Lipsey Summer Jazz at the AKG - Singer/Saxophonist Camille Thurman with George Caldwell and Friends
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Sunday, July 30, 2023
2 pm ET
Singer/Saxophonist Camille Thurman with George Caldwell and Friends
Camille Thurman is an American jazz musician, composer, and member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Her first two albums, released by Chesky Records in 2018 and 2017, peaked at #3 and #25 respectively on the Billboard jazz albums chart.
Buffalo pianist George Caldwell studied at Memphis State University and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He was awarded a Ralph Bunche Fellowship for his academic work at Rutgers University and has since garnered additional prestigious awards throughout his career. After a brief stint with Clifford Jordan, Caldwell followed Mulgrew Miller as the piano chair with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He then spent seven years with the Count Basie Orchestra under the direction of Frank Foster. Some of the many great artists with whom he has shared the bandstand include Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Joe Williams, George Benson, Kenny Garrett, Art Blakey, Savion Glover, Lou Rawls, Lionel Hampton, George Coleman, Louis Smith, Joe Newman, Roy Hargrove, Bobby McFerrin, Max Roach, and Jon Faddis.
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