# Steve Kenny’s All Originals jazz season continues Friday, September 1

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/08/31/steve-kennys-originals-jazz-season-continues-friday-september-1/
- Published: 2017-08-31T17:52:00+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Steve Kenny’s All Originals jazz season continues Friday, September 1, with the
Joan Hutton Jazz Project, performing all original compositions from multi-reed player,
composer and educator Joan Hutton. She’s joined by fellow saxophonists David Milne,
pianist Jesse Mueller, bassist Joan Griffith, and drummer Jendeen Forberg.**

Joan Hutton is an educator, performer, and composer originally from Toronto, Canada.
She has been a member of the Ancia Saxophone Quartet since 1996, playing tenor and
alto saxophones and bass clarinet; she also performs with the jazz-funk sextet Rare
Medium, and composes many of their tunes. Her Joan Hutton Jazz Project was formed
early in 2017 to feature her original compositions. Other performance activities
over the years have included solo recitals, pit orchestra work at the Chanhassen
Dinner Theatres and other various theaters, orchestral playing, big band and small
jazz combos, and R&B/rock/blues bands.

Joan received her degrees from the Eastman School of Music (M.M.) and Ithaca College(
B.M.). In addition to teaching at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Joan has a large
studio of private sax and clarinet students. In her teaching, she encourages students
to explore as broad a range of styles as desired while developing a solid foundation
on the saxophone through the study of standard repertoire, etudes, and scales.

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_Dave Milne © Andrea Canter_

**_David Milne_** is Professor and past Chair of the Music Department at the University
of Wisconsin-River Falls, where he teaches applied saxophone, jazz improvisation,
saxophone ensemble, jazz ensemble, and directs the RADD Jazz Series. A native of
Rochester, NY, he holds BA and MM degrees in music from Indiana University and a
DMA from the Eastman School of Music. In the Twin Cities, Dave is an active jazz
and classical saxophonist, guest artist/clinician, and composer/arranger who has
appeared with the JazzMN Orchestra, the Out to Lunch Quintet (Eric Dolphy tribute
band),  Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Pete Whitman X-Tet, Phil
Woods, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Smokey Robinson, and the Nelson
Riddle Orchestra. With vibraphonist Dave Hagedorn, he launched the Spiral Visions
ensemble in 2012, paying tribute to the music of Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land.

Dave has received awards, grants and commissions for performances of new works from
the American Composers Forum, Jerome Foundation, THE Commission Project, Twin Cities
Jazz Society, and _Downbeat_ jazz journal. He has also fostered, commissioned, premiered,
and recorded new works for chamber music ensembles with the ANCIA Saxophone Quartet,
JAZZAX Saxophone Quartet, and Zeitgeist. Dave leads the “jazz meets classical” One
World Consort. His compositions and arrangements for saxophone ensembles have been
performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance and World Saxophone Congress 
conventions.

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_Jesse Mueller_

**_Jesse Mueller_** is a versatile young keyboardist from Minneapolis who plays 
with the fire of the funk/jazz masters.  Busy with more than a dozen bands, Jesse
is well versed in jazz, fusion, funk, rock, country, gospel, blues, r&b, Latin jazz,
and hip hop. He performed at the Lucerne Blues Festival with Willie Walker & We 
R as well as appearing in Brazil in 2016. He was a member of Steve Kenny and the
Bastids during the band’s weekly run at the Artists Quarter. Currently Jesse performs
with the Dee Miller Band, Karl B & the Soul Surgeons, In2ition, Snak Attack, No 
Limits- The B Side, Willie Walker & We R, Sonic Jones, Fergus Plinko, The Shados,
Manguito, and more.

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_Joan Griffith © Andrea Canter_

A noted teacher, composer and performer, **_Joan Griffith_** has toured and recorded
as a classical and jazz guitarist, bassist, and mandolinist. A classical guitar 
major in college, she picked up the bass in order to form a rock band, switching
from electric to upright later when living in Kansas City in order to participate
more fully in the area jazz scene. Now head of the Jazz Studies Department at the
University of St. Thomas, Joan is also a guitar and bass instructor at St. Catherine’s
University, director of the MacJazz Workshop at Macalester College, and a roster
artist in jazz for COMPAS, the Minnesota State Arts Board and Young Audiences. She
also appears frequently with the Minnesota Orchestra as a classical mandolinist.
Joan is particularly known for performing and composing Brazilian style music, an
area that has fascinated her since she first heard “The Girl From Ipanema” as a 
teen in Nebraska. Over the years she has developed her personal fusion of the African,
European and Amerindian traditions that define the soul of Brazilian music. In addition
to recording with Lucia Newell and Laura Caviani, Joan has recently worked with 
Patty Peterson’s Jazz Women All Stars and performed in a two-guitar duo with Chris
Olson.

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_Jendeen Forberg © Andrea Canter_

Drummer _**Jendeen Forberg**_ is a founding member and leader of the Wolverines 
Big Band, often heard these days as the Wolverines Trio backing such artist as Arne
Fogel and Maud Hixson with a monthly gig at Hell’s Kitchen. She started drum lessons
with Elliot Fine and began gigging with her father (a local horn player) when she
was 11. In addition to her four decades with the Wolverines, Jendeen has played 
in metal bands All the Pretty Horses and Harsh Reality. She’s currently performing
with Patty Peterson’s Jazz Women All Stars. When not behind the trapset, Jendeen
works with at-risk and homeless youth through Streetworks.

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