Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. Hosts Day Of Trumpets

Event:

Visit Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. in New York City for an event-filled day featuring clinics and concerts by Yamaha artists Marvin Stamm, Tiger Okoshi and Brian Lynch.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour the Band & Orchestral Atelier and take part in hands-on instrument testing; technicians will be available to discuss Yamaha trumpets and customization options.

When:

Monday, December 4, 2006

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Instrument Testing
(Located on the 11th floor)

2 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Marvin Stamm Clinic

3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Tiger Okoshi Clinic

7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Brian Lynch quartet and
Tiger Okoshi Concert

Where:

Yamaha Artist Services, Inc.
689 Fifth Ave. (Entrance located at West 54th St.)
New York City
All clinics will be held on the 3rd floor and are open to the public, however seating is limited to the first 150 people and reservations are strongly encouraged.

Tickets:

For tickets and other information, please email bandandorchestra@yamaha.com.

Artists:

Tiger Okoshi graduated summa cum laude from Berklee in 1975. He has performed with the Mike Gibbs Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and toured with the Buddy Rich Orchestra. He has appeared in numerous jazz festivals around the world. His fusion group Tigers Baku was featured on the cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in August 1998 for the Newport Jazz Festival at Sea. Currently, Okoshi is a professor at the Berklee College of Music.

Marvin Stamm has been praised for both the art and the craft of trumpet playing. Discovered by Stan Kenton while attending North Texas State University, he joined Kenton's orchestra as his jazz trumpet soloist and recorded five albums with them. He has toured worldwide with Woody Herman and performed with Frank Sinatra, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Duke Pearson Big Band and the Benny Goodman Sextet, among others. Some of the Jazz artists with whom he has recorded include Bill Evans, Quincy Jones, Lena Horne and George Benson among others. Currently, Stamm's activities include performing as a soloist and touring with his jazz quartet or in duo with pianist Bill Mays.

Brian Lynch has recorded 12 CDs as a leader and well over 100 recordings as a sideman. He is an accomplished composer and arranger as well as an acclaimed educator and clinician. A graduate of two of the Jazz world’s most important finishing schools, The Horace Silver Quintet and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, he now records and tours the world as a bandleader in his own right, besides being an integral part of the groups of alto legend Phil Woods and Latin master Eddie Palmieri, both fellow Yamaha artists.