{"id":16987,"date":"2012-09-24T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16987"},"modified":"2012-09-24T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:18:40","slug":"jazz-competition-winner-has-tampa-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16987","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Competi- tion Winner Has Tampa Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s winner of the world renowned Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz competition has a Tampa connection.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamison Ross<\/strong>, already an accomplished drummer, won a $25,000 scholarship and a recording contract Sunday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C.\u00a0 His wife,<strong> Adrienne<\/strong>, a native of Tampa, was in the audience to cheer her husband on. The event was the 25th Annual Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross<\/strong> was one of 12 drummers from around the globe who competed on Saturday to become one of 3 finalists to perform on Sunday evening. The competition was open to musicians under age 3o, and this year\u2019s spotlight was on drummers.<\/p>\n<p>The judges included an all-star panel of drummers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the evening\u2019s performers was <strong>Aretha Franklin<\/strong>. Herbie Hancock is Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross<\/strong>, a native of Jacksonville, FL, began playing drums at the age of 4 and won the Florida All-State Jazz Band Drummer Award for 4 consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>He has performed with <strong>Wynton Marsalis<\/strong>, <strong>Chick Corea<\/strong>,<strong> George Clinton<\/strong>, P-Funk and is currently a member of the <strong>Wes Anderson Quartet<\/strong> and <strong>Carmen Lundy\u2019s<\/strong> band.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr.<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. Ross<\/strong> met in Tallahassee; <strong>Adrienne<\/strong> was a student at FAMU and<strong> Jamison<\/strong> was at FSU. They met at a church in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne is a member of the<strong> Cooper<\/strong> family. She is the daughter of<strong> Carol Cooper-Jarrett<\/strong> and niece of <strong>Patricia (Pat) Cooper<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe couple lives in New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s winner of the world renowned Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz competition has a Tampa connection. Jamison Ross, already an accomplished drummer, won a $25,000 scholarship and a recording contract Sunday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C.\u00a0 His wife, Adrienne, a native of Tampa, was in the audience to cheer her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}