The 3D Jazz Trio

Fiercely swinging on purpose, with purpose this powerhouse trio plays original, traditional and
contemporary standards from all genres of music. Their distinctive style and innovative arrangements
are super-charged by their boundless musical joy, gratitude and enthusiasm.
Sherrie, Amy, and Jackie met in May of 2014 at the Cleveland Playhouse while playing
in The DIVA Jazz Orchestra as part of Maurice Hines’ award-winning show Tappin’ Thru Life. From
their first shared downbeat, they became kindred-swinging spirits and the resulting musical synergy
was fast and fierce...or as the New York Times said…"Blistering Hot!"
Since its inception, 3D has performed at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals,
including: The Blue Note (NYC) Dizzy’s Club (NYC), Mezzrow (NYC), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC),
The Jazz Kitchen (Indianapolis, IN), Blues Alley (D.C.), Tri-C Jazz Festival (Clvd, OH), The Deer Head Inn
(DWG, PA), Rochester International Jazz Festival (Rochester, NY), The Gilmore International Keyboard
Festival (Kalamazoo, MI), and soon at the Festival Internacional de Música La Guarapachanga (Pinar del Rio,
Cuba). They were featured on The Kate TV’s “live” music series with Maurice Hines (PBS) and three
times on WVIA radio’s Homegrown Music Series.
3D’s most recent recording, 9 to 5, was released in December 2022. Other notable recordings include
Christmas in 3D (2020), I Love to See You Smile (2020) and 3Divas (2017)
3D is:
Jackie Warren: Cleveland Jazz Legend Award Winner. Sought After Guest Soloist. Revered
Educator at Tri-C College.
Amy Shook: Critically Acclaimed Jazz Bassist. Clinician and Guest Artist. Multi-instrumentalist and
composer.
Sherrie Maricle: Ronald McDonald House – New York, Music for Hope Award-Winner; Kennedy
Center - Mary Lou Williams Lifetime Achievement Award Winner; Ovation Award for Best Music
Direction – Tappin Thru Life. Dedicated teacher.
Each member of 3D is a Crazy Cat Lady.

From the drum set Sherrie leads The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, her quintet FIVE PLAY and co-leads the 3Divas. From Carnegie Hall, she performs with The New York Pops and from celebrated stages everywhere, she is music director and drummer for Broadway star Maurice Hines. Sherrie is also a busy freelance performer and a published composer/arranger. With her bands Sherrie has performed at many of the world’s most acclaimed music venues and festivals; from Lincoln Center to the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl, to Jazz Festivals in Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Ireland, England, Croatia, Japan, Vietnam and Israel and beyond. Additionally, DIVA was featured at the 2017 NEA Jazz Master’s Awards Ceremony, the soundtrack for the NBC-Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular; on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, on TCM’s televised broadcast of the 25th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center and NHK Japan’s New York Jazz. The band also co-stars in the award-winning documentary film The Girls in the Band. Sherrie has received several awards and honors which include a 2014 Ovation award for “Best Music Direction” in Tappin Through Life; the 2009 Mary Lou Williams-Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2013 State Department grant for FIVE PLAY to tour Vietnam, a tour grant from Arts International, The Kennedy Center Alliance Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts, a grant from Meet the Composer, a Doctoral Fellowship from New York University, the New York City Music Educator’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and was twice selected New York University “Music Teacher of the Year.” As an educator, Sherrie runs a private drum set and percussion studio. She is also a clinician for Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Aquarian Drum Heads and Vic Firth Drum Sticks. On a national level, she has served as guest conductor, soloist and adjudicator for many collegiate and high school jazz and All-State festivals. Sherrie also created and directs Musical Magic, a hospital outreach program for The Ronald McDonald House – New York. After earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985 from Binghamton University Sherrie moved to New York City and attended New York University, where she completed a Masters of Arts in Jazz Performance in 1986 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Performance/Composition in 2000. The DIVA Jazz Orchestra’s latest recording DIVA & The Boys (MCG Jazz, 2020) enjoyed 3 weeks at #1 on the Jazz Charts. In 2019 FIVE PLAY released “LIVE” at The Firehouse Stage (independent) and in 2020 the 3D Jazz Trio recorded I Love to See You Smile. Please visit Sherrie and her bands on their websites and all major social media outlets.

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Kal Ferretti is a 20 year old jazz trumpet player based in New York City and is in her fourth year studying jazz trumpet performance at The New School for Jazz on a full scholarship. At school, Kal studies privately under Tatum Greenblatt and Alex Norris. In addition, she has been fortunate to receive mentorship and instruction from Dave Glasser, NEA Jazz Master Reggie Workman, Nicole Glover, Bruce Harris, Dave Douglas, Matt Wilson, and countless others. Kal has represented The New School at the Keep an Eye Jazz Award in Amsterdam with a final performance at the Bimhuis, was one of three students representing the school for the 32rd annual International Schools of Jazz Conference (IASJ) when it was hosted in New York in 2022, and attended the Hudson Jazz Workshop on a full scholarship under the direction of Marc Mommas and Armen Donelian.

