New York, NY (PRWEB) July 18, 2014
Jazz Saxophone player Jordan Pettay will be performing at Moscow 57 on Saturday, July 25th at 10pm with her quartet. Jordan, who performs regularly at the Russian Cantral Asian boite at 168 1/2 Delancey Street in NYC, recently graduated from The Julliard School.
Jazz saxophone player Jordan Pettay, who appears regularly on Friday nights at 10pm at Moscow 57 on Delancey, the Russian Central Asian boite with live music nightly, will be performing with her quartet on Friday, July 25th at 10pm. The other members of her band are David Linard on keyboard, Jimmy MacBride on drums and Luke Sellick on bass.
Jordan just received her master's degree in Jazz Studies, which was the culmination of her 6 years spent at Juilliard. "With this chapter of my life closing, and new doors opening, I am looking forward to starting work on new projects, including my debut recording as a leader to be released in spring of 2015," said Pettay.
ABOUT JORDAN PETTAY
Jordan Pettay is a New York-based jazz saxophonist, composer and educator.
She has had the privilege of performing with artists like Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Terence Blanchard, Joe Lovano, and Benny Golson among others, and has traveled worldwide throughout North America, Central America, Asia, Europe, and Australia performing and teaching.
Jordan most recently returned from a week-long residency at the Guiseppe Verdi Conservatory in Torino, Italy in conjunction with the Torino Jazz Festival, where she conducted master classes at the conservatory and performed on the main stage of the festival. In late June, Jordan joined forces with the New York Jazz Symposium, a company started by educator and drummer extraordinaire Carl Allen, to conduct workshops in Melbourne, Australia.
Born in Wichita, Kansas but raised in the suburbs of Ft. Worth, Texas, Jordan began playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and quickly caught the jazz bug after being exposed to recordings of Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker and having a series of gifted and passionate teachers who inspired her to pursue music.
Jordan attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Dallas, where she toured nationally with groups under the direction of Bart Marantz and won a number of Downbeat Student Music Awards. As a senior in high school she was selected as lead alto in the Texas All-State Jazz Band. In 2008, Jordan moved to New York City to continue her musical training at the Juilliard School and studied under the tutelage of Ron Blake, Steve Wilson, Carl Allen, Rodney Jones, and others. While at Juilliard, Jordan had the distinct honor of being awarded the inaugural Gerry and Franca Mulligan Scholarship.
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