FACULTY
Tom Zlabinger, director/bass
Yoichi Uzeki, piano
George Gray, drums
CURRENT MEMEBERS
Alex Moses, flute
Janice Cline, clarinet
Cassandra Douglas, clarinet
Shauna Irving, clarinet/bass clarinet
Jamal Abdulkhabir, alto
Ray McGill, tenor
Jon Vazcones, tenor
Kunal Singh, tenor/bari
Bob Barnes, trumpet
Bob Wilkinson, trumpet
Walter Dixon, trombone
Denzel McKenzie, trombone
Jorge Palencia, trombone
Gabriel Bonanno, guitar
Nicole Carrano, bass
Ayush Prasad, bass
JAZZ WORKSHOP ALUMNI
Trescinda Balan, voice
Annieta Brown, voice
Tiffany Fuhjah, voice
Andrea Jones, voice
Sean Wallace, voice/alto
Prof. Celeste Wortes, voice/piano
Sherry Sundara, violin
Jay Thomas, violin
Joe Cheng, flute
Prof. Wynn Schilling, flute
Hannah Amoako, clarinet
Sequoia King, soprano
Sean White, soprano
Patrick Parker, soprano/alto
Jacob Burnett, alto
Lily Su, alto
Marcel Pierre, tenor
Gerald Thomas, tenor
Prof. Ed Aponte, bari
Drea McIntyre, bari
Trina Burris, trumpet
Tianfu Chen, trumpet
Carl Dennis, trumpet
Mark Hacker, trumpet
Uriel Kaykov, trumpet
Ralph Laurince, trumpet
Sarita Rosamilia, cornet
Hughe Williams, trumpet
Rocio Gosende-Suarez, trombone
Babatu Abdul Mali, trombone
Darren Bowen, guitar
Giovanni Cajamarca, guitar
Eliana Cervantes, guitar
Hamza Islam, guitar
Jorge Reino, guitar
Kenneth Wright, guitar
Mark Adams, piano
Jenn Bellisario, piano
Jason Brathwaite, piano
Greg Guillaume, piano
Mark Wilson, piano
Danny Finney, bass
Loukas Louka, bass
Ken Rojas, bass
Hashim Sharrieff, bass
Rick Furel, drums/DJ
Tony Jimenez, drums
Cinque Kemp, drums
Tareaphe Richards, drums
Juan Robles, drums
Homer Smith, drums
Tracy Brown, percussion
Swappan "Dream" Chatterjee, percussion
Marie Holland, percussion
Gloria Huh, percussion
Juan Maya, percussion
Victor Ortega, percussion
Jawara Richards, percussion
Influences
James Brown, Dave Brubeck, Kenny Burrell, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Harris, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Mann, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Tito Puente, Sonny Rollins, Mango Santamaria, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, The Skatalites, Booker T. & The MG’s, and Stevie Wonder
The York College Jazz Workshop is the college-level jazz ensemble at York College/CUNY in Jamaica, Queens. The ensemble is a two-credit class and performs periodically throughout the semester. Rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. Please contact Jazz Workshop director Tom Zlabinger at tzlabing@york.cuny.edu or (718) 262-2412 if you are interested in attending a rehearsal or would like further information on the Jazz Workshop.
In addition to performances on campus, the Jazz Workshop has performed at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Medgar Evers College, the Poppenhusen Institute, Queens College, and annually at the CUNY Jazz Festival at City College. In April of 2006, the Jazz Workshop was featured in Weltreisen on the German television station ARD.
The Jazz Workshop is also an integral part of the Jazz Forum series, a coproduction between the Performing & Fine Arts Department and the Performing Arts Center. Six times a year, world-class jazz musicians visit York’s campus and do a performance and open masterclass with our students. To date, the Jazz Forum series has featured Kamau Adilifu, Roy Ayers, Steve Bargonetti, Bill Easley, Alex Foster, Antonio Hart, Bill Jacobs, Joel Martin, Arturo O’Farrill, Luico Hopper, Myrna Lake, Oliver Lake, Arturo O’Farrill, Dorothy Parks, Gino Sitson, Steve Turre, Ray Vega, Lenny White, Celeste Wortes, and Rachel Z. See the Jazz Workshop’s itinerary for upcoming artists.
Everybody! Everyboooody! We're recording Friday Oct 26, and it's FREE! It's a great way to see us and have a great memory of the show and say "I was there!" Also, make some noise, and you can be on CD. We love you all, check out page for details. See you then!
