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RETROSPECTIVE FEATURING BILLY HART WITH QUEST RON MCCLURE EDDIE HENDERSON BILLY HART QUARTET OCEANS OF TIME CHRIS POTTER CECIL MCBEE PLUS ANAT COHEN DUO DR. MICHAEL WHITE QUARTET TRIO JOEY ALEXANDER TRIO CLAIRE DALY QUINTET TRIO LADY BIANCA GROUP GRUPO FALSO BAIANO BABATUNDE LEA AND FRIENDS AND MANY MORE So many great masters have had tributes to their talent and contributions, I felt one for Billy was way overdue. He is truly one of the greatest drummers in jazz history. He has been on thousands of recordings over his 50-year career and, in turn, has enhanced the careers of several exceptional musicians. He has also been a true friend to Healdsburg Jazz Festival, performing here 11 out of the past 17 years. Many people do not know his deep contributions to jazz and the vast number of musicians he has performed and recorded with over the years as leader, sideman and collaborator: , , , , McCoy Tyner, , , , , and so many more (see the Billy Hart discography on our website). When he began to lead his own bands in 1977, they proved to be both disciplined and daring. For this tribute, we will take you through his musical history, and showcase his deep passion for jazz and the breadth of his achievements. Billy and I worked for many months choosing the four bands and the music that we felt best represented his art. So many of Billy’s friends wanted to participate in the tribute that I had to sadly tell some we just didn’t have any more space. On June 4 and 5, it will be our pleasure and honor to present a very special and well-deserved, two-day event at the Jackson Theater: Honoring Billy Hart: A 40- Year Retrospective. I hope you will join us on an absorbing musical journey to celebrate this great man and his amazing, high-energy music. For those who would like to get an introduction and learn more about Billy Hart’s music and versatility, he is taking time out of his busy touring and teaching schedule to come here and conduct two FREE oral history classes: one at Sonoma State University on April 22 and one in Healdsburg on April 23. Billy will also conduct student workshops at SSU on April 20.

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CALIFOR NIA Hart will present a musical REPUBLIC AGRICULTURE Randy Coleman INDUSTRY RECREATION history, an overview of his VICE CHAIR many drumming styles, and Edward Flesch discuss his evolution as a SECRETARY band leader. Our goal is to educate the public about this Dennis Abbe TREASURER extraordinary jazz master and his amazing music prior to Rollie Atkinson attending his in June. Mark Elcombe Greater knowledge leads to greater enjoyment! Loretta Rosas

MB These classes are free—pre- Andrea Smalling registration is suggested but HONORARY not required on our website at BOARD MEMBERS healdsburgjazz.org Elizabeth Candelario Frank Carrubba FRIDAY, APRIL 22 Doug Lipton Sonoma State University 6-9 pm Circe Sher 1801 E. Cotati Ave. Rohnert Park Green Music Center | Room 1029 Pamela Walton, CPA gmc.sonoma.edu/plan GENERAL COUNSEL SATURDAY, APRIL 23 James DeMartini Healdsburg Jr. High School PROGRAM NOTES 1-4pm David Rubien Multi-Purpose Room. DESIGN Fitch @ Grant Street Ranch7 Creative

FESTIVAL PHOTOS Curtis Thomson Doris Duke Charitable Foundation George Wells Healdsburg Center for the Arts Healdsburg Community Benefit Grant COVER PHOTO George Wells Healdsburg Rotary Club Healdsburg Sunrise Rotary Club PRINTING Kismet Foundation Barlow Printing Kiwanis Club of Healdsburg Tompkins/Imhoff Family Fund Western Jazz Presenters 2016 SCHEDULE day&night

