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August 29 - September 2, 1996 Seiji Ozawa Hall

Thursday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. ARTURO SANDOVAL SEXTET

Friday, August 30, at 7:30 p. m. BETTY CARTER and her

Saturday, August 31, at 1:30 p.m. JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO with special guest BUCKY PIZZARELLI

at 7:30 p.m. QUARTET

Sunday, September 1, at 1:30 p.m. T.S. MONK, JR., QUARTET

at 7:30 p.m. GEORGE SHEARING and JOE WILLIAMS

Monday, September 2, at 1:30 p.m. QUARTET with special guests THE CHRISTIAN McBRIDE QUINTET

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ARTISTS

Arturo Sandoval and performed at conservatories and uni- Born in Artemisa, versities throughout the world. Last year Cuba, trumpet Hal Leonard Publishing released three new player Arturo method books that include Arban and orig- Sandoval was inal exercises by Mr. Sandoval. A featured granted political artist in the United Nation asylum by the Orchestra, Mr. Sandoval was also featured United States in in that orchestra's 1992 Grammy-winning July 1990; he and Live at Royal Festival Hall. He has per- his family have formed with , Woody Herman, settled in Miami, , Michel Legrand, and Stan Florida. A protege Getz, and his playing can also be heard on of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, such film soundtracks as Havana, The Mam- Mr. Sandoval began studying classical trum- bo Kings (which includes his Grammy-nomi- pet at the age of twelve, but soon caught nated composition "Mambo Caliente"), and the excitement of the jazz world. Mr. San- The Perez Family. His own include doval was a founding member of the Gram- Arturo Sandoval & The Latin Train, the 1994 my-winning group Irakere, whose style mixed Grammy winner (Best Latin Jazz Album) jazz, classical, rock, and traditional Cuban Damon, Dream Come True (with Michel music. In 1981 he left Irakere to form his Legrand), 1 Remember Clifford (dedicated own band, which garnered enthusiastic to the great Clifford Brown), and Flight praise from critics and audiences in Europe to Freedom. and Latin America. Mr. Sandoval was voted Cuba's best instrumentalist from 1982 to 1990. Before founding Irakere, he performed Betty Carter with the Cuban Orchestra of Modern Music and was a guest artist with the BBC Sympho- Like Ella Fitzger- ny in London and the Leningrad Symphony ald and Sarah in the Soviet Union. Since his defection he Vaughan, Betty has increased his classical performances, Carter first gained appearing with the National Symphony, Los attention by win- Angeles Philharmonic, and Atlanta Sym- ning an amateur phony, among others. In 1993 he appeared contest. While still with John Williams and the Boston Pops a teenager in her Orchestra in a performance taped for native , Ms. "Evening at Pops." Currently a full profes- Carter performed sor at Florida International University, with such modern Mr. Sandoval maintains an extensive educa- jazz founders as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie tional program, offering about fifty perfor- Parker, , and . At age mances and clinics per year. He has lectured eighteen, she joined 's Big

, _ r -jip -*im0>* 0*- Band, an experience that also taught her John Pizzarelli about running an band and writing ar- Pizzarelli's rangements. She left Hampton in the early John 1950s and moved to New York, where she most recent re- played in small clubs. During a Washington, cording, After D.C., engagement with Miles Davis, she was Hours, has an inti- introduced to his agents. This led to a tour mate tone and fea- with Charles and their classic collabora- tures the vocalist/ tive album, which produced the hit duet guitarist in ballads "Baby It's Cold Outside." The recording and mid-tempo was a turning point in Betty Carter's career. tunes. The John Pizzarelli Trio Through the 1950s and '60s, she recorded j was for Epic, Peacock, ABC, Paramount, ATCO, 1 chosen to open and United Artists. But with major labels' Frank Sinatra's 1994 tour dates, an experi- attention turning away from acoustic jazz in ence that partly influenced the choice of the late 1960s, she founded her own label, repertory for After Hours. The selections in- Bet-Car, which produced such classic re- clude "In the Wee Small Hours," "It Might as cordings as The Audience with Betty Carter. In Well Be Spring," "Sometimes I'm Happy," the next two decades, Ms. Carter released "You're Looking at Me," "Be My Baby To- albums on Bet-Car and toured the college night," "Lullaby," and "But Not For Me." circuit with her young bands. Then in 1988, With brother Martin on bass and Ray Ken- Verve offered her a contract, releasing the nedy on piano, the John Pizzarelli Trio has recording Look What I've Got and reissuing developed a strong following across the her four earlier Bet-Car albums on compact country. The son of famed jazz guitarist disc. Betty Carter has been voted #1 Female Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli grew up in Jazz Singer in the Down Beat Critics or New Jersey listening to Nat King Cole and Readers poll for multiple years. Look What Billy Joel. Although he had a rock-band I've Got won a Grammy in 1988, and she was phase as a teenager, John always enjoyed lis- nominated the same year for a duet with tening to his dad swing with such artists as Carmen McRae. Ms. Carter's 1990 live album and George Barnes, and spent the first three years his career Droppin' Things and her 1992 album It's Not of accompanying About the Melody, were both nominated for his father. John Pizzarelli began on the banjo Grammy awards. Her 1994 release Feed the as a boy of six or seven, switching four years Fire, recorded live at London's Royal Festi- later to guitar. His vocal career was inspired val Hall, captures a tour deforce concert. by the re-release of some old Nat King Cole Personally invited by President Clinton to records. Making a return Tanglewood ap- perform at the White House, Betty Carter pearance, Mr. Pizzarelli appeared in the 1993 was also headlining artist at Verve's 50th Jazz Festival, and in 1995 performed in a anniversary celebration at . Gershwin tribute with the Boston Pops Or- chestra under the direction of Keith Lockhart, a performance taped for "Evening at Pops."

