{"product_id":"slovak-margaret-quar-for-the-moment-cd-61998125022","title":"Margaret Slovak Quar - For the Moment [CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Margaret Slovak Quartet - For the Moment The Margaret Slovak Quartet consists of Margaret Slovak on electric guitar, Grammy nominee Fred Hersch on piano, Michael Formanek on acoustic bass, and Michael Sarin on drums. For the Moment features Margaret's original classically influenced instrumental jazz compositions, and was recorded in New York City in November, 1989; it is now being released for the first time, 18 years after the original recording sessions. Biographies: MARGARET SLOVAK Originally from Denver, Colorado, Margaret Slovak is a guitarist, composer and painter. She began playing the guitar at the age of 12, composing at age 14, and performing professionally at age 16. Margaret studied jazz and classical music and visual art, receiving her BFA in jazz studies from the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington in 1986. She also attended the Kansas City Art Institute, the University of Missouri Conservatory of Music, and the Banff Centre Summer Jazz Workshop in Alberta, Canada, and received several scholarships for her schooling. Margaret has studied with renowned musicians Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie, Dale Bruning, Gary Peacock, Kenny Wheeler, Art Lande, Hadley Caliman, and Julian Priester. After graduating from the Cornish College of the Arts in 1986, Margaret spent two years in Denver, performing, studying, and composing. In 1988, she moved to New York City, where she spent five years leading her own band and performing her original music. While in New York, Margaret had the opportunity to perform and record with Fred Hersch, Michael Formanek, Michael Sarin and Joel Weiskopf; she also produced two recordings of her original music and performed with the Peruvian folk\/jazz group, Antara. In addition, Margaret embarked on several tours of the western United States, and toured through Germany in the fall of 1991. In 1994, Margaret relocated to Portland, Oregon. In the summers of 1994 and 1995, she toured with her group, which included Bob Moses on drums, performing in Portland, Seattle, and Canada. In the fall of 1996, Margaret toured through Germany and the Czech Republic; she has also performed extensively throughout Oregon, Washington, Colorado and California. In addition to public performances, Margaret plays therapeutic music for patients in ICU, oncology, neurology, orthopedic and trauma units at Good Samaritan, Emanuel, and OHSU Hospitals and Hopewell House Hospice in Portland. She is also a painter, and creates images which reflect her musical compositions; she often presents concerts in which her paintings are displayed on stage while she performs her corresponding musical compositions. Margaret's original artwork is also featured on her CD covers. As a composer and guitarist, Margaret combines elements of jazz with classical and world music, creating a unique and highly personal musical style that is deeply expressive. Margaret's first CD, Undying Hope (1998) features her solo guitar compositions. Her second CD, New Wings (2005) contains original solos and duos. Her third CD, For the Moment (2007) features her original compositions for a jazz quartet. Margaret's CD's are currently receiving national and international radio airplay. She also appears on three compilation CD's: Proximity (1998), Sundays at Central (2001) and Bridges (2007). In addition, between 1995 - 2005, Margaret was the recipient of ten grants from Portland's Regional Arts \u0026amp; Culture Council for her music and art projects. Margaret was an adjunct faculty member at Marylhurst University for 13 years, and also taught at Portland State University, Portland Community College, and Mt. Hood Community College. She currently teaches guitar and theory privately. FRED HERSCH Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has earned his place among the foremost jazz artists and creative musicians in the world today. He is widely recognized for his ability to steadfastly create a unique body of original works while reinventing the standard jazz repertoire - investing time-tested classics with keen insight, fresh ideas and extraordinary technique. Hersch's many accomplishments include two Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance and one for Best Instrumental Composition, and a 2003 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition. Hersch is considered to be the most prolific and widely-praised solo jazz pianist of his generation. In 2006, Palmetto Records released the solo disc Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis; it's release led to Hersch becoming the first pianist in the 70-year history of New York's legendary Village Vanguard to play an entire week as a solo pianist shortly after the disc's release. In addition, he leads a trio, a quintet and has ongoing special collaborations with jazz and classical instrumentalists and vocalists around the world. His most recent recording, the trio CD, Night and the Music, was released by Palmetto May 1st, 2007. His career as a performer has been greatly enhanced by his composing activities, a vital part of nearly all of his live concerts and recordings. Hersch recently created Leaves of Grass (Palmetto Records), a large-scale setting of Walt Whitman's poetry for two voices (Kurt Elling and Kate McGarry) and an instrumental octet; the work was presented in March 2005 in a sold-out performance at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of a six-city US tour. Hersch has toured with concert pianist Christopher O'Riley ('Heard Fresh: Music for Two Pianos') and he has also collaborated sopranos Renèe Fleming, Audra McDonald and Dawn Upshaw; violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg; and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. He has received commissions from The Gilmore Keyboard Festival, The Doris Duke Foundation, The Miller Theatre at Columbia University, The Gramercy Trio and The Brooklyn Youth Chorus. His solo piano compositions and chamber music are published by Edition Peters. Hersch has acted as a passionate spokesman and fund-raiser for AIDS services and education agencies since 1993. He has produced and performed on four benefit recordings and at numerous concerts for the charities Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS and Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS that have raised over $200,000 to date. After graduating from The New England Conservatory in 1977, Hersch relocated to New York City and quickly became one of the most in-demand pianists in town. As a sideman, he appeared with such jazz masters as saxophonists Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, and Jane Ira Bloom; flugelhornist Art Farmer; harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans; vibraphonist Gary Burton; and bassists Sam Jones and Charlie Haden. Hersch has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Dr. Billy Taylor and on a wide variety of National Public Radio programs including Fresh Air, Jazz Set, Studio 360 and Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Hersch has also been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer, and six composition residencies at The MacDowell Colony. A committed educator, Hersch was a faculty member at the New England Conservatory for ten years, and has taught at The New School and Manhattan School of Music; he is currently a visiting professor at Western Michigan University. MICHAEL FORMANEK Michael Formanek's singular approach to the acoustic bass has led to an impressive range of musical associations. During his twenty-six year career, he has played and\/or recorded with Tim Berne, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Marty Ehrlich, Chet Baker, Tony Williams, Gerry Mulligan, Fred Hersch, Dave Liebman, Uri Caine, Joe Henderson, Mark Isham, James Emery, Mingus Big Band, Terumasa Hino, Cedar Walton, Attila Zoller, George Coleman, Jane Ira Bloom, Bob Moses, Gunther Schuller, Peter Erskine, Gary Thomas, Baikida Carroll, and many others. 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