Kicking off Dazzle’s 2024, week-long, Artist Residency series is trombonist Mark Patterson as he returns to Dazzle on January 20-23, 2024, followed by pianist Dave Hanson, February 18 – 21, 2024.
Mark Patterson’s early teachers in Evergreen, CO, included his father, trombonist and bassist Dick Patterson, whose associates Spike Robinson and Dale Bruning adopted Mark as an apprentice of sorts. He graduated from the University of Denver, then sharpened his pencils in New York with Bob Brookmeyer, Manny Albam, and Jim McNeely in the BMI Jazz Composers’ Workshop. Mark carefully curated established and emerging local artists to combine sounds and rhythms that blend seamlessly with the trombone.
Where Are They Now
Saturday, January 20 – 5PM
“My longtime friends, master players Greg Gisbert and Ken Walker, will join me with the spirit of our old days jamming at the ‘Pec, along with five exciting young musicians who have come of age in the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts: Sonya Walker (piano/trumpet), Alex Loran and Timothy Bowar (saxophones), Miles Fielder
(trombone), and Braxton Kahn (drums). Alex will also bring a little of her arranging touch. A fun set, and this rhythm section swings!” ~Mark Patterson
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Convergence
Sunday, January 21 – 4PM & 6:30PM
“Bringing a reunion of Convergence, with Greg Gisbert, John Gunther, Eric Gunnison, Mark Simon, and Paul Romaine, this is especially timely now as we have a new album to release soon. There will be music from that session and some other surprises too.” ~Mark Patterson
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Duets & More!
Tuesday, January 23 – 6:30PM
“I am very excited to continue the Dale Bruning series at Dazzle, with a very special twist:
saxophonist Scott Robinson will join Dale, Mark Simon, and me in a program of ‘Duets Plus.’ Dale was my teacher and mentor and I can’t wait to hear his deep melodic perspective with Scott, whose expressive palate is so wide, and Mark, whose playing combines so seamlessly with Dale. Scott, flying in from New York, plays every woodwind and brass instrument I can think of (known for bari with Maria Schneider), and this time it will be mostly tenor sax (the focus of his recent recording, “Tenormore”).” ~Mark Patterson
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Mark Patterson Bio
Mark is a longtime member of the sextet Convergence (along with Greg Gisbert), collaborating along the way with Jimmy Heath, Christian McBride, Peter Bernstein, Larry Goldings, and Wallace Roney. He has appeared in jazz clubs and concert halls with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Band of Bones, Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra, the New York Pops; and his own projects Group Stories and Brass Symbiotica; on tours, with Steely
Dan, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, Maria Schneider, Barbra Streisand, and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra (with David Matthews); and in theater, including Spamalot, South Pacific, and My Fair Lady. Recordings include Convergence, Modern Man and I Can Be There; Donald Fagen, Morph the Cat; Mike Holober, Balancing Act; and Hiding Out; Mike LeDonne, It’s All Your Fault; Hollenbeck, All Can Work; Houston Person, So Nice; JC Sanford, Views From the Inside and Edge of the Mind, Anita Brown, 27 East; and, with Dale Bruning, Tomorrow’s Reflections, Mellow Mood, and Thanks for the Memory…Jim Hall; Mark’s new Quartet album is due out soon. Mark wrote commissions for recordings by the Gotham Wind Symphony and the Westchester Jazz Orchestra.
Mark is part of the faculty at Temple University and the Colorado Conservatory for the Jazz Arts ‘Jazz in the Sangres’ Camp.