FRIDAY 6/3 MONDAY 6/6 SATURDAY 6/11 Julian Lage Trio Jazz and Wine Dinner Fred Hersch and HEALDSBURG SHED Kevin Fitzsimmons Quartet Anat Cohen Duo 5 North Street DRY CREEK KITCHEN RAVEN THEATER 7PM & 9PM | $40 317 Healdsburg Avenue 115 North Street Pre- dinners 5:00 & 7:00 6:30-9:30PM | No Cover 7:30PM | $65 | $45 Reservations recommended Reserved Seating SATURDAY 6/4 Bobbe Norris and TUESDAY 6/7 Babatunde Lea and Friends Larry Dunlap Duo Grupo Falso Baiano HOTEL HEALDSBURG SEASONS OF THE HEALDSBURG PLAZA LOBBY VINEYARD 6-8PM | FREE 25 Matheson Street 113 Plaza Street 9PM-Midnight | No Cover 2-4PM | No Cover WEDNESDAY 6/8 Charlie Hunter Trio SUNDAY 6/12 SATURDAY 6/4 SPOONBAR Sunday Morning SUNDAY 6/5 219 Healdsburg Avenue Marcus Shelby Orchestra Honoring Billy Hart: 6pm Seating for 6:30-7:30 show Beyond the A 40-Year Retrospective 8pm Seating for with Tiffany Austin and JACKSON THEATER 8:30-9:30 show Craig Handy 4400 Day School Place $60 | Includes prix fixe dinner RAVEN THEATER Santa Rosa Reservations Required 115 North Street 7:00PM | $65 | $45 | $25 spoonbar.com/events 11:00AM | FREE Reserved Seating 707.433.7222 SUNDAY 6/12 SATURDAY: DAY 1 THURSDAY 6/9 New Orleans on the Green: Quest: Dave Liebman, Claire Daly Quintet Dr. Michael White Quartet Richie Beirach, Ron McClure and Reinventing Motown MJ Brass Boppers Billy Hart PAUL MAHDER Russian River Ramblers Enchance - revisited: Craig GALLERY DRY CREEK VINEYARDS Taborn, Dave Holland, Joshua 222 Healdsburg Avenue 3770 Lambert Bridge Road Redman, Oliver Lake, Eddie 7:00PM | $30 $45 includes wine glass Henderson and Billy Hart paulmahdergallery.com Wine Club Members can redeem their June Collection free ticket for SUNDAY: DAY 2 FRIDAY 6/10 this event Billy Hart Quartet: Ethan Iverson, Joey Alexander Trio Starting at 5pm Mark Turner, JACKSON THEATER Lawn seating, low chairs allowed Ben Street and Billy Hart 4400 Day School Place Oceans of Time - revisited: Craig Santa Rosa Handy, Chris Potter, Mark Feldman, 8:00PM | $75 | $55 | $45 David “Fuze” Fiuczynski, David Reserved Seating Kikoski, , Billy Hart and guest FRIDAY 6/10 Lorca Hart Babatunde Lea and Friends HOTEL HEALDSBURG SUNDAY 6/5 LOBBY Blues Brunch with Lady 25 Matheson Street Bianca 9PM-Midnight | No Cover SONOMA CUTRER VINEYARDS 4401 Slusser Road, Windsor 11am-1pm | $30 Healdsburg Jazz Wine Club benefits applicable. day&night FRI JUNE 3 julian lage F E ATU R IN G KENNY WOLLESEN

