Video @ Knoxville Asian Festival 2016Kanariya (Japanese children's song)
Luther Allison (piano), Gerald Thornton (guitar) Carl Maguire (drums), Alan Maguire (bass) |
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Jazz is what we like to do!
Meet the Musicians of Carl & Alan Maguire Quintet
Carl Maguire (drums)
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Gerald Thornton (guitar)
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Carl is a craftsman of the drums who can make the drum, a percussion instrument, sing. He is energetic, and at times lyrical and poetic.
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Alan, a young real deal bassist. He is known for an energetic, but also sensible and tasteful playing style.
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Luther, a young magician of piano. He makes every single note memorable.
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Gerald, an enthusiastic guitar man. He weaves his emotion into his guitar playing.
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Carl & Alan, the twins were born in Tokyo from a Japanese mother and an American father. They grew up in an international environment in Hong Kong from ages 3-15. They moved to the vibrant music city of Memphis, TN in USA at age 15. At age 11 they decided to form a rock band with their older brother named Kevin. He assigned Carl to play drums and Alan to play bass and that's how they ended up on their instruments. They arrived in Memphis determined to pursue music and soon after they joined the world renown Stax Music Academy and found a love for jazz. They learned to improvise sitting in at jazz clubs in Memphis. At age 17, Donald Brown discovered them in his university recruiting tour and they became his pupils. In 2014, they recorded their first album titled ‘The Sound of Music’ with Kirk Whalum as the guest artist and Donald Brown on piano/producing. They have been touring in Japan and Hong Kong, their home countries every summer. In the summer of 2016 they played their own concert with Yosuke Onuma, one of Japan's premier guitarists, for a packed house of 400 people in Akita, Japan. They are currently still studying under Brown at the University of Tennessee to refine their skills and widen their musical perspectives to deliver their own sound of music. Their second album produced by Donald Brown will be released in 2017. They have lived in 3 countries and traveled to many more. With their international experience, the world is their stage and only the sky is limit.
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Luther was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina where he attended Northwest School of the Arts playing saxophone in the wind ensemble, drums in the jazz band, worked as a piano accompanist, and sang first baritone in the choir. He went on to study Studio Music and Jazz with a focus in both drums and piano at the University of Tennessee. He studies piano under Donald Brown. In October of 2015, Luther had the opportunity go to New York City and record drums for Grammy Award winning trombonist Michael Dease's album entitled Father Figure. Nearly a year later in September of 2016, Luther returned to New York City to record piano for another album led by Michael Dease. This album is expected to be released by the end of 2017.
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Gerald from Memphis, the world renown music capital grew up surrounded by world class music. His grandfather who is a band director has been his inspiration for him to explore music. This hard-working musician taught himself to make it to All West Jazz Band in TN while in high school. He is currently studying jazz, guitar under Mike Bolling and improvisation under Donald Brown at University of Tennesse, Knoxville, Gerald’s goals are to make music that people want to hear and bring the things that he loves about Jazz along for the ride.
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