时间/Time: 2018年6月7日 21:00

门票/Ticket: 50(ADV)/60(DOOR)

地点/Venue: 黄昏黎明俱乐部 (DDC)

地址/ADD: 北京市东城区美术馆后街山老胡同14号

Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District

电话/Tel: 010-64078969

邮箱/Mail: DuskDawnClub@gmail.com

Line-up:

Flugelhorn: J Kyle Gregory (US)

Guitar: Simone Schirru (IT)

Sax: Nathaniel Gao (US)

Bass: Zhang Ke 张柯 (CN)

Drums: Anthony Vanacore (US)

Gratitude is J Kyle Gregory’s international jazz quintet, made up of some of Beijing’s finest creative musicians, seeking to improvise beautiful melody as an expression of thanks for the gift of existence. Either we remain angry in life or we learn to be grateful. In our music we are choosing gratitude.

Dr. J Kyle Gregory was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Bloomington. He currently lives between Verona, Italy and Beijing, China, teaching and performing Jazz all over the world.

He studied music performance and education at Berklee College of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Northern Colorado, completing his doctorate in 1995. In 1991 he received the prestigious Fulbright Grant for a year of pedagogical research into new methods of teaching improvisation in Hungary.

For the last 25 years Kyle has worked as a professor of Jazz Studies at universities and conservatories in the USA, Italy, and China. He has performed and taught in the United States, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, England, Spain, Romania, Germany, the Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, Taiwan, and China.

In past years he performed with numerous internationally-known jazz and commercial artists, including Paul Motian, Vincent Herring, Ted Rosenthal, the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, the Mingus Dynasty Big Band, the touring Broadway show Motown, The Temptations, and Liza Minelli. Kyle has recorded over 50 albums with various artists and independent labels, including his original compositions World Downside Up and Tongues of Fire, which are available on iTunes and Spotify.

Through his work with an international social enterprise, Nexus, Kyle facilitates learning communities where people meet together to find connections between great art and their own life stories.