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healdsburg SHED Santa Rosa native (who now lives in New York), Julian 25 North Street Lage has long been a friend of the Healdsburg Festival, Two Shows: 7pm & 9pm Ahaving played at nine editions. This time around he’s $40 bringing Scott Colley on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums, a dynamic duo with whom he works magic on Arclight, his Three-course pre- groundbreaking new on which he uses a Fender Telecaster concert dinners in the guitar to caress songs from the pre-be-bop jazz canon, such as “Nocturne” and “Harlem Blues,” plus originals. The Telecaster is SHED Café available one of the bedrock instruments of country music and rock ‘n’ roll, 5pm and 7pm so some purists who prefer the “classic” trebly hollow-body sound of a jazz-guitar could be put off. Julian, however, is not a follower Dinner pricing and info: of stylistic conventions. His first album, 2009’s Sounding Point, healdsburgshed.com/ featured banjo, djembe, cello, and in addition to Julian’s gather/grange-events acoustic guitar, and no drum set. It was a bold statement for a ’s debut, announcing that to him “jazz” meant “anything I feel like playing.” Indeed, that is Julian’s gospel. He is a fearless talent of remarkable elegance, stunning chops, exquisite sensitivity, and an advanced sense of playfulness. Like , Julian is a big-sky player—he embraces and channels the wonder of everything around him. (Contrast Julian with this year’s festival’s other guitar star, Charlie Hunter, who is all about the groove.) Julian has been at it a long time. Healdsburg Jazz fans will recall seeing him perform in 2000 during his festival debut at age 12 when he stood toe to toe with jazz-guitar legend John Abercrombie as a guest in Charles Lloyd’s group, which included the great on drums. (For this year’s Healdsburg prodigy, see Joey Alexander.) By that time, Julian had already been wowing audiences for four or five years. His young life was documented in the film Jules at Eight, released in 1997. At 13, he played at the 2000 Grammy Awards, and he’s been teaching at Stanford University since he was 15. He is a member of several bands, including legendary vibist ’s New Quartet. It may seem a bit perverse to play early-jazz tunes on a rock ‘n’ roll guitar, but that’s the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that is Julian’s hallmark. Whatever instruments he uses and whatever songs he plays, expect to be amazed. QUEST - with Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach, Ron McClure and SAT JUNE 4 Billy Hart ENCHANCE - revisited. Recording was done in 1977. Billy Hart, leader, with Craig Taborn (in place of , RIP) Dave Holland, Joshua Redman (in place of , RIP) Oliver Lake, billy hart: Eddie Henderson a 40-year he opening weekend of the 18th Healdsburg Jazz Festival retrospective features four distinct bands led by the same person. His DAY O N E Tname is Billy Hart and he is a drummer. Billy is probably a familiar name to local jazz fans because he has been a driving force Jackson Theater in more Healdsburg Festivals than any other musician—11 festivals and over a dozen bands in the drum seat. Billy’s tireless presence 4400 Day School Place has been a great thing for the festival, of course, and Billy has had Santa Rosa the time of his life doing it, or else he wouldn’t have kept coming 7:00pm back. But the drawback has been that the full meaning of Billy has remained a bit in the shadows. This year, Healdsburg turns the $65 | $45 | $25 tables, putting Billy in the spotlight. That involves letting audiences Reserved Seating know a big extent of what he’s accomplished in more than 50 years of making music. Billy has led some of the most powerful jazz bands Sponsors: of the past four decades. And now they are here. Chalk Hill Estate Saturday presents the bands Billy led in the 1970s and ‘80s, opening with Quest, a co-op founded in 1981. Featuring Dave Liebman Roth Winery (like Billy, a Miles Davis veteran) on saxophones and , Quest North Coast Brewing Cº. is a band of contrasts—fire and ice, forest and river. Liebman, Young’s Market Cº. a Coltrane acolyte, blends remarkably well with impressionistic pianist Richie Beirach, who cut his teeth with Stan Getz, and . Ron McClure—perhaps best known for his stint in Charles Lloyd’s incredibly popular late-’60s band—is a simmering player who, along with Billy’s subtle polyrhythms, powers a band of co-equals. Enchance, which released a landmark album of the same name in 1977, consists of a who’s who of great players from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Master bassist Dave Holland brought in the legacy of Miles Davis, whirlwind pianist Don Pullen came off a long tenure with , astringent saxophonist Dewey Redman had been the tenor foil for alto saxophonist . And what history did Billy Hart bring to the party? Well, by then he had already played in the bands of Shirley Horn, , Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock—and on and on. On Saturday the Enchance lineup will be Hart, the legendary Holland, subtle practitioner Craig Taborn, tenor sax star Joshua Redman, blazing alto saxophonist Oliver Lake and trumpeter-of-a-thousand-colors Eddie Henderson. BILLY HART QUARTET - with Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street and Billy Hart SUN JUNE 5 OCEANS OF TIME - revisited (recorded 1996 and released 1997) Billy Hart, leader, with Craig Handy (in place of , RIP), Chris Potter, Mark Feldman, David “Fuze” Fiuczynski, David Kikoski, Cecil McBee and guest Lorca Hart on a second drum set billy hart: a 40-year unday starts out with The Billy Hart Quartet, the drummer’s current working band, which draws on a lineup retrospective Srepresenting the best of the current New York jazz sound— DAY T WO rhythmically adventurous, deeply thoughtful, emotionally probing, quietly fiery. The players are the unpredictable pianistEthan Jackson Theater Iverson (of ), first-call bassistBen Street, cerebrally swinging tenor man Mark Turner and Hart. 4400 Day School Place Santa Rosa Wrapping up the Billy extravaganza is Oceans of Time, which made a record of the same name in 1996, capturing a bit of the energy 7:00pm of early fusion bands like , The Mahavishnu Orchestra $65 | $45 | $25 and, of course, , the seminal Herbie Hancock band that Reserved Seating featured Billy (and also Eddie Henderson of Enchance). Billy’s generous drumming with Oceans of Time lays down a magic carpet for local tenor sax hero Craig Handy, tenor-sax wonder Chris Sponsors: Potter, dazzling violinist Mark Feldman, explosive guitarist Arbor Bench Vineyards David “Fuze” Fiuczynski, propulsive pianist David Kikoski, bass stalwart Cecil McBee, -forward drummer Lorca Hart North Coast Brewing Cº. and Billy—a father-and-son drum dream team. Young’s Market Cº. Billy is the tie that binds it all together. But how? Like very few other drummers, Billy has a timeless style that transcends genres. This requires an acute sensitivity to whatever his bandmates are doing in every moment, and having the chops to adapt as needed. It requires following and leading simultaneously, which may seem contradictory until you factor in the catalyst: swing. Nobody swings harder than Billy. At of all this talent are a couple of personal characteristics: humility and love. Billy is just an extremely evolved person. People gravitate to him—musicians are coming from as far away as Germany to play his Healdsburg shows—not just because they know his playing will elevate their game but because of the humble strength he radiates. Billy is a big reason the Healdsburg Jazz Festival has been able to work miracles for 17 years. This time, you will understand exactly why. retha Franklin has SAT JUNE 4 the “Queen of Soul” SUN JUNE 5 Athing trademarked, but Lady Bianca is the lady bianca “Queen of the Blues and bobbe Gospel.” Like Aretha, Lady Bianca is all soul. She was group born in Kansas City, Missouri, norris & BLUES BRUNCH in 1953 and spent much of her childhood in Macon, Georgia, larry soaking up the same nutrients that gave rise to Big Joe dunlap duo Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards Turner, Melba Liston and Otis SEASONS OF 4401 Slusser Road, Windsor Redding. After singing gospel JAZZ 11am | $30 music and playing piano in churches, Lady Bianca (then Seasons of the Vineyard Sponsor: Bianca Thornton) moved 113 Plaza Street Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards to the Bay Area at age 17 to attend the San Francisco 2-4pm | No Cover Sonoma- Cutrer wine by the Conservatory of Music. In glass and brunch available for 1972, she played purchase. in a stage production of ’ Evolution of the Healdsburg Jazz Wine Club Blues, putting her formidable members may redeem their pipes on notice. She became a background vocalist for Sly and June Collection free ticket for the Family Stone, she toured this event. with and recorded by romantic and for much of the professional couple ‘80s, and she worked with John A since the 1970s, Lee Hooker and , singer Bobbe Norris and among many others. pianist/arranger Larry Dunlap have a huge amount Finally going solo in 1995, she of musical history between released a slew of albums, them, which they readily three of which—Best Kept communicate in music. Secret, Rollin’, and Through Bobbe started charming Bay a Woman’s Eyes—were Area audiences with her lush, nominated for Grammy awards. contralto voice in the early Lady Bianca possesses three ‘60s, performing at all the major musical weapons: a voice famous clubs, such as Jimbo’s that can swoop from slow blues Bop City, the Blackhawk to barrelhouse rock ‘n’ roll, a and the Jazz Workshop. An crystalline keyboard style, and Oregon native, Larry cut a a sense of the theatrical that similar swath through the make audiences fall in love Portland area. He moved to with her. At the Blues Brunch, Europe, she to New York, she’ll be getting rip-roaring and they both converged in support from bassist Oshman San Francisco. At Seasons Oden, guitarist Charles of the Vineyard on Sunday Spikes and drummer Joey afternoon, they will play Tuso. Brunch was never like originals and standards with this before. an intimacy that few duets can match. MON JUNE 6 TUE JUNE 7 kevin grupo fitzsimmons falso baiano quartet HEALDSBURG PLAZA JAZZ AND WINE Healdsburg Plaza | Healdsburg Avenue DINNER 6:00-8:00pm | FREE Dry Creek Kitchen 317 Healdsburg Avenue 6:30-9:30pm Reservations recommended 707.431.0330 charliepalmer.com

