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Brazilian Trumpeter at Chapel Thursday

Sat, Apr 02, 2011

New York City-based Brazilian trumpeter Claudio Roditi will bring his quartet (Nick Rolfe, piano; Itaiguara Brandao, bass; and Mauricio Zottarelli on drums) to the Colgate Memorial Chapel Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Born in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Roditi began his musical studies when he was just six years old. In 1966, he was named a finalist at the International Jazz Competition in Vienna. In Vienna, Roditi met Art Farmer, and the friendship inspired the younger trumpeter to follow a career in jazz.

Roditi relocated to Boston in 1970 to study at Berklee College of Music. Arriving in New York in 1976, Roditi performed and/or recorded with Charlie Rouse, Herbie Mann, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Tito Puente, and McCoy Tyner, among others. Beginning in 1989, Roditi traveled for five years as a member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra. Currently, he performs with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, a Gillespie tribute group. He also leads his own bands including the Roditi-Ignatzek-Rassinfosse Trio and the Jobim Project.

For more information call the Colgate Department of Music at 228-7642.

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