JQ - Jazz Quintet
JQ is a classic jazz quintet which presents concerts and other performances in a variety of venues, as well as educational workshops for elementary school through college.
Ray Sasaki
trumpet
Howie Smith
alto saxohone
Morgan Powell
trombone
Woody Woodward
piano
Dan Anderson
string bass & tuba
"Five musicians working together, blending their sounds their ideas, their personalities to create an ensemble as colorful, witty and unique as their own individual styles: that's the essence of JQ. Whatever the raw material--a jazz classic by Miles Davis, a great American song by Gershwin or Kern, or a spontaneous group improvisation painted on the empty canvas of the air--JQ moves through the music as if each musician were playing from within the center of the group, trying (and succeeding) to do nothing more than make his own part fit into the whole. What a lovely way to play."
Mark Stryker
Music Critic
Detroit Free Press
For more information regarding JQ, see the Illinois Arts Council Artstour 2003-2005 Program Guidelines Page 72.
Contact JQ
Jeanne Sasaki
Arts Management
8806 Tributary Ridge Dr.
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 343-6148
Ph. (512) 343-6148
Fax 512 343-6263
email Jeanne Sasaki
See http://www.cujazz.org for performance places and dates.