n Monday, the Dry Creek Kitchen will Oheat up with the hard-charging, post-bop vibe of the Kevin Fitzsimmons Quartet, a Sonoma County favorite thanks to the sharp playing of the leader on drums, Chris Amberger (formerly with , Dexter Gordon, uman beings originated in Africa, and so did Donald Byrd, Red Garland, music. African rhythms, brought to the Americas among others) on bass, Delta Hvia slaves, were the seeds that gave rise to College Music Department blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and basically all forms of head Aaron Garner on popular music in what became the United States. Those piano, and Francis Vanek, seeds spread much farther, instigating dozens of forms, a polished sax man who has including soca, calypso, bachata, mambo, reggae—and played with Ernie Watts, Tom one that arose in 19th century Brazil called choro. The Scott and Eddie Daniels. Bay Area band Grupo Falso Baiano is a traditional choro and samba quartet that uses acoustic instruments that include the 7-string guitar, mandolin, reeds and the pandeiro (a Brazilian tambourine). The group includes Zack Pitt-Smith on woodwinds, Brian Moran on 7-string guitar, Jesse Appelman on mandolin and Ami Molinelli on percussion. They will have a couple of guest Brazilians in tow—vocalist Fabiana Passoni and percussionist Jorge Alabe. In its rhythmic approach and instrumental blends, choro shares some characteristics with traditional jazz and dixieland. Call it a case of parallel musical evolution. Or forget that and just dance. WED JUNE 8 charlie hunter trio DINNER AND JAZZ

