8/18/2023 0 Comments Iowa city jazz festival 2022The five-piece group wants to show audiences that there’s more styles of music from Brazil than just the popular genre of Bossa Nova. The Mina Jazz Quintet has one goal in mind. Thurman went on to be a two-time winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award, a recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Cultural Ambassador Grant and has released multiple full-length albums. “I wanted to figure out what that sound was and be 10 feet tall with my horn like Dexter," she said. She said when she heard Gordon, she heard someone with "confidence, wit, sophistication (and) freedom. She said his “imagination and improvisation” rid her of her insecurities about playing the instrument. Thurman attended a listening class and was introduced to Gordon. I didn’t know or see any artists that I could identify myself with at that young age.” I also never saw a woman play the instrument. All I could think of was the instrument being big, bulky, loud and low, everything opposite of what I loved about the alto. “I knew I was going to be made fun of by students. “I was mortified because I was a petite person and the image of me carrying a big tenor saxophone case was a bit scary,” she said. She’d receive a scholarship to the program if she agreed, something her mother encouraged. Thurman said she had tried playing the alto saxophone and loved it, but was asked to play tenor sax at a neighborhood jazz camp. She credits composer and saxophonist Dexter Gordon as being the “biggest” inspiration for playing the instrument. ![]() Thurman plays the bass clarinet, flute and piccolo. The tenor saxophonist told the Press-Citizen in an email that she previously visited Iowa to perform at the Hancher Auditorium with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The musician has shared the stage with Buster Williams, Patti LaBelle, Alicia Keys, Erykah Badu and more. New York City native Camille Thurman is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who became the first woman in 30 years to tour and perform full time with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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