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SUMMARY:Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quintet
DESCRIPTION:Erica Lindsay – tenor saxophone\nRon Horton – trumpet\nFrancesca Tanksley – piano\nRich Syracuse – bass\nJeff “ Siege” Siegel – drums\n\n\nJEFF “SIEGE” SIEGEL \nDrummer/Composer Jeff “Siege” Siegel is a veteran of the New York Jazz scene and has worked with a virtual “who’s who” of artists. A member of the Sir Roland Hanna Trio from 1994-’99\, Siegel’s diverse career has also led him to perform and/or record with legends such as Ron Carter\, Kenny Burrell\, Jack DeJohnette\, Benny Golson\, Sheila Jordan\, Helen Merrill\, Mose Allison\, John Medeski\, Arthur Rhames\, Dave Douglas\, Stefon Harris\, Pat Metheny\, Kurt Elling\, Ravi Coltrane\, Ryan Kisor\, Lee Shaw\, Levin Brothers\, John Medeski\, Dena DeRose\, Lee Shaw and many others. He has worked in the avant garde world as well with Wadada Leo Smith\, Baikida Carroll. He’s performed over 30 European tours including four as leader of the Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet and several others as co-leader. The Jeff “Siege” Siegel Sextet performed a 3 week tour of Africa in the summer of 2019.   Other recent tours include The Levin Brothers Japan\, Mexico\, Canada and the US west coast and Midwest as well as South & Central America.  His 2017 CD release “King of Xhosa” features South African trumpeter Feya Faku and is on the ARC label.  His most recent release with his quartet is the 2018 release on ARC entitled “London Live” and “When You Were There” (2019) with Hetko\, Syracuse & Siegel. \n\n\nERICA LINDSAY began her studies in composition with Mal Waldron in Munich when she was fifteen years old. She played clarinet\, then alto and tenor saxophone. In 1973\, she studied for a year at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and then went back to Europe\, where she began her music career. She formed a local quartet and went on tour. Since 1980\, she has lived in New York. \nAs a saxophonist\, she worked with Melba Liston\, Clifford Jordan\, Dizzy Gillespie\, McCoy Tyner\,[1] Reggie Workman\, George Gruntz\, and Pheeroan akLaff. Lindsay composed for theater\, television\, and dance productions and worked with poets and performance artists such as Carl Hancock Rux\, Janice King\, Janine Vega\, Mikhail Horowitz and Nancy Ostrovsky. She led her own quartet and was the co-leader of a quartet with Sumi Tonooka.[2] \nFRANCESCA TANKSLEY holds a Master’s Degree in Music from Queens College\, where she did graduate jazz piano studies with Sir Roland Hanna\, and composition studies with Jimmy Heath. She did post-graduate classical piano studies with Harry Jensen in New Paltz\, New York. She has conducted jazz workshops at numerous colleges\, including the University of Southern California at Santa Cruz\, Hampton University\, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute\, and Bard College. Ms. Tanksley serves as faculty at New School University’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program in New York City. Queens College graduate jazz piano studies with Sir Roland Hanna\, composition with Jimmy Heath. \nAccompanist with such notable groups as the Billy Harper Quintet and the Erica Lindsay Quintet\, she has performed throughout Europe\, East and Southeast Asia\, Scandinavia and South America as well as in the United States\, and appears on numerous CD releases of both groups. Other leading musicians with whom Francesca Tanksley has performed include Howard Johnson\, Cecil Payne\, David Newman\, Nick Brignola\, Slide Hampton\, Pat LaBarbera\, Sheila Jordan\, Jay Clayton\, Clifford Jordan\, Charles Davis\, Pete Yellin\, and tap-dancers Brenda Buffalino and Katherine Kramer. She has been a featured artist on Marian McPartland’s National Public Radio series\, Piano Jazz\, and appears in the documentary\, Women In Jazz by Burrill Crohn. Tanksley also leads the Francesca Tanksley Trio. \nRon Horton has perform and/or record with such artists as Lee Konitz\, Will Holshouser\, Neil Kirkwood\, Rez Abbasi\, Phillip Johnston\, Andy Laster\, Mick Rossi\, Matt Wilson\, Bill Gerhardt\, Bill Mays\, Peggy Stern\, Allan Chase\, Andy Biskin\, Ted Nash\, Jon Gordon\, John McKenna\, Walter Thompson\, Diana Perez\, Billy Newman\, Mario Pavone\, Tina Marsh\, Maryanne DeProphetis\, Landon Knoblock\, Sam Bardfeld\, Maria Guida\, Abigail Riccards\, Angie Sanchez\, Kris Davis\, Darcy James Argue. \nRICH SYRACUSE STRING BASSIST\, ELECTRIC BASSIST\, COMPOSER Rich Syracuse has been a mainstay on the New York area scene for more than three decades. While performing at an early age in New York City he was the winner of the prestigious Congress Of Strings Award. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Rich performed with The Group For Contemporary Music under the Conductor Charles Wournin and Harvey Solberger\, The Hartford Ballet and the New Jersey Lyric Opera Co. During the early part of his career he performed in Jazz groups featuring pianists John Mehegan\, Joey Calderazzo and Ted Rosenthal. After moving to New York State’s Hudson Valley in the mid 1980’s he began a long-standing stint in the Nick Brignola Quartet playing clubs\, festivals\, and recording sessions. Besides his years with Brignola\, he has performed with Mose Allison\, Kurt Elling\, Dave Liebman\, Brubeck Brothers\, Warren Bernhardt\, SumiTonoka\, David Torn\, Mike DeMicco\, Peter Levin\, Sam Morrison\, Bernard Purdy\, Vic Juris\, Dave Stryker\, Chuck Lamb\, Jeff “Siege” Siegel\, Dena DeRose\, John Medeski\, Michael Musilliami and Ali Demogli\, Rich had been the bassist for Jazz pianist Lee Shaw for over 25 years until her passing. \n 
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