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Christopher Hollyday

Christopher Hollyday began performing publicly in 1983 in the Boston area at age thirteen as a member of his brother Richard’s quintet. In 1988 Hollyday headlined a week at the historic Village Vanguard in New York City. Hollyday toured with Maynard Ferguson as a featured soloist in the trumpeter’s “60th Birthday Big Band”, and recording the “Big Bop Nouveau” album. From 1989 through 1993, Hollyday toured with his own quartet visiting every Western European country, Brazil, Canada, and most of the United States. During this period Hollyday made four recordings for RCA records. As Hollyday toured he visited local schools as a effective clinician and became interested in music education. In 1993 Hollyday pursued his desire to teach and study composition and larger ensemble arranging techniques at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. In 1996, Hollyday relocated to San Diego where he has taught now for 20 years. Hollyday also completed a master degree in jazz studies at San Diego State University. He now teaches privately and performs in San Diego.

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Gilbert Castellanos: Espérame en el Cielo

Read "Espérame en el Cielo" reviewed by Ken Laster


San Diego's Gilbert Castellanos has been an important and consequential force on the West Coast jazz scene for years. He has appeared on dozens of recordings and often shares the stage with Charles McPherson, Willie Jones III, Gerald Clayton and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. As an educator, Castellanos is the founder and artistic director of the Young Lions Jazz Conservatory, teaching the legacy of jazz to middle and high school students. The long anticipated release of Espérame en el Cielo ...

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Christopher Hollyday: Dialogue

Read "Dialogue" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il ritorno discografico di Christopher Hollyday—a un quarto di secolo dall'ultimo disco—è proprio una sorpresa. Chi segue il jazz dei primi anni novanta ricorderà il formidabile debutto del sax contralto non ancora ventenne in un disco da leader per l'RCA/Novus, accompagnato da Wallace Roney, Cedar Walton, David Williams e Billy Higgins. Un talento naturale dalla tecnica smagliante e lo stile alla Jackie McLean, che nei successivi tre dischi per l'etichetta l'imposero tra i promettenti young lions della sua generazione. Nel ...

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Christopher Hollyday: Telepathy

Read "Telepathy" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Born into a musical family in 1970, with a father who was crazy about bebop, there was little doubt where Christopher Hollyday would be going in life. He began playing alto saxophone when he was nine. His older brother Richard played trumpet and they played together in the Boston area for two years, causing the New York Times, to write: “At times they sounded as though Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie had been reunited." Aged just 18, ...

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Espérame en el Cielo

Z Note Records
2023

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Dialogue

Jazzbeat
2019

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Telepathy

Jazzbeat Productions
2018

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The Natural Moment

Eremite Records
1991

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On Course

Eremite Records
1991

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Christopher Hollyday

Eremite Records
1989

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