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JOE HENDERSON'S "DOUBLE RAINBOW" QUARTET with Hello Alves, piano Nilson Matta, acoustic bass Paulo Braga, drums and guests THE JOHN SCOFIELD QUARTET Seiji Ozawa Hall Saturday, September 2, at 1:30 p.m. DIANE SCHUUR and her Trio Seiji Ozawa Hall at 7:30 p.m. TONY BENNETT and his Trio Koussevitzky Music Shed Sunday, September 3, at 1:30 p.m. FLORA PURIM and AIRTO Seiji Ozawa Hall at 7:30 p.m. TITO PUENTE LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE Seiji Ozawa Hall Monday, September 4, at 1:30 p.m. THE NEW BLACK EAGLE JAZZ BAND Seiji Ozawa Hall )':-<,-.. at Tanglewood "One of the finest jazz singers of this, or any, day' " Los Angeles Times W&jm- %$&fy \- :-\ '.':.; # September Joe Henderso JAZZ AT Verve interactive: <http:www.jazzonlin.com/JAZZ/verve.htm> $ Available at: CDs: $11.99 HMV Cassette: $7.99 ARTISTS Shirley Horn Jazz Album of the Year and Jazz Artist of the Year, and spent seventeen weeks on native Washing- A Billboard's jazz chart. She has subsequently tonian, Shirley released Light Out ofDarkness (A Tribute to was born in Horn Ray Charles) and / Love You Paris, recorded into a house- 1934 in one night in March 1992 at Paris's famed hold where love Theatre du Chatelet, with Charles Abies on of music was bass and Steve Williams on drums. actively encour- aged by her moth- er. She studied Joe Henderson composition at Howard University <3&- ^JHHB With his latest and was awarded a scholarship to the Juil- MM tttffi release, Double liard School. Unable to cover her living s Rainbow (Verve), expenses, she returned to Washington to Grammy-winning resume her musical training at Howard. In tenor saxophonist 1960, at the behest of Miles Davis, Ms. Horn Joe Henderson traveled to New York to be the opening act pays tribute to the for his stint at the Village Vanguard. During late Brazilian this time she also released such albums as composer Antonio Embers and Ashes, Loads of Love, Shirley Horn Carlos Jobim. The with Horns, and Travelin ' Light, and per- new recording is formed on the soundtracks to For Love of Ivy the third in Mr. Henderson's highly ac- and A Dandy in Aspic. Soon Quincy Jones claimed series of composer songbooks, joined the voices championing her mastery, which also includes Lush Life: The Music of but, by the mid-' 60s, Ms. Horn had reset- Billy Strayhorn and So Near, So Far (Musings tled in Washington for a lengthy, self- for Miles). Since signing with the Verve label imposed exile to raise her daughter. Her three years ago, Joe Henderson has resurgence came in the 1980s with the sign- received Grammy awards for Best Jazz ing of a Verve contract and subsequent live Instrumental Solo for Lush Life and two recording. The next three years brought Grammy awards (for Best Jazz Instrumental more acclaim for Ms. Horn and such record- Solo and Best Jazz performance, Small ings as / Thought About You, Close Enough for Group) for So Near, So Far. He was named Love, and You Won't Forget Me (notable for Billboard's #1 Jazz Artist in 1993, and Lush the appearance of her mentor, Miles Davis, Life was selected as one of the best records for being her first Billboard #1 , and for gar- of the last ten years in CD Review's tenth- nering her first Grammy nomination). In anniversary issue. For two consecutive years 1992, Shirley Horn recorded Here's to Life, he won the triple crown (#1 Tenor Saxo- her tour deforce collaboration with Johnny phonist, #1 Jazz Artist, and #1 Jazz Album) Mandel, which earned her Billboard's 1992 in the Downbeat readers' and critics' polls. In addition, Mr. Henderson was asked to and You're Under Arrest) and straight-ahead perform at the White House for President jazz with Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, and Clinton's inauguration, at the Newport Joe Henderson, in addition to releasing a Jazz Festival's fortieth-anniversary celebra- series of highly acclaimed recordings as a tion, and alongside Melissa Manchester at leader. His Blue Matter and Still Warm are the 1993 Billboard Awards. The seeds of considered modern funk classics, while Double Rainbow 'were planted at two 1993 more recent modern jazz albums like Time concerts in Brazil, at which Joe Henderson on My Hands and Meant to Be have consis- first met and performed with Antonio tently ranked in jazz polls worldwide. After Carlos Jobim. The two reunited in April completing his recent collaboration with 1994 for the Carnegie Hall concert cele- longtime friend Pat Metheny entitled / Can brating Verve's fiftieth anniversary. Unfor- See Your House from Here, Mr. Scofield was tunately, serious illness prevented Mr. Jobim dubbed "King John" in the headline accom- from participating in the recording, which panying his cover story in Downbeat Magazine. included South Americans Nico Assump- On his most recent recording, a soulful cao, Paulo Braga, Oscar Castro-Nueves, and collection on the Blue Note label entitled Eliane Elias as well as North Americans Hand Jive, he collaborates with tenor saxo- Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, and phonist Eddie Harris. Jack Dejohnette. Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1939, Joe Hen- derson grew up listening to his brother's Diane Schuur jazz records and was given a tenor saxo- Diane Schuur has phone at age nine. After studying at Ken- received two tucky State University and Wayne State in Grammy awards as Detroit, he was drafted into the military in Best Jazz Vocalist, 1960. Upon his discharge in 1962 he settled has twice per- in New York and hooked up with trumpeter formed at the Kenny Dorham, with whom he made his White House, and first recording in April 1963, Una Mas has made chart- (Blue Note). Two months later Mr. Hender- topping record- son made his Blue Note debut as a leader, ings. Acclaimed with Page One. He went on to appear on sev- worldwide for her eral important Blue Note releases, among vocal versatility and incredible range, Ms. them the popular Songfor My Father by the Schuur was "discovered" by Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver Quintet. who brought her onstage at the 1979 Monterey Jazz Festival. She wowed the audi- ence and jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, who John Scofield become her mentor and introduced her In nearly two during a televised performance at the decades of White House. That performance led to a recording, jazz recording contract with GRP, still her label guitarist John today. Regularly compared to Sarah Vaughan Scofield has and Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Schuur began explored straight- singing to their records from the age of ahead jazz, two. Blind since birth, she found her voice regional musics, a bridge to the world and started her career bebop, rock- with an engagement at the Tacoma Hilton infused fusion, at age nine. Since her first GRP release, and funk. Equally Ms. Schuur has recorded a dozen albums, impressive as a composer and an improvis- including In Tribute, an affectionate salute er, Mr. Scofield began his career shortly to the influences in her life (especially long- after leaving Boston's Berklee College of time idol Dinah Washington), and Heart to Music. There he played with such musi- Heart, a collaboration with B.B. King. cians as vibist Gary Burton and bassist Steve Swallow, who later performed in Mr. Sco- field's first trio and on its recordings Shinola, Out Like a Light, and Bar Talk. Over the years, John Scofield has recorded and toured with a variety of artists, playing elec- tric jazz with Miles Davis for three years (and on such albums as Star People, Decoy, H I sEn3ECM«iCjlttKfiBJflV%a Tony Bennett In December of that year he shared the Tony Bennett stage with a number of Alternative Nation entered his fifth performers in a series of six Christmas con- decade in popu- certs hosted by alternative rock radio sta- lar music by tions across the country. Since his renewed releasing an association with Columbia Records in 1986, album version of Tony Bennett has released one of the most his highly consistently praised bodies of recorded acclaimed MTV work in American popular music: The Art of Unplugged session, Excellence (May 1986); the anthology reissue first broadcast in Tony BennettJazz (April 1987); Bennett/Berlin June 1994. Com- (October 1988), a tribute to the composer prising twenty classic tunes from the "great in his lOOth-birthday year; the Grammy- American songbook," Tony Bennett—MTV nominated Astoria: Portrait of the Artist Unplugged won the 1995 Grammy Award for (February 1990); and his last two Columbia Album of the Year, bringing Mr. Bennett's records, a tribute to Frank Sinatra entitled lifetime Grammy total to five. The album Perfectly Frank (1992) and Steppin'Out includes contributions from guest artists (1993), each of which won a Grammy in k.d. lang ("Moon Glow") and Elvis Costello the Best Traditional Pop Vocal category. ("They Can't Take That Away From Me"). The son of a grocer and Italian-born immi- Other tracks include "Fly Me to the Moon," grant, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was "Rags to Riches," "Steppin' Out," "Body born in Astoria, Queens (New York City) in and Soul," and "I Left My Heart in San 1926.