Event Details

NCPA@Home Celebrates Jazz!
NCPA International Jazz Festival ‘19
Date of Event: October 11, 2019

DownBeat Magazine’s rising star saxophonist and vocalist, Camille Thurman joins the incomparable talented drummer Darrell Green for a collaborative performance debuting music from their latest Horace Silver tribute project. They feature new arrangements and compositions inspired by the great pianist Horace Silver as well as a mixture of original compositions and standard classics. Renew your senses of what jazz sounds, looks, and feels like while listening to two of the most dynamic young creative and talented forces on the music scene come together.

Thurman has earned accolades from the media, from the Jazz Times to Downbeat, All About Jazz to the New York Times, NPR to Sirius XM Satellite Radio and appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She tours internationally with the Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; she is the first woman in 30 years to work an entire season with the world-renowned orchestra. In addition, she has worked with notable Jazz and R&B icons such as George Coleman, Roy Haynes, Dianne Reeves, Buster Williams, Charles Tolliver, Jack DeJohnette, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, Jon Hendricks, Harry Connick Jr., Audra MacDonald, Diana Krall, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan, Louis Hayes, Russell Malone, Nicholas Payton, Jacky Terrasson, Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys, Lalah Hathaway, Jill Scott and Erykah Badu among others.

”I’m scared of this lady’s scatting!” – AL JARREAU, GRAMMY WINNING VOCALIST

“Camille has a warm and beautiful sound…a creative improviser. She swings, has good time and plays with taste. Keep your ears on this young lady!” – RUSSELL MALONE, GRAMMY WINNING GUITARIST

Please note: The videos will be available for a week post the streaming.