Lucid Dream

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#		Title	Length
1		This Chair is Broken	6:33	Play
2		Winds of Change	7:40	Play
3		Pretty Self-Explanatory	8:25	Play
4		Billie's Bounce	5:11	Play
5		Alone Now	6:36	Play
6		The Woods	6:27	Play
7		Lucid Dream	7:23	Play
8		Don't Give Up	7:09	Play
9		April Rain	4:36	Play

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Over the past several years, alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius has emerged as an exciting and dynamic new voice in the New York jazz scene. An instrumental virtuoso who counts Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Joe Henderson, Claude Debussy, and Peter Gabriel among his greatest influences, Patrick has made a name for himself as an emerging artist with seemingly limitless potential.

The son of a highly decorated US Air Force officer, Patrick was raised in such diverse locales as Germany, Georgia, Texas, and Great Britain. His parents took great pains to nurture his deep love and appreciation for the fine arts from an early age, exposing him and his brothers to the theater, concerts, museums, poetry readings, and classic literature. Patrick began studying the piano at the age of 5, and gravitated towards the alto saxophone as a teenager, shifting his musical focus from the works of Debussy, Grieg, and Bartok, to the sounds of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane. While attending John Marshall High School in San Antonio, TX, Patrick earned numerous awards for his musicianship and academic achievement, including scholarships from Downbeat Magazine and The National Merit Corporation.

During his years at Bostons Berklee College of Music, Patrick garnered many accolades, such as the prestigious Billboard Endowed Award: a full tuition scholarship given to one student each year by the magazine of the same name. Studying jazz improvisation and composition with such luminaries as Hal Crook, Billy Pierce, Greg Hopkins, and George Garzone, Patrick soon developed a reputation among the students and faculty for his technical accomplishment and honest work ethic. One of his closest mentors, trombone legend Hal Crook, recounts, If talent, dedication, and potential were like population, Patrick would be China. He was repeatedly selected to represent the colleges high standards at venues around the world, such as the Blue Note in New York, The Monterey Jazz Festival, and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. Before graduating with high honors in 2000, Patrick was named one of eight students to attend the exclusive Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, where he studied and performed with jazz legends Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath.

Since moving to New York City, Patrick has kept busy composing, performing, and teaching. The range of his professional experience includes a weekly residency leading a quartet at the Upper West Sides Mona Lounge, engagements at the Blue Note, Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center, and entertainment for the 2004 Democratic National Convention. That year, he was awarded a full scholarship to begin graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music, where he will complete a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies this spring.

Patricks upcoming new record, Lucid Dream, features the collaborative efforts of some of the most exciting talents on the New York jazz scene today: rising stars Aaron Parks (piano), Kendrick Scott (drums), Nick Vagenas (trombone), Gretchen Parlato (voice), and local veteran Sean Conly (bass.) The album is scheduled to be released in February, 2006, and includes original compositions from Cornelius current songbook, as well as spirited arrangements of Charlie Parkers Billies Bounce and Peter Gabriels classic Dont Give Up.