BAM 2012 Winter/Spring Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Dr. John: Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, Insides Out President Joseph V. Melillo, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Executive Producer Approximate running time: two hours including one intermission Produced by BAM Mar 29—31, 2012 at 8pm A LOUIS ARMSTRONG TRIBUTE Dr. John James Andrews Blind Boys of Alabama Wendell Brunious Telmary Diaz Roy Hargrove Rickie Lee Jones Kermit Ruffins Arturo Sandoval Apr 5—7, 2012 at 8pm LOCKED DOWN Dr. John Dan Auerbach Upcoming concert: Apr 12—14, 2012 at 8pm BAM 2012 Winter/Spring Season sponsor: FUNKY BUT IT’S NU AWLINS Davell Crawford, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Presenting sponsor: Harrison, Ivan Neville, Nicholas Payton, Irma Thomas, and more Leadership support for Dr. John: Insides Out provided by Merryl H. & James S. Tisch, and Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman Dr. John: Louis Armstrong Tribute Louis Armstrong. Photo: Library of Congress Mar 29—31, 2012 at 8pm LOUIS ARMSTRONG TRIBUTE Dr. John piano, guitar, vocals With special guests: James Andrews trumpet Blind Boys of Alabama vocals Wendell Brunious trumpet Telmary Diaz vocals Roy Hargrove trumpet Rickie Lee Jones guitar, vocals Kermit Ruffins trumpet Arturo Sandoval trumpet DR. JOHN’S BAND David Barard bass Alonzo Bowens tenor saxophone and horn leader Gary Winters trumpet John Fohl guitar Jason Mingledorff baritone saxophone Sarah Morrow trombone Kenneth Williams percussion Raymond Weber drums James Lemkin company stage manager Jerry Manuel production manager Dwayne Steele stage technician and sound monitor engineer Sarah Morrow music coordination Alonzo Bowens, Sarah Morrow arrangements Dr. John: Locked Down Apr 5—7, 2012 at 8pm LOCKED DOWN Dr. John piano, guitar, vocals Dan Auerbach guitar, vocals LOCKED DOWN BAND: Dave Guy trumpet Aaron Johnson trombone McCrary Sisters background vocals Leon Michaels keyboards Nick Movshon bass Brian Olive saxophone Yoshihiro Takemasa percussion Maximillien Weissenfeldt drums Featured: Dan Auerbach (left) and Dr. John (right). Photo: Alysse Gafkjen v Dr. John. Photo by James DeMaria Who’s Who Dr. John, (piano, guitar, vocals) On TRIBAL, which was released in 2010, Dr. Known to friends and family as Mac Reben- John revisited the classic, swampy gris-gris style nack, Dr. John is universally celebrated as the that put him on the map. After a half-century living embodiment of the rich musical heritage of creating music for others and himself, Dr. exclusive to New Orleans. His very colorful John continues to write, arrange, produce, and musical career began in the 1950s when he interpret with passion, dazzling and delighting wrote and played guitar on some of the greatest audiences on tour across the globe. records to come out of the Crescent City, includ- ing recordings by Professor Longhair, Art Neville, LOCKED DOWN Joe Tex, and Frankie Ford. A notorious gun incident forced the artist to give up the guitar and Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) concentrate on organ and piano. Further trouble The Black Keys guitarist and singer Dan at home sent Dr. John west in the 1960s, where Auerbach and his bandmate, drummer Patrick he continued to be in demand as a session musi- Carney, recently released the critically acclaimed, cian, playing on records by Sonny and Cher, Van bestselling album El Camino. Ten years after Morrison, and Aretha Franklin, and the Rolling forming in their native Akron, OH, the Grammy– Stones’ Exile on Main Street, to name a few. winning duo recently embarked on their first During that time he launched his solo career, de- arena tour, which includes two sold-out shows at veloping the charismatic persona of Dr. John The Madison Square Garden. Auerbach’s solo debut, Nite Tripper. Adorned with voodoo charms and Keep It Hid, was released in 2009 by Nonesuch. regalia, a legend was born with his breakthrough Upon relocating to Nashville in 2010, he created 1968 album Gris-gris, which established his the Easy Eye Sound studio, where he produced unique blend of voodoo mysticism, funk, rhythm Dr. John’s new album, Locked Down, along with & blues, psychedelic rock, and Creole roots. His records by artists such as Hacienda and the many career highlights include the masterful Growlers. The Black Keys also made the album album Sun, Moon and Herbs in 1971, which El Camino there, with Danger Mouse and the included cameos by Eric Clapton and Mick band serving as co-producers. Jagger, and 1973’s In the Right Place, which contained the chart hits “Right Place Wrong A LOUIS ARMSTRONG TRIBUTE Time” and “Such A Night.” Dr. John garnered Grammy Award wins in 1989, 1992, 1996, and Louis Armstrong (ca. 1900—1971) 2000. In 2004, his musical love letter to the city Louis Armstrong, also known as “Satchmo” and of New