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Bucky Pizzarelli concert he has appeared with the New Guitarist John Amsterdam Symphony, the North Jersey "Bucky" Pizzarelli 's Symphony, the New York Pops with Skitch long career has Henderson, and Canada's Thunder Bay taken him from Symphony. He has appeared in numerous the Vaughn jazz festivals across the United States and in Monroe Orchestra Europe. An active performer in jazz rooms to the White and college concerts, Mr. Pizzarelli is also a House, where he faculty member emeritus of William Pater- performed in con- son College in Wayne, New Jersey. cert with Benny Goodman and Frank Sinatra. Along the way, he has been a Dave Brubeck staff musician with NBC, ABC, Skitch Hen- derson, Doc Severinsen, and Mitch Miller; Jazz legend Dave he has appeared at Carnegie Hall with Brubeck was pre- George Barnes and Les Paul, performed sented with a with the Boston Pops in duet with Stephane Lifetime Achieve- Grappelli, and played a solo concert at New ment Award at York's Town Hall. Mr. Pizzarelli may be this year's Gram- heard on many albums, including Guitars my Awards, a show Pure & Honest dead The Guitar Album, both televised interna- with George Barnes, Green Guitar Blues, tionally. This is Bucky s Bunch, solo albums entitled Love the latest in a long Songs and Solo Flight, and a number of list of honors be- albums recorded in Europe with Benny stowed upon the 75-year-old pianist and Goodman. He toured Europe with Mr. composer, who began his career sixty years Goodman four times, made two American ago in the small town of lone, California. tours with Stephane Grappelli, and toured Born in Concord, California, Dave Brubeck Japan with Zoot Sims and . In worked his way through college as a jazz

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FEBRUARY 9, 1997 Explore the full spectrum of chamber music repertoire MOZART Quintet in E-flat for horn and strings, K.407 VARESE 'Octandre' for , flute, oboe, clarinet, with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, the bassoon, horn, trumpet, and trombone KIRCHNER Piano Trio No. 2 acclaimed ensemble founded in 1964 and made up of DVORAK Trio in F minor for piano, violin, and cello, Opus 65

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TO SUBSCRIBE NOW CALL THE SUBSCRIPTION OFFICE AT (617) 266-7575 pianist and in 1942 entered the U.S. Army. magazines, Down Beat Hall of Fame, the Upon his discharge in 1946, he studied American Eagle Award from the National composition with famed French composer Music Council, and honorary doctorates Darius Milhaud, who was teaching at Mills from six American universities and one College in Oakland, California. With en- from the University of Dulsburg in Germany. couragement from Milhaud, Mr. Brubeck In 1994 President Clinton presented him began composing and performing with an with the National Medal of the Arts. Dave octet, which recorded and received critical Brubeck has appeared previously at Tangle- attention as an innovative force in jazz. wood, in the 1992 and 1994 jazz festivals. Among the musicians in that early octet were Cal Tjader and Paul Desmond, who later became members of the Dave Brubeck T.S. Monk Trio and Quartet, and clarinetist Bill Smith, who still appears regularly with the Dave The Charm is Brubeck Quartet. Dave Brubeck and his Thelonious Monk,

