Name: Nick Mancini Quartet
Start: 2022-05-26T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-05-26T23:00:00-05:00
Location: LowDown

Nick Mancini Quartet

GGP Parks

Vibraphone master Nick Mancini brings his jazz quartet to LowDown!

LowDown

The Quartet includes Nick Mancini leading the vibraphone, Clark Gibson playing the saxophone, Jeremy Thomas on the Hammond B3 Organ, and Willie Peterson running the drums. This show will be Clark Gibson&#x27;s final show in Tulsa before he moves to Arizona, don&#x27;t miss your last chance to hear a local legend play his talents in LowDown!About Nick Mancini:Boasting a performance career that already spans more than three decades, Nick’s drumming placed him in high demand all around central and upstate New York at an early age. However, it was upon entering Schenectady County Community College that he was exposed to the world of mallet percussion and the course of his life was forever altered. Diligent in his practice and studies, he transferred to the Crane School of Music and began his life-long study of jazz on the vibraphone. From morning to night, he sequestered himself in practice rooms, all the while dreaming of lighting up stages around the world. The payoff for his dedication to the craft came in the way of the President’s Award Scholarship at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he earned a Masters Degree in jazz vibraphone performance. The journey from the isolation of northern New York State to The Big Apple, the Mecca for jazz in the modern-day, was not an easy transition. Without a flinch, Nick mutated the stresses and traumas of life in a dense urban existence into music that was rich with passion, intensity and risk. For 10 years he built his reputation as a dynamic band leader, and trusted sideman. In 2006, Mancini packed his mini van with a coffee maker, a few bags of clothes, and two vibraphones and headed for the west coast. Immediately upon arriving in Los Angeles he made his way to every jam session he could find. It wasn’t long before he found himself on gigs and in the studios, with emerging jazz stars such as Kamasi Washington, Gerald Clayton, John Carroll Kirby, and Danny Janklow, as well as stalwarts such as Arturo Sandoval, Poncho Sanchez, John Beasely, Peter Erskine, Lewis Nash, and Frank Marocco. Outside of jazz he has recorded with artists as diverse and ubiquitous as Solange, Dr. Dre, Santigold, Post-Modern Jukebox, and Half-Alive. As a leader and sideman he has graced stages in the U.S. like The Apollo Theater and Birdland in NYC, The Blue Whale, The Jazz Bakery, The Ford Amphitheater, and The Greek Theater in LA, Rudy’s Jazz Room in Nashville, The Lowdown in Tulsa OK, and the Fayetteville Arts Center in Arkansas. Internationally he’s appeared at Bimhuis in Holland, The Jeppis Jazz Festival, Alandia Jazz Festival, and Fasching Jazz Club in Scandinavia, and has toured extensively across Australia and Tahitti. In LA, he curated and hosted multiple concert series’, often times also performing in them. The most acclaimed of them being “elastic hour” which ran for five seasons and hosted hundreds of performing groups that were as musically diverse as the places from which they hailed. Mancini has been an instructor at Cal State Northridge and Long Beach, The Herbie Hancock Institute, and Pasadena Jazz Institute, as well as having maintained his private teaching studio for 25 years. In 2008 he was named Honoree at the LA Jazz Vibes Summit, and shortly thereafter became a a sponsored artist with Majestic Percussion vibes, and Innovative Percussion mallets. In 2020, Mancini moved his family of three to Tulsa OK, where he was the recipient of the Tulsa Remote grant, and continues to maintain a very active presence in Los Angeles, and around the midwest. Nick has released 9 records under his own name and has appeared on well over 100 commercial releases, two major film scores, and episodes of The Family Guy.

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