PRINCETON JAZZ CLUB PERFORMS AT THE IRIDIUM
IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB (1650 Broadway, NYC - 212-582-2121 -
http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/
) is pleased to present the Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) Tuesday January
9th at 6:30 pm. The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) is comprised of five
fine musicians who met and played jazz at Princeton in the '50's and
for the next 50 years went their separate ways pursuing a variety
of careers. Two chose music as a profession but all stayed close to
music in some way. The Princeton Jazz Quintet (PJQ) repertoire focuses
on the Great American Songbook with a liberal dose of bebop, latin
and other music from the mainstream jazz tradition.
They came to Princeton from different places: Alan
Bergman (drums & percussion) from New York City, Ed White (bass
& bass guitar) from Newark, NJ, Dick Lincoln (vibes & keyboards)
from MA, Pete Blue (piano & keyboards) from CA and Tom Artin (trombone
& flute) from down the street in Princeton, NJ. They played in various
jazz groups on campus including the Nassau Jazz Band, Stan Rubin's
Tigertown Five and finally Dick, Ed and Alan were members of the
Johnny Eaton Quartet a unique group that recorded three albums for
Columbia Records produced by the legendary producer, George Avakian.
One unreleased album included Ed's tenor sax playing friend from
Newark, Wayne Shorter, this legend's very first recording.
There is a $15 Music Charge, $10 Minimum
Tom Artin (trombone & flute)
Tom Artin began playing jazz in Junior High School
in a band organized by the now celebrated American composer John
Harbison. He has played throughout the U.S. and Europe with a number
of world renowned jazz groups including the Smithsonian Jazz Repertory
Ensemble (1981-84), the Louis Armstrong Alumni All-Stars, the World
of Jelly Roll Morton, the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and Wild Bill
Davison. During the '80's Tom was a regular member of the house
band at Eddie Condon's and also led the Friday noontime band, Condon's
Hot Lunch.
Dick Lincoln (vibes & keyboards)
Dick Lincoln is from Southeastern Massachusetts where
he started playing violin as a young boy. He studied mallet percussion
and jazz from age fourteen until graduating high school in the Boston
suburbs. At Princeton University in the fifties he played vibes
with all the PJQ members, briefly with Stan Rubin and the Tigertown
Five and joined the John Eaton Quartet with Alan Bergman and Ed
White. That group made three recordings with George Avakian at Columbia
Records. Dick moved permanently to the Princeton NJ area in 1966
and has played both piano and vibes in the Trenton NJ area for forty
years.
Alan Bergman (drums & percussion)
Alan Bergman has been able to combine his love for
jazz and other music with a rewarding career as an attorney in the
music business. He was born in Brooklyn, attended public high school
and then Princeton and NYU Law School. His first job was as Counsel
to Frank Loesser and his music publishing and Broadway production
companies. He then became an attorney with ABC Records during the
Golden Age of Impulse Records of John Coltrane, Ray Charles and
the Mamas and the Papas. He formed his own law practice in New York
City in 1973 specializing in the music business. He has continued
to play music with various community orchestras, jazz groups and
finally the PJQ.
Pete Blue (piano & keyboards)
Pete Blue was born in Los Angeles, went to Beverly
Hills High School, and was a philosophy major at Princeton (and
student conductor of the Concert Band under Richard Franko Goldman).
After a year of law school at Columbia and another at Stanford,
Pete left to become a professional musician (keyboards) for long
periods in: Seattle (where the Seattle Times music critic called
him "one of the best jazz pianists in the Pacific Northwest"); Las
Vegas (the Flamingo) and Reno /Tahoe (Harrah's) during the Elvis
era; Nashville (Grand Ole Opry). He was onstage pianist for the
long running Broadway hit, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and
was one of the original creators of Forbidden Broadway the long
running spoof of the Broadway musical scene.
Ed White (bass & bass guitar)
Ed started his musical career by studying violin at
the age of six. Violin wasn't his first choice, but his arm was
"too short to box with God" or play trombone. Six years and a somewhat
longer arm later, he switched to double bass. Ed studied classical
bass for the next six years during five of which he played in the
New Jersey All State High School Orchestra. At Princeton and later
in Cairo Ed studied the Arabic language and literature which proved
invaluable for a later career embracing six years as a Peace Corps
Deputy Country Director in Iran, and Country Director in Libya,
Barbados and Kenya. The next period consisted of 22 years with the
United Nations, including headquarters postings in New York and
Geneva and field assignments as UN Development Programme Country
Representative and United Nations Resident Coordinator in Iran,
Mauritania and Samoa.
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