Kal maintains a busy schedule through gigging and teaching while also being a full time student. She is a member of the Grace Fox Big Band and can be heard on the band’s debut record “Eleven O’ Seven.” Kal has performed with artists such as Abraham Burton, Helen Sung, Bruce Harris, Frank Lacy, Charlie Porter, Jason Marshall, Dezron Douglas, and many others. She has also had the opportunity to sit in with master musicians such as Nicolas Payton, NEA Jazz Master George Coleman, Russell Malone, and on numerous occasions, the Grammy Award winning Mingus Big Band. Recent performance highlights include being selected as a member of the 2023 Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Combo and performing at the 2023 JEN Conference in Orlando this past January. In April, she performed as a member of the Mingus Dynasty at the NEA Jazz Masters Award Ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Kal was also selected by Wayne Escoffery to sub in the Yale Jazz Ensemble for a performance featuring NEA Jazz Master George Coleman. In May, Kal performed for a whole week with her quartet at the Bern Jazz Festival in Bern, Switzerland, with Randy Brecker performing as the main act of the week. Kal is also a consistent bandleader for the Union Square “Summer in the Square” concert series.

Originally from New York, she grew up playing trumpet in band classes and after school programs, but later found her love for jazz music while attending the prestigious LaGuardia High School for the performing arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Kal's musical heroes are Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, and many others. During high school, Kal also had the privilege of being mentored in programs such as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra (directed by Ted Nash and Tatum Greenblatt) and the All-City High School Jazz Band, which led to opportunities to compete in the Charles Mingus High School Competition and Essentially Ellington Regional Festivals and at EE won outstanding soloist awards numerous times.

Kal has been privileged to have performed in venues such as Birdland, Dizzy’s Club, the Bimhuis, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, and others. Upcoming performance highlights include being selected to perform for Dave Douglas’ Festival of New Trumpet Music in September with a quintet performing original compositions, returning to Birdland with the Grace Fox Big Band, performing at Smalls Jazz Club with legendary saxophonist Dave Glasser, and Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall for the Stand Up For Heroes Veterans benefit with an all star big band comprised of New York’s top musicians.

Erena Terakubo was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1992. She began playing the alto saxophone at the age of nine. She had the opportunity to have jazz clinics with musicians including Herbie Hancock when she was attending Sapporo Junior Jazz Orchedtra. In 2010, she recorded her first album, " North Bird" with Kenny Barron , Christian McBride , Lee Pearson , and Peter Bernstein. The album was released in Japan by Japanese major record label King, reached no.1 on the Japanese jazz charts, and was awarded Swing Journal's Gold Disc. Later that year, she performed with Ron Carter, Omar Hakim, and Will Boulware as part of the Tokyo Jazz Festival. In 2011, Terakubo recorded her second disc, " New York Attitude" with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Lee Pearson, and Dominick Farinacci. At the same year, she had chosen presidentian scholarship from Berklee College of Music in Boston. 2013, Terakubo recorded her Third disc, "Burkina" with Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, and Lenny White. 2015, she moved to New York after she graduated Berklee Collage of Music. at the same year, she released her fourth disc, " A Time For Love" with David Hazeltine, David Williams, Lewis Nash. The album was released all over the world by Canadian record label Cellar Live. she plays clubs such as Smalls, Zinc Bar, The Kitano, and The 55 bar etc. http://www.erenaterakubo.com/

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Saxophonist/arranger Leigh Pilzer is a Washington DC-based bandleader and freelancer. Her combo has been featured at many of DC’s top jazz venues including Blues Alley, Twins Jazz, Westminster Presbyterian, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Jazz at the Garden, the Mansion at Strathmore, and the Takoma Park JazzFest, to name just a few. She has toured both domestically and internationally as a member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and often performs with the National Symphony Orchestra at concerts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and on the orchestra’s nationally televised PBS holiday specials.
Leigh is a gifted arranger whose work is in the libraries of the SJMO, DIVA, the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, the DC-area premier military jazz ensembles, and college and professional jazz ensembles and brass quintets throughout the country. A number of her arrangements can be heard on recordings by DIVA, including her original composition “East Coast Andy,” the opening track on The DIVA Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Project (2018). Other arranging credits include horn section writing for recordings by Chuck Brown and Eva Cassidy and orchestrations for the critically acclaimed show Maurice Hines Tappin’ Thru Life.

