris and Max Roach , as well as the concert to celebrate Dizzy Gillespie's 75th birthday at Carnegie Hall and produced a series of concerts at Lincoln Center and the 1985 Riverside Park Arts Festival . In addition, he appears regularly with the Jazz Forum All-Stars , u. a. with Cameron Brown and guitarist John Hart as well as in Italy and on the cruise ship QE2 .
In his capacity as producer, Morganelli has worked on over forty Candid Records albums , most of which were made live from Birdland in New York , where he served as coordinator for five years.

Discographic notes

  • Speak Low (Candid, 1990)
  • My Romance (Jazz Forum Arts, 2002) with Houston Person

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SURNAME Morganelli, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, promoter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1979