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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Spaces with Lil Buck and Jared Grimes WHEN: VENUE: WEDNESDAY, BING SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 CONCERT HALL 7∶30 PM Program Artists Spaces by Wynton Marsalis: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Wynton Marsalis, Ch-Ch-Ch-Chicken Music Director, Trumpet Monkey in a Tree Ryan Kisor, Trumpet Pachyderm Shout Kenny Rampton, Trumpet Leap Frogs Marcus Printup, Trumpet Mr. Penguin Please Vincent Gardner, Trombone Chris Crenshaw, Trombone — INTERMISSION — Elliot Mason, Trombone Sherman Irby, Alto and Soprano Like a Snake Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet Those Sanctified Swallows Ted Nash, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, A Nightingale Flute, Clarinet King Lion Victor Goines, Tenor and Soprano Bees Bees Bees Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Greg Tardy, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet This program is generously supported by Paul Nedzela, Baritone and Soprano Stephanie and Fred Harman and the Koret Foundation, Saxophones, Bass Clarinet with additional support from the Western States Arts Federation Dan Nimmer, Piano and the National Endowment for the Arts. Carlos Henriquez, Bass The Koret Jazz Project is a multiyear initiative to support, expand, and celebrate Charles Goold, Drums the role of jazz in the artistic and educational programming of Stanford Live. Lil Buck and Jared Grimes, Dancers Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Jazz at Lincoln Center’s commissioning of Spaces was made possible, in part, with Wynton Marsalis. by a leadership gift from Jody and John Arnhold and a generous grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation. PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. 2 About the Program Wynton Marsalis’ Spaces combines modern dance with big band jazz in a playful and wildly entertaining explo- ration of the animal kingdom. Origi- nally performed in New York (to sold-out crowds) in 2016, this visually captivating Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis pro- duction now embarks on a limited tour. Each of Spaces’ ten movements Lil Buck is a groundbreaking young Damian Woetzel, choreographer and corresponds to a different animal, from dancer who has performed with Yo-Yo retired principal cancer with the New “King Lion” to “Bees, Bees, Bees,” Ma, Madonna, the New York City Ballet, York City Ballet, returns as director and offering a dazzling array of sights and and Cirque du Soleil. Grimes is a choreographic consultant, seamlessly sounds that express the diversity, versatile tap dancer who has won the integrating the dance with Marsalis’ humor, and quirky majesty found in Astaire Award, choreographed for musical compositions. Spaces is a one- nature. The same two singular dance multiple Broadway shows and Cirque of-a-kind collaboration that is both an geniuses from the Spaces premiere— Du Soleil, and performed internationally ode to the glory of nature and an Lil Buck and Jared Grimes—reprise with artists ranging from Wynton extraordinary display of human their roles, leaping, sliding, flipping, and Marsalis and Gregory Hines to Mariah achievement. tap dancing across the stage. Carey and The Roots. Upcoming Events More jazzy nights in the Bing Studio Tickets and information: Tord Gustavsen Trio Paula West live.stanford.edu With Sigurd Hole and An American Songbook Jarle Vespestad Dec 8 • 7∶00 & 9∶00 PM Sep 28 • 7∶00 & 9∶00 PM Bing Studio Bing Studio 3 About the Artists date, 14 other recordings featuring the JLCO have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in Seven Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be Afraid...The Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train (1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997); Blood on the Fields (1997); They Came to Swing (1994); The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993); and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra across six continents. Guest conductors Portraits by Ellington (1992). The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to 15 of the finest jazz soloists and Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Wilson, and Loren Schoenberg. The Center Orchestra and a comprehensive Managing and Artistic Director, this JLCO has been voted best Big Band in array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln remarkably versatile orchestra performs the annual DownBeat Readers’ Poll for Center advances a unique vision for the a vast repertoire ranging from original the past four years (2013–16). continued development of the art of jazz compositions and Jazz at Lincoln by producing a year-round schedule of Center-commissioned works to rare In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center performance, education, and broadcast historic compositions and masterworks announced the launch of Blue Engine events for audiences of all ages. These by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Records, a new platform to make its productions include concerts, national Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou archive of recorded concerts available and international tours, residencies, Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny to jazz audiences everywhere. The first weekly national radio programs, Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many release from Blue Engine Records, Live television broadcasts, recordings, others. The JLCO has been the Jazz at in Cuba, was recorded on an historic publications, an annual high school jazz Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 2010 trip to Havana by JLCO and was band competition and festival, a band 1988, performing and leading released in October 2015. Big Band director academy, jazz appreciation educational events in New York, across Holidays was released in December curricula for students, music publishing, the United States, and around the 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in children’s concerts and classes, lectures, globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, March 2016, and The Music of John Lewis adult education courses, student and ballet troupes, local students, and an came out in March 2017. Handful of educator workshops, a record label, and ever-expanding roster of guest artists, Keys, featuring a group of all-star guest interactive websites. Under the leadership the JLCO has toured over 300 cities pianists, arrived in September 2017. To of Managing and Artistic Director 4 Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Robert J. 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally Appel, and Executive Director Greg respected teacher and spokesman for Scholl, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces music education, and has received thousands of events each season in its honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose universities and colleges. He has written Hall, and around the world. For more six books; his most recent are Squeak, information, visit jazz.org. Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on Chris Crenshaw the Fields, which was commissioned by Chris Crenshaw (Trombone) was born Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2001 he was in Thomson, Georgia on December 20, appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. 1982. Since birth, he has been driven Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the by and surrounded by music. When he United Nations, and he has also been started playing piano at age three, his designated cultural ambassador to the teachers and fellow students noticed United States of America by the U.S. his aptitude for the instrument. This Wynton Marsalis, Music Director State Department through their Culture love for piano led to his first gig with Wynton Marsalis is the managing and Connect program. Marsalis was Echoes of Joy, his father Casper’s artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln instrumental in the Higher Ground group. He picked up the trombone at Center and a world-renowned Hurricane Relief concert, produced by 11 and hasn’t put it down since. He trumpeter and composer. Born in New Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised graduated from Thomson High School Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis more than $3 million for the Higher in 2001 and received his bachelor’s began his classical training on trumpet Ground Relief Fund to benefit the degree with honors in jazz at age 12, entered The Juilliard School musicians, music industry-related performance from Valdosta State at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey enterprises, and other individuals and University in 2005. He was awarded and the Jazz Messengers. He made his entities from the areas in Greater New Most Outstanding Student in the VSU recording debut as a leader in 1982, and Orleans who were affected by Hurricane Music Department and College of Arts. has since recorded more than 60 jazz Katrina. Marsalis helped lead the effort In 2007 Crenshaw received his and classical recordings, which have to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first The Juilliard School where his teachers he became the first and only artist to education, performance, and broadcast included Dr. Douglas Farwell and win both classical and jazz Grammys in facility devoted to jazz, which opened in Wycliffe Gordon. He has worked with the same year and repeated this feat in October 2004. Gerard Wilson, Jiggs Whigham, Carl 5 Allen, Marc Cary, Wessell Anderson, as instructor at The Juilliard School, as has been a member of the Jazz at Cassandra Wilson, Eric Reed, and visiting instructor at Florida State Lincoln Center Orchestra and the many more.