Howie Alexander Project

Howie Alexander Project

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Howie Alexander Project

Howie Alexander Project

Thu, Sep 9, 2021, 7:00pm
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
  • Trust Oasis
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    Free

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Pittsburgh Allderdice graduate, Howie Alexander, who hails from the Blackridge area of Wilkinsburg, PA, grew up in a home filled with jazz, rhythm & blues, and funk.

Howie took up the piano when he was 15, and decades later, with performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Poogie Bell, Ciaro, and the likes of Stanley Turrentine on his resume, the Duquesne University graduate performs as sideman or headliner at clubs and concert venues from Pittsburgh to Monaco. He has also served as piano instructor and Artistic Director at the Afro-American Music Institute.

Alexander cites a trio of mentors: Dr. James Johnson Jr. of the Afro-American Music Institute in Homewood; guitarist Jimmy Ponder, with whom Alexander had his first professional gig at the age of 17; and Nelson Harrison, former trombonist with the Count Basie Orchestra.

This performance features Howie Alexander on keys, John Hall on bass, and Chuck Anderson on drums playing new, original music and influential classics by Ramsey Lewis, Robert Glasper, George Duke, and others.