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This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I I Illinois State I Universitv I I I I r ·r - I I I I l 7th Annual -April 4-5, 2003 I Center for the Performing Arts I Braden Auditorium I I I I Welcome, I I The Pantagraph · On behalf of the Illinois State University School of Music, welcome to the is proud to support Seventh Annual Jazz Festival. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedi­ I I cation in preparing music, and making the trip to be with us. I know all of your performances represent almost a year of musical growth and you should take 1 11 a great deal of pride in what you've accomplished. I I I sincerely hope you enjoy the competition, the educational opportunities, and the 7th annual th~ concerts, and that you have as much fun participating in the festival as we I I have hosting it. ILLINOIS STATE Sincerely, I I Jazz Festival I I Tom Marko Director of Instrumental Jazz Studies Illinois State University I I School of Music I I I I THE PANTAGRAPH I CONCERT SESSIONS I I I I :I I I CONTEST ADJUDICATORS Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble II personnel Jerry Hoover, adjudicator Jerry Hoover is Director of Bands at Southwest Missouri State University, where he supervises a Trumpets I student offering of eighteen bands. He personally directs the Jazz Band, Symphonic Band, Jodi Lau Freshman Honor Band, several entertainment ensembles, the Bear Mania Basketball Band, and Laura Prather the 320-member Pride Marching Band. Noel Newport I Ryan Elliot After twenty years in the Missouri public schools (Cabool, Lebanon, and Jefferson City) where he developed award-winning concert, marching, and jazz bands, he accepted the band position at New Mexico State University where he remained for seven years. He has been in his present Trombones I I position at SMS since 1985. Mr. Hoover is past president of the Missouri Chapter of Phi Beta Mu Nick Benson Thomas Miles, piano and is the Music Director for the London-based "Youth Music of the World", overseeing New Mike Gallant Zach Ginder, bass Year's Day parades in London and Paris, and-the "Easter in Maastricht" Music Festival held each Ellen Skolar Scott Simon, percussion spring in The Netherlands. This January, he inducted into the Missouri Music Educators Hall Tony Hernandez Aaron Kavelman, drums of Fame.