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harlie Hunter’s inclusion on the 2016 Healdsburg Tickets for this dinner roster puts the festival squarely of jazz show are available on at Cguitar. Include Julian Lage, who’s playing on June 3, spoonbar.com/events and you have a triumph of guitar innovation—all fertilized in Northern California musical soil. Both are unique, but Charlie really deserves his own category because he has had to actually Reservation Required invent guitars to match his vision. When the Berkeley High 707.433.7222 School graduate emerged on San Francisco stages in the 1990s using an 8-string guitar on which he simultaneously played bass, chords and leads, he seemed almost freakish, but that impression was quickly tempered by a profound musicality that brought him deep respect on the international scene. Now, having released close to 40 albums either as a leader or sideman, he’s reuniting with longtime musical companion, drummer —also a product of the ‘90s Bay Area jazz-funk ferment—for his Healdsburg show with a new addition: cornetist Kirk Knuffke, who has rocketed to the top of the New York scene thanks to an ear-turning style that is distinctly 21st century while drawing on the frenetic power of the be-boppers. The diverse stylistic DNA of these three players makes them highly suited to their plan for the Spoonbar—exploring the music of Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Hank Williams, the Cars, and others. The audience will have to strap in for this one. emale musicians have been steadily chipping away at the men’s world of jazz, but special admiration has to go to the Fwomen who tackle instruments associated with physicality, THU JUNE 9 hence masculinity. One of them is the baritone saxophone—big, heavy, lung-taxing—and while Claire Daly is not the first woman to play it, she is certainly giving it a good run. On Thursday at Paul Mahder Gallery, Daly and her quintet will be performing claire daly her Reinventing Motown show (based on her new album 2648 West Grand Boulevard, produced by Doug Moody for Glass Beach Records), a subject matter that only adds another twist to her legend. quintet The prospect of a woman playing baritone sax on jazz versions of REINVENTING Motown tunes is really too tantalizing to pass up. But let’s not be MOTOWN politically incorrect about it. If it were a man doing it, no one would notice. So why single out the woman? Well, maybe because Claire Daly is so good at it. Paul Mahder Gallery The New York native and graduate won 222 Healdsburg Avenue DownBeat magazine’s Critics’ Poll for Talent Deserving Wider Recognition six years running. Her 1999 album debut Swing Low paulmahdergallery.com earned her a nomination from the Jazz Journalists Association for 7:00pm | $30 Best New Artist, her 2012 album Baritone Monk, produced by the North Coast Brewing Co. to promote its Brother Thelonious Ale, ended up on the jazz charts for 24 weeks, including 9 in the Top 10. Sponsors: She has recorded tributes to (Rah! Rah!) and North Coast Brewing Cº. to her own cousin Mary Joyce (Mary Joyce Project: Nothing to Lose), Healdsburg Sotheby’s who rode a dogsled solo from Juneau to Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1934. Strong women run in the family, but she is the only one capable of International Realty swinging a jazz band on a wide-bodied saxophone. And here’s the thing that truly sets Daly apart. It’s not that she’s a woman. It’s not that she plays the baritone sax. It’s that she swings unbelievably hard. She swings like Benny Goodman with wings. For her Healdsburg show, she’ll have help from Marcus McLauren on bass, Peter Grant on drums, Steve Hudson on piano and the Bay Area’s own guitar hero John Schott. Swinging versions of “I Second That Emotion,” “I Want You Back” and other Motown hits? You betcha. Anybody have a problem with this? FRI Young’s Market Cº. Market Young’s Bench Vineyards Arbor Cº. Brewing Coast North Chalk Hill Estate Sponsors: Beverage Seating Reserved |$45 |$55 $75 8:00pm Rosa Santa Place School Day 4400 Jackson Theater Sparks Thomas Sponsor: Event trio alexander joey

