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Saturday, January , , pm Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profi t arts Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Zellerbach Hall organization dedicated to jazz. With the world- Festival, the Jazz for Young People Curriculum, renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra educational residencies, workshops and concerts with Wynton Marsalis (formerly known as the for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), the Afro-Latin Center educational programs reaches over , Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill and a com- students, teachers and general audience members. prehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center weekly radio se- with Wynton Marsalis Center advances a unique vision for the continued ries, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, is distributed by development of the art of jazz by producing a year- the WFMT Radio Networks. Winner of a round schedule of performance, education and Peabody Award, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio broadcast events for audiences of all ages. Th ese is produced in conjunction with Murray Street productions include concerts, national and inter- Enterprise, New York. national tours, residencies, weekly national radio Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the and television programs, recordings, publications, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a an annual high school jazz band competition and third of the year on tour. Th e big band performs festival, a band director academy, a jazz apprecia- a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions tion curriculum for children, advanced training to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, in- through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, cluding compositions and arrangements by Duke music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, adult education courses and student and educa- Th elonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Billy tor workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Charles Mingus, Sy Oliver, Oliver Nelson and Board Lisa Schiff , Executive Director Katherine E. many others. Guest conductors have included Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff , Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Ellington Love Songs events during its – season. In October Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald , Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Wilson and Loren Schoenberg. Rose Hall—the fi rst-ever performance, education Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly premieres Wynton Marsalis music director, trumpet and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. works commissioned from a variety of compos- Sean Jones trumpet Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, com- ers, including Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Ryan Kisor trumpet posed of of today’s fi nest jazz soloists and en- Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Printup trumpet semble players, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, Chico O’Farrill, Freddie Vincent R. Gardner trombone resident orchestra for over years. Featured in all Hubbard, Charles McPherson, Marcus Roberts, Chris Crenshaw trombone aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, Geri Allen, Eric Reed, Wallace Roney and Sherman Irby saxophones the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Christian McBride, as well as from current and Ted Nash alto & soprano saxophones, clarinet Orchestra performs and leads educational events in former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Walter Blanding tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet New York, across the United States and around the Wynton Marsalis, Wycliff e Gordon, Ted Nash Victor Goines tenor & soprano saxophones, B-fl at & bass clarinets world; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and Ron Westray. Over the last few years, the Joe Temperley baritone & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet public parks, river boats and churches; and with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed Dan Nimmer piano symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students collaborations with many of the world’s leading Carlos Henriquez bass and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. symphony orchestras, including the New York Ali Jackson drums Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, Center’s mission and its educational activities the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston, are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras, the Program to be announced from the stage. Center Orchestra tour programming. Th ese pro- Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil grams, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center and others. In , the Jazz at Lincoln Center Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank. Orchestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Orchestra collaborated with Ghanaian drum col- Young People family concert series, the Essentially lective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, to perform Brooks Brothers is the offi cial clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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Congo Square, a composition Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Train (), Sweet Release & Ghost Story (), on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at State Department through their CultureConnect Addy co-wrote and dedicated to Mr. Marsalis’s Live in Swing City (), Jump Start and Jazz Lincoln Center. In , he released eight new re- program. Mr. Marsalis serves on Lieutenant native New Orleans. Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center (), Blood on the Fields (), Th ey Came to cordings in his unprecedented “Swinging into the Governor Landrieu’s National Advisory Board for Orchestra has also been featured in several educa- Swing (), Th e Fire of the Fundamentals () st” series and premiered several new composi- Culture, Recreation and Tourism, a national advi- tion and performance residencies in the last few and Portraits by Ellington (). tions, including the ballet Th em Twos, for a June sory board to guide the Lieutenant Governor’s ad- years, including those in Vienne, France; Perugia, For more information on Jazz at Lincoln collaboration with the New York City Ballet. ministration’s plans to rebuild Louisiana’s tourism Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; London, England; Center, please visit www. jalc.org. Th at same year he premiered the monumental and cultural economies. He has also been named Lucerne, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, work All Rise, commissioned and performed by to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, New Brazil; Yokohama, Japan and others. the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economi- programs have helped broaden the awareness of University Choir in December . Sony Classical cally and uniquely for every citizen. He helped lead its unique eff orts in the music. Concerts by the released All Rise on CD October , . Recorded the eff ort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have aired in the on September and , , in Los Angeles in home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the fi rst educa- United States, England, France, Spain, Germany, those tense days following /, All Rise features tion, performance and broadcast facility devoted the Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, Brazil, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra along with to jazz, which opened in October . Argentina, Australia, China, Japan, Korea and the the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Morgan State Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared University Choir, the Paul Smith Singers and the Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano saxophones, on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and Northridge Singers. On March , , he released clarinet) was born August , , in Cleveland, seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, car- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary on Blue Ohio to a musical family and began playing the ried by PBS stations nationwide; most recently Note Records, the follow-up CD to his Blue Note saxophone at age six. In , he moved with his on October , , during the grand opening Records releases Th e Magic Hour and Unforgivable family to New York City and, by age , he was of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Blackness: Th e Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the com- performing regularly with his parents at the Village Rose Hall and on September , , during Jazz panion soundtrack recording to Ken Burns’s PBS Gate. Mr. Blanding attended LaGuardia High at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefi t Concert, documentary of the great African-American boxer, School for the Performing Arts (which inspired the which raised funds for the Higher Ground Relief and Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes. TV series, Fame) and continued his studies at the Fund that was established by Jazz at Lincoln Mr. Marsalis is also an internationally respected New School for Social Research, receiving his BFA Center and administered through the Baton teacher and spokesman for music education and in May, . His debut release, Tough Young
Rouge Area Foundation to benefi t the musicians, Major Keith has received honorary doctorates from dozens of Tenors, was acclaimed as one of the best jazz al- music industry related enterprises and other indi- Wynton Marsalis (music director, trumpet) is the universities and colleges throughout the United bums of the year, and his artistry began to impress viduals and entities from the areas in Greater New Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born States. He conducts educational programs for listeners and critics alike. Since that time, in addi- Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana in , Mr. Marsalis students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for tion to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, he has and to provide other general hurricane relief. Th e began his classical training on trumpet at age Young People concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln performed, toured and/or recorded with not only band is also featured in the Higher Ground Benefi t and soon began playing in local bands of diverse Center. Mr. Marsalis has also been featured in the his own groups, but also with such renowned art- Concert CD, released by Blue Note Records after genres. He entered Th e Juilliard School at age video series Marsalis on Music and the radio series ists as the Cab Calloway Orchestra, Roy Hargrove, the concert. Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Making the Music. He has also written three books: Hilton Ruiz, Count Basie Orchestra, Illinois was featured in a Th irteen/WNET production of Mr. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader Sweet Swing Blues on the Road in collaboration with Jacquet Big Band, Wycliff e Gordon, Marcus Great Performances entitled “Swingin’ with Duke: in , and since then he has recorded more than photographer Frank Stewart, Jazz in the Bittersweet Roberts, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Issac Hayes Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton jazz and classical recordings, which have won Blues of Life with Carl Vigeland and recently re- and many others. Mr. Blanding lived in Israel for Marsalis,” which aired on PBS. In September him nine Grammy Awards. In , he became leased To a Young Musician: Letters from the Road four years, where he had a major impact on the , BET Jazz premiered a weekly series called the fi rst and only artist to win both classical and with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, published by Random music scene, touring the country with his own en- Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring per- jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this House in . In October , Candlewick Press semble and with invited U.S. artists, such as Louis formances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra feat in . Mr. Marsalis’s rich body of composi- released Marsalis’s Jazz ABZ, an A to Z collection Hayes, Eric Reed, Vanessa Rubin and others, to around the world. tions includes Sweet Release, Jazz: Six Syncopated of poems celebrating jazz greats, illustrated by perform there. He also taught music in several To date, recordings featuring the Jazz at Movements, Jump Start, Citi Movement/Griot New poster artist Paul Rogers. In , Mr. Marsalis Israeli schools and even opened his own private Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis York, At the Octoroon Balls and In Th is House, On was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi school in Tel Aviv. During this period, Newsweek have been released and internationally distributed: Th is Morning and Big Train. In , Mr. Marsalis Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, International described him in a feature article as Don’t Be Afraid…Th e Music of Charles Mingus became the fi rst jazz artist to be awarded the presti- and he has also been designated cultural ambas- “Jazz Ambassador to Israel.” (), A Love Supreme (), All Rise (), Big gious Pulitzer Prize in music, for his oratorio Blood sador to the United States of America by the U.S.
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Chris Crenshaw (trombone) was born on band at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, Center in and is a member of Juilliard’s Jazz jazz. At Clark-Atlanta University, he played in the December , . He is originally from where he caught the ear of Mercer Ellington, Studies faculty. He has been a member of the facul- school jazz orchestra and performed with Lionel Th omson, Georgia, and currently resides in St. who hired him for his fi rst professional job. After ties of Florida A&M University, University of New Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Rouse and Albans, New York. Ever since he was born, music graduating in , he moved to New York to Orleans, Loyola University and Xavier University Kenny Burrell. In , he moved to New York has been his driving force. His mother says that he pursue his professional career. Mr. Gardner has and has conducted clinics and workshops around and played with the Boys Choir of Harlem and the did not speak a word until his sister, Christian, was performed, toured and/or recorded with the Duke the world. Mr. Goines has recorded and/or per- following year he landed the second alto chair with born. He grew up with music all around him and Ellington Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, the Count formed with Terence Blanchard, Ellis Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In and of various infl uences and started playing piano on Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster, the Glenn Miller Bo Diddley, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Green, , he participated in Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead his own at the age of three. Teachers and students Orchestra, Chaka Kahn, A Tribe Called Quest, Lionel Hampton, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Ross, program. He has toured with Marcus Roberts noticed his gift throughout his schooling. His fi rst Nancy Wilson, McCoy Tyner, Nicholas Payton, Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Ray Charles, and worked with Ann Hampton-Callaway, the gig was as a keyboardist in his father, Casper’s, gos- Illinois Jacquet, Wynton