Illinois State University Dave Huber, adjudicator Jazz Ensemble I personnel Dave Huber received his Bachelor's degree (Music Education) from Illinois State University in 1994 and his Master's degree (Music Education, jazz studies & technology-based instruction) Saxophones Trumpets from the University of Illinois in 1999. He has played bass with a variety of jazz greats over the Roberto Quinones- Alto Myles Singleton years including Buddy DeFranco, , Marvin Stamm and Dennis DeBlasio. A resident of Robert Rake- Alto Dan Hiles the Chicago-land area, Mr. Huber stays busy playing jazz throughout the city, teaching band at Oak Grove School (which feeds into Libertyville High School), and writing jazz charts for young Travis Thacker- Tenor Kyle Berens bands. Jason Augspurger- Tenor Zac Bailey 11 I Toby Thomas- Baritone Todd Kelly, adjudicator Dr. Todd Kelly is Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Jazz at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Trombones Dr. Kelly teaches trumpet, directs the Bradley Jazz Ensembles and Jazz Combos, teaches Jazz Trevor Headrick ll I Improvisation, Secondary Music Methods, and serves as the advisor for the Music Business Justin Gund program. Under his direction, the jazz program has shown tremendous growth and now includes Ben Michael two big bands, two combos, a year - long Jazz Improvisation sequence, and Jazz Pedagogy Matt Kelm 11 I clinics three times per semester. The Bradley Jazz Ensemble has performed with such jazz artists as Mike Vax, Mike Lee, Matt Wilson, and Allen Vizzutti. During the summer of 2003, the llllnols State University group will perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Vocal Jazz Ensemble Encore! II I Kelly received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Montana, a Master of Nick Adomaitis Combo Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Northern Colorado, and the Doctor Niall Casserly Tim Reed, piano of Arts degree in trumpet performance from Ball State University. His principal teachers include Thomas Edwards Samantha Owens, bass II I Lido Vizzutti, Dr. Thomas Cook, William Pfund, Paul Everett, and Bill Adam. Zach Fosnaugh Mike Cole, drums Conner McGowan Roberto Quinones, sax Dr. Kelly currently maintains a busy performing schedule in the Central Illinois area as a member Molly Nixon of the Todd Kelly Jazz Quintet, Broadway Big Band, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, and as a John Shaffer Sound I freelance jazz and classical musician. He is also the musical director of the Central Illinois Jazz ,B.andi Shockency Carl Rupsis Orchestra, a big band comprised of twenty of the finest musicians from the central Illinois area. Ashley Smith Sara Smith Randall Reyman, adjudicator Tiffany Williams Randall Reyman is a trumpeter and composer/arranger who is very active in both the jazz and classical genres. As a classical performer, he has performed with the Illinois Symphony Orches­ I I FEATURED ARTISTS tra, Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Millikin/Decatur Symphony Orchestra, Brass Ensemble of Illinois, North Texas State Faculty Brass Quintet, and Illinois State Faculty Brass Quintet. As a member , guitar of the Millikin University Faculty Brass Quintet, he has performed across the country and abroad, I When I first got into jazz - around 1969, I came from playing R&B and Soul in High working with the likes of Ronald Baron, the Canadian Brass, and the Wisconsin Brass Quintet. School. Jazz Rock was in its infancy stage and I was lucky enough to be around to experience the Golden Age of both Rock and Soul and see Jazz embrace that move­ As a jazz/commercial trumpeter, Mr. Reyman has performed with a wide variety of performers ment while I was trying to learn how to play straight ahead Jazz. A lot of my early including Bob Hope, George Bums, Richard Williams, the Platters, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, chances to actually gig were in various Jazz/Rock idioms. I got to play "real" jazz with Mills Brothers, Dave Brubeck, David Liebman, Rob Parton, Ringling Brothers Circus, Ice and but my real first "big time" gig was with the Billy Capades, Decatur Big Band, Broadway Big Band, Millikin Faculty Jazz Sextet, and his own West Cobham/ band. We got to play in gigantic concert halls and rock venues End Trio. As a writer/composer/arranger, Mr. Reyman has published the Jazz Band Builder (Mel I I for excited people who were not necessarily jazz aficionados, but loved the music. Bay), Jazz Duets for Trumpet (Columbia Pictures), Technical Drills for the Jazz/Commercial Trumpet Player (Kendor), and several works for Really Good Music. He has recently recorded a After that band ended, I stayed home in NYC and worked on playing acoustic jazz with CD of original works for jazz quintet entitled Hard At It and a CD with his West End Quartet my own groups and people like Dave Liebman. I also started an ongoing musical entitled Cool Yule, both available from First Step Records. His writing on music has been pub­ I I relationship with bassist Steve Swallow that continues to this day. As a jazz bassist lished in the Instrumentalist, International Trumpet Guild Journal, and Decatur Magazine. and real songwriter (not just a composer) Swallow has influenced me as much as anyone. In 1982, I joined the Band, answering the call of funky jazz once Glenn Wilson, adjudicator 11 I again. My stint with Miles made me sure that there really was a kind of music that was Glenn is a graduate of the Dana School of Music, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, both funky and improvised at the same time. Ohio where he was a member of the award winning Jazz Ensemble led by Anthony Leonardi and studied saxophone with Joseph Edwards. In his years in New York (1977-1991), Glenn toured After playing with Miles for over three years and making a few more records of my and recorded with , , Machito, Tito Puente, The Bill Kirchner Nonet, 11 I own, I hooked up with ex-P- drummer , and we made a group Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and The Bob Belden Ensemble. He has recorded 6 solo albums that really utilized funk rhythms. Dennis and bassist Gary Grainger were masters of and has appeared on 21 others as a sideman. Glenn has placed in the DownBeat Magazine's that "/ Earth Wind and Fire/ ?O's thing". It was great having that under­ International Critics Poll and has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. neath my tunes. Glenn's CDs are featured in the Grammaphone Guide to Good Jazz and The Penguin Guide to 11 I Jazz. Glenn's new CD One Man's was recorded live