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PHOTO: STEVE J. SHERMAN arcus Shelby is a powerful bass player, bandleader and SUN JUNE 12 composer who has taken on an extra task—reminding and Meducating Americans about African American history and its connection to music, namely blues, gospel, spirituals and jazz. He is a scholar and teacher but without any of the stuffiness associated with those trades. When he undertakes a project, his goal is to be marcus all inclusive, recruiting a broad range of citizens to sing in choirs propelled by his bands. He makes history a living thing. shelby Besides his ongoing music education programs for orchestra: Healdsburg/Geyserville students and his role as creative director of our beyond Freedom Jazz Choir, Shelby is currently Artist in Residence the blues

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PHOTO: STEVE J. SHERMAN he teaches at the Community AUSTIN & Music Center in San Francisco, CRAIG HANDY the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and a variety of other schools. In 2013, Shelby was appointed Raven Theater to the San Francisco Arts 115 North Street Commission where he serves 11:00am | FREE on the Community Arts Grants and Education Committee and Beyond the Blues was the Street Artists Committee. Shelby has composed music commissioned by and is for Anna Deveare Smith plays, co-presented by Joanna Haigood dances, and Yerba Buena Gardens has worked with the Orchestra and Tom Waits. Festival, San Francisco For his show at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, he will be celebrating the rich legacy of freedom movements in the United States. The music will include freedom songs, gospel songs, the blues and prison songs, and will honor the lives of Harriet Tubman and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Shelby recorded suites in honor of both of these heroes of the black struggle—Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land in 2008 and Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 2011. Each is Ellingtonian in scope, and his 20-piece orchestra will perform selections from them at a free Sunday morning concert at the Raven Theater called “Beyond the Blues.” Guest stars will be the ebullient Tiffany Austin, who graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law but decided she could better serve her community by singing jazz, and Craig Handy, a tenor saxophonist who conjures gutbucket players like Gene Ammons and Illinois Jacquet. This show will be something like the Healdsburg Jazz Festival goes to church, although the preaching will be strictly of the musical variety.

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DR. MICHAEL WHITE QUARTET

MJ’S BRASS BOPPERS BRASS BAND r. Michael White is a scholar who’s made it his life’s mission to explain the importance of New Orleans jazz, RUSSIAN Dand then to prove it with his formidable skills on the RIVER clarinet. On Sunday his quartet, featuring equally dedicated RAMBLERS Crescent City musicians/educators Gregg Stafford on and Seva Venat on banjo, is making its California debut, closing out the 18th Healdsburg Jazz Festival at the New Orleans Day on the Green Show at Dry Creek Vineyard. White, 61, was born and Dry Creek Vineyard raised in New Orleans and still lives there despite losing his life’s 3370 Lambert Bridge Rd. possessions—including a vast collection of records, historical Gates Open 4:30pm sheet music and musical instruments dating to the dawn of the $45 includes wine glass 20th century, when jazz was born—to the floods of Hurricane Katrina. As a historian and musician, White has always known Dry Creek Vineyard wine what to do—learn the music well, and play it. His quartet and his and NOLA style cuisine other bands, including the Original Liberty Jazz Band and the will be available for New Orleans Hot Seven, are the world’s greatest living exponents of the genre now known as traditional jazz, whose origins are in purchase the music of King Oliver, W.C. Handy, , Jelly Roll Morton and others. Lawn seating Low chairs allowed This is party music. It’s music for dancing and feeling good even if times are bad. It’s the blues with a bounce that comes from Sponsors: brass. For it to truly work, it has to come from people who have Dry Creek Vineyard lived it, studied it, and have a way of moving it forward. Dr. White David and Lee Stare has developed a style of clarinet that reflects his life: that of a man who lives in the 21st century but who is deeply connected to Healdsburg Jazz Wine the roots of his ancestors. White is descended from the first New Club members can Orleans jazz musicians and has studied with New Orleans legends such as Danny Barker and Willie Humphrey. He played for years redeem their free ticket in parades and at funerals with Doc Paulin’s Brass Band before for this event setting out on his own. He earned a Ph.D. at Tulane University and currently teaches Afro-American Music at Xavier University where he holds the Rosa and Charles Keller Endowed Chair in the Humanities. 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