Synopsis
(Artist Transcriptions). A tribute to Ray Brown including 18 transcriptions, performance notes, photos, and a foreword by Christian McBride. Songs include: Autumn in New York * Custard Puff * Days of Wine and Roses * Easy Does It * Gravy Waltz * Have You Met Miss Jones? * How High the Moon * I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) * I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People) * Killer Joe * Love Is Here to Stay * Mack the Knife * Minor Mystery * Moten Swing * Night Train * Sometimes I'm Happy * The Surrey with the Fringe on Top * Tune Up.
About the Author
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Matthew Rybicki has performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ernie Watts, Laurence Hobgood, Hilary Kole, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Rosenthal, Mark Gould, Nnenna Freelon, Renee Fleming, Terell Stafford, Winard Harper, Mark Whitfield, Victor Goines and Marcus Printup. He has also had the great fortune of performing at many well-respected venues in New York such as The Village Vanguard and The Blue Note, as well as concert halls and festivals in locations ranging from Italy, to Qatar, to Taiwan. Rybicki maintains an active performing schedule, working with his own ensembles and with many accomplished colleagues and mentors.
An adept educator, Matthew is an artist/instructor for Jazz at Lincoln Center where he developed and taught the inaugural bass course in the Essentially Ellington Band Director Academy. He has also been the Music Director for several educational performance initiatives, including Jazz in the Schools and hospital tours in conjunction with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Department of Services for People with Disabilities. In addition, Rybicki was a program coordinator for Midori and Friends and has led musical workshops at both The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Guggenheim, where he designed and presented educational performances that incorporate jazz with fine art.
Driven, Matthew's debut recording released in 2009, allowed him to formally be acknowledged on the jazz scene as a performer and composer of note. Recording with jazz greats Ron Blake, Freddie Hendrix, Gerald Clayton, and Ulysses Owens, he was able to capture innovative and sophisticated performances of newly created original works that maintain close ties to the history of jazz.
Matthew received his Artist Diploma graduate degree from The Juilliard School in 2004 and his Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in 1995.
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