#ICYMI: Tim Ray Trio performs at the Centre Street Sessions for VAHA New Bedford

#ICYMI: Tim Ray Trio performs at the Centre Street Sessions for VAHA New Bedford

Aug 18, 2020

This Centre Street Session features two sets by the Tim Ray Trio (5:30p and 7:15p, and streaming thereafter at AHA New Bedford’s Facebook page) with Dave Zinno on bass and Mark Walker on drums.

Until the pandemic shut live music down, Tim was touring as music director and pianist for Tony Bennett, and his recent CD with Terri Lyne Carrington and John Patitucci made the top 10 in the JazzWeek National Radio Chart.

Centre Street Sessions usually take place in the Summer months of June through September outside, in the parking lot of Fiber Optic Center, in the heart of the Historic District and within the Whaling Heritage Historical National Park. Sponsored by AHA, Fiber Optic Center and Whaling City Sound these concerts have showcased many performers and enabled people to enjoy world class music in a relaxed, informal and acoustically comfortable setting.

This performance was recorded earlier in July in the chapel of the renovated Steeple Playhouse new home of the 70+ year old Your Theatre and formerly the First Baptist Church. Renovation is being overseen and supported by the non-profit Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE, www.waterfrontleague.org). Professional quality audio, as well as video, was done by John Farrell of Middlehouse Sound. For the last 8 years, Your Theatre has also produced the widely acclaimed New Bedford JazzFest, held on the waterfront near downtown, and surrounded by New Bedford’s record setting fishing fleet.

Watch: Set 1 / Set 2

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Look out for Tim Ray’s upcoming interview in the Patriot Ledger, Tim Ray Trio Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wins DownBeat Critics Poll

Look out for Tim Ray’s upcoming interview in the Patriot Ledger, Tim Ray Trio Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington wins DownBeat Critics Poll

Jul 21, 2020

Terri Lyne Carrington, founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, made history this month as the first woman instrumentalist to win best jazz artist in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Carrington’s band Social Science, which features alumni vocalist Debo Ray ’13 and guitarist Matthew Stevens B.M. ’04, was voted best jazz group, and their 2019 release, Waiting Game, was named the year’s top album.
Terri played drums on Tim Ray’s latest release “Excursions and Adventures”
Be on the lookout for Tim’s upcoming interview in the Patriot Ledger!

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