Michael Jefry Stevens

Pianist/composer Michael Jefry Stevens is really a musician on the forefront of both contemporary mainstream jazz and creative improvised musics. Blessed March 13, 1951, in NEW YORK, he had taken early piano research at five years, moved along with his family members to Florida at age group eight, and after a long time of practice, used rock & move as an adolescent playing the Farfisa body organ. But he noticed contemporary jazz, specifically Mls Davis and John Coltrane, and it changed his style. Following a brief and uninspired stint in university, Stevens came back to N.Con.C. in 1980; examined at Queens University with Sir Roland Hanna, Jimmy Heath, and Donald Byrd; and finally received a master’s level in music in 1992. But Stevens had been quite energetic on ny music scene by the past due ’80s, operating alongside saxophonist Tag Whitecage within the ensemble Water Time. Probably the most prolific group the pianist used was the Mosaic Sextet, including a Dave Douglas on trumpet, violinist Tag Feldman, Michael Rabinowitz on bassoon, bassist Joe Fonda, and drummer Harvey Sorgen. Following collaborations and partnerships had been using the Stevens, Siegel & Ferguson trio, other ensembles with Fonda and Sorgen (most prominently the Fonda-Stevens Group with Whitecage and trumpeter Natural herb Robertson), as well as the cooperative ensemble Meeting Contact with Fonda and offering saxophonist/clarinetist Gebhard Ullmann. He in addition has caused guitarist Dom Minasi; bassist Dominic Duval; saxophonist Daunik Lazro; drummers Matt Wilson, George Schuller, and Jay Rosen; and guitarist Jon Hemmersam. Stevens was designer in residence for the key pad faculty from the Country wide Acoustic guitar Workshops in New Milford, CT, from 1990-2002; was around the faculty of Five Cities University from 1992-1995; was designer in residence in the Virginia Intermont University in 1999; and received a Margaret Lee Croft Fellowship in 2000. He in addition has served like a structure fellow in the Centrum Arts Colony in Slot Townsend, WA, and was energetic in the Royal Music Academy in Denmark in 2002. Stevens offers carried out regular workshops in La Plata, Argentina, in addition to Lichtenstein and Mexico, and since 2002 continues to be around the faculty of Rhodes University in Memphis, TN. The recordings of Stevens can be found around the Konnex, GM, Leo, Spirit Notice, and 482 brands. He offers created over 400 compositions which range from single to string quartet to big-band designs for concert and dance overall performance, and it has toured world-wide for three years. His latest ensembles are the music group In Transit as well as the Songbook Task with vocalist Kilometers Griffith.