at Bogart's Back Room in Richmond, When I signed with Blue Note Records in 1989, I decided to explore more "swinging" VA. Glenn has also recorded and toured with rock pianist Bruce Hornsby. avenues. I got together with my old Berklee School buddy, genius saxophonist Joe I L'I Lovano. We had a group and made three albums for Blue Note - four counting a bootleg from Europe - that are probably my very best "jazz" endeavors. Part of that ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLES can also be attributed to the magnificent drumming of Bill Stewart, who is as good a musician as I've ever met. - from an excerpt by John Scofield Jazz Ensemble I is the premier jazz "big band" at Illinois State made up of a select group of the I I university's finest instrumentalists. This outstanding ensemble performs a wide range of big band , drums literature including all styles from historical to cutting edge. It's members include some of the World-renowned drummer, composer, producer and clinician, Terri Lyne Carrington, finest collegiate jazz soloists in Illinois. Membership is by audition only and is open to all Illinois ll I has maintained her status in the industry as a person to watch for over 20 years. State students. Jazz Ensemble II is a group of 16-20 instrumentalists who perform a wide range of big band literature including all styles from historical to cutting edge. Membership is by audition Born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1965, Terri developed a reputation as a child only and is open to all Illinois State students. ~ II prodigy, jamming with jazz veterans , Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson, Joe Williams, and many more. At 7, she was given her first set of drums, Encore! is a group of eleven singers selected by audition and is one of the premier vocal en­ which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats sembles at the University. Encore! performs a wide variety of literature from swing to bebop, new Waller and Chu Berry. After studying privately for three years, she played her first age to Latin styles of compositions. In the past two years, Encore! has performed in over fifty I I major performance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with . Shortly afterward concerts throughout Illinois and the Southeast U.S. The ensemble has received numerous she received a full scholarship at age 11 to where she awards, including the Outstanding Ensemble at the Millikin Jazz Festival and Judges Merit started playing with such people as , , Branford Marsalis, Certificate for Distinctive Performance at the College Showcase Invitational. Encore! has shared and others. She also studied under master drum instructor the stage with performers such as Judy Collins, Natalie Cole, and the New York Voices. I I and made a private recording entitled, TLC and Friends, with , Buster I I Williams, and her dad, Sonny Carrington, before turning 17. I I Illinois State University Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Encore! Illinois State University Faculty Jazz Combo and In 1989, Terri moved to Los Angeles where she became the drumm~r for the "Arsenio Hall Show". Special Guest, Kathy Kosins, vocalist She has also toured the globe with Mike Stern, , , and I I Friday April 4, 2003 spiritual mentor, . Her debut release on Polygram, Real Life Story, was nominated 8:00 PM Center for the Performing Arts for a Grammy Award and featured , , John Scofield, Grover (Program to be selected from the following) Washington, Jr., and . I I On a Clear Day Arranged by Kirk Marcy Recently, she has concentrated her efforts on writing and producing with various artists including Charleston Alley (Lambert, Hendricks and Ross) Arranged by R. Marois Gino Vannelli, , Siedah Garrett, Marilyn Scott and Danish pop singers Stig Rossen and Monique. Her production of Dianne Reeves' Grammy-nominated CD, hovered at That Day, Vine Street Bar and Grill (The Ritz) Sharon Broadley Martin the top of the charts for many months. Terri was also the drummer on the late night TV show, I I "VIBE", hosted by Sinbad. Morning (PM Singers) Claire Fischer Guest Artist, Kathy Kosins I I Eyes of the Jungle (Vox One) Yumiko Matsuka Vocalist Kathy Kosins stands out among her peers of today by possessing a rare combination: a richly nuanced voice, technical proficiency, eclectic repertoire, and Kiss by a Rose (Audio Radiance) by Samuel Seal prodigious talent as a composer. On the one hand, she has been hailed by The Arranged by Chicago Tribune for possessing "one of the most alluring voices in jazz." On the I Quam o lim Abrahae (Swingle Singers) W. A. Mozart other, she is a three-time ASCAP award-winning songwriter with over 200 composi­ Arranged by Bret Peppo tions to her name, and was the recent award recipient in the jazz composers category presented by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. A serious The Shadow of Your Smile (Singers Unlimited) Arranged by Gene Puerling musician from Detroit, she began singing and arranging background vocals for producer in the early eighties, acquiring over 35 credits to her name. As a Now or Never (New York Voices) Darmon Meader lead vocalist she recorded for both Cararre (Sony) and Quality Records then toured with Was/Not Was. By the early nineties, her musical taste in R&B evolved to straight ' Birdland (Mahattan Transfer) Arranged by Phil Mattson ahead Jazz. Stints with the JC Heard and Orchestras led to a 1996 release of All In A Dreams Work (Schoolkids Records), an impressive debut featur­ Illinois State University Faculty Jazz Combo ing a first rate collection of nine originals and a cover of Miles' Four. 11 with Kathy Kosins • Reported by over 250 Jazz stations, she reached the top 20 in the Gavin. Her 2002 Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble II release of Mood Swings (Chiaroscuro Records), features seven catchy original compo- Saturday April S, 2003 sitions written with the jazz masters in mind, and a distinctive choice of cover material I 11 :20 AM Center for the Performing Arts such as a sultry version of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxey Lady" and the rarely performed (Program to be selected from the following) television theme song "Melancholy Serenade" written by the great one himself; Jackie St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins Gleason. Mood Swings continues to bring Kosins recognition and success at the 'I Arranged by Bill Holman national level. Red Clay by I Arranged by Bob Washut You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to by Cole Porter Arranged by George Stone

