 The Unfortunates Professional Equity Play April 13-29, 2012 |
Known as "The Show Stopper"
Sun., Mar. 18, 2012 / 4-6pm
Sitnik Theater of the Lackland Center
Jazz Continues with Danny Mixon Trio
At Centenary Stage Company
 Danny Mixon Photo by John Meixner |
"His
playing is extremely infectious!"
– John S. Wilson, The New York Times
Known as a "Show Stopper" from his early days of performance, virtuoso pianist Danny Mixon will bring his special brand of musical stylings to the Centenary Stage when the Danny Mixon Trio performs on Sunday, March 18 at 4 PM in the David and Carol Lackland Center in Hackettstown.
Danny Mixon has been performing professionally as a jazz pianist since his first appearance with singer Patti LaBelle and her band, The Bluebelles. He spent years performing with jazz singers Joe Lee Wilson and Betty Carter, and playing with jazz luminaries such as Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Eubie Blake, Lou Rawls and Dannie Richmond, before accompanying Carlos Garnet at Brooklyn’s Baby Grand. Described by The New York Times as creating a "riveting use of old time boogie-woogie blues," Mixon has also worked with legendary jazz artists Lionel Hampton and Joe Williams, and Frank Foster, who he currently accompanies as a member of Frank Foster’s Loud Minority Big Band and the Non-Electric Company.
Mixon has performed at the White House, and in the first Newport Jazz Festival at Sea on the Queen Elizabeth II, as well as in the International Fall Jazz Festival in Milan, Italy. He has been honored by Harlem’s National Jazz Museum and is currently the Musical Director of the Lenox Lounge, a performer and instructor with the Jazzmobile. With the latest release of his new CD, "On My Way", critic John S. Wilson wrote, "His music is extremely infectious!"
 Danny Mixon Photo by Paul Aresu |
The Mar 18 performance of the Danny Mixon Trio at Centenary Stage will feature Bryce Sebastien on Bass, Chuck Ferruggia on drums, with a special appearance by blues vocalist Ms. Vinnie Knight.
Danny's greatest joy is performing, composing, and arranging for his own group "The Danny Mixon Trio," and has recently completed his new CD entitled "On My Way." He has also performed, toured and/or recorded with Yusef Lateef, Hank Crawford, Savion Glover, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Stanley Turrentine, Gene Ammons, Eubie Blake, Noel Pointer, Jimmy Witherspoon, Grant Green, Eddie Jefferson, Charles McPherson, Marlena Shaw, Irene Reid, Houston Person, Dakota Staton, Ben Vereen, Leon Tomas, Chaka Khan, Cassandra Wilson, Lou Rawls, Gloria Lynne, Lisle Atkinson, Oscar Brown, Jr., John Hendricks, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Earl May, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Kenny Dorham and many others.
Danny is currently the Musical Director of the Legendary Lenox Lounge and is an instructor and performance artist with the Jazzmobile as well as giving private instructions in his own studio.
Tickets
Tickets for the Danny Mixon Trio are $17.50 in advance and $22.50 at the door the night of the performance. Tickets are available
through the Centenary Stage Company box office at 715 Grand Avenue, open 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and two hours prior
to each performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.centenarystageco.org or by calling the box office at 908-979-0900.
The Jazz in the Box series at CSC is made possible in part through the support of Mamas and Café Baci in Hackettstown. The
2012-13 season of performing arts events at Centenary Stage Company is made possible (and affordable) through the generous
support of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation,
and Centenary Stage Company members and sponsors, including Premier Sponsors Skylands Community Bank and Heath Village Retirement
Community, as well as Hackettstown Regional Medical Center and CSC members and sponsors.
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| The Jazz in the Box series at CSC is made possible in part through the support of Mamas and Café Baci in Hackettstown. The 2012-13 season of performing arts events at Centenary Stage Company is made possible (and affordable) through the generous support of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, and Centenary Stage Company members and sponsors, including Premier Sponsors Skylands Community Bank and Heath Village Retirement Community, as well as Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, Panther Valley Pharmacy, WNRJ Radio and WNTI Radio. |
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