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he performed live at The Kennedy Center. In 2020, he received a Jazz Coalition Commission for Praise in the Midst of The Storm, a performance suite featuring Brandee Younger, Marquis Hill, Craig Weinrib, Dezron Douglas, and longtime friend and collaborator Immanuel Wilkins, with whom he recently performed a three-night duo program live at The Village Vanguard as part of the storied venue’s streaming series. In 2021, Ross enjoyed a residency at Roulette Intermedium for Jazzfest Berlin, performing the original work She Walks in the Spirit alongside Gabrielle Garo, Brandee Younger, Mimi Jones, Savannah Harris, and Nappy Nina, and 4nette alongside Immanuel Wilkins, Thomas Morgan, and Craig Weinrib, in January and May, respectively. He has performed multiple residencies at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn.
IAN FINKELSTEIN Ian Finkelstein began studying classical piano at age four, focusing solely on jazz from age 12 and gigging professionally from age 14. He received mentorship from many of Detroit’s jazz luminaries including Rodney Whitaker, Marcus Belgrave, and Tad Weed. Finkelstein went on to study with Geri Allen at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, graduating in 2013 with BFAs in jazz piano performance and performing arts technology. Upon returning to the Detroit area, he began performing and recording regularly while continuing
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to advance his studies in piano and music production. In 2018, he founded a record label called Freak Press. Finkelstein’s playing can be heard on projects by artists including Black Milk, Robert Hurst, Omar-S, Waajeed, and Shigeto. He has performed with artists including Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington, Benny Golson, Karriem Riggins, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Savion Glover.
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KARRIEM RIGGINS Karriem Riggins is best known as a jazz drummer and hip-hop producer for artists including Common, Slum Village, Talib Kweli, and The Roots, but he doesn’t categorize himself as anything but an artist. “You don’t have to put yourself in a box…there’s so many different ways to go,” Riggins says. A student of late jazz bassist Ray Brown, he tours with another Brown protégé, Grammy Award-winner Diana Krall. In 2011, he collaborated with Paul McCartney in concert and on Kisses on the Bottom, McCartney’s first studio release in five years. Riggins has backed luminary artists including Hank Jones, Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson, Donald Byrd, and Ron Carter. For his solo debut, Alone Together, on Stones Throw Records, Riggins plants himself firmly as a hip-hop producer with a 34-track instrumental odyssey through nearly every influence on his career thus far.
PARADISE JAZZ DOUBLE BILL
ROBERT HURST III PRESENTS D3 JOEL ROSS + BRANDEE YOUNGER SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2022 AT 8 PM AT ORCHESTRA HALL
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PARADISE JAZZ SERIES Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 8 p.m. at Orchestra Hall
PARADISE JAZZ DOUBLE BILL
ROBERT HURST III PRESENTS D3 JOEL ROSS + BRANDEE YOUNGER ROBERT HURST III PRESENTS D3 Robert Hurst III, bass Ian Finkelstein, piano Karriem Riggins, drums JOEL ROSS + BRANDEE YOUNGER
Joel Ross, vibraphone Brandee Younger, harp
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ROBERT HURST III
BRANDEE YOUNGER
A Detroit native, Robert Hurst III has enjoyed a stellar career spanning 30 years, and is a highly respected and well recognized composer, electric and acoustic bassist, educator, recording artist, and businessman. His cultivation into a membership of talented musicians from around the world was fostered by lengthy tours and Grammy Award-winning recordings featuring Sir Paul McCartney, Charles Lloyd, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Tony Williams, Nicholas Payton, Sting, Carl Allen, the legendary Pharaoh Sanders, Barbra Streisand, Willie Nelson, Yo-Yo Ma, Ravi Coltrane, Chris Botti, and Diana Krall. Hurst has performed on over 150 diverse and critically acclaimed recordings. A select group of these productions have garnered him performances yielding seven Grammy Awards, several RIAA® certified-MultiPlatinum and Gold recordings, while his own seven recordings as a bandleader have all generated top ten and fivestar recognition around the globe. It is probable that you have identified Hurst amongst the jazz world’s most promising new and established artists; however, you may also recognize him as the inaugural bassist in the house band of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for eight seasons, from 1992 to 1999. His work in performing, directing, arranging, and composing on the NBC program were highlighted with four Emmy Awards in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1999.
A leading harpist, performer, composer, educator, and concert curator, Brandee Younger defies genres and labels. She has performed and recorded with artists including Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Common, John Legend, The Roots, Stevie Wonder, and Lauryn Hill. In 2019, she released her fourth solo album, Soul Awakening, and her original composition “Hortense” was featured in the Netflix concert-documentary, Beyoncé: Homecoming. This same year, Younger was selected to perform her original music as a featured performer for Quincy Jones’s and Steve McQueen’s “Soundtrack of America.” Younger’s ability to seamlessly inject the harp into arrangements and venues where it has historically been overlooked is a testament to her deep love for and exemplary command of the instrument.
JOEL ROSS Joel Ross has topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone— graduating beyond the Rising Star to well-honed artist in 2021—as well as the Jazz Journalists Association Critics Poll for Mallet Instrumentalist of the Year in 2020 and 2021. He recently became one of the youngest artists to earn a coveted Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery and a spot in The Jazz Gallery All Stars band through which