Miss M Presents Jeff Gardner Nola Nova 3

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"M's Fine and Mellow Café was a loved establishment in downtown Baton Rouge that featured world class acts in the 90s. James Fogle, owner of the Mid City Ballroom, used to run my Open Mics and has been after me to do this for years. Finally, here we are! I was often called "Miss M" in the Southern tradition of showing respect. I cherished hearing it and still hear it to this day. " -Marian Pickett About Jeff Gardner: Jeff Gardner was born in New York and moved to Brasil in 2002. After classical piano lessons with Ruth Schontal and Ivan Tcherepnin he studied jazz piano with Jaki Byard, Hall Overton, Charles Banacos, Don Friedman, and John Lewis, and harmony with Nadia Boulanger. He has performed with such musicians as Kenny Wheeler, Gary Peacock, Norma Winstone, Eddie Harris, Steve Lacy, Freddie Hubbard, Bob Sheppard, Rick Margitza, Nelson Veras, Dominique di Piazza, Paulo Moura, Lisa Ono, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Victor Assis Brasil, Dori Caymmi, Karim Ziad, Sheila Jordan, Ron McClure, Drew Gress, Ndugu Chancler, Riccardo del Fra, Roberto Bonisolo, Dave Carpenter, Charlie Mariano, Guillermo Anderson, Julio Barreto Anthony Pinciotti, Gary Wang, Lukmil Perez, André Ceccarelli, Riccardo del Fra, Hein van de Geyn, Lars Daniellson, and the piano quartet with Jaki Byard, Martial Solal, and Paul Bley.