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RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Insalaco College ofCreative andPerforming Arts Department ofMusic,Department Theatre, andDance FEBRUARY 25•2627 Dear Friends in Music, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2011 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2011 The Marywood University Department of • BURGER LECTURE | 3 p.m. | Media Center The “Benny Carter Jazz Festival” will conclude with the premier performance of a new jazz Music, Theatre, and Dance is pleased to • CONCERT: JAZZ ENSEMBLE & FACULTY QUINTET | 8 p.m. announce a special event for the spring Sette LaVerghetta Center for Performing Arts organization. The “Northeastern Pennsylvania Repertory Orchestra” will play an afternoon semester of 2011. The Marywood University The Marywood Jazz Ensemble will perform a concert of performance of the music Mr. Carter generated Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom music, which Mr. Carter generated for two ensembles for the 1960 album, “The Kansas City Suite” by during the 1960s. The first set is the album of music Count Basie and his big band. The “NPRO” is an Heinze, will offer a three-day festival composed for the great Count Basie and his big band dedicated to the works and contributions of ensemble of many of the finest jazz musicians and entitled “The Legend.” The next set is for a who live and work in the Northeastern corner saxophone ensemble and rhythm section and was American jazz legend, Benny Carter. Mr. of Pennsylvania. Marywood University director Carter's career in musical performance and composed for two albums by Mr. Carter and other saxophone greats such as Phil Woods, Coleman Tom Heinze has invited these players to come composition lasted for over seventy years and Hawkins, and Charlie Rouse. Those albums are entitled together for the first of many special projects encompassed most of the twentieth century. “Further Definitions” (1961) and “Additions to Further recreating the works and styles of the giants in the field of jazz. Marywood University's hope He is credited with being a major and lasting Definitions,” which featured Bud Shank, Bill Perkins, Teddy Edwards, and Bill Hood. The Marywood is to provide a welcome “home base” where this influence on the evolution of American Jazz saxophone section will take up the challenge of organization will continue to meet as it explores from its earliest incarnations in ragtime recreating some of those arrangements. In addition to and performs the repertoire of other legends in through the swing era. Carter joined other jazz that repertoire, Marywoood studio professors, including jazz history. This first performance of the work Mr. Tom Heinze (alto sax) and Mr. Dave Jumper of Benny Carter will offer the community an greats such as Benny Goodman and Fletcher (trumpet) will perform some of Mr. Carter's best known exciting opportunity to hear an ensemble that Henderson in developing and refining the small group works. many feel will become a mainstay in our area. performance practices we identify as “swing playing.” Those practices have become the SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2011 bedrock of every stylistic advance in Jazz since The Marywood Jazz Ensemble will share the stage in a “side by side” concert with a selected area high school The “Benny Carter Jazz Festival” is the 1930s and they have contributed to all the band and perform two joint selections from Mr. Carter's succeeding genres we enjoy today. Benny long and respected list of works for big bands. The the first such event that Marywood Carter's long and varied career makes him a guest ensemble will be chosen by a panel of judges who University has dedicated exclusively perfect study of that ongoing evolution and will listen to and adjudicate four invited student bands during an afternoon session. Those judges will then to jazz. The plans call for annual ensures his place in the very center of Jazz offer the young musicians some suggestions to improve programs of this nature that will history. their swing playing and ultimately choose a partner group to perform in the evening concert with the focus on the careers and contribu- Marywood University band. During that program, each tions of many of the artists whose organization will offer selections of their own choosing The “Benny Carter Jazz Festival” will take and then join together for “Symphony in Riffs”(1929) and work was seminal to the evolution place on the weekend of: “Movin' Uptown” (1996). These two compositions are of of the great American contribution interest to jazz scholars due to their almost seventy February 25, 26, and 27, 2011. to twentieth century art...JAZZ!3 year difference in copyright dates, although displaying a It will be in the form of three concerts, each series of stylistic similarities and contrasts by the same Friday, February 25, 2011 | 8 p.m. with a different emphasis and organization; composer. They also provide a perfect platform for the all related by the repertoire which was entirely two ensembles to collaborate on stage. This combination should be one of the highlights of the composed and arranged by Mr. Carter. weekend's events.

For more information, contact: Tom Heinze, Marywood University Jazz Ensemble, [email protected]