Introducing MARISSA! An
Evening of Exceptional Jazz & World Fusion with Charles Licata
Plus Ethan Wood, Will Slater, Zach
Brown, Lee Fish, and Paulo Stagnaro
BOSTON, MA: Scullers Jazz Club presents “MARISSA! An Evening
of Exceptional Jazz & World Fusion with CHARLES LICATA” at 8 PM Tuesday, January
31. Scullers Jazz Club is located in the DoubleTree Suites By Hilton Hotel [400
Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02134]. Tickets at $20.00 each are available now
at www.scullersjazz.com or by calling
617-562-4111. Scullers is wheelchair accessible.
27-year old Boston and New York-based violinist Marissa Licata is already a
star. She plays classical, jazz, Latin, Klezmer, Middle Eastern, rock, pop, and
R&B musical styles with excellence and ease. On stage, she’s a powerhouse
soloist, up-front and knocking out an audience with her stylish flair and
beauty. Already she has toured the U.S. four times with Jethro Tull, led the
string section live on Good Morning America with Alicia Keys, performed with
Gloria Estefan on the Latin Grammy Awards Show, appeared on The View with Dave
Stewart of Eurythmics and more . . .
Born in Honduras and adopted by American/Sicilian parents as a baby, Marissa
grew up in New Jersey, attended Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts in Natick,
Massachusetts as a teenager and The Manhattan School of Music in New York and
then spent six years at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She holds
both an NEC Masters Degree as well as a Bachelor of Music Degree in applied
violin. Marissa is a highly regarded classical instrumentalist who has performed
with the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas
and the Boston Ballet Orchestra and she is also regularly featured in the
esteemed contemporary classical composer Alla Cohen’s chamber ensembles.
Now, she is launching an exciting and creative jazz project with the release of
Water Level, a new CD featuring Marissa and her father, alto saxophonist Charles
Licata. Recorded at WGBH FM’s renowned Fraser Studio and featuring all original
jazz composed by her dad, the new CD is a musical tour de force.
Marissa is also making her debut at Scullers Jazz Club where she will lead her
own band along with her father, violinist Ethan Wood, acoustic bassist Will
Slater, acoustic bassist Zach Brown, drummer Lee Fish and percussionist Paulo
Stagnaro. Staying true to traditional jazz forms and structure, the concert will
differ from the CD, as Marissa will also present new and traditional material
with an exciting and uniquely international world-music twist!
Alto saxophonist Charles Licata holds a Masters of Music Degree from New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the
University of Buffalo, the city from whence Licata hails. Charles has performed
with jazz pianist Jackie Byard, the wonderful pianist/composer Tom McKinley, the
immensely talented and renowned tenor saxophonist Jimmy Giuffre and bassist
Rufus Reid, among others. But Charles is equally accomplished as a composer,
with several definitive albums to his list of credits, all of them featuring his
compositions, both in jazz as well as classical genres.
