East Aldine Jazz Fest
Featuring Guest Artists Horace Alexander Young, Woody Witt, Britney Bloom, Robert White and DJ Rev.
Bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit and relax on the grass while you enjoy good music and food. Kids can enjoy Face Painting, Train Rides and the playground equipment available in the park. Free Event!
Featured Performers
Guest Artists
Britney Bloom is an accomplished pianist, singer and songwriter who enjoys playing and teaching music. Her love of jazz, gospel, classical and fusion not only make her versatile but it makes her sound stand out and draw the listener in for a dreamy interpretation of musical expression. In 2015 Bloom graduated from Texas Southern University with a degree in Music Performance with an emphasis in Jazz Studies. Previously she spent 2 years at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she decided that jazz studies would be her major.
Britney has worked with a variety of different artists and singers such as Cory Henry, Cora Coleman (Prince’s drummer), Tamar Davis (Prince’s lead singer), and many others. She has also opened for world renowned band Ghost Note featuring grammy award winner Robert “Sput” Searight as the band leader and was the musical director for the headlining band “Cora Coleman”, at the Jazz Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa where there were over 15,000 people in attendance.
Britney continues her musical career as an artist and a teacher. She released a single called, “Show Me” in 2017 and is set to release her debut album in 2022. During the day she adores teaching her Pre-k through 5th grader students about music and showing them that they too can pursue their dreams and passions no matter the obstacles. She enjoys spending time with family, laughing wholeheartedly and any activity that involves bringing people together. She is a firm believer that we are better together than we are apart.
Horace Alexander Young is one of a select group of “triple threat” recording and touring artists who is equally gifted as a multi- instrumentalist (woodwinds, keyboards and percussion), vocal musician and as a highly skilled composer/arranger. Although originally trained in college primarily as a classical flutist, his studies in saxophone were approached as a dual emphasis and his subsequent professional career has reflected this as well. His saxophone teachers and mentors include; Hal Tennyson, Campbell “Skeets” Tolbert, Conrad O. Johnson, Arnett Cobb, Laura Hunter and Eddie Daniels.
His varied experiences have led to appearances on 92+ recordings and several international tours and performances with Sam “Lightnin” Hopkins, Freddy Fender, B.B. King, Bobby McFerrin, Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, The Crusaders, The Manhattans, Joe Sample, Regina Belle, The McCoy Tyner Big Band, Johnny Kemp, The Temptations, Bubbha Thomas, Gerald Alston, Toots Thielemans, John Blake, Arnett Cobb, Jonathan Butler, Youssou N’ Dour, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Nancy Wilson, Kenny Barron, George Coleman, Dwight Sills, Milt Hinton, Hubert Laws, Dave Liebman, Norman Brown, Roseanna Vitro, Don Menza, George Duke, Ndugu Chancler, Roberta Donnay, Marvin Stamm, Betty Carter, Mark Ledford, Sunny Wilkinson, The Four Tops and countless others. Having performed in eighteen (18) countries across five (5) continents his saxophone, flute and vocal skills have thrilled audiences at major Jazz festivals in Montreux, Hamburg, Leipzig, London, Paris, The Hague, British Columbia, Berlin, New York, New Orleans, Tokyo, Houston, Seattle, Gent, Leverkusen and Glasgow. He spent 17 years of that time working as Musical Director and a featured soloist with 2019 NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim, for whom he wrote numerous arrangements for various instrumental settings and contributed to two studio recordings.
Woody Witt has been an increasingly significant musical force during the past decade as a saxophonist, a composer and as an educator. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Woody started on the clarinet in fourth grade, switching his focus to saxophone the following year. A professional musician from the age of 16, he studied at the University of Houston, earned a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. He has taught at Houston Community College since 2000, is an Affiliate Artist at the University of Houston, and has conducted a countless number of workshops and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil and Asia.
As a tenor-saxophonist, Woody Witt has recorded over 30 CDs as a sideman and led 12 CDs of his own (Woody Witt, Square Peg Round Hole, Live at Cezanne’s, A Conversation, Willows, Seasons Ago, First Impression, Pots and Kettles, Absinthe: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, Presence, Made in Taiwan, Live at Cezanne). He has collaborated with such major jazz artists as trumpeters Randy Brecker, Tim Hagans and Jim Rotondi, saxophonists James Moody, David Liebman and Tim Armacost, trombonist Conrad Herwig, pianists Joe LoCascio, Larry Ham and Mark Levine, drummers Louis Hayes, Adam Nussbaum, Billy Hart, and singers Nancy King and Gabrielle Stravelli, has worked with the Houston Symphony, and has been featured on major third-stream works that blend together jazz and classical music. The winner of the 2010 Chamber Music America French American Cultural Exchange grant and the 2014 International Jazz Saxophone Competition in Taiwan, Woody has been the booker and artistic director of Houston’s top jazz club, Cezanne, since 1999 and now is the owner of the club, as it moves to a new location. Currently involved in several different group projects (including a saxophone-guitar-drums trio inspired by the Paul Motian Trio), Woody Witt is a consistently creative musician who is at the peak of his powers.
Rob White IV was born and raised in Beaumont Texas, Robert has had a deep passion for the jazz idom since child hood, started playing trumpet at the age of 10. He holds a bachelors degree in music education from Lamar university and a Masters degree from University of Miami in jazz trumpet performance. During his playing career Robert has had the opportunity to play behind artist such as Joe Sample, Bruce Hornsby, Brian Lynch, and Terence Blanchard to name a few. Robert is currently and educator and freelance trumpeter in the Houston Area.
DJ Rev is an American R&B Classics disc jockey who combines traditional rhythm and blues with hip-hop and pop-culture hits in his musical session. He’s fiercely rooted in the classics, the young boy who learned his background and love for music from his musician father.
DJ Rev has evolved his love for music, creating his style of introducing and playing music on various platforms, setting up live music sessions, and emceeing events across the Houston Metropolitan areas, as well as special features on social media platforms.
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