Meet Trumpeter/Flugelhornist Mark Morganelli #PeopleOfTarrytown

Meet Trumpeter/Flugelhornist Mark Morganelli #PeopleOfTarrytown

My #PeopleOfTarrytown series features Mark Morganelli today. Many of you surely know him and his wife Ellen Prior already. We have recently enjoyed his music at the Summer Concerts in Pierson Park. We look forward to many more. Here is just a short version of his impressive bio. Visit him at jazzforumarts.org to learn more.

Mark began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. Recordings, videos, films and radio broadcasts during his second Forum include performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach.Thirty-one years ago, Morganelli established Jazz Forum Arts. In 1985 he started the River-side Park Arts Festival.

Morganelli has produced over sixty compact discs. Twenty five years ago, Morganelli and his family moved to Westchester, and he inaugurated the Jazz at the Music Hall series in Tarrytown. Performers have included Chuck Mangione, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, Savion Glover, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Dr. John, Spyro Gyra, Chris Botti, Pat Metheny, Hugh Masekela and the Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras among others.

Morganelli’s productions include the Tarrytown Arts Festival, concerts at the Paramount Center in Peekskill, The Beacon Theatre, Symphony Space,the Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall and many others.

Morganelli performed at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival, the 1992 & 1994 Syracuse Jazz Festivals, the Du Maurier Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival, JVC/NY and Saratoga Jazz Festivals, the White Plains Jazz Fest, several tours of Italy, many concerts and festivals in Europe, Japan, Brazil and the Caribbean and more.

He continues to perform with his Jazz Forum All-Stars and Brazil project around the region and has released “My Romance,” his fourth CD as leader. He and his wife, Ellen Prior are opening their new Jazz Forum club venue in Tarrytown, NY in 2016.