| Dave Sheffield has been
playing both piano and trombone professionally for over thirty years and is
considered "A Musician's Musician" playing on the cutting edge of today's
modern jazz. Having started his musical studies at Jacksonville University
in 1969, he has never stopped learning his instruments, always striving to
play better. He has performed with numerous groups throughout the Florida
area including Lee Caron's Carnival Club and Jimmy Papes and The American
Way, which brought him into Orlando performing with Nick Russo's "Gabriel's
Brass". His outstanding talent brought him to Disney World where he was
featured with "Kids of the Kingdom" for seven years. After leaving Disney,
Dave was a member of the Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra, performing at
Lincoln Center and jazz festivals in the United States and Europe. He also
founded "The Bottom Line" which performed locally in Orlando's finest jazz
clubs. One of Dave's most unique talents is his ability to perform
professionally on both trombone and piano. Dave joined the Altamonte Jazz
Ensemble twenty years ago and was featured soloist playing along with guest
artists Phil Woods, Bob McChesney and Bobby Shew...to name a few. Dave
Sheffield was seeking musical challenges on piano and the opportunity arose
for him to switch to piano with the jazz ensemble. This concert will feature
Dave on a special arrangement written by the late Tom Mitchell especially
for the AJE, a George Gershwin masterpiece, a medley from "Porgy and Bess". |
After 17 years of
"gospel" and "pop" music experience with her family, Linda branched out into
"rhythm and blues" while traveling from Manhattan to Detroit to Los Angeles.
She has worked with such artists as Billy Henderson of "The Spinners", Billy
Davis, Jr. of "The Fifth Dimension", Betty LaVette of the Broadway hit "Bubblin'
Brown Sugar", Roz Ryan of the TV comedy hit "Amen" and the Broadway hit "Ain't
Misbehavin", H.B Barnum, musical director for Aretha Franklin, the vocal
group "Enchantment", and Chick Glenn, former drummer with the Mercer
Ellington Orchestra.
By 1991, Linda began to branch out into "jazz and standards", appearing in
such diverse rooms as "Dino's", Cocoa Beach, Fl., "Beacham's Blues & Jazz
Club", Orlando, Fl., "Chef and Clef Club", Charleston, SC. and other fine
restaurants and jazz spots throughout the southeast.
Linda Cole, presently residing in Daytona Beach, Fl., also adds to her list
of accomplishments, engagements at the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, guest
appearances for the Central Florida Jazz Society, opening act for David
Benoit at "Light Up Orlando" - '91, guest appearances with the Altamonte
Jazz Ensemble and is featured on its currently released CD "Blues for the
Road Father". She also collaborated with Harold Blanchard on the release of
her first CD. Linda has also made a guest appearance with the "Count Basie
Orchestra" under the direction of Frank Foster. |
