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-- Special Jazz Event --

The Anton Schwartz Quartet
featuring special guest Larry Goldings on B-3 Organ
with Eddie Marshall and Bruce Forman

Sunday, March 23, 8:30 pm
The Palace
146 S. Murphy, Sunnyvale. (408) 739-5179
$6 cover charge.

More info: (415) 994-9230 or http://www.antonjazz.com

For a rare musical event, upcoming Bay Area saxophonist Anton Schwartz
will be teaming up with internationally renowned jazz organist Larry
Goldings and two local legends, drummer Eddie Marshall and guitarist
Bruce Forman.  The group will be performing at the Palace, whose stage
will be specially equipped with a Hammond B-3 organ for the occasion.
They will be serving up soulful, straight ahead jazz in the tradition
of classic organ quartets of the past, and mixing in their own blend
of funky grooves.  The material will include original compositions of
Schwartz and Goldings, as well as choice jazz standards.

This special event will be digitally recorded by Bud Spangler's crew
for broadcast in two installments on "Sunday Night Suites" on KCSM,
the Bay Area's premier jazz station.

For more information about the musicians performing, see below.
Dinner will not be served at this event, but there will be a full cash bar.
Doors open at 7pm.

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Larry Goldings (B-3 Organ)

Larry Goldings has emerged in recent years as one of the world's
premier jazz organists.  Born in Boston in 1968, he began piano
studies at age nine.  While still in school he landed his first major
job with the great jazz singer Jon Hendricks, which lasted two years.
Playing the organ in clubs around New York, he was discovered by Maceo
Parker.  Goldings joined Parker's funk-oriented group for two years.
During that time he also began an association with Jim Hall, which was
to last for three years, until another guitar giant, John Scofield,
requested his skills.  Goldings recorded and toured with Scofield's
quartet for two years.
Goldings, a Warner Brothers recording artist, has many albums to his
name as a both a leader and a sideman.  He  has played at most major
jazz festivals and clubs around the world -- including the Montreux,
JVC and North Sea festivals, and the Blue Note and the Village
Vanguard -- as well as such renowned venues as Avery Fisher and
Carnegie Hall.  He has appeared on the Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall
shows, as well as an HBO special with James Brown.  

Eddie Marshall (drums)

Eddie Marshall has been playing drums professionally since he was 14
years old.  For over forty years he has performed and recorded with
nearly every major name in jazz.  During the seventies he was the
designated house drummer at San Francisco's famed night club, The
Keystone Corner.  His longest professional associations have been with
Toshiko Akiyoshi, the late Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin and Bobby
Hutcherson.  As a sideman he is in continual demand and in this last
year alone he has played with (among others) Ernie Watts, Eddie
Harris, Michael Wolff, George Coleman, James Moody and Jimmy Smith.
Currently he is touring with McFerrin's band Bang!Zoom.  

Bruce Forman (guitar)

Bruce Forman, acclaimed a "prodigious talent" by Down Beat, has worked
as a leader and a sideman with many of the greatest names in jazz.  He
has performed at most major jazz festivals and clubs around the world.
Luminaries such as Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington, Freddie
Hubbard, Ray Brown, Eddie Jefferson and Richie Cole have featured him
in their bands.  He has many albums to his name as a leader, and has
recorded with jazz greats Bobby Hutcherson, Tom Harrell, George
Cables, Mark Murphy, Jimmy Knepper, and many more.  In Jazz Times,
Barney Kessel said, "Bruce Forman is one of the great lights of our
age on guitar right now.  He is so good.  I think you have to go
beyond jealousy or competition; it's so obvious that you almost show
your ignorance if you don't admit it."
"Bruce Forman is in the forefront of musicians returning to the sound
of the pure untreated hollow-body jazz guitar... he knows where he
comes from -- stylistically and historically -- but also understands
the importance of adding his own plays to the game.  He truly is a
keeper of the jazz guitar flame."  -- Jazziz Magazine

Anton Schwartz (saxophone)

From richly introspective ballads to simmering grooves and upbeat
reinterpretations of the classics, this up and coming saxophonist
explores the panorama of jazz.  His rich sound pays tribute to such
diverse masters as Ben Webster, John Coltrane, and Stanley Turrentine.
Born and raised in New York City, Anton Schwartz switched to the
saxophone at age fourteen and soon hooked up with two jazz greats as
teachers: first Warne Marsh and then Eddie Daniels, who were struck by
his musical ability.  While in high school and college he had the
occasion to perform with jazz legends Lionel Hampton and Woody Herman,
and played regularly with peers Joshua Redman, Peter Bernstein, and
Larry Goldings.  But Schwartz put aside a musical career to pursue
academics:  in 1989 he earned a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy at
Harvard University, magna cum laude, and came on an NSF fellowship to
Stanford University to pursue doctoral research in Artificial
Intelligence.
In 1995, Schwartz made the decision to rekindle his musical pursuits
on a large scale.  His talents have quickly gained recognition in the
Bay Area, and he has put his academic interests on "permanent hold".
He composes and performs jazz, leading his own group at the area's
major jazz venues and working as a sideman with such talents as 1997
Bammy-winning vocalist Kitty Margolis.
Schwartz's saxophone playing is featured in the sound track of Kevin
Spacey's recent Miramax film, Albino Alligator, starring Matt Dillon
and Faye Dunaway.  He is a faculty member of the Stanford Jazz
Workshop, and coaches beginning and advanced jazz combos at Stanford
University throughout the year.