Jay Vonada - Expressions

Website:

www.jayvonada.net

Music Style:

Jazz

City:

Aaronsburg

 

State:

Pennsylvania

 

Country:

USA

Band Description

The Jay Vonada Quartet has been performing throughout the central region of Pennsylvania for the past five years. His new CD features eight original compositions specifically written with the frontline of trombone and guitar.

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Artist Biography

Jay attended Mansfield University in the fall of 1993, studying jazz improvisation with Dr. Michael Galloway for one year and jazz arranging for one semester. He was lead trombonist and featured soloist with the Mansfield University Jazz Band for four years, where they performed at the PMEA, MENC, and placed third at the Villanova Jazz Festival in 1994. Jay played with jazz saxophonist Bob Mintzer at the Mansfield University Jazz Festival, and also performed with Mansfield alumni Neil Slater, who was the director of the One O'clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. In 1999, Jay won a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music.

 

Since leaving College, Jay has performed at his high school with the jazz band, in the pit orchestra for Penns Valley High School from 1999-2001, for the Bald Eagle Area High School from 2002-2004, for Singing On Stages production of Dream Girls in 2006, Oliver in 2007, Apple Tree and Barnum in 2009, Oliver and Hairspray in 2010, Chicago in 2011, Merrily We Roll Along in 2012, Urinetown and Scrooge in 2013, Annie and A Chorus Line in 2014. He was also trombonist with the Valley Jazz Orchestra from 2004-2007, and trombonist with Jazz Innate, an octet, from 2003-2005. Jay was also the Lead Trombonist with the Keystone Society of Swing Big Band from 2001-2006. He plays in a trombone quartet called Trombone Chowder, and a five trombone and rhythm section jazz group, Slide Zone. He also plays in a jazz sextet, Hexagon, playing original music. Currently he plays in a quartet of trombone, keyboard, bass and drums that has played Lewisburg Live, Bellefonte Library Concert Series and South Hills Business School Summer Concert Series. He plays in a big band, Zeropoint, playing the solo trombone book. He also has smaller groups, a jazz trio of trombone, organ, drums that has played at The Butler Fall Festival, Raystown Lake Amphitheater, Lewisburg Stroll Thru The Arts, People’s Choice Festival in Boalsburg, The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College and The Lebanon Jazz Festival. He has a duo of trombone and guitar or trombone and keyboard or trombone and bass called swing-nova that has played throughout the centre region including many nursing homes and assisted living communities in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Jay has also had the privilege of playing with vocalist Catherine Dupuis, pianist Russ Kassoff, bassists Martin Wind, Jay Anderson, David Finck and Jay Leonhart and drummers Tim Horner and Dennis Mackrel at the Jazz PA Festival from 2005-2010.

 

Email him at jvtrombone@verizon.net

 

Press Release

 

 

Jay Vonada Quartet to release new CD

 

Jay Vonada – Jazz Artist, Trombonist, Composer, Arranger

 

814-308-3699

 

jvtrombone@verizon.net

 

www.jayvonada.net

 

Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania - Jay Vonada will be releasing his fifth CD entitled “Expressions” on Tuesday June 2, 2015. This will be Jay’s first quartet CD since his debut recording “Jammin’” back in 2008 which featured trombone, keyboard, bass and drums. This CD will feature Jay on trombone, Mac Himes on guitar, Bob Hart on bass and Kevin Lowe on drums. The CD was recorded on Saturday November 22, 2014 in Altoona Pennsylvania at Data Music Services with Dave Villani serving as recording engineer. The recording will feature eight original compositions by Jay. A CD release party is scheduled for Saturday June 6 at The Green Drake Gallery and Arts Center in Millheim Pennsylvania from 7:00-8:30pm, www.greendrakeart.com.

 

Jay has been a fixture on the music scene in the central Pennsylvania region for the past five years leading a variety of ensembles. He has led duos, trios and quartets at fairs, festivals, wineries, breweries and nursing homes and assisted living communities throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland.