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Richie Beirach 60th Birthday CelebrationAug. 29-Sept. 1, 20078:30 pm and 10:30 pm Tickets: $35 general /$45 vip Click here to buy your tickets Birdland Jazz Club 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) 212-581-3080 birdlandjazz.com  Richie Beirach  Randy Brecker  Gregor Huebner  Billy Hart Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of Jazz, R and B and Rock for more than three decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, George Benson and Parliament-Funkadelics to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Gregor Huebner began studying piano and violin at the age of six. In 1994 he moved to New York to earn his MA degree in jazz piano/composition from Manhattan School of Music and was bestowed with a "President’s Award". As a member of "Tango Five", a group founded in 1985, he performed at the World Exhibitions in Sevilla 1992 and Hannover 2000, the Olympic Games in Athens 2004,as well as Tango Festivals in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in 1998. Together with the bandoneon master Raul Jaurena Huebner was a soloist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the 1998 Tango Festival in Los Angeles. Billy Hart first steady gigs of note were with Shirley Horn and Buck Hill. In the 1960’s he toured with Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Eddie Harris, and Pharoah Sanders. In 1970 he joined Herbie Hancock’s Sextet, and after that band broke up in 1973 he joined first McCoy Tyner (two years) and then Stan Getz (four). In the 1980’s Hart was a regular with many bands and leaders: Gerry Mulligan, Billy Harper, Clark Terry, The New York Jazz Quartet, the Jazztet, Mingus Dynasty and most extensively with Quest (with David Liebman, Ritchie Beirach, and Ron McClure). In the 1990’s Hart was a member of the Charles Lloyd, Joe Lovano, and Tom Harrell groups, and in 1999 he began performing with the Three Tenors (Liebman, Lovano, and Michael Brecker). He is on about 500 hundred records as a sideman. George Mraz has been a greatly in-demand bassist for straight-ahead dates ever since he emigrated to the United States in 1968. After a brief time playing violin and alto, Mraz studied bass at the Prague Conservatory and gigged at a club in Munich for a year. In 1968, he attended Berklee and he soon toured with Oscar Peterson (1970-1972). After moving to New York, Mraz became a member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra (1973-1976), worked with Stan Getz (1974-1975), and has since played with most of the top jazz players, including Walter Norris, Pepper Adams, Roland Hanna, Zoot Sims, Tommy Flanagan, John Abercrombie, Carmen McRae, Jimmy Rowles, Stephane Grappelli, and countless others.
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