Artist description Jazz Piano

Musical Influences Monty Alexander,Kenny Barron,Donald Brown,Michel Camilo,Bill Charlap,Sonny Clark,Chick Corea,Kenny Drew,Eliane Elias,Bill Evans,Tommy Flanagan,Hal Galper,Red Garland,Larry Goldings,Benny Green,Herbie Hancock,Barry Harris,Gene Harris,Fred Hersch,Ahmad Jamal,Keith Jarrett,Hank Jones,Wynton Kelly,Kenny Kirkland,Andy LaVerne,Mike Longo,Jim McNeely,Mulgrew Miller,Thelonius Monk,Phineas Newborn Jr.,Danilo Perez,Oscar Peterson,Bud Powell,Renee Rosnes,George Shearing,Horace Silver,Bobby Timmons,McCoy Tyner,Chucho Valdez,Cedar Walt

Similar Artists Chick Corea,Bill Evans,Red Garland,Herbie Hancock,Gene Harris,Ahmad Jamal,Keith Jarrett,Wynton Kelly,Kenny Kirkland,Thelonius Monk,Oscar Peterson,Bud Powell,George Shearing,Horace Silver,McCoy Tyner

Artist History Sarah Jane Cion was the first place winner of the internationally acclaimed 17th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition held in Jacksonville Florida on November 11th, 1999. The judges were Horace Silver, Kenny Barron, Ellis Marsalis, Benny Green and Bill Charlap. Ms. Cionıs trio performed in Japan at the prestigious Fukuoka Blue Note for the month of January in 2000 and Sarah appeared on the Nationally syndicated NPR radio show Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland on February 8th, 2000. Sarah has performed with young and older jazz legends such as Clark Terry, Al Gray, Don Braden, Santi Debriano, Etta Jones, Della Griffin, Alan Harris, Philip Harper, Alvester Garnett, Lonnie Plaxico, Dennis Irwin, Ron McClure, David Leibman, Dr. Lynn Christie and many others. She is often found performing with New York City mainstay big bands such as the Lew Anderson Big Band at Birdland and The Spirit Of Life Ensemble at Sweet Basil. Her debut CD, Indeed! features alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, drummer Tony Reedus and other young jazz giants. Her second CD Moon Song was released internationally on the Naxos Jazz label in May of 2000 featuring Phil Palombi, Chris Potter and Billy Hart. Her third CD, Summer Night will be released in April of 2001, featuring saxophone giant Michael Brecker, and the reprise of Billy Hart and Phil Palombi. The Sarah Jane Cion Trio was the opening act for the George Coleman Quartet at the Mellon Jazz Festival in Pittsburgh in June of Ċ’98, and her quartet was featured in the JVC jazz festival in New York City later that summer. In May of 1999, her trio headlined at the Kennedy Center for the prestigious Women In Jazz Festival. The trio also performed at the Freihoferıs Jazz Festival in June of 2000, and at the Indy Jazz Festival in July. Cion was featured as a solo pianist at the DuMaurier Atlantic Jazz Fest in Nova Scotia, Canada later that month. Cion has toured Israel, Portugal, Japan and Germany, and in July of 1996 Sarah worked side by side with Monty Alexander in his jazz workshop in Verbier Switzerland to assist and perform during the course of the week. Sarahıs original song, Itıs Christmas Time, Once Again, was a finalist in the internationally acclaimed 1997 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Her entry of the CD release It Could Happen to You with the Herve Jeanne Trio was a Jazz Podium winner, and Sarah was flown over to perform five concerts in Northern Germany in October of 1998. Sarah Jane Cion graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1990 with honors and distinction in composition and performance. Cion was the recipient of the 1988 Boston Jazz Society Award, and she was chosen as one of four pianists to attend the Banff School For the Arts in 1991 with an all-star faculty of Steve Coleman, Rufus Reid, Kevin Eubanks of the ³Tonight Show² orchestra, Marvin ³Smitty² Smith, Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland.

Instruments piano, accompanied by bass, drums, trumpet, saxaphone, percussion, vocals

Albums Summer Night, Jeff Rihab and the BMI Jazz orchestra, Marian Mcpartland's "Piano Jazz", Vinnie Cutro's NYC Soundscape, Moon Song, 80 East , Indeed!, Into the Light,Swingin' Live!, The Sign of the Kiwi

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Location Bronx, NY - USA

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