Jazz Brunch Featuring Bill Ware, Teri Roger + John Mengon
December 7 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Teri has an intuitive laid back sense of time reminiscent of Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter but with her own uniqueness. JACK DEJOHNETTE, Legendary Jazz Drummer & 2012 NEA JazzMaster
A discovery at the Sunside in Paris, Teri Roiger, somewhere between Abbey Lincoln, Billie Holiday and Anita O’Day, played with elegance, expressiveness and authenticity. JEAN SZLAMOWICZ, Jazz Hot Magazine, Paris
JOHN MENEGON
New York City bassist John Menegon started his career playing bass in Montreal. After having worked for several years on the Canadian jazz scene with the great guitarists Sonny Greenwich, Mike Gauthier & Nelson Simons, and saxophonists Steve Grossman & Pat LaBarbara, he went on to hone his skills in NYC in the mid-80s. Since moving to New York to study Jazz at Long Island University on a full scholarship, John has performed/recorded with Dewey Redman, David “Fathead” Newman, Matt Wilson, Frank Kimbrough, John Hicks, Yoron Israel, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Burrell, Joel Frahm, Pat Metheny, Kenny Barron, Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Orchestra, Nick Brignola, Jimmy Cobb, Al Foster, Slide Hampton, Sheila Jordan, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, and many others. In addition to touring, recording, and composing, he has created and taught Jazz Workshops on the music of Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus at Williams College (Williamstown, MA). He has also taught master classes at Jazz Festivals around the world, including the Panama Jazz Festival, Bolzano Jazz Festival (Italy), The San Miguel de Allende (Mexico), and the Monheim Triennale (Germany).
Bob Meyer, Performed on Joe Lovano’s Blue Note release and group, Viva Caruso. Also, his Symbiosis, Sinatra and More, trios and quartets. Currently leading The Bob Meyer Project, with Steven Frieder, Luke Franco and Peter Brendler. Recently released our CD Scabiosa; available on iTunes and CD Baby.
Among other people I have played or am playing with are; Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Ed Schuller, Ken Werner, Nina Sheldon, Judi Silvano, Perry Robinson, Glenn Moore, Cameron Brown, Andy Statman, Sheila Jordan, Ray Nance, Art Davis, Jaki Byard, Paul McCanless, Julian Priester, Gary Peacock, Peggy Stern, Bert Wilson, Diane Schurr, Stanley Cowell, Mal Waldron, David Friesen, Jim Pepper, Red Rodney, Itzhak Perlman, Arnie Lawrence, James Moody, Kirk Leitsey, Avishai Cohen, Wayne Horvitz, Drew Gress, Rob Scheps, Mike Bisio, Don Friedman, James Emery, Tony Malaby, Essiet Essiet, Santi Debriano, Vic Juris, Harvey Wainapel, Peter Barshay and Mel Martin, Eric Person, Travis Sullivan among many others.
Bill Ware is known around the world as a master vibraphonist, performing for decades with his various ensembles, as a founding member of The Jazz Passengers and Groove Collective, and on tour with Steely Dan from 1993 – 1995. His full-time career as a performance musician includes working with and learning from experienced producers and engineers and eventually building his own studio. Bill has written hundreds of compositions, including jazz works, symphonic classical works and several film scores. He composes for these mediums exclusively with his production studio tools. He is also known as an innovator with the use of electric pedal effects on the vibraphone, creating a unique and experimental sound with electronic effects.
Teri Roiger has a voice like the finest bittersweet chocolate full of rich, dark, contradicting flavors that miraculously blend to create one of the most original vocal instruments in decades. VIC GARBARINI, Playboy Magazine
Roiger is one of the great though unheralded vocal artists and lyricists of her generation, a living link to giants like Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln. The similarities to these influential precursors are certainly there: Roiger is determined, uncompromising, and blessed with a high level of creative energy and industry that knows no pause. Her singing is filled with natural range, color and emotion, yet somehow seems utterly effortless. She has formidable piano chops, too, writes music and pens lyrics to famous jazz solos, a la vocalese masters Jon Hendricks and Eddie Jefferson.” THOMAS STAUDTER, Music Journalist (2023) Westchester Gazette, Downbeat, etc.