Jazz trio to rock city

Sep 13, 2001

All Jazz lovers, be prepared for an upcoming concert this Sunday at 7:00pm at the fee of sh5,000 at the National Theatre.

By Juliet Nsiima All Jazz lovers, be prepared for an upcoming concert this Sunday at 7:00pm at the fee of sh5,000 at the National Theatre. The Aaron Thurston Trio is hitting Kampala, courtesy of the American government and John. F. Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts. The trio in their 20’s, are younger than Angela Hagenbach’s Trio that was in Uganda last year. This all male band consists of Adam Scone a pianist, Kevin Louis on trumpet and Aaron Thurston on drums. They have all interacted and travelled with a number of musicians and to various countries. Their Sunday performance will feature the greatest jazz ambassador, Louis Armstrong. They will also play other pieces from other great jazz musicians like Charlie Parker. Thurston learnt jazz music from Alan Dawson, a great jazz musician, at the age of 19. Thurston graduated in 1997 at Berklee College of Music, Boston, a year before Dawson died. He then played at the oldest jazz club in Boston (Wally’s Café), for three years. He went for further studies at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz programme in 1998 in Colorado and relocated to New York. Thurston has travelled to the Middle East, South Asia, the Caribbean and Central America. He takes time off from jazz to teach music privately. He hopes to teach in a music school someday. Thurston has been chosen thrice as a jazz ambassador by the US State department. Kevin, a member of the band, is a native of New Orleans. He started playing the trumpet at the age of eight and joined the Junior Pinstripe Band at the tender age of 13. He enrolled at the new Orleans Centre for the Creative Arts in 1995 and graduated in 1999. Scone, a New Yorker, began playing the piano at the age of five. He, however, switched to the organ after hearing Gene Ludwig and was encouraged by the drummer, Shedrick Hobbs. ends

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