Zaccai Curtis

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Zaccai Curtis (born December 25, 1981 ) is an American musician ( piano , keyboards , composition ) of Latin and modern jazz .

Live and act

Curtis studied at the New England Conservatory . From 2005 he lived in New York City, where he has since worked with musicians such as Ralph Peterson , Bill Saxton , Will Calhoun , Christian Scott , Brian Lynch's Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Sean Jones , Ray Vega , Antoine Roney , Cindy Blackman , Steve Hall , Jimmy Greene , Jerry Gonzalez , Papo Vasquez , Kendrick Oliver , Orrin Evans ' Captain Black Big Band, Matt Garrison ( Familiar Places ), and Donald Harrison ( The Survivor , 2004).

Zaccai also directs the Latin jazz band Insight , with which he presented the album Genesis ; He also composed for his own trio, works for solo piano, big band , orchestra and smaller ensembles with strings. In 2001 he was commissioned to perform an arrangement of Rimski-Korsakow's Capriccio Espagnol with his band Insight and the Hartford Symphony Chamber Orchestra. In 2011 he recorded the album Completion of Proof with his brother Luques ( The Curtis Brothers ) .

From 2003-06 he was one of the winners of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Competition. In 2006 Curtis and three of his band members were given the opportunity to tour on behalf of the State Department as part of the Jazz Ambassadors program. In 2007 he received the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism's Artist Fellowship. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 2004 and 2016. At the Down Beat Critics Poll 2020 he was the winner in the Keyboard / Rising Star category .

Discographic notes

  • Blood, Spirit, Land, Water, Freedom (2010)
  • Completion of Proof (2011), u. a. with Brian Lynch, Donald Harrison, Joe Ford , Jimmy Greene, Luques Curtis, Ralph Peterson
  • Nuestro Tango (2013)
  • Ralph Peterson Luques Curtis Zaccai Curtis: Triangular III (Onyx Music, 2016)
  • BJ Jansen, Delfeayo Marsalis , Ralph Peterson, Duane Eubanks , Dezron Douglas , Zaccai Curtis: Common Ground (RoninJazz, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Zaccai Curtis. Smalls, March 1, 2019, accessed March 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 10, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Curtis, Zaccai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, keyboard, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1981