FEB 13-16 | Valentine's Week
Feb 15 - Feb 16, 2025
Joe Henderson Lab
Think of Camille Thurman as a one-woman jazz festival. A commanding tenor saxophonist, master flutist, and powerhouse vocalist, she’s a polymorphously gifted artist who has emerged over the past decade as one of the most exciting young artists on the New York scene. With a rich, velvety tenor tone reminiscent of Gene Ammons, Thurman brings the same rhythmic agility and improvisational finesse to her epic scat solos. She debuts during Valentine’s week with a mix of jazz classics and more.
She started collecting awards as a composer and player in her teenage years and made a powerful impression with her 2013 debut album Origins featuring heavyweight collaborators Luis Perdomo (piano), Rudy Royston (drums), Corcoran Holt (bass), and Brandee Younger (harp). It was the same year that Thurman placed behind Jazzmeia Horn at the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, and she’s been soaring ever since. From 2018-2020 she toured internationally with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, holding down the tenor sax chair as the first female musician to join the band full-time. She continues to sub with the orchestra but has been focusing in recent years on leading the Camille Thurman Quartet featuring Oakland-reared drummer Darrell Green.
“Clear articulation, natural vibrato, soulful inflection and remarkable, Ella Fitzgerald-esque scat prowess” (DownBeat)
You’re hard-pressed to find rising talents more exciting than Camille Thurman, whose sound is as commodious and strong as Hank Mobley’s
The New York Times
You’re hard-pressed to find rising talents more exciting than Camille Thurman, whose sound is as commodious and strong as Hank Mobley’s
The New York Times
Personnel
Camille Thurman tenor saxophone, vocals
Darrell Green drums
Others TBA
A first-class saxophonist that blows the proverbial roof off the place and an accomplished stylist who uses her chords with agility and sophistication
All About Jazz on Camille Thurman
Personnel
Camille Thurman tenor saxophone, vocals
Darrell Green drums
Others TBA
A first-class saxophonist that blows the proverbial roof off the place and an accomplished stylist who uses her chords with agility and sophistication
All About Jazz on Camille Thurman
Watch & Listen
Camille Thurman
September in the Rain
Camille Thurman
Easy to Love
Camille Thurman
September in the Rain
Camille Thurman
Easy to Love
FEB 13-16 | Valentine's Week
FEB 13
Dear Love
JAZZMEIA HORNFEB 14-16
Soul Icon
MAVIS STAPLESFEB 14
Songs of Romance
TRACY CRUZ