Orleans, “N’awlinz Dis Dat or D’udda,” “Pops”) was born in New Orleans to impov- was awarded the prestigious Académie Charles erished parents. He wound up in the Colored Cros 57ème Palmarès award in France—the first Waifs Home at 12, where he learned several time since the 1970s that an artist from North instruments, focusing on the cornet. He was America received the award. He has received six influenced by Joe “King” Oliver, whom he re- other award nominations over the years. In 2007 placed in Kid Ory’s band in 1919, which toured he was nominated for a Grammy for Sippiana local clubs, riverboats, and trains. Armstrong Hericane, his Hurricane Katrina benefit album. moved to Chicago in 1922 to join Oliver’s Other awards include the American Society of Creole Jazz Band; they made their first record- Young Musicians 2007 Trailblazer Award. After ing the following year with several musicians Hurricane Katrina and government bungles who continued to play with Armstrong, including bashed New Orleans in 2005, Dr. John immedi- his future second wife (of four), pianist Lillian ately stepped up to the plate with generous relief Hardin, who urged him to go to New York to fund-raising concerts and recordings and angry join Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. Armstrong public words of protest. In 2008 he released City played on many recordings for Okeh, which That Care Forgot, an album that earned him a signed his band, Louis Armstrong and His Hot Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Five (and later, His Hot Seven), in 1925. Over Who’s Who the next few years, Armstrong and his band the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in recorded prolifically and gained a huge following. Talladega, AL. Today, more than 70 years later, They shifted from playing all at once toward an founding member Jimmy Carter can look back emphasis on solo and improvisation, and by on a career far richer than what he and his 1929, Armstrong—with his signature gruff vocal colleagues could have imagined. The group has style, scat singing skills, and flamboyant trumpet won many awards, including Lifetime Achieve- playing—became a huge pop star, appearing ment honors from the Grammys and the National on Broadway. In the early 1930s, he toured Endowment for the Arts. The Blind Boys have Europe with great success and joined Decca entertained around the world, been profiled on Records in 1935. He made his first Hollywood 60 Minutes, sung for two presidents at the White appearance in Pennies From Heaven in 1936 House, and were inducted into the Gospel Music alongside Bing Crosby, and eventually appeared Hall of Fame. with Barbra Streisand in Hello, Dolly! (1969). In 1942, he moved to the Corona neighborhood of Wendell Brunious (trumpet) Queens for the remainder of his life. In the wake Born in 1954, Wendell Brunious is an American of World War II, Armstrong reduced his band to jazz trumpeter and bandleader from New Or- a small combo—the All-Stars—which achieved leans. After studying music at Southern Univer- immense success. As the grandson of slaves and sity, Brunious went on to play with a number of an advocate for civil rights, Armstrong worked brass and dance bands in New Orleans through- tirelessly and in all musical styles, influencing out the 70s. He eventually joined the Preserva- his own generation and the ones to follow, and tion Hall Jazz Band and became its leader in his upbeat and outsized personality made him a 1987. Brunious has played with the likes of favorite across races and genres. His countless the Eureka Brass Band, Lionel Hampton, Linda hits include “Mack the Knife,” “When the Saints Hopkins, and Sammy Rimington. He currently Go Marchin’ In,” “What a Wonderful World,” resides and plays regularly in New Orleans. “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and “Hello, Dolly!” Telmary Diaz (vocals) James Andrews (trumpet) One of the shining stars of the Cuban under- A New Orleans native, James Andrews earned ground music movement is the native poetess the alias “Satchmo of the Ghetto” in his neigh- and rapper, Telmary Diaz. Without placing borhood of Treme, where the name still sizzles. herself completely in the hip-hop tradition, Diaz He played with a variety of brass bands (Treme has been able to use the genre as a means of Brass Band, New Birth Brass Band) before form- expressing her ideas and communicating with ing his own, and has played with Quincy Jones, young people in Cuba. She has collaborated with Dizzy Gillespie, Danny Barker, and Michelle the likes of Isaac Delgado, Jane Bunnet, Desce- Shocked. A protégé of soul man Allen Toussaint, mer Bueno, the Afro-Cuban All Stars, Jane Bun, Andrews has taken his place alongside his peers Los Van Van, and the Buena Vista Social Club. swinging the New Orleans tradition in contem- She has performed and recorded with figures porary ways.