Virginia Mayhew

Virginia Mayhew (born May 14, 1959 in San Francisco , California ) is an American tenor saxophonist , composer and arranger of modern jazz .

Live and act

Mayhew has been on the New York music scene since 1987. She studied at the New School and played for several years in the group of Al Gray and with Claudio Roditi . As a musician and arranger, she also worked with Sahib Shihab , the Diva Jazz Orchestra , Earl Fatha Hines , Cab Calloway , Frank Zappa , James Brown , Norman Simmons , Junior Mance , Toshiko Akiyoshi , Doc Cheatham , Joe Williams , Clark Terry , Chico O ' Farrill , Ursel Schlicht and Nnenna Freelon . She leads her own septet and toured several times through Asia and Eastern Europe. She is the musical director of the Duke Ellington Legacy Ensemble under the direction of Edward Kennedy Ellington II. Mayhew released a tribute album to Mary Lou Williams in 2011 , which she presented with her quintet at the WDR 3 Jazz Festival in 2014 .

In 2009 she was named a Rising Star by the Down Beat .

Discographic notes

• It's About Time (Philology, 1990) with Rebecca Franks , Larry Goldings , Kevin Hays , Sean Smith , Andy Eulau, Leon Parker
• Nini Green ( Chiaroscuro Records , 1997), with Ingrid Jensen , Kenny Barron , Harvie Swartz , Adam Cruz , Leon Parker
• Phantoms (Renma, 2003), with Kenny Wessel , Harvie S, Victor Jones
• Sandan Shuffle (Renma, 2006), with Kenny Wessel, Harvie S, Victor Jones
• A Simple Thank You (Renma, 2008), with Harvie Swartz, Lisa Parrott , Ingrid Jensen
• Duke Ellington Legacy: Thank You Uncle Edward (2008), with u. a. Joe Temperley and Wycliffe Gordon
• Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years (Renma, 2011), Wycliffe Gordon, Ed Cherry , Harvie Swartz, Andy Watson
• Duke Ellington Legacy: Single Petal of a Rose (Renma, 2012), with ao Houston Person

Web links

• Web presence
• Portrait at All About Jazz
• Virginia Mayhew at Allmusic (English)
• Virginia Mayhew at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of Virginia Mayhew at JazzTimes ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Edward Blanco: Virginia Mayhew Quartet: Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years (2012) in All About Jazz
3. ↑ Feature at NPR Jazz (2011)
4. ↑ WDR 3 Jazzfest 2014 will be a guest in Gütersloh for the first time ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.