Marsalis, Tommy Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bob Dylan, James Moody, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and the New pel group called the Echoes of Joy. Chris Crenshaw Flanagan, Marcus Roberts, Matchbox , Jimmy Dianne Reeves and a host of other renowned musi- York City Ballet. Also in Mr. Irby joined Roy picked up trombone at years old and hasn’t let Heath, Lauryn Hill and others. He has been a cians and ensembles. Hargrove’s band, performing with the Grammy go of it since. Receiving top honors along the way, member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Award-winning Crisol project. Mr. Irby stayed he graduated from Th omson High School in since . Carlos Henriquez (bass) was born in in the in Hargrove’s group for the following three years and from Valdosta State University with a bachelor’s Bronx, New York. After having studied classical touring. Mr. Irby has recorded three records to degree in jazz performance in . He received Victor L. Goines (tenor & soprano saxophones, guitar in junior high school, he started playing date: Full Circle (Blue Note), Big Mama’s Biscuits top honors at VSU including Most Outstanding B-fl at clarinet & bass clarinet) is Juilliard’s fi rst bass at Th e Juilliard School’s Music Advancement (Blue Note) and Black Warrior (BWR). Th e New Student in the VSU Music Department and Director of Jazz Studies and conductor of the Program. Mr. Henriquez entered LaGuardia High York Times voted his record, Big Mama’s Biscuits, College of the Arts. He is currently pursuing a mas- Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, an integral part of School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, as one of the Top records of . He contin- ter’s degree in jazz studies at Th e Juilliard School. Juilliard’s two jazz programs: the Institute for Jazz where he performed in the LaGuardia Concert ues to tour with his own group and promote Black Mr. Crenshaw was the Eastern Trombone Studies and the new bachelor of music degree in Jazz Ensemble, which earned fi rst place in the Jazz Warrior. Workshop National Jazz Solo Competition win- jazz studies. Mr. Goines has been a member of the at Lincoln Center First Annual Essentially Ellington ner. His teachers include Dr. Douglas Farwell and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival Ali Jackson Jr. (drums) developed his talent on Mr. Wycliff e Gordon and he has worked with the Marsalis Septet since , touring throughout in and second place the following year. Mr. drums at an early age. In , he graduated from likes of Gerald Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus the world and recording over releases including Henriquez has performed with artists as diverse Cass Tech High School and was the recipient of Printup, Vincent Gardner, Wycliff e Gordon, Jiggs Wynton Marsalis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning record- as Steve Turre, Eddie Palmieri and Tito Puente, Michigan’s prestigious Artserv “Emerging Artist” Whigham, Carl Allen, Victor Goines, Marc Cary, ing, Blood on the Fields (Columbia Records, ) Carlos Santana and George Benson. He traveled award in . As a child, he was selected as the Walter Blanding, Wessell Anderson, Cassandra and Ken Burns’s acclaimed documentaries, Jazz with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra during soloist for the “Beacons of Jazz” concert that hon- Wilson, Eric Reed and many others. Mr. Crenshaw and Unforgivable Blackness: Th e Rise and Fall of Jack its -city summer tour through the United ored legend Max Roach at New School University. has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Johnson. He is an acclaimed solo artist and leads his States, Canada and Japan. Mr. Henriquez was also After earning an undergraduate degree in music Orchestra since . own quartet and quintet. As a leader, Mr. Goines featured in on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra composition at the New School University for has released fi ve recordings, the latest being New Fall World Tour, which traveled to cities Contemporary Music, he studied under Elvin Vincent R. Gardner (trombone) was born in Adventures on Criss Cross records. In , Mr. in Europe, South America and the U.S. Since then, Jones and Max Roach. Mr. Jackson has been part Chicago in and raised in Virginia. His fam- Goines was commissioned by Juilliard’s Dance di- he has recorded, toured and performed with artists of Young Audiences, a program that educates New ily had a strong musical background, including vision to compose a musical work in celebration of including Wynton Marsalis, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, York City youth about jazz. He has performed and his mother, his brother and his father, Burgess their th anniversary. Th e composition Base Line Danilo Perez and Celia Cruz. Mr. Henriquez be- recorded with artists including Wynton Marsalis, Gardner, a trumpeter and music educator who has was premiered in to support the original cho- came a full-time member of the Jazz at Lincoln Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aretha Franklin, George been very active on the Chicago music scene since reography by Juilliard alumni Robert Battle. Born Center Orchestra in . Benson, Harry Connick, Jr., KRS-, Marcus the s. Singing in church from an early age, in and raised in New