@SECREST ARTISTS SERIES /////2012-2013 SEASON\\\\\ THE SECRESTARTISTS SERIES presents WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET FEATURING DANILO PEREZ, JOHN PATITUCCI, BRIAN BLADE in JAMAZON: A JAZZ EVENT OF AMAZON PROPORTIONS Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:30 pm Wait Chapel Wake Forest University secrest artists series THE PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE AND WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT INTERMISSION. This Secrest Artists Series event is in partnership with CEES ( Center for Environment, Energy and Sustainability), the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Music, the Humanities Institute, WFDD, PLACe and the Office of th.e Provost. All Jamazon activitiesare raising funds for the Amazon Aid Foundation. Representationfor Mr. Shorterby !MN World 278 Main Street Gloucester,Massachusetts 01930 978-283-2883 BIOGRAPHIES career as a musician. He has received substantial recognition from his peers, including 6 Grammy Awards and 13 other Grammy nomina tions to date. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from New York University, the New England Conservatory, and the Berklee College of Music. In 1997, the National Endowment for the Arts presented Shorter with the prestigious Jazz Master Award. Wayne Shorter was born in New Jersey and later attended New York University . After Shorter's service in the army, he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, which established him as a newcomer to watch. Then, in 1964, Miles Davis invited Shorter to go on tour with his band, which included Herbie Hancock , Tony Williams and Ron Carter. After 6 years with Davis, he formed the band Weather Report in 1970 with Wayne Shorte r Joe Zawinul and Miroslav Vitous. Wayne Shorter's continually expanrung body In the summer of 2001, Shorter bega n his of work is inextricably linked to the history of current lineup featur ing Danilo Perez, John modern music. His music transcends genre Patitucci and Brian Blade, each celebrated while keeping the improvisationa l genius and recording artists and band leaders in their surprise of jazz burning at the center. Regarded own right. Togethe r, the group has recorde d as one of the most significant and prolific FootprintsLive!, Alegria and Beyond the Sound performers an d composers in jazz and mo dern Barrie1;two of which ear n ed Shorter Grammy music; Wayne Shorter has an outstanding record Awards. of professional achievement in his historic Danilo Perez Grammy award winner Danilo Perez is among Danilo first attracted the spotlight as the the most influential and dynamic musicians of youngest member of Dizzy Gillespie's United our time. He has led his own groups since the Nations Orchestra from 1989-1992. early '90s, and as band leader has earned three Grammy nominations for his ebullient and Then in 1993, Danilo turned his focus to his innovative recordings. own ensembles and recording projects. His albums placed him on several Top Ten Albums Born in Panama in 1965, Danilo started his lists, earned him a Jazziz Critics Choice Award, musical studies at just three years of age with as well as numerous other awards, which his father, a band leader and singer. By age 10, established Danilo's leadership role in a new he was studying the European classical piano generation of jazz artists. Danilo also became repertoire at the National Conservatory in the first Latin member of Wyn ton Marsalis' Panama. After receiving his bachelor 's degree band, and the first jazz musician to perform in electronics, he moved to the United States with the Panamanian Symphony Orchestra. to enroll at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and, after changing his major to music, transferred to the prestigious Berklee College of Music. John Patitucci Born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, Since 1985, his association with Chick Corea John Patitucci began playing the electric has brought him worldwide acclaim and put bass at age ten. him at the forefront of the jazz world . Then, in 1986, John was voted by his peers in the As a studio musician and performer, John has studios as the National Academy of Recording played with countless artists such as Arts and Sciences MVP on acoustic bass. His B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Herbie Hancock, many recordings with Chick Corea's Elektric Stan Getz, Wynton Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Band and Akoustic Band, and his six solo Chick Corea, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, recordings from GRP Records have brought Bon Jovi, and of course, Wayne Shorter. him two Grammy awards and eight Grammy nominations. In addition, his first solo recording, John Patitucci, went to nwnber one on the Billboard Jazz charts. He has arranged and produced numerous other albums, with his latest CD being Communion and has featured Joe Levano, Branford Marsalis, Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, Horacio "El Negro'' Hernandez and many others. Since moving back to the New York area in 1996, John has continued to work with his own group, as well as many others. He has toured the US and Ew-ope with his group, The John Patitucci Quartet. He