The Harold Summey Trio

LOCATION: Nocturne - 1330 27th St

CATEGORY: Music

PAST DATE AND TIME:

• Thursday, Sep 1, 2022  6:30pm - 10pm

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Hailing from Virginia, Harold Summey, has been a drummer/percussionist for over thirty years and has shared the stage with Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Harold Mabern, Eric Alexander, Gunther Schuller, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Whitney Houston, James Moody, David "Fathead" Newman, Brian Lynch, Walt Weiskopf, Terrell Stafford, Ray Charles, Patti Austin, Aaron Neville, Bobby Watson, and more. In 1992, Mr. Summey was the first prize winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.

Harold has performed with The Cleveland Orchestra, The American Festival Pops Orchestra, The Airmen of Note, The Navy Commodores, The Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The Annapolis Symphony, The Maryland Symphony and The United States Army Band "Pershing's Own". As an educator he has done clinics and master classes for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in the United States and abroad as well as at Hampton University, Howard University, George Mason University, and C.U.'s Mile High Jazz Camp. Additionally, while living in the Washington, DC area, he was on the faculties of Howard University, American University, and George Mason University for more than a decade.