Bob Sparkman Trio & Ellen Redman
mix of Calypso, Jazz and Carnival
SundayAug. 21, 2021 – 2:00 p.m.
One Hour On North Hall Stage.
40 Searle Road Huntington
Admission: FREE, donations accepted,
Masks required. Check website for update & Covid requirements.
LISTEN to The Bob Sparkman Trio presenting a video performance of “Blues In B Flat”
Songs of Hope by Jerry Noble
LISTEN to Jerry Noble
Noble’s Songs of Hope, Songs 1,2,3,4,5,, a series of Duets written so he can play together with cellist friend AnupKumar Biswas who lives in London and is founder of the Mathieson School, a school for needy children in Kolkata, India.“I began writing these instrumental duos because he and I will not be playing together in person as we had planned this summer. Bob and Kara and I have performed with Anup many times and we look forward to the next opportunity,” explains Jerry.
The ever popular Bob Sparkman Trio play cool blues, jazz, and swing at the Historic North Hall. With Bob Sparkman on clarinet, Jerry Noble on piano and Kara Noble on electric bass, the trio take the audience on their improvisatory journey through traditional jazz and the American Songbook. The trio’s jazz performances always include Fats Waller classics such as “Lulu’s Back in Town” and Hoagy Carmichael’s masterpieces like “Stardust”.
Longtime jazz musician Bob Sparkman and Jerry Noble have been playing together for over twenty years. They are in their 21st year of playing together (documented by 10 CDs). In 2016, they were joined by Kara Noble to create The Bob Sparkman Trio (bobandjerry.com). Fats Waller has always been a favorite composer of theirs, and they always try to return to his music and often revisiting classic sampling of masterpieces from the American songbook including some Dixieland stompers.
BIOS
The Bob Sparkman Trio was formed in 2016, when clarinetist Bob Sparkman and pianist Jerry Noble were joined by Kara Noble on electric bass. They celebrated the enhanced perspective and broader reach of this ensemble by recording Tunes in the Key of Three, adding to Bob and Jerry’s existing 10-CD catalog. In addition to laying down the beat, Kara is a joyful participant in the group’s free-wheeling improvisatory journey through traditional jazz and the American Songbook
Bob Sparkman: Inspired by jazz artists including Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and the Condon Mob, Bob Sparkman jammed around Westchester County, NY with contemporaries Dick Wellstood and Ed Hubble. He gigged professionally in New York City and worked as player and assistant manager at the last Eddie Condon jazz club. A New York Times reviewer dubbed Bob’s sound “…wry and rough-toned…hover(ing) midway between Pee Wee Russell’s tortured notes and the straight positive phrases of Rod Cless,” with a style and manner distinctly his own.
Clifton “Jerry” Noble Jr. is a performer and composer. His works have been commissioned and played by the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Holyoke Civic Symphony, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and many solo artists, including saxophonist Lynn Klock. He served as the Staff Accompanist to the Smith College Music Department and accompanied the Glee Club and Chamber Singers for many years, composing and arranging music for their performances in the United States and abroad. He writes classical music reviews and features for the Springfield Republican Newspaper.
Kara Noble is a professional writer, editor, and publications designer who spent ten years on the editorial staff of Merriam-Webster. She wrote and edited M-W’s syndicated language question-and-answer column, Take Our Word for It, their public radio program Word for the Wise (WAMC, Albany, NY),and their online Word of the Day features. Kara began taking music lessons before she was 10 years old, and got her first electric bass (the one she still plays) in 1972. Her early musical influences ran to the Carpenters, John Denver, Carole King, and Willie Nelson, but she got hooked on jazz (especially traditionally jazz) in college. She was thrilled when Bob and Jerry invited her to join The Bob Sparkman Trio in 2016.
Ellen Redman Flutist: received her training with renowned teachers and performers such as John Krell, Carol Wincenc, Harvey Sollberger and Thomas Nyfenger. She has been the piccoloist with the Springfield (MA) Symphony since 1985 and has twice appeared as soloist with them. Miss Redman has also concertized extensively in Italy, including appearances in Rome at the American and British Academies, the American Embassy and the Vatican.
Ellen Redman with Various Ensembles: A resident of Westfield, MA she has worked with various ensembles, including the Boston Symphony, Berkshire Bach, Boston Classical Orchestra, New Hampshire Symphony and the Nashua Symphony. She teaches flute and Irish flute at Smith College, directed the Smith College Wind Ensemble from 2006-2019 and has a thriving private teaching studio. As a performer on the Irish Flute, she qualified to compete in the 2006 and 2007 All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil in Ireland. Miss Redman is the founder and director of The Wailing Banshees at Smith College, teaches Irish flute and tin whistle at the Connecticut Academy of Irish Music, and co-hosts a weekly Irish session at the Irish Cultural Center of Western New England.
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