was the featured Jazz Bassist at the 1999 International Society of Bassists convention. Since 1998, John has been a part of the Roy Haynes Trio, along with Danilo Perez on piano. This trfo recorded a critically acclaimed album for Verve Records and has toured throughout the world . Brian Blade was born on July 25, 1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1988, Brian moved to New Orleans to attend ) Loyola University. It was ) at this time that Brian would become friends with Jon Cowherd. Both Brian and Jon were able to study and play with many of the master musicians living in New Orleans . These musicians, such as John Vidacovich, Ellis Marsalis, Steve Masakowski, John Mahoney, George French and Harold Battiste, provided inspiration and helped Brian in his development. Brian Blade In 1998, Brian and Jon Cowherd began This multi-talented young veteran is already recording their own music with the group widely respected in the jazz world as Fellowship. Band mambers include Chris drwnmer/composer/leader of Brian Blade Thomas, Myron Walden, Kurt Rosenwinkel and The Fellowship Band, with whom he has and Melvin Butler. They have released 3 released three albums . He is also known as the albums together- Fellowshipand Perceptual, ) both on Blue Note, and the 2008 Verve drummer for many heroes of the music world, } including Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell, Bob recording, Season of Changes. Dylan, Wayne Shorter, Seal, Bill Frisell and Since 2000, Brian has been part of the Wayne Emmylou Harris . Shorter Quartet. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PARTNERS Amazon Aid Foundation Uniting science, art, muJti-media and education to protect the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon Aid Foundation is a non -profit organization that raises awareness about environmental issues in the Amazon through creative ) AMAzofl FOUNDATION collaborative art, music and science projects. Through interactive ) donor campaigns, the Amazon Aid foundation also helps fund tropical rainforest conservation efforts throughout the Amazon Basin, an acre at a time. Through science and multimedia, we hope to protect and conserve rainforests for all to enjoy. Wake Forest welcomes Sarah DuPont, founder of AAF, to all of the activities ofJamazon. Amaz on Gold Amazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey deep into the Peruvian Amazon that bears cinematic witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the voracious pursuit of iUegaJ gold with consequences on a global scale. This documentary film sounds the alarm to the world of the catastrophic consequence not only to the local community at risk from this uncontrolled rampage of environmental destruction, but to the survival of the global biosphere as well. www. amazonaid.org Office of Sustainability at WFU The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to encourage and facilitate the collaborative efforts of faculty, students and staff to generate knowledge, acquire skiUs, develop values and initiate practices that WAKE FOREST contribute to a sustainable, high quality of life on campus, in the UNIVERS I TY Triad, and across the globe. The Office of Sustainability supports efforts of Wake Foresters in the following areas: stewardship, service and outreach, teaching and research, energy conservation and climate change, land and resource management, dining and food systems, waste reduction, transportation and others. The Secrest Artists Series reconizes De Dee Johnston, leader of the Office of Sustainability for her ) collaboration with }amazon. www.sustainability.wfu.edu } CEES The Wake Forest University center Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) is an interdisciplinary center that aims to con nect the Wake Forest community with the global commu nity to create more sustainable human and natural systems. Miles Silman serves as the director of CEES and Professor of Biology at Wake Forest. Humanitie s Institute Toe Humanities Institute establishes programs and provides funding for faculty in the humanities and their collaborators in other fields of study, fostering collaboration among scholars in the hwnanistic disciplines, WAKE FOREST and promoting cross- and interdisciplinary research and other creative UN I V E RSITY activity. It also supports joint faculty-student research and activities, and builds partnerships with the public community outside Wake Forest. In so doing, the Institute aims to advance the university's commitment to education and scholarship that is pro humanitate and to underscore the value of the humanities for the common good. Mary Foskett, Professor of Religion, of serves as Director. PLACe The Interdisciplinary PLACe is devoted to joining the performing arts with topics and concerns of everyone in our community. Theatre , Dance and Music events with an interdisciplinary focus can find support and funding from IPLACe-whether for a guest artist, a panel discussion, a symposium, a post-performance talk and reception or something entirely different. Our goal at the Interdisciplinary PLACe is to give us all a time, place and reason to talk about the things we care about, using performance as a way to jumpstart those conversations .