Upcoming Events at Mana Contemporary - Mana Theatre, 1st Floor
Fri Apr 19, 8:00 PM - Fri Apr 19, 9:00 PM
Mana Contemporary - Mana Theatre, 1st Floor
888 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306
Community: Southtown
Description
Jazz Series Opener–Alina Engibaryan Quartet: Pegasus at Mana Reception: 7:30PM | Concert: 8:00PM
Event Details
Pegasus at Mana presents acclaimed Alina Engibaryan quartet (voice/piano, drums, saxophone, and bass) led by jazz singer and composer Engibaryan presenting her own originals. Visit https://alinaengibaryanmusic.com more info about the artist.
LISTEN TO ALINA HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dusz1TyD0
ALINA ENGIBARYAN QUARTET
Alina Engibaryan, voice and keyboards
Sergej Avanesov, saxophone
Luke Sellick, bass
Samvel Sarkisyan, drums
“Alina is really quite special. She is kind of like one in a million. There aren’t many people who want to sing jazz, who have this special feeling for the tradition, where jazz singers have been and what they borrowed from horn players. Not every jazz singer has that. What did Louis Armstrong borrow from his horn when he began to sing? Not every singer understands that, she gets that! (…) When she sings, you can hear her heart. That is very special.”
— Al Jarreau
On We Are, the follow-up to the jazz/ singer-songwriter’s 2016 critically-acclaimed debut Driving Down the Road, Russian-born Engibaryan chose to concentrate on making original music — and creating something far more personal. “A lot of songs on my album are about love, empowerment and how people treat each other,” says Alina Engibaryan. “It’s all about some kind of relationship.” It marks a huge step forward for the artist, the granddaughter of jazz drumming great Nikolay Goncharov and a budding singer since the age of two. “I kind of changed everything for this record,” she says. “The band is different and the music is stylistically different from the first album. I only had one original song on that record. This time, all except one song are mine.”
Michael League, the label head of GroundUP Music and co-founder of the Grammy-winning collective Snarky Puppy, arranged and produced We Are. League discovered the singer while touring the Netherlands, when Engibaryan was studying jazz vocals at the Prince Claus Conservatory.
Inspired by the likes of music legends Stevie Wonder, Kurt Elling and Gregory Porter, as well as mentors such as J.D. Walter (a co-writer on the album track “Love Song”) and the late Al Jarreau (who oversaw the 2015 Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition that Engibaryan w
LISTEN TO ALINA HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-dusz1TyD0
ALINA ENGIBARYAN QUARTET
Alina Engibaryan, voice and keyboards
Sergej Avanesov, saxophone
Luke Sellick, bass
Samvel Sarkisyan, drums
“Alina is really quite special. She is kind of like one in a million. There aren’t many people who want to sing jazz, who have this special feeling for the tradition, where jazz singers have been and what they borrowed from horn players. Not every jazz singer has that. What did Louis Armstrong borrow from his horn when he began to sing? Not every singer understands that, she gets that! (…) When she sings, you can hear her heart. That is very special.”
— Al Jarreau
On We Are, the follow-up to the jazz/ singer-songwriter’s 2016 critically-acclaimed debut Driving Down the Road, Russian-born Engibaryan chose to concentrate on making original music — and creating something far more personal. “A lot of songs on my album are about love, empowerment and how people treat each other,” says Alina Engibaryan. “It’s all about some kind of relationship.” It marks a huge step forward for the artist, the granddaughter of jazz drumming great Nikolay Goncharov and a budding singer since the age of two. “I kind of changed everything for this record,” she says. “The band is different and the music is stylistically different from the first album. I only had one original song on that record. This time, all except one song are mine.”
Michael League, the label head of GroundUP Music and co-founder of the Grammy-winning collective Snarky Puppy, arranged and produced We Are. League discovered the singer while touring the Netherlands, when Engibaryan was studying jazz vocals at the Prince Claus Conservatory.
Inspired by the likes of music legends Stevie Wonder, Kurt Elling and Gregory Porter, as well as mentors such as J.D. Walter (a co-writer on the album track “Love Song”) and the late Al Jarreau (who oversaw the 2015 Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition that Engibaryan w