Leigh holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance with Jazz Emphasis from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia; Master’s degrees in Jazz Studies and Saxophone Performance from The University of Maryland, College Park; and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition and Arranging from the Berklee College of Music. Leigh has served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Towson University, and George Mason University, where she has taught Jazz Theory, Jazz Arranging, Jazz History, and Fundamentals of Rock, Blues, and Jazz.

Leigh’s debut CD Strunkin’, recorded live at the Washington Women in Jazz Festival, is available at Amazon and the iTunes Music Store.

Bonegasm: /bōnˌɡazəm/ (noun) – a climax of musical excitement, characterized by pleasure centered in the ears while listening to a group of trombone players.
Founded in 2017 by bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton, Bonegasm is a New York-based, seven-piece jazz ensemble featuring four trombones and rhythm section. Created to spotlight an often-overlooked voice in jazz, the group reclaims the trombone’s place at the forefront with a sound that is both sophisticated and joyfully unexpected - serious jazz, seriously fun.
Bonegasm blends the power of a big band with the intimacy of a small ensemble, moving seamlessly across styles under the broad jazz umbrella. Their music draws from swing, contemporary jazz, rock, and beyond, creating a fresh, genre-fluid experience that resonates with diverse audiences.
A core part of the ensemble’s mission is expanding the repertoire for trombone ensemble. Since its founding, Bonegasm has commissioned more than 30 new works from an intergenerational roster of composers, alongside original compositions and inventive arrangements of jazz standards and popular music.
Their debut album Bonegasm (2019) debuted on the Billboard Jazz Chart, followed by Not A Novelty (2021), praised by DownBeat as “Trombone Ecstasy.” Their most recent release, Grit & Grace (2023), has been recognized for its rhythmic vitality and wit.
Recipient of support from organizations including Chamber Music America, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Jazz Road, Bonegasm continues to build momentum on stages nationwide with their virtuosity, originality, and unmistakable personality.

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Noriko Ueda is originally from Hyogo, Japan. Her musical background consists of studying classical piano since the age of 4, playing electric bass since the age of 16, studying classical voice at the Osaka College of Music where she received a diploma, and at age 19, learning the acoustic bass, which is currently her main instrument. Noriko was a B.E.S.T. scholarship recipient and majored in Jazz Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston where she graduated in 1997. For several years, Noriko has been a bassist of the all-female big band Sherrie Maricle and The DIVA Jazz Orchestra. She can be heard on DIVA's recent records Live in Concert (2003), TNT (2004) and FivePlay...plus (2004). Some of the venues that the orchestra has appeared include Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Apollo Theatre, Blue Note, Dizzy's Coca Cola and Birdland. The band has performed with Nancy Wilson, Diane Schuur, Tommy Newsom, Ann Hampton Callaway, and The New York Pops. Noriko is also a bassist of Grady Tate Quintet and Satoshi Inoue Quartet, performed at the Blue Note, Sweet Rhythm and Iridium in New York City. During the summer 2006, she had the opportunity to tour three times in Japan with Ted Rosenthal trio featuring Victor Lewis, the Satoshi Inoue Quartet and the Fiveplay which with the addition of the Portuguese singer Maria Anadon took her in the early Fall to the Cork festival in Ireland and in Portugal where they performed the music of their debut CD "W.O.W." that has been released by Arbors Records in fall 2006. Her own quartet also performed many of her original compositions at the Blue Note in New York City several times. With such a wide span of musical activity, the list of jazz musicians with whom she played ranges from Roy Haynes, Gary Bartz, Michael Carvin, Joe Cambers, Othello Molineaux, Makoto Ozone, Joe Hunt, Bob Moses, Harry Whitaker and many more. Noriko has an impressive list of performance and recording credits in film and TV: Jazz Central (Black Entertainment Television 1998) - all-Japanese female trio, Groovin' Girls, performing excerpts from their debut CD Piece of Cake; Times Square Transfer (PBS 1999) - a musical short film featuring Noriko on the soundtrack and performance; the documentary film Jamming (1996) directed by John Kao - she was featured in a live performance and interview; Berklee College of Music CD called Summa Cum Jazz (BMG 1997); Naniwa Jazz Festival in Osaka (1995) - Noriko took part in a live televised performance with the Terumasa Hino Quartet; In 2002, Noriko received the Charlie Parker Composition prize by the BMI Foundation for her original piece, Castles in the North. The following year, she presented her first Manny Album Commission piece to the BMI Annual Showcase Concert at Merkin Hall. In January of 2004, one of her compositions was selected as a representative piece of the BMI Jazz Composer's Workshop, which she conducted at the IAJE Annual Conference in New York City. Noriko has lived in Brooklyn, New York since January of 1998, where she continues to perform, compose and enjoy life.

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