This is a recording of an October 19, 2014 performance in the Indie Adams Morgan series (http://www.indieadamsmorgan.com/) at DC's Black Squirrel Tap Room (http://www.blacksquirreldc.com/) by WAZE, the Whitehead and Zook Ensemble, consisting of Patrick Whitehead on flügelhorn and trumpet, and T. A. Zook on basscello.  The performance was unscored, unrehearsed and extemporaneously improvised on the spot.

About Patrick Whitehead -  

Patrick Whitehead was inspired by the music of Louis Armstrong at age 5.   At age 8, he began playing in his school band.  His broad and varied career spans the decades as a soloist, orchestral, chamber, opera, commercial, and improvising musician.

Possessing a great fondness of brass chamber music, he founded The Monumental Brass Quintet (http://goo.gl/G5PMCO) and has recorded and toured extensively throughout the U.S. with this ensemble.

As a free-lance trumpeter, Pat’s performed with orchestras at the Kennedy Center and Constitution Hall. He’s also performed with the Annapolis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Gettysburg Symphony, the Annapolis Opera, Baltimore Opera,  and Concert Artists of Baltimore,.  Additionally, Pat has recorded for the PBS and ABC television networks, Voice of America, and has performed on numerous radio and TV programs.

In June of 2014 Patrick performed as part of the Momentary Quartet comprised, Jane Buttars- piano, Lin Foulk - horn, and Harold Mckinney- piano  at the annual conference of The International Society for Improvised Music in New York City.

Pat serves on the faculties, as instructor of trumpet, at the Baltimore School for the Arts and the Levine School of Music in Washington DC.  For several years he served as Coordinator of Brass Chamber Music and Director of Trumpet Ensembles at the Levine School.  Additionally, he has taught trumpet and brass methods at Mount Vernon College and the Community College of Baltimore.

Through his involvement (since 2003) with Music for People, Pat has become an avid proponent of improvised music.  As he progressed through MfP’s Music Leadership Program, he’s evolved as a passionate and dynamic facilitator of improvised music workshops. He has presented improv workshops at the Peabody Conservatory’s Prep Division.  The Summer Brass Institute hosted by Monumental Brass, the Howard and Montgomery County Maryland public schools, and at various venues in the central Maryland area.

Pat studied trumpet with George Recker, Rob Roy McGregor, and Langston Fitzgerald.  He studied theory and arranging with Asher Zlotnik.  Pat majored in music education at the University of Maryland where he studied trumpet with Emerson Head.

When not performing or teaching music, Patrick turns to his love of model trains.  He spends time off, often getting lost, in “Patsburgh” the fictitious town on his model train layout, The Free State Junction Railway.  Considering model railroading as an art form, Pat creates scenes, constructs mountains and landscapes, paints buildings and rail cars. Hearing the locomotive whistles and horns blow always bring a big grin to Pat’s face J.  He subscribes to the motto “ It’s never to late to have a happy childhood”   

Here’s a link to a clip of Patrick playing with the Lost Civilizations experimental music project (http://lost-civilizations.tumblr.com/) earlier this year at the Black Squirrel:   http://goo.gl/DczTka; more recently, he performed with the Lost Civilizations experimental music project, Fugazi drummer Jerry Busher and violinist Emily Chimiak at Baltimore’s An die Musik recital hall:  http://goo.gl/Q66fxW.

About T. A. Zook

T. A. Zook (http://goo.gl/svtpQ) is primarily a nylon-string guitarist; however, in live performances he plays basscello through digital signal processors; at studio sessions, he also plays a variety of digitally-processed, non-traditional analog instruments such as bowls, rainsticks, slidewhistle, whistle-flutes, oceanharp, etc.

T. A. Zook began his study of the guitar in Chile and Uruguay (the latter under the guidance of Luis Acosta), and continued upon his return to the U.S. in the early 1960s under Sophocles Papas (classical)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles_Papas) and Frank Mullen (jazz)(http://goo.gl/6E3eir ; http://goo.gl/niQTYd .  From 1999 through 2012, he studied improvisation under David Darling (http://daviddarling.com/), a study which continues under the auspices of the Music for People (http://musicforpeople.org/wp/) an organization to which he and Patrick Whitehead both belong.

For more information, please contact t_a_zook@hotmail.com

Whitehead & Zook