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Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet
January 20 @ 7:30 pm
According to the New York Times, “you’re hard pressed to find rising talents more exciting than Camille Thurman.” Thurman is a vocalist, tenor saxophonist and flutist who continues to garner the highest accolades for her original work and her inspiring interpretations of the jazz legacy. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with whom she wowed audiences as a featured soloist in their performance of John Coltrane’s immortal A Love Supreme and other “Coltrane works predicated upon concepts of freedom and liberation” (Jazz at Lincoln Center). An accomplished performer and composer in her own right, Thurman has performed with notable jazz and R&B icons Dr. Billy Taylor, Chaka Khan, Benny Golson, George Coleman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terri Lyne Carrington, Russell Malone, Nicholas Payton, George Benson, Alicia Keys, India Arie, Ciara, Missy Elliot and many others. Thurman has recorded four albums as a leader and performed as a side-woman on several others including Dianne Reeves’ Beautiful Life and two releases with the LCJO under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. She leads her own quartet which has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the International Women in Jazz Festival, the Super Jazz Ashdod Israel Festival, The Jazz Gallery and many other prominent jazz venues as well as festivals around the world.
Discouraged from playing music full-time due to costs of entering Berklee School of Music, Thurman graduated with a degree in Geological and Earth Sciences from Binghamton University. Her brilliance was recognized by a music instructor who brought in Tia Fuller as a mentor. Fuller asked Thurman “what are you doing here?” Thurman responded “I’m studying rocks and I’m going to be a scientist. I love dirt and trees and hug the earth all day.” Encouraged by Fuller to pursue music full time, Thurman embraced the challenge and is now one of the leading players of her generation.
—New York Jazz Record
