Description
SoulJoel and Forever Changes Present:
1st Thursday Jazz Series at SunnyBrook w/ The Allison Philips Quartet
Thursday, June 5thTickets are ONLY $15 in advance and $20 at the door inside The Historic SunnyBrook Ballroom
Doors open at 630pm, Show starts at 7pm
Full bar available inside the ballroom.
Inside The Historic SunnyBrook Ballroom
Food can be ordered before the show inside Gatsby’s Pub to be delivered at your table inside the ballroom50 SunnyBrook Road Pottstown, PA 19464Soul Joel and Forever Changes Record Store in Phoenixville are teaming up to bring back Jazz to The SunnyBrook Ballroom on the 1st Thursday of every month!
About Allison:
Allison Philips is a Brooklyn-based trumpet player, composer, and educator. Philips is a trumpet player’s trumpet player. From the traditional trio setting to genre-bending explorations via electronics, Allison is always searching for new ground.
Jazz Scene has called The Allison Philips Quartet “an invigorating listen that probes, as Ornette Coleman did, the line between song and sonic exploration.” The group released their first EP in 2017 and released their first album “Placement and Longing” in 2021. Philips also co-leads the “DeiCont | Philips Collective” a group which Hot House Magazine has called “one of the most exciting emerging groups in NY”. The Allison Philips Trio and the DeiCont | Philips Collective have toured domestically and throughout Europe and Canada. Allison has also recently started a new, New York based Quartet project. Currently Allison is actively leading her quartet project with Neta Raanan (Tenor Sax), Isaac Levien (Bass) and Connor Parks (Drums)
Allison has also performed with Alfa Mist, The Jonas Brothers, Japanese Breakfast, Sara McDonald’s “NY Chillharmonic”, Mali Obomsawin, Yo La Tengo, Alita Moses, Sungazer, Aberdeen, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and many others. She has performed on many acclaimed stages, including The Bimhuis, The North Sea Jazz Festival, The Bern Jazz Festival, The Festival of New Trumpet Music, Le Poisson Rouge, PENG Festival, 54 Below, The Jazz Standard, NJPAC, and many others.
Philips holds a BFA in Jazz Performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City and an MM in Jazz Performance from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Philips was the 2016 recipient of the Hal Leonard Collegiate Scholarship. She has recently been awarded a New York Foundation of The Arts “City Artist Corp” grant. Between teaching and performing throughout Europe and North America, Allison spends her time commuting on her bicycle in Brooklyn and eating at B&H Dairy in the East Village.
Allison is currently on the faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and The Kent Place School.