Trio with Cal Tjader and Ron Crotty cut Jr.'s third record- their first records in San Francisco in 1949 ing as a leader. and won several awards. When the Dave The drummer and Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond on his sextet—trum- alto saxophone was formed in 1951, their peter/arranger distinctive harmonic approach and daring Don Sickler, improvisations caused a stir in the jazz pianist Ronnie world, launching what later became known Mathews, bassist as "West Coast" or "cool" jazz. By 1954 Mr. Scott Colley, tenor- Brubeck's popularity was such that his pic- soprano saxophonist/ flutist Willie Williams, ture appeared on the cover of Time Maga- and alto saxophonist/ flutist Bobby Porcelli zine and his recordings were being played —have been recording and playing together throughout the world. In 1958 the State for three years, and have developed a tight, Department sent the quartet on a three- cohesive sound. In addition to original com- month tour of countries behind the Iron positions, The Charm also includes "Bolivar Curtain and Middle East, resulting in com- Blues," a song from the famous catalogue positions and recordings influenced by of Thelonious Monk, Sr. Born 43 years ago world music. Always expanding jazz hori- in New York, Thelonious Monk, Jr., grew up zons, Dave Brubeck and his Quartet per- with all the giants ofjazz in his house: John formed and recorded with Leonard Bern- Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, and stein and the New York Philharmonic, and Art Blakey, to name just a few. He played in with legendary jazz figures Louis Armstrong, his father's last band in the mid-1970s be- Jimmy Rushing, and Carmen McRae. Mr. fore creating his R&B group, T.S. Monk, Brubeck continues to appear as composer/ with his sister Barbara Monk and vocalist performer in concerts of his choral and Yvonne Fletcher. Their biggest hits were symphonic compositions. He celebrated his "Bon Bon Vie" and "Too Much Too Soon." 75th birthday with the London Symphony He played in Clifford Jordan's Orchestra performing an all-Brubeck pro- and with pianist Walter David before head- gram featuring as soloists the pianist and ing his own sextet and recording his first four of his sons. A pioneer in the presenta- two Blue Note releases, Take One and Chang- tion of two indigenous art forms—jazz and ing of the Guard. Thelonious Monk, Jr.'s and modern dance—Mr. Brubeck formed a accomplishments as a drummer and band unique collaboration with the Murray Louis leader in his own right are impressive in Dance Company, with which he has toured the jazz world. Outside of that world, Mr. internationally. He has performed before Monk has assumed the role ofjazz spokes- eight U.S. Presidents, princes, kings, heads person, hosting a nationally televised "Jazz of state, and Pope John Paul II. His many at the White House" and serving as chair- honors include a star on the Hollywood man of the Thelonious Monk Institute for Walk of Fame, numerous awards from trade nine years. George Shearing Joe Williams

