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| Location: | Austin, |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 2, 2008 (158 days back) |
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| BIOGRAPHY: Jeff Lofton, jazz trumpet “Jazz is a backdrop for popular American music,” Austin-based jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton said in a recent interview with The Monitor. “Some think it’s too complicated, sophisticated, or hear one artist playing avant-garde jazz and say, ‘I don’t like it.’ But it’s a myriad of cultures and diversity and connected to other music.” Lofton garnered attention in Austin's music scene by kicking off his Sunday Night Jazz series at the historic Victory Grill with the Jeff Lofton Quintet in "An Evening of the Music of Miles Davis" show featuring all Miles’ tunes from the 1950’s. The well-received show was soon scheduled at the Elephant Room, Austin's famed jazz club. The Elephant Room was recently named one of the top 50 jazz clubs in America by Downbeat magazine, and made Wynton Marsalis' top 10 list of jazz clubs in USA Today. On April 24, Lofton returns to the Elephant Room for a new All Miles 1950s show. Since relocating to Austin last year, Lofton has shared the stage with the Marc Devine Trio at Reed’s Jazz and Supper Club, the Sean Hopper Quartet at Central Markets, and frequently sits in at the Elephant Room’s Mike Mardecai Jazz Jam on Monday nights. Other recent Austin performances include Central Market Westgate, Central Market Central, Club 40, the Light Bar, Club 1808, Jerry’s Artarama Artist Market and a Barack Obama fund raising event. Recent Texas shows outside of Austin include Kirby's Fine Dining in San Antonio, Cine El Rey historic theatre and Espana Mediterranean Cuisine in McAllen, and Shenanigan’s in Brownsville. Lofton debuted his first jazz CD, Jazz Therapy, in 2005, with the Jeff Lofton Quartet. The self-produced CD mixes old style be-bop with modern forms of jazz in the tradition of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane. In addition to Lofton on trumpet, the CD also includes Roland Haynes on piano, Reggie Sullivan on bass and Kenneth Salters on drums. Born in Germany to American parents, Lofton grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, where he studied music at the University of South Carolina. Playing trumpet for thirty years, Lofton has spent time on the road in Chicago and New York City. He has performed with such musical talents as Austin’s own guitarist Jim Mings, saxophonist Rene Sandoval, Ron Westray and Wycliff Gordon of the Wynton Marsalis septet, Fred Wesley of the James Brown horn section, Fred Hampton of the Chicago A.A.C.M., and South Carolina musicians Skip Pearson, Robert Gardner, Dr. Dick Goodwin, Dr. John Enkey, Teddy Linder and many others. Lofton also works as an R&B and hip-hop producer, producing such artists as Legend and The Gutsmen. As a winner of the juried competition, Lofton was an artist in the music category of the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Arts in Education Roster. The program provides grants for work in educational settings statewide. He currently leads jazz clinics for high school students in Austin. In Columbia, The Jeff Lofton Quartet had a strong local following from a long-running Friday night show at Meritage in the Vista, as well as performances at Mac’s on Main. Lofton is also well known for the Jazz Therapy Jazz Quintet featuring himself and Skip Pearson performing on Sundays at the club Group Therapy. Other groups Lofton has played with include Defellas (an avant guard jazz group), Deja Voodoo (a hip hop/jazz fusion group) and Wadada (a reggae group).
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Music:Member Since: 11/14/2006Band Website: jefflofton.com Band Members: Jeff Lofton trumpet : Roland Haynes piano : Reggie Sullivan Bass : and Kenneth Salters drums Influences: Miles Davis , John Coltrane, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Chick Corea, Nat Adderly, Connonball Adderly, Monk, Ellington, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Igor Stavinksy, Gustav Mauler, J.S.Bach, Beethoven, Bird, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus ,Clark Terry, Jimi Hendrex, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Sarah Vaugh, Joe Williams, Chuck Mangione, Count Basie, Pops, Thad Jones, Ray Charles,Freddie Hubbard, BB King, Prince,Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Lester Bowie, Richard Pryor, Dizzy, Johnny Hartman, Mozart Both, Joseph Hayden, Don Moya, Donald Bird, Lester Young, Phenniuos Newborn, Max Roach, Joseph Jarman ,Cootie Williams, Stan Getz , A.C. Jobin, Mos Def, K.R.S.1, Rakeen, Lauren Hill, Donna Hightower, Wycliff Gordon, Paul Simon, Gene Ammoms, Howard Mcgee, and many others Sounds Like: Record Label: Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Jazz / Bossa Nova / Fusion) |
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press in The Daily Texan, "... channels Miles Davis" |
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| Press about the Jeff Lofton Quintet's All Miles 1950s show at the Elephant Room on Apirl 24, 2008. From the Daily Texan, http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410
/news/2008/04/28/Li... Posted by Jeff Lofton Quartet on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:29:00 PST |
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