THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA DIRECTED BY TOMMY SMITH PRESENTS

THE MUSIC OF FEATURING

September 2013 Legendary saxophonist BRANFORD MARSALIS occupies a unique place in jazz history and joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra tonight to pay tribute to another of PROGRAMME NOTES jazz’s true greats, saxophonist and composer, WAYNE SHORTER.

Featuring charts including Nefertiti, ESP and Virgo Rising, Branford Marsalis and the Sometimes, you just know that something duties in North America. It’s hard not to SNJO will present music of extraordinary subtlety, passion and melodic character. is going to be special. It’s hard to imagine detect an ever-growing respect among a more potent combination than the critics, fans, pundits and commentators collective power of the SNJO under Tommy worldwide for its courage, its daring and its Smith and the lyrical virtuosity of Branford professionalism. It’s not surprising either Marsalis. It’s harder still to imagine more that audiences are now wondering what expressive music for them to explore they’re going to do next. than selections from the Wayne Shorter repertoire. Wherever you find great jazz minds who think alike you find convergence and There are few late-twentieth century confluence. One of the warmest embraces If you enjoyed tonight’s concert, please do also consider becoming a Friend and help exponents of jazz composition who have in orchestral jazz comes from Tommy support the future of the orchestra and jazz in Scotland. influenced modern music more profoundly Smith and the SNJO. Branford Marsalis, than Wayne Shorter. His contribution to Membership is available by at his -searching best, plays in a way jazz is undeniably significant, from his that often feels like a gentle touch on your personally productive Blue Note years, • Picking up a form at the SNJO desk shoulder. Together, they will be performing through several creative surges with Miles the music of Wayne Shorter, a composer • Downloading a form from our website: www.snjo.co.uk Davis to the creation of truly new music who wants to put his arms around the • Purchasing online at www.snjo.co.uk with Weather Report. world and hold it very tightly indeed. We do look forward to welcoming you. There have also been long and fruitful associations with and Shorter’s gutsy take on life and work is that cemented personal and reflected in the pieces selected for these artistic relationships. Now in his eightieth performances. Every journey begins with a year, Shorter continues to astonish first step and we may follow Footprints or, www.snjo.co.uk like Shorter, leave them behind for others with a fiercely independent attitude to composition and bravura performances. to trace.

Branford Marsalis should need no Many of the tunes you will hear are nothing introduction to fans of beautifully shaped, less than signposts to an imagined future. SPONSORS lyrical jazz and elegant interpretations of It’s fascinating to listen again to the early We are deeply indebted to all our sponsors and thank them for their support. classical romanticism. You will, of course, This is for Albert; the concentrated juice of know him as a member of the pre-eminent Speak No Evil and the mysticism of Miles in Marsalis family, as a major contributor ESP and Nefertiti. to several stylish albums and as a classical soloist performing with leading Along with 1989’s idiosyncratic Virgo Rising, orchestras. Naturally, his work with this music seems to punctuate the very his own quartet will be familiar to you. point of artistic discovery with exhilarating Perhaps less well understood in the UK visions of the shapes of things to come. If are his accomplishments in composition; one is to take anything away from these most notably his music to accompany a shows then it must be a restored faith Broadway revival of ’s play in our ability to navigate into tomorrow and film score work for ’s brightly, fearlessly and perhaps even a little Mo’ Better Blues. optimistically. Tonight, he is a very special guest of the SNJO, recently returned from a highly successful tour and ambassadorial Michael Stephen Clark cover photography by Palma Kolansky | graphic design Nadja von Massow / nadworks of the most respected making music without a map, Shorter Secondly, his commitment to excellence in his names in jazz is also interested in plotting a course into chosen field is underscored by the clutch One one of its most vital and the unknown. Together, they made of awards, winning no less than nine creative forces; a saxophonist whose seminal music that still shapes our sense Grammys for either best instrumental compositional portfolio has made a of the last century; a time when man met composition, solo or performance. profound contribution to modern music. machine but still dreamt of the stars. Wayne Shorter is in many ways the Miles the adventurer and Shorter the If Shorter is competitive then it personification of modernity. His restless cartographer created new charts from is more likely that he is pitting approach to playing, his philosophical nothingness on albums like Kind of Blue himself against his own past perspective on life and his treatment of and In A Silent Way which were spiritual triumphs and trying new ways his own works has made him a daring in conception but technically exacting in to trump his own legend. You figure and a much admired man. their execution. have to wonder if there really is anyone else better equipped for He was first inspired to take up music Shorter’s liaison with Miles lasted six this task than Wayne Shorter; after sneaking in to