Orleans, he began study- Roberts, Joshua Redman, Vinx, Seito Kinen he began playing piano when he was six and soon ing clarinet at age eight. He received a bachelor of Sherman Irby (saxophone) was born and raised in Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa, Diana Krall switched to the violin, saxophone and French horn music education degree from Loyola University Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and chose the viola as his and the New York City Ballet. Most recently his before fi nally deciding on the trombone at age . in New Orleans in and a master of music fi rst instrument. Encouraged by his mother to ex- production skills can be heard on George Benson’s Mr. Gardner became interested in jazz while at- degree from Virginia Commonwealth University plore music, Mr. Irby later studied the guitar and GRP release Irreplaceable. Mr. Jackson is also fea- tending high school and upon graduating went on in Richmond, Virginia in . In addition to piano, which he played in church. Although he was tured on the Wynton Marsalis Quartet Th e Magic to Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and the performing and recording, Mr. Goines is deeply studying classical music in school, playing gospel Hour (Blue Note, ) and on the latest release, University of North Florida in Jacksonville. In col- committed to his work in jazz education and be- music in church and R&B at dances, he was in- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary. Mr. Jackson lege, he took a summer job performing with a jazz came an Education Consultant for Jazz at Lincoln fl uenced by listening to Charlie Parker to turn to collaborated with jazz greats Cyrus Chestnut,
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Reginald Veal and James Carter on Gold Sounds Morris Jazz All-Stars and others. As well as being Dan Nimmer (piano) was born in in drastically when he met his mentor, the great (Brown Brothers, ) that transformed songs by an active sideman, Mr. Kisor has recorded several Milwaukee, Wisconsin. An old soul in a very pianist Marcus Roberts. Mr. Roberts introduced indie alternative rock band Pavement into unique albums as a leader, including Battle Cry (), Th e young body, Mr. Nimmer plays with the spirit, him to Wynton Marsalis, which led to his induc- virtuosic interpretations with the attitude of the Usual Suspects () and Point of Arrival (). the passion and the soul of someone who has been tion into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in church and juke joint. He has been a member of He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln on the planet much longer. With prodigious tech- . Mr. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since . Center Orchestra since . nique and innate sense of swing, his playing often Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, Mr. Jackson currently performs with the Wynton recalls that of his own heroes, specifi cally Oscar Ted Nash, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliff e Gordon Marsalis Quintet, Horns in the Hood and leads his Ted Nash (saxophones, clarinets & fl utes) was born Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner and Art and Mr. Roberts, among others. Mr. Printup has own Ali Jackson Quartet. He also hosts “Jammin’ in Los Angeles into a musical family—his father, Tatum. As a young man, Mr. Nimmer’s family released several records as a leader, Song for the with Jackson,” a series for young musicians at Jazz Dick Nash, and uncle, Ted Nash, were well-known inherited a piano and he started playing by ear; he Beautiful Woman, Unveiled, Hub Songs, Nocturnal at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy Club Coca-Cola. He is jazz and studio musicians. He fi rst came to New was, if you will, “called” by the instrument. Soon, Traces, Th e New Boogaloo and his most recent, Peace also the voice of “Duck Ellington,” a character in York at the age of and soon after released his he asked his parents for some piano lessons. He in the Abstract (). He made his screen debut in the Penguin book series Baby Loves Jazz which was fi rst album as a leader, Conception. During his then began to study classical music with pianist the movie Playing by Heart and recorded on released in . fi rst three years in New York, he became a regu- Barbara Bunge and jazz with pianist Mark Davis the fi lm’s soundtrack. lar member of the Gerry Mulligan Big Band, the at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. At the Sean Jones (trumpet) earned a degree in classi- National Jazz Ensemble and the Mel Lewis Jazz same time, he began playing gigs in Milwaukee Joe Temperley (baritone & soprano saxophones, bass cal trumpet performance from Youngstown State Orchestra, the latter an association that would last with renowned saxophonist Berkley Fudge. Upon clarinet) was born in Scotland and fi rst achieved University then went on to earn a master’s degree for more than ten years. It was in this fertile envi- graduation from high school, Mr. Nimmer left prominence in the United Kingdom as a member from Rutgers University. He is currently a pro- ronment that Mr. Nash began to write his fi rst ar- Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois of Humphrey Lyttelton’s band from to , fessor of jazz studies and trumpet at Duquesne rangements. In , Mr. Nash was commissioned University. Soon he became one of Chicago’s busi- which toured the United States in . In , University. Mr. Jones joined the Jazz at Lincoln by the Davos Musik Festival in Switzerland to est piano players, making his mark on the scene by he came to New York City, where he performed Center Orchestra in . In his young career, compose for a string quartet in a jazz setting. Th is playing with all of the Chicago heavyweights. It and/or recorded with Woody Herman, Buddy Mr. Jones has worked with Jimmy Heath, Michelle commission was the inspiration for Mr. Nash’s CD was because of this that Mr. Nimmer decided to Rich, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, the Jazz N’degeocello, Steve Turre, Harry Connick, Jr., Rhyme and Reason, which was voted one of the top leave school following his second year and make Composer’s Orchestra, the Th ad Jones-Mel Lewis Ralph Peterson, the Chico O’Farrill Orchestra, fi ve CDs of by Jazz Times magazine. His CDs the big move to New York City where he imme- Orchestra and Clark Terry, among many others. the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, the Illinois Jacquet have received many awards, including top CD diately emerged into the New York scene. After In October , he toured and recorded with Big Band, the Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, lists in New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, being in New York for about a year, playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra as a replacement Charles Fambrough (and was featured on Mr. New York Newsday, Th e New Yorker, Down Beat many diff erent musicians, Mr. Nimmer got a rec- for Harry Carney. Mr. Temperley played in the Fambrough’s release Live at Zanzibar Blue), Joe and Jazz Times. Down Beat recognized Mr. Nash ommendation to play in Wynton Marsalis’s band. Broadway show Sophisticated Ladies in the s, Lovano and the International Jazz Quintet, in ad- as a Rising Star in the alto saxophone category in In , Wynton heard him and hired him to and his fi lm soundtrack credits include Cotton dition to leading his own groups. He is a featured , and , as well as a Rising Star in become a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Club, Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, When soloist on Nancy Wilson’s Turned Blue CD release. the tenor saxophone category in , and Orchestra. In addition to Marsalis, Mr. Nimmer Harry Met Sally and Tune in Tomorrow, composed In and , he was one of Down Beat’s ris- . Still Evolved made the Best CD list in has performed and or recorded with Jimmy Cobb, by Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Temperley is a mentor ing stars in trumpet. He has released three albums and the Best Jazz Album list in . His most re- Frank Wess, Clark Terry, Cassandra Wilson, and a cofounder of the FIFE Youth Jazz Orchestra on Mack Avenue records: Eternal Journey, Gemini cent release, In the Loop (September ), featur- Benny Golson, Ed Th igpen, Wes “Warmdaddy” program in Scotland, which now enrolls young and Roots. ing his band Still Evolved, has received much criti- Anderson, Fareed Haque and many more. He has musicians ages to playing in three full-size cal acclaim, quickly climbing the radio charts. Mr. released two albums on the Venus label. Th e fi rst bands. Mr. Temperley has released several albums Ryan Kisor (trumpet) was born on April , , Nash’s recent projects include collaborations with is entitled Tea for Two and the most recent is Kelly as a leader, including Nightingale (), Sunbeam in Sioux City, Iowa and began playing trum- the Augusta Ballet, Zenon Dance Company and Blue which features bassist John Webber and leg- and Th undercloud with pianist Dave McKenna pet at age four. In , he won fi rst prize at the the Orquestra Jazz Sinfonica in São Paulo, all for endary jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb. (), With Every Breath () and Double Duke Th elonious Monk Institute’s fi rst annual Louis whom he wrote original works as well as appeared () with several fellow Jazz at Lincoln Center Armstrong Trumpet Competition. Mr. Kisor en- as a featured soloist. In , Mr. Nash premiered Marcus Printup (trumpet) was born and raised in Orchestra members. In , he released Portraits rolled in the Manhattan School of Music in , Jazz and Art, his latest composition commissioned Conyers, Georgia. He had his fi rst musical expe- on Hep records and released Cocktails for Two on where he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff . He by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Nash has been a riences hearing the fi ery gospel music his parents Sackville in spring . He is an original member has performed and/or recorded with the Mingus member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra sang in church. While attending the University of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and serves Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Horace Silver, since . of North Florida on a music scholarship, he won on the faculty of the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet Studies and Manhattan School of Music. Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip competition. In , Mr. Printup’s life changed
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