(Rain or shine)
Suggested Admission
Adults $3
Newark residents, Museum Members
and children are Free!
For more than 40 years, The Newark Museum has presented all-star lineups of jazz greats during its annual Jazz in the Garden Summer Concert Series. This year promises music lovers another wonderful season in the Museum's award-winning Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, adding new musicians to the impressive list of such past performers as Andy Bey, Ron Carter, Will Calhoun and Carrie Smith. Attracting thousands of adults and children annually to the Museum's Garden, these Thursday concerts are among the most popular of our educational and culturally significant events.
Held rain or shine, Jazz in the Garden offers its audience an opportunity to enjoy wonderful music in a magnificent and serene museum setting.
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June 25
Antoinette Montague, vocalist
Born and raised in Newark, Antoinette Montague released her first CD Pretty Blues in 2006. She has had many invaluable musical experiences in jazz, gospel and R&B ensembles. According to Scott Yanow, “She has a powerful voice, the ability to hold long notes without wavering, and a knack for making every song sound bluesy. Antoinette Montague’s delivery is heartfelt, infectious and memorable.” Montague learned well from her mentors Carrie Smith, Etta Jones, Della Griffin and Myrna Lake.
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July 2
Nilson Matta-Brazilizian Voyage, bass
Matta is considered one of Brazil’s best bass players. A co-founder of “Trio da Paz” and “The African-Brazilian Connection” with Don Pullen, he moves effortlessly between straight-ahead jazz and the bossa nova/samba beat. As a recording artist Nilson has two CD’s that feature several of his own compositions and some first call exciting musicians. In NYC since 1985 he has played and recorded with Joe Henderson, Kenny Barron, Yo Yo Ma, Paquito D’Rivera to list a few.
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July 9
T.S. Monk, drummer
The son of legendary pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer, bandleader, composer, vocalist and recording artist, was drawn to the drums before the age of ten and had his destiny sealed when Max Roach, with whom he studied, gave him his first drum set. After earning a reputation in school as a rabble-rouser, the young Monk joined his father's trio and toured with his dad until the elder Monk's retirement in 1975. T. S. received the New York Jazz Awards First Annual "Recording of the Year" and DownBeats' prestigious 63rd Reader's Poll Award for Monk On Monk, the "80th Anniversary Birthday Tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk."
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July 16
Cecil Bridgewater & Quartet, trumpet
Cecil Bridgewater's 30 plus years of experience includes roles as performer, composer, arranger, record producer and educator. He has been a member of the groups of Max Roach, Horace Silver and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra to name a few. He has also shared the stage and/or studio with the Count Basie Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Heath, Sir Roland Hanna, Wynton Marsalis and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers among others. Cecil Bridgewater is a trumpeter who realizes the lineage of the trumpet and has an appreciation for its place in contemporary music.
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July 23
Adam Niewood, saxophonist,
and his Rabble Rousers
Sponsored by William Paterson Jazz Program
Adam Niewood is a saxophonist, Improviser, Composer and a woodwind mouthpiece technician who grew up in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. The son of musicians Gerry Niewood & Gurly Niewood he had an early start in music. Adam is a student of Berklee College of music, William Paterson University; where he earned his Bachelors degree in Music performance. From 2000 – 2003 Adam was the professor of Saxophone, Jazz History and small Ensembles at Montclair State University. As a recording artist he released his first recording on the Native Language label with the collective group SBW. Currently Adam is enjoying playing original experimental music in the New York area.
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July 30
Lou Donaldson, saxophonist
Lou Donaldson, alto saxophonist, recording star and entertainer extraordinaire was born in Badin, North Carolina on November 1, 1926. When he was about 9 years old, his mother told him that he had musical talent and that he needed to play an instrument. He chose the clarinet but after hearing Charlie Parker he settled on the saxophone. Moving to New York City in 1950, Lou began his long, fruitful association with Blue Note records. In 1968 the organ sound was so powerful and popular that he started making organ records. In 1968 he recorded "Alligator Boogaloo" with Dr. Lonnie Smith on the organ, George Benson on guitar, Melvin Lasky on trumpet and Idris Mohammed (Leo Morris) on drums. A great commercial success, it stayed on the Best Selling Billboard chart for 52 weeks. He is very proud of his current group that boasts the musical excellence of Randy Johnston on guitar, Akiko Tsuruga on organ and Fukushi Tainaka on drums.
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