George Shearing Joe Williams, who enjoys an interna- has been in show tional reputation business for sixty as a pianist, years, was born in arranger, and Cordele, Georgia, composer. Equally in 1929, and at home on the raised in Chicago concert stage and by his mother. He in jazz clubs, Mr. sang with many Shearing is recog- bands, including nized for inven- those of Red tive, orchestrated jazz. Among his 300-plus Saunders, Johnny Long, Erskine Tate, Jim- compositions is the jazz standard "Lullaby my Noone, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel of Birdland." He was born in 1919 in the Hampton, and, of course, . Battersea area of London. Congenitally That association lasted from 1954 to 1961, blind, he was the youngest of nine children. when Basie's "Number One Son" left the His only formal musical education consist- band, with the leader's blessing, to become ed of four years of study at the Linden a solo performer. Since that time Joe Wil- Lodge School for the Blind. Although he liams has made nearly fifty albums, received was awarded several university scholarships, countless awards and honorary degrees, he was forced to refuse them in favor of the appeared in movies, on television, and in more financially productive pursuit of play- commercials, and performed with sympho- ing piano in a neighborhood pub. Having ny orchestras. In 1986 he appeared with joined an all-blind band in the 1930s, Mr. John Williams and the Boston Pops Or- Shearing developed a friendship with noted chestra in their season-opening concert, a jazz critic and author Leonard Feather. performance taped for PBS's "Evening at Through this contact he made his first Pops." Joe Williams also had a recurring appearance on BBC radio. In 1947 George role as "Grandpa Al," Claire Huxtable's Shearing moved to the United States, father, on . A stylist who can where he spent two years establishing his interpret any kind of music, Mr. Williams fame. In 1949 he gathered a quintet to chooses songs with a common ingredient: record "September in the Rain" for MGM, an underlying swinging style. His extensive which was a huge success. His U.S. reputa- discography includes Every Day I Have the tion was permanently established when he Blues with Count Basie and Orchestra, A was booked into Birdland, New York's leg- Man Ain 't Supposed to Cry, A Swinging Night endary jazz spot. In 1982 and 1983 George at Birdland: Joe Williams Live, Live at the Shearing won Grammy Awards for record- Century Plaza, Nothin ' But the Blues, In Good ings he made with Mel Torme. He recently Company, and Joe Williams with the Count released That Shearing Sound, his first quin- Basie Orchestra: Live at the Detroit Orchestra tet recording in 20 years (Telarc). In Octo- Hall. In his 1994 album Here's to Life, Mr. ber 1994 he was the subject of a British tele- Williams is accompanied by his longtime vision documentary entitled "The Shearing friend George Shearing. Touch." He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Westminster College in Salt City Hamilton College in New Lake and Joe Lovano York. In 1978 he received the prestigious Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Tenor saxophon- Americans, and a community recreational ist Joe Lovano was facility in Battersea was named the George named Jazz Artist Shearing Centre in his honor. In May 1993 of the Year in the he was presented with the British equiva- 1995 and 1996 lent of the Grammy, the Ivor Novello Award Down Beat Critics for Lifetime Achievement. George Shearing Poll and the 1995 has performed for U.S. Presidents Ford, Readers Poll, and Carter, and Reagan and at a Royal Com- Tenor Player of mand Performance for Queen Elizabeth II the Year in the and Prince Philip. 1995 Readers Poll. His recording Rush //owrwas named Album of the Year in 1995 in both the Critics and the Readers Poll, and Mr. Lovano was Christian McBride named International Artist of the Year in 1995 by Canada's Jazz Report Magazine. Born Following upon in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952, Joe Lovano the overwhelming began playing alto sax as a child. His father, success of his first tenor saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano, Verve release, taught his son not only the basics, but also Gettin'ToIt, 23- about dynamics and interpretation, regular- year-old bassist ly introducing him to other jazz artists. Christian McBride recently released While still a teenager, Joe Lovano immersed himself in the jam-session culture of Cleve- Number Two land and absorbed the free jazz experiments Express, also on of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Verve. With these Jimmy Giuffre. After high school he attend- two recordings as a leader and more than ed Boston's Berklee School of Music, where 100 others to his credit, Christian McBride he met such future collaborators as John has become the most sought-after young Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Kenny Werner. In bassist in jazz. He was voted the "acoustic bass player 1994 Mr. Lovano received Berklee 's Distin- most deserving of wider recog- guished Alumni Award. His first profession- nition" in both Down Beafs Critics Poll and al job after Berklee, with organist Lonnie in Jazz Times' 1996 Readers Poll. Japan's Smith, brought him to New York for his SwingJournal named him 1996 New Artist recording debut. A stint with Brother Jack of the Year, and he was named Gavin s Jazz McDuff followed and then a three-year tour Artist of the Year in February 1996. Mr. with the Woody Herman Thundering Herd McBride was inspired to play the bass by his (1976-79), which culminated in the 40th father, Lee Smith, who played with such Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall. After 1970s acts as the Delfonics, Billy Paul, Blue leaving the Herman Herd, Mr. Lovano set- Magic, and Major Harris. His great-uncle tled in New York, where he eventually Howard Cooper played acoustic bass with joined the Mel Lewis Orchestra, perform- such avant-garde musicians as Sunny Murray ing and recording with that ensemble from and Byard Lancaster. After studying classi- 1980 to 1992. In addition, he worked with cal bass at 's High School for Elvin Jones, Carla Bley, Lee Konitz, Charlie the Performing Arts, as well as with bassist Haden, and Bob Brookmeyer, among oth- Neil Courtney of the Philadelphia Orches- ers, and in 1981 joined the modern drum- tra, Christian McBride was awarded a schol- mer Paul Motion's band. Joe Lovano gained arship to New York's ; he national attention playing with guitarist decided, however, to accept instead an offer John Scofield's quartet, with whom he from to play in his band. recorded and toured for three years. He Work with Betty Carter, , also gained renown, particularly in Europe, , , and Joshua through his work with the Paul Motion Trio. Redman, among others, followed. Now Since his first engagement as a leader in Christian McBride divides his time between 1991, Joe Lovano has experimented with working and recording with a vast array of different ensembles. As much a composer musicians and leading his own band (which as player, he has come to work, as a leader, features saxophonist Tim Warfield, pianist with two basic ensembles: a piano-less quar- Anthony Wonsey, and drummer ). tet and the Universal Language Sextet. The His most recent projects include appear- sextet's name comes from its Blue Note ances with McCoy Tyner, , debut album entitled Universal Language. and . Mr. McBride has also Mr. Lovano's 1994 Blue Note release enti- recorded with Dave Brubeck and appeared tled Tenor Legacy features tenor saxophonist with Mr. Brubeck on the live 1996 Grammy and was nominated for a telecast. He has a featured musical role in Grammy. In his 1995 Grammy-nominated the new Robert Altman film Kansas City album Rush Hour Mr. Lovano performed and is part of 's All Star Quintet with voice as well as string and woodwind en- this summer. sembles arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller. Earlier this year, Joe Lovano re- leased a double CD, Joe Lovano at the Village Vanguard, which was recorded during two separate engagements at the historic New York jazz spot. 1997 Tanglewood Schedule

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