El Pobre Diablo túvo el agrado de presentar los días miércoles 27 y jueves 28 de septiembre a Marvin "Doc" Holladay & su sexteto de jazz. Doc Holliday, es un músico excepcional estadounidense que ha acompañado en giras mundiales a grandes músicos del género del jazz, como son Duke Ellington, J.C. Heard y la Orquesta de Dizzy Gillesple.
Doc Holladay estuvo en el saxo barítono, saxo alto y flauta de Ashanti, Lenin Palacios en la trompeta, Raimon Rovira en el piano, Cayo Iturralde en el bajo, Pepe German en la batería y Carlos Albán en la percusión.

Marvin "Doc" Holladay; es conocido internacionalmente por su versatilidad y su particular forma de interpretación, Holliday también es considerado como un maestro de la improvisación en el saxo.

"Holladay es un multifacético en cuanto a la ejecución de sus instrumentos como también en la conceptualización de su música. Su acercamiento al jazz se ha llamado “inmediatamente natural y espiritual”; su música “ es sofisticada, inconfundible y creada verdaderamente, sin ser producto forzado de un mercado musical comercial”.
En el campo del jazz no sé de nadie mas calificado para expresar los mensajes de esta ingeniosa forma de música que Holiday. Está bien al corriente de todas las etapas de esyte género. Su perfección del instrumento está en la misma liga con los inolvidables y famosos ejecutantes como fueron Herry Carmey o Heywood Henry”.

Dizzy Gillesple, músico y compositor

 

“ Marvin Doc Holliday es músico magnífico, un jugador maravilloso del saxo con una calidad del sonido que no se escucha más: muy creativo e imaginativo en concepto y pensamiento. Holladay también es un exelente professor que ha formado excepcionales estudiantes. Su comprensión de esta forma de arte es profunda y su amor por la música contagiosa”.

Sam Rivers, músico y compositor

Baritone saxophonist Marvin "Doc" Holladay is a unique musician who has enriched his professional jazz performance career through his active involvement with world music. His full warm sound has earned him the respect and admiration of many of the world's top musical personalities. Holladay has toured the world with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the J.C. Heard Orchestra and Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra in the past decade. The tour with Dizzy Gillespie took place during the summer of 1988. The Gillespie Orchestra played to standing room only audiences around the world including three major eastern U.S. cities and eight European countries. Throughout the tour, Holladay provided an ongoing source of energy. His artistic dexterity was often praised by critics and musicians alike.

Holladay is known internationally for his strong, no-nonsense playing style. His is also respected as a master of improvisation on the instrument made immortal by Harry Carney and recently brought into renewed prominence by Pepper Adams and Hamiet Bluiett. But it is Holladay's versatility that has led him to play with numerous big bands, combos, and some of the best know musicians in the business. A partial list of musical organizations Holladay has worked with includes the Stan Kenton, Woody Herman and Quincy Jones Orchestras, the Duke Ellington Alumni Orchestra, and as a charter member, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

In addition, he has recorded or performed, while a free-lance musician in New York City, with notables Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Billy Eckstine, the Al Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet, Herbie Hancock, Bill Evans, Jack McDuff, Benny Carter, Duke Pearson, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Smith, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, and countless others.

Holladay placed in the 1961 Downbeat critics poll in the Baritone Sax New Star Deserving Wider Recognition category. Since then, Holladay has continued to garner acclaim by continuing to perform, teach and expand his horizons.

Marvin Holladay was reared in Kansas in close proximity to the now famous Kansas City jazz scene. He earned his undergraduate degree in music education from Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma and then went on for a stint in the Army. While in the Army, Holladay trained and performed alongside Pepper Adams, Cannonball and Nat Aderley, and others who came up through the jazz ranks of the military. After a successful twenty year career as a professional working musician, he enrolled at Yale University as a special graduate student, then continued to pursue studies for a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. Holladay's research concentrated on the musics of West Africa, with emphasis on West African flutes and percussion instruments. Holladay has been the Director of Jazz and World Music Studies at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan for the better part of the last two decades.

Holladay is as multifaceted on his instruments as he is in conception. In addition to baritone sax, he is equally proficient on bass clarinet, oboe and English horn, and a full array of saxes, clarinets, flutes and African wind and percussion instruments. His approach to jazz has been called "at once natural and spiritual;" his music "sophisticated, uncluttered, unencumbered music that is truly created, not forcibly produced."

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