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. Andrews is also a vocalist and the from the international hip-hop and electronica grandson of the late Jessie “Ooh-Poo-Pah-Doo” community such as Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Hill and the older brother of Troy Andrews (aka Raphael Seebag of the United Future Orchestra, “Trombone Shorty”). He is intent on keeping the and DJ Akakage from Japan. flame of New Orleans soul and R&B alive and burning. Roy Hargrove (trumpet) Grammy-winning trumpeter Roy Hargrove has Blind Boys of Alabama (vocals) firmly established himself among the premier The world has changed since the original ver- players in jazz and beyond. With nearly 20 sion of the Blind Boys of Alabama joined voices recordings as a leader and many more as an in- in 1939, when its members were just kids at dispensible sideman, Hargrove (an early devotee Who’s Who of legend David “Fathead” Newman) has played Arturo Sandoval (trumpet) and recorded with such luminaries such as Son- Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter, pianist, and ny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Roy Haynes, Dizzy composer, was born in 1949 in Artemisa, Cuba Gillespie, and Oscar Peterson, and introduced his and began playing music at age 13 in the village groundbreaking hip-hop/jazz group, RH band. After playing many instruments, he fell Factor, to the world. in love with the trumpet. In 1964, he studied classical trumpet at the Cuban National School Rickie Lee Jones (vocals) of Arts. By age 16 he had earned a place in From the moment she first appeared onSaturday Cuba’s all-star national band. By this time, he Night Live in 1979, Rickie Lee Jones has chal- was totally immersed in jazz, and Dizzy Gillespie lenged her listeners and the establishment with was his idol. In 1971, he was drafted into an absorbing musical vision that defies borders the military, but was still able to play with the and classification. She rocked the culture of Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, where he singer-songwriterdom with her refusal to conform continued his daily practice regimen. Sandoval to the staid and careful eloquence of the folk- co-founded the band Irakere, with Chucho Val- rock generation that came before her. Neither dés and Paquito D’Rivera, which quickly became punk nor pop, she followed a thread of a worldwide sensation. Their appearance at the her own, fusing jazz—the traditional, musical 1978 Newport Jazz Festival introduced them kind, and R&B—the Motown thread that perme- to American audiences and garnered them a ates her work. Her sense of humor, musical recording contract with Columbia Records. dexterity, and song craft are evident on her Sandoval left the group in 1981 to form his own exquisite new album, Balm in Gilead. Jones, band and explore more musical possibilities. He who is joined on the record by Ben Harper, Jon toured worldwide with his new group, playing a Brion, Vic Chesnutt, Bill Frisell, Victoria Williams, unique blend of jazz and Afro-Cuban music, and and Alison Krauss, among other highly talented performed classical music with the BBC Sym- friends, has again captured her generation’s phony Orchestra in London and the Leningrad common experience. “This record was made for Symphony in the former Soviet Union. Sandoval people my age,” says Jones, a single mother enjoys a successful recording career that extends living in California. “Neither young, nor old, we beyond mainstream jazz. He has recorded as fall in between. We love all sorts of music; we’ve a sideman with Johnny Mathis, Gloria Estefan, experienced life ... It’s about our kids, and our Kenny G, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, and Dave parents who are dying, and the things that are Grusin, and has played in concerts with Woody relevant to us at this age ... To my generation, Herman, Herbie Hancock, Woody Shaw, Stan music is the balm that keeps us going.” She Getz, Céline Dion, Tito Puente, and recently with has worked with artists as diverse as Walter Alicia Keys and Justin Timberlake. In January Becker and Mike Watt and all points between. 1995, Sandoval performed at the Super Bowl From her deeply ingrained vaudevillian heritage halftime show with Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, to her great pop music success, and with the and the Miami Sound Machine. In 1997, he respect of her peers and appreciative fans, Jones performed with Céline Dion at the 69th Academy remains tremendously influential on singers and Awards, performing the song “I Finally Found songwriters. Someone.” In 2001, Sandoval was featured on the album Swingin’ for the Fences by Gordon Kermit Ruffins (trumpet) Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. He was a judge at the Kermit Ruffins, a 44-year-old New Orleans second annual Independent Music Awards. San- native, lives with passion, plays with it, and doval defected to the United States while touring sings about it. The swinging, good-time jazz t with Dizzy Gillespie in 1990, and became a nat- hat lured him in as a teenager continues to whet uralized citizen in 1999. Sandoval’s life was the his appetite even three decades and 12 solo subject of the 2000 TV filmFor Love or Country: recordings later. The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy García. He currently resides in Calabasas, CA.