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Jazz at The Green Room: Gerry Beaudoin & Jesse Williams Duo

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Jazz guitarist Gerry Beaudoin has carved out a career as an award-winning guitarist, arranger, composer, educator and recording artist. He was the founder of the critically acclaimed Boston Jazz Ensemble. In 1998 Gerry formed the New Guitar Summit featuring Gerry, Jay Geils of J.Geils Band fame and blues icon Duke Robillard. Gerry has also had his music placed on the Grammy Awards ballot in multiple categories three times in his career. Gerry has performed and recorded with the best in the jazz and blues worlds including Kansas City jazz legend Jay McShann, Blues shouter and saxophonist Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson,Bucky and John Pizzarella ,Duke Robillard, Karrin Allyson, Ronnie Earl, mandolinist David Grisman and saxophonists Harry Allen, Fred Lipsius and Greg Abate. In 2007 he was chosen for a Statesman Of Jazz Tour.

Bassist Jesse Williams has performed and recorded around the world with a who's who of jazz and blues royalty and been recognized by the music industry for this excellence with performances on two Grammy Nominated recordings and nominations for six W.C. Handy recordings. He has performed and recorded with Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Duke Robillard, Jay McShann, Al Kooper, Jay Geils, John Hammond, Karin Allyson, Harry Allen, Ruth Brown, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Maria Muldaur, Johnnie Johnson, Ronnie Earl, Henry Butler, Susan Tedeschi, Charles Neville, and others.

His bass playing has been heard on the stages of the world including the North Sea Jazz, Edmonton Folk, Montreal Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Vancouver Jazz, Byron Bay, Russian River, Boston Globe Jazz and Blues, the Preakness ,the Beantown Festival, and Jazz At Lincoln Center. Mr. Williams is on the faculty of Berklee College of Music, Milton Academy, and Phillips Academy.

After recording and performing together for years in the Gerry Beaudoin Trio they have developed a near telepathic connection to each other and the music. During the recording of a commercial CD project, they laid down a few tracks together during sound check not realizing that the engineer had left on the recording equipment. In a burst of complete spontaneity Gerry just started playing and and Jesse fell in behind him. Thirty six minutes later they had recorded five songs of what Gerry, a veteran of numerous recording sessions, said was, "some of the best playing either of us had ever done." Liking what they heard in playback they quickly recorded three more tracks. The result is their duo CD, Blues In The Corner Pocket.