Jazz at the Croton Free Library this Sunday
The Chronicle doesn’t do paid advertising, but it will do a favor for a Croton musician.
So the band missed the deadline for getting onto the library’s calendar and asked the Chronicle to lend a little hand with publicity. We are happy to do so, and not just because we are major jazz fans: The band leader is a Crotonite.
Here are the bios of the band members as well:
FRANK TATE, Jazz Bassist, lives in Croton on Hudson, NY
1972 - 1974 Band leader at Blues Alley, Washington DC.
Moved to NYC in 1975 to work with Marian McPartland, Dave McKenna, Zoot Sims and Bobby Hackett.
1983 - 1990 worked with Pearl Bailey
1995 - 2005 worked with Bobby Short at the Carlyle Hotel
Many tours through the years to Europe, South America
5 recordings under Frank’s name and over 70 recordings as a sideman
STEVE ASH, piano
Graduate of piano studies from Indiana University
Appearances with Jon Hendricks, Lee Konitz, Warren Vache, Mel Lewis, and Harry Allen
Has Played concerts world wide including Israel Jazz Festival, JVC, Bern Festival, Lincoln Center.
Many recordings, both as a leader and as a sideman.
TOM MELITO, drums
Graduate of Berlee School of Music
Appearances with Ken Peplowski, Mike Moore, and many others
Tours of Europe, Japan.
Countless recordings, both as a leader and as a sideman.
See you there!