Tom Angello’s All-Star Jazz Series w/ Hendrik Meurkens, Joe Fitzgerald & Misha Tsiganov

Tom Angello’s All-Star Jazz Series

Special Summer Edition!

Hendrik Meurkens  – Vibes & Harmonica
Misha Tsiganov  – Piano
Joe Fitzgerald – Bass
Tom Angello – Drums

Hendrik Meurkens

Jazz harmonica virtuoso, vibraphonist and composer Hendrik Meurkens began his career in Germany playing vibes. At 19, he heard Toots Thielemans play harmonica, which totally changed his musical life. His career has taken him from Brazil to Germany, then throughout the European continent where he became a pivotal force on the studio and jazz scene, performing, composing, recording, and touring extensively with his own ensembles as well as with visiting legends Harry Sweets Edison and Buddy Tate. In 1989, he returned to Brazil to record his first album as a leader, “Samba Importado”. In 1992, a trip to California led to his signing with the Concord label, and the resulting six recordings established him as the first major new voice on the harmonica since Toots Thielemans and as a vibes player in the mainstream tradition. He moved to New York in 1992 where he has lived ever since. His 30 CDs have received rave reviews and strong airplay, and established his immediately recognizable style of Brazilian Jazz. In 2014 he won the Brazilian International Press Award. Critics and the jazz listening public alike have recognized Meurkens’ incredible talent, listing him repeatedly in the Downbeat and Jazziz Polls. Meurkens has recorded and performed with Ray Brown, Paquito D’Rivera, Oscar Castro-Neves, Herb Ellis, Herbie Mann, James Moody, Charlie Byrd, Jimmy Cobb, Ivan Lins, Monty Alexander, Manfredo Fest, Herb Ellis, Dori Caymmi, Toninho Horta, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Buddy Tate, Joyce, Astrud Gilberto, Roberto Menescal, Antonio Adolfo, Emilio Santiago, and many others. 

Joe Fitzgerald

Bassist Joe Fitzgerald is an ac2ve member of the New York music community with more than three decades of experience including recordings and performances in most of the major concert halls and jazz fes2vals throughout the world. Joe has performed with many luminaries from the jazz world including Lee Konitz, Frank Kimbrough, Frank Wess, Alan Dawson, Bruce Barth, Donald Brown, Datevik Hovanesian, Pat Metheny, Hendrik Meurkens, John Bunch and many others. Joe has also has a long career as an educator and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. 

Misha Tsiganov 

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Misha Tsiganov began to play piano at the age of six and graduated from Mussorgsky College of Music. In 1990 Misha received prize-winner-diploma of the All-Russia Jazz Competition. He moved to the USA in 1991, to study at the Berklee College of Music. Misha is the featured pianist on the Bill Cosby television cartoon Little Bill, where Misha worked 1999-2002. Misha has performed and recorded with such musicians as Clark Terry, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Joe Chambers, Gary Bartz, Dave Valentin, Chico Freeman, Claudio Roditi, John Faddis, Richie Cole, Bobby Watson, Victor Lewis, Joe Lock, Norman Hedman, Johnny Colon, Papo Pepin, Ray Vega, Bobby Porcelly, Antonio Sanchez, Graig Handy, John Benitez, Donny McCaslin, Bobby Sanabria, Gene Jackson and others. 

Non Members $20.00
SJ Jazz Members $15.00
SJ Jazz Patron Members $10.00

Reservations can be made by Jazz Society Patron Members Only by calling 609-289-0326. All others will be seated on a first come, first serve basis.