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Laura Klein (piano/composer): Laura grew up in New York City, and studied music at SUNY Buffalo and at the Berklee College of Music. She has played and recorded her own compositions with the three-horned band Triceratops, the Laura Klein-Ted Wolff duo, and FivePlay. Laura has performed with her own trios (including the great drummers Joe Hunt and Benny Barth), many vocalists including Jenny Ferris and Ed Reed, with the Rudy Salvini Big Band, John Dankworth and the San Francisco Symphony, and many others. She freelances in the Bay Area and is Associate Professor of the Alexander Technique at the Jazz Institute in Berkeley.

Tony Corman (guitar/composer): Tony comes from the Boston area. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music with a B.A. in saxophone performance. He appeared and recorded with Full Faith and Credit big band, the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Bay Area Jazz Composer�s Orchestra, and Celia Malheiros. He played on, and was an arranger/composer for the recordings Triceratops, Three Tenors No Opera, and vocalist Jenny Ferris�s Day In, Day Out. He switched to playing guitar in 2002, and since then has been playing with his own trio, Crotty, Corman and Phipps, and composing and arranging for big bands.

Dave Tidball (woodwinds/composer): Born in Cardiff, Wales, Dave played and recorded in London with Turning Point. Upon moving to Boston, MA, he formed the group Minotaur, which featured his own compositions. Since relocating to the Bay Area, he has played and recorded with Triceratops, Three Tenors No Opera, the great vocalist Paula West, and his own trio, Threedom. Dave teaches music in the Oakland public schools and has a busy freelance playing schedule.

Alan Hall (drums): Alan grew up in San Jose, and spent some time in Boston, playing and teaching at the Berklee College of Music. Highlights of Alan�s extensive resume include performing and recording with Eddie Harris, Paul McCandless, Billy Childs, Kenny Werner, Triceratops, Rebecca Parris, Cirque de Soleil, and many others. He teaches at the JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA, and gives clinics and workshops at festivals, colleges and music stores throughout North America.

Paul Smith (bass): Paul has been playing professionally since his teens. In 1970, he joined the acclaimed Moacir Santos group, where he met his future wife, percussionist and vocalist Sheila Smith. Paul and Sheila had a group for many years, and recorded four CD�s together. Paul has performed and recorded with Mark Levine, Willie Bobo, and toured nationally with Dan Hicks.

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Album Review

FivePlay Jazz Quintet: Five And More

Read "Five And More" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


If the jazz world has room for two Avishai Cohens, and it can deal with the confusion of two different guys named Bill Evans that played with Miles Davis, it can certainly stand to have two bands called Five Play. The one on the East Coast is a breakout band extracted from the all-female Diva Jazz Orchestra; that's not the one under discussion here. The FivePlay Jazz Quintet, a group that's based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the ...

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"Five And More," 3rd CD By The Fiveplay Jazz Quintet, To Be Released Sept. 17 By Auraline Records

"Five And More," 3rd CD By The Fiveplay Jazz Quintet, To Be Released Sept. 17 By Auraline Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Mainstays of the San Francisco Bay Area jazz scene since the 1980s, the members of the adventurous quintet FivePlay share a long musical history stretching back to their student days at Berklee in Boston. Co-led by husband and wife Tony Corman (guitar) and Laura Klein (piano) and also including reedman Dave Tidball, bassist Paul Smith, and drummer Alan Hall, the band has now completed work on its third album, Five and More, to be released September 17 on the Auraline ...

�FivePlay Jazz Quintet is a must for jazz lovers. Don�t miss it.�

�Don Sechelski, The Muse�s Muse

�They are charting a fresh path in the land of jazz that will be sure to attract a following.�

�O�s Place Jazz Magazine

�This is one of the best quintets I�ve listened to this year, and they get an unequivocal MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an �EQ� (energy quotient) rating of 4.97.�

�Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation Nation

�FivePlay is exceptional!�

-Bonny Thomas, Sonoma Jazz Society and DJ, Sonoma Jazzin�

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Five of Hearts

Self Produced
2020

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Summer Dusk

Self Produced
2020

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Five And More

Auraline Music
2013

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Fiveplay Jazz Quintet

Self Produced
2010

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Fever Dream

From: Fiveplay Jazz Quintet
By FivePlay Jazz Quintet

Once Upon a Time

From: Summer Dusk
By FivePlay Jazz Quintet

What Bobby Said

From: Five And More
By FivePlay Jazz Quintet

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