“JUDY BADY QUARTET” FROM NEW-YORK TO PERFORM IN YEREVAN OPERA HOUSE
This weekend Yerevan jazz lovers will have the opportunity to meet with “Judy Bady Quartet” from New-York City. This is the first meeting with our country for almost all of the members of the jazz-band. Nevertheless, the transoceanic musicians had connection with Armenia before. Thus, one of the soloists’ teacher was American Armenian Armen Danielyan, and her first pianist in New York was also our compatriot Gregory Toroyan by whose help she got acquainted with present drummer of the group Greg Seavance. It turned out, that another member of the quartet, saxophonist Keith Loftis was also Armen Danielyan’s student. And pianist Misha Piatigorsky and bass-guitar player Hans Glawischnig had a chance to perform with Tatevik Hovhannisyan on the same stage.
“I noticed the difference between Armenian and American jazz. Each culture makes its contribution into jazz and I am looking for that originality in Armenian jazz as well,” Judy says. As she thinks all the arts are interconnected. And she began to sing in the church chorus. Together with that she listened to blues and rock-n-roll music. Mostly singer Bobby McFerrin famous for his song “Don’t worry, be happy” had a great influence on Judy. Their first meeting took place during the annual master-class at collage where Judy studied. “He liked it when the audience became part of his performance. Bobby chose people from the hall who sang with him, they were mainly guys. Then I stood up and said: “Any problems with women? Why don’t you offer women to sing?” He came up and stretched out the microphone. He liked my voice,” Judy tells. After the show Bobby advised her to leave her native town either for New York or for Los Angeles. It took Judy 2 years to determine to move to New York – world jazz capital.
On Saturday the quartet will perform together with Armenian jazzmen – National Jazz Orchestra of Public TV and Radio, Chico & Co, and others on the stage of Opera House in Yerevan. And on Sunday the quartet will held its solo concert. “Judy Bady Quartet” will represent the works by modern composers including Misha Piatigorsky, as well as sacred music. The admission to concerts is free.
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- 1749 Death of Mkhitar Sebastatsee. He founded the Roman Catholic Mkhitarist Congregation. He was born in 1676.
- 1827 Russian forces lay seige to Fort Yerevan (currently the Armenian Winery building).
- 1849 Students create the "Ararat Union" in Paris.
- 1868 Death of Grigor Aghatonyan in Paris. He was born in 1823.
- 1915 Birth of Hovhannes Shiraz (poet). He died in 1984.
- 1919 In Constantinople, start of the trials of the leaders of the Young Turk government and the central committee members of the "Union and Progress" party.
- 1925 The Science and Art Institute of the Armenian SSR opens in Yerevan.
- 1930 Death of Archbishop Eghisheh Doorian, historian, literary figure, author, and Patriarch of Jerusalem.
- 1931 An earthquake (Richter Scale: 6.3) occurs in Zangezoor and affects a 100 000 sq.km. area. The Monastery of Tatev and other structures on the Tatev highlands and in the valley of the Vorotan River are destroyed.
- 1994 Israel officially condemned the Armenian Genocide as Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin proclaimed on the floor of the Knesset (the Israeli legislature), in answer to the claims of the Turkish Ambassador, that "It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember".
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