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URL:https://michellespiano.com/events/billy-mintz-quartet/
SUMMARY:Billy Mintz Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Portland jazz community has come together to present a new 
 outlet for creative music. On November 15th\, NYC master drummer Billy Min
 tz will bring his quartet to Michelle’s Pianos to send the Portland Jazz
  Workshop off on her maiden voyage. The Portland Jazz Workshop is a musici
 an run collective dedicated to supporting and promoting live jazz. Concert
 s\, educational outreach\, and community involvement are all part of the m
 ission of this fledgling organization.\n\nThe Billy Mintz Quartet features
  NYC based drummer Billy Mintz\, pianist Roberta Picket\, bassist Putter S
 mith and Portland’s own John Gross on tenor saxophone. Do not miss this 
 chance to hear four musicians who\, over the course of decades of playing 
 together\, have evolved a truly unique sound as a group. Each one of these
  musicians is a true master of their respective instruments and it is trul
 y amazing to hear them perform together.\n\n\n\n\nVideos:\nBilly Mintz/Rob
 erta Pickett Duo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33YtkrG5as\nBilly Mintz
 /John Gross Duo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odv_qyLTUfg\nBilly Mintz
  w/Hal Galper trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5YWHuDI1zg\n\nBilly 
 Mintz biography: \nIn an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years\, 
 drummer Billy Mintz has played with some of the biggest names in the jazz 
 and pop worlds. Mr. Mintz was born in Queens\, New York in 1947. By the ag
 e of 15 he was firmly entrenched in several of the show bands of the Catsk
 ill Mountain resorts\, and as his musicianship developed he would eventual
 ly tour with jazz artists such as Lee Konitz\, Eddie Daniels\, Harold Dank
 o\, Mike Garson\, Mose Allison\, Mark Murphy\, and the Kim Richmond Sextet
 . He also toured and recorded extensively with Bobby Shew. At the same tim
 e\, his credentials grew in the pop arena\, leading to tours with Juliette
  Prowse\, James Darren\, Gloria Gaynor\, and a stint with the show band fo
 r the Merv Griffin Show. In 1986\, Mr. Mintz toured Japan with the Los Ang
 eles Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (having relocated to Los Angeles in 1981). I
 n 1988 he toured Europe with saxophone great Charles Lloyd\, and from 1989
  to 1995 he performed with the Alan Broadbent Trio.\n\nMr. Mintz appears o
 n records by the following artists\, among others: Bill Perkins/James Clay
  Quintet\; Vinny Golia\; Fred Tompkins\; The Cryers\; Harold Danko\; Eddie
  Daniels\; Bobby Shew\; Bob Magnusson\; Mike Garson\; Art Resnick\; Walkin
 g Wounded\; Kim Richmond\; Clay Jenkins\; Ken Filiano\; John Woods\; Joey 
 Sellars\; Bruce Fowler. In recent years\, Mr. Mintz has taken on new roles
  as a bandleader and a composer\, performing his own compositions with var
 ious ensembles. He also performs solo drumset concerts with increasing fre
 quency.\n\n“Mintz’s solo performances are a form of holy worship for m
 any musicians and drummers. Forget what you know about the drums an solo d
 rums. This is no boom-chakka-lakka affair. Mintz is painterly and understa
 ted in his singular approach to music.”- Willamette Week\n\n"If you are 
 a fan of modern jazz drumming but have not heard Billy Mintz\, you have no
 t heard it all." - Tom Conrad\, JazzTimes\n\n“Mintz walks alone and\, li
 ke Paul Motian\, he’s got a great way of drifting through the waves whil
 e steering the ship.” -Village Voice\n\n"A veteran of both the LA and Ne
 w York jazz scenes\, Mintz is that rare breed of jazz musician who is as c
 omfortable playing standards in a piano trio (which he did in an eight-yea
 r stint with the Alan Broadbent Trio) as he is as he is exploring more abs
 tract forms with icons such as Ellery Eskelin and Mark Feldman.”\n\n
LOCATION:Michelles Piano\, 600 SE Stark St\, Portland\, OR\, 97214\, United
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