Consilience Awareness Concert Series Promo --------------------------------->
VoxPop Cafe' - Brooklyn, NY
November 2009
Mentorship: Hip-Hop Meets Physics!

This event continues our "Live Jazz for Social Change" message. Each month we produce a concert of our music (usually a quartet) which is immediately followed by a presentation and/or panel discussion by a Social Change organization.

In this, our first of this series, Sam Hillmer, community organizer and founder of music production company, Representing NYC! compared and contrasted mentorship models with New York City public school physics teacher, Weldon MacDonald, who mentors a Robotics club at his school. The event concluded with a hip-hop concert by three of Sam’s kids from the rap group, Nine 11 Thesaurus.

Check out the other installments of this fantastic series!

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Vinson Valega Group
"Luftmenschen"
by Anton Denner
Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
6/1/07
featuring:
Chris Bacas (tenor, soprano, & clarinet)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Anton Denner (alto, flute, & piccolo)
Jon Cowherd (piano)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Group
"Ed Blackwell"
by Vinson Valega
Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
6/1/07
featuring:
Chris Bacas (tenor, soprano, & clarinet)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Anton Denner (alto, flute, & piccolo)
Jon Cowherd (piano)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Group
"Sputnick"
by Chris Bacas
Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
6/1/07
featuring:
Chris Bacas (tenor, soprano, & clarinet)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Anton Denner (alto, flute, & piccolo)
Jon Cowherd (piano)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Group
"This Is What Democracy Sounds Like"
by Vinson Valega
Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
6/1/07
featuring:
Chris Bacas (tenor, soprano, & clarinet)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Anton Denner (alto, flute, & piccolo)
Jon Cowherd (piano)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Quartet
"The Trend is Your Friend"
by Vinson Valega
DEKK, New York City
3/11/07
featuring:
Anton Denner (alto sax)
Chris Bacas (soprano sax)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Quartet
"Angelica"
by Duke Ellington
DEKK, New York City
3/11/07
featuring:
Anton Denner (alto sax)
Chris Bacas (soprano sax)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Trio
"All or Nothing At All"
by Arthur Altman & Jack Lawrence
The Brecht Forum, New York City
1/24/07
featuring:
Dimitri Moderbacher (tenor sax)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Vinson Valega Trio
"Giant Steps"
by John Coltrane
The Brecht Forum, New York City
1/24/07
featuring:
Dimitri Moderbacher (tenor sax)
Gary Wang (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

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Nicki Denner Group, featuring Julian Llanos
"Lagrima Negras"
by Miguel Matamoras
Smoke Jazz Club, NYC
12 /12/07
featuring:
Nicki Denner (piano)
Julian Llanos (vocals & guiro)
Anton Denner (alto sax & flute)
Mark Miller (trombone & background vocals)
Mayra Casales (congas & background vocals)
Willie Martinez (drums & background vocals)
Jennifer Vincent (bass)

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Nicki Denner Group, featuring Julian Llanos
"Obsesion"
by Pedro Flores
Smoke Jazz Club, NYC
12 /12/07
featuring:
Nicki Denner (piano)
Julian Llanos (vocals & guiro)
Anton Denner (alto sax & flute)
Mark Miller (trombone & background vocals)
Mayra Casales (congas & background vocals)
Willie Martinez (drums & background vocals)
Jennifer Vincent (bass)

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