Sunday, March 28, 2010

Ryan arrived in NYC eight years ago and has been keeping extremely busy

Ryan arrived in NYC eight years ago and has been keeping extremely busy. He's played hits at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room, Birdland, and the Bowery Ballroom, and tours frequently, having performed in Scandinavia, Italy, Ireland, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, etc. (He's in China right now!) Ryan graduated in 2001 from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Steve Turre and composers Mike Abene and the late Manny Album. He went on to study with Wycliffe Gordon and David Berger at Juilliard, and was a member of Jazz at Juilliard's first graduating class.

Ryan has also performed or recorded with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Charles McPherson, Percy Heath, Teo Macero, Joe Lovano, Eric Reed, Ivan Lins, Jon Hendricks, Madeline Peyroux, and Alicia Keys among others. He is the regular trombonist for the Broadway musical In the Heights. In April of 2007 Ryan released his debut CD, Ryan Keberle Double Quartet, which the New York Times's Nate Chinen hailed as an "auspicious debut."
 (Photo: Jen Trail)
Ryan plays in like a bazillion bigbands in town, including Maria's. But I would like to go on the record to state that she stole him from me, and not the other way around — Ryan has been a Secret Society co-conspirator since October 2005 (our second-ever gig). I wrote "Zeno" as a feature for him, and he also tears it up on "Ritual."
http://secretsociety.typepad.com/darcy_james_argues_secret/2008/10/know-your-co--1.html



The Ryan Keberle Double Quartet in performance at NYC's Cachaca on June 23, 2008 performing Ryan's arrangement of the McCartney and Lennon classic, "Blackbird". Ryan Keberle - Trombone, Compositions / Arrangements, Pete Smith - Guitar, Matt Brewer - Bass, Brad Wentworth - Drums, Mike Rodriguez - Trumpet, Mike Fahie - Trombone, Chris Komer - French Horn, Jose Davila - Tuba.
Video by Marie Le Claire

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