I Jazz Festival Awards Ceremony Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble I Tom Marko, Director

.1 11 I ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY JAZZ FACULTY Saturday April 5 2003 6:00 PM Center for the Performing Arts James Boitos, professor of saxophone I I James Boitos holds the Bachelor of Music Degree from Colorado State University, and a Master's Big Al Meets the Barnyard Gals by Dan Gailey from Northwestern University, where he studied with the legendary Dr. Frederick Hemke. Mr. Boitos is Professor of Music at Illinois State University, where he teaches Saxophone. For more Lush Life by Billy Strayhorn than two and a half decades, his jazz groups won individual and group awards at college jazz Arranged by Mike Crotty I I festivals throughout the country. Boitos was a featured soloist at the 5th World Saxophone Congress, London, the 6th World Saxophone Congress, Evanston, and the 7th World Saxophone by Bob Brookmeyer Nasty Dance Congress, Nuremburg. Mr. Boitos has also free-lanced with Pearl Bailey, Billy Eckstine, Joe Travis Thacker, Tenor Saxophone I I Williams, Cab Calloway, Nancy Wilson, , and many others. Nutville by Horace Silver Arranged by Greg Hopkins Bill Koehler, professor of double bass Bill Koehler is Professor of Music at Illinois State University where he teaches applied double Evening Concert Program I I bass, string pedagogy, graduate courses in music education including psychology of music, and Saturday April 5, 2003 improvisation. Dr. Koehler has performed in England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, Belo­ 7:30PM Braden Auditorium Russia, Puerto Rico, and throughout the U.S. He is currently Principal Bassist with the Peoria Symphony, and also performs as a freelance jazz bassist. Bill has completed a new Solo Bass I I CD entitled "Glimpse," featuring original compositions in jazz and world fusion idioms as well as Student competition winners classical pieces for unaccompanied solo bass. Selections to be announced Tom Marko, director of instrumental jazz studies Special Guest Terri Lyne Carrington- Drums I I Thomas Marko is director of Instrumental Jazz Studies at Illinois State University. Mr. Marko With Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble I earned his undergraduate degree in percussion performance from Washington State University in Pullman, WA and his Master of Music degree in Jazz performance from the University of South I I Florida in Tampa. Currently, he is completing the Doctor of Arts degree at the University of Brother John by Nick Brignola Northern Colorado. Tom has been a successful freelance musician in the Tampa Bay area, Myrtle Arranged by Maria Schneider Beach, South Carolina and Fort Collins/Denver, Colorado. In the summer of 2001, Tom was one Toby Thomas, Baritone Saxophone of 22 musicians invited from across the U.S. to participate in the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Academy I I with artistic director Christian McBride. Latin Dance by Charlie Stokes, music theory coordinator Dewey (For Miles) by Russell Ferrante and Jimmy Charlie Stokes has been a member of the School of Music faculty since 197 4, where he serves Haslip I I as coordinator of the music theory program. Most recently, he has established new courses in Arranged by jazz music theory and intergrated jazz-rock aural skills to be part of the required curriculum for music majors at Illinois State. He has been active throughout Illinois as a jazz pianist, trombonist, Just Friends by Raymond Davies, John Klenner clinician, and adjudicator. In addition to his participation in the Faculty Jazz ensemble, he has for and Sam Lewis I I the last ten years led various faculty and student ensembles that perform and compose using Arranged by Bill Holman digital musical instruments. The John Scofield Band I I Bret Peppo, vocal jazz director Featuring Andy Hess- Bass Bret Peppo is the Associate Director of Choral Activities at Illinois State University. Peppo re­ Avi Bortnick- Rhythm Guitar & Samplers ceived his Bachelors of Music in Vocal Music Education at Eastern Illinois University, and Masters Adam Deitch- Drums of Music from Illinois State University in Choral Conducting. Peppo has held positions as Assis­ I I tant Professor of Choral Music at Alderson-Broaddus College in West Virginia and held the position as director of the Old Gold Singers at the University of Iowa. At Illinois State University, Peppo conducts the award-winning vocal jazz ensemble Encore!. Peppo is a frequent festival conductor throughout Illinois and has been a show{jazz choir adjudicator throughout the Midwest, I I East and Southeast. I: I 1Y'S SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

Student competition begins Big bands perform in the Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall Combos Perform in Kemp Recital Hall

Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble 11, Tom Marko, Director CPA Concert Hall I

Masterclass: World renowned drummer: Terri Lyne Carrington Kemp Recital Hall I Competition resumes Masterclass: Modern Jazz Guitar Icon: John Scofield I Kemp Recital Hall Competition resumes I Awards presentations Featuring Illinois State University Jazz Ensemble I, Tom Marko Director CPA Concert Hall I Live Concert in Braden Auditorium Featuring: I Winning Jazz Ensembles from the day's competition Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington with ISU Jazz Ensemble I Tom Marko, Director I The John Scofield Band Featuring Andy Hess- Bass Avi Bartnick- Rhythm Guitar & Samplers Adam Deitch- Drums I I venth Annual Illinois State University istival would like to thank its sponsors I hoppe The Pantagraph WGLT torium Zildjian Yamaha Saturday Nile Programming

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