Chickering Salon Series
Ricky Ford Quartet
Join us for Fredericka King’s Chickering Salon Series installment with the Ricky Ford Quartet. The band will play two jazz sets beginning at 7:30PM. Admission is free!!
Ricky Ford
Ricky Ford grew up on Humboldt Avenue, Roxbury and trained at the New England Conservatory. A few months after the passing of Duke Ellington and Paul Gonsalves, he was invited by Mercer Ellington to join the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He would soon become recognized as one of the leading tenor saxophonists of his generation. He went on to work with Charles Mingus (1976-1977), Dannie Richmond (1978-1981), Lionel Hampton (1980-1982), Abdullah Ibrahim (1983-1990), and Mal Waldron (1989-1994), and participate in recording sessions with Yusef Lateef, Sonny Stitt, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Amina Claudine Myers, Sathima Bea Benjamin and Steve Lacy, among others. As a leader, he has recorded 21 albums and authored a vast repertoire of originals. He settled in Paris in the 1990s, where he has played a leading role among the community of expatriate American jazz musicians there. Ricky recorded two recent albums – “7095” and “Sacred Concert” - with the Paris-based, Breton ensemble Ze Big Band, and also in 2022 “The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford” on the Whaling City Sound label. In recent years he has been making more frequent trips to the U.S. to perform.
John Kordalewski
John Kordalewski is best known as the leader of the Makanda Project, a longstanding 13-piece band based in Boston which mostly performs his arrangements of previously unrecorded Makanda Ken McIntyre compositions. He is also arranger and conductor for the Chicago-based Chico Freeman Orchestra. As a pianist, he has worked with many renowned musicians including Carl Grubbs, Odean Pope, Oliver Lake, Feya Faku, and Webster Young.
Tony Marino
Tony Marino is a longtime (30-year) member of the Dave Liebman Quartet, with whom he has toured the world and recorded several albums. He has also worked with Kenny Werner, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Hal Galper, Mose Allison, Joe Lovano, Urbie Green, John Coates Jr. and the String Trio of New York. He also appears on recordings with artists such as Phil Woods, Bob Dorough, and the Kaleidoscope Quintet. Tony is on the faculty of the Pennsylvania Jazz Institute.
Thurman Barker
Thurman Barker is a Chicago native and one of the early members of the famed Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He performed and recorded with other AACM members including Muhal Richard Abrams, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins, Amina Claudine Myers, and Roscoe Mitchell. His wide ranging background also includes work as a classical percussionist, and as an accompanist for Billy Eckstine, Marvin Gaye, and Bette Midler. After moving to New York, he received acclaim for his work in the ensembles of Sam Rivers and Cecil Taylor. He also has recorded five albums as a leader. He recently retired from his position as a professor at Bard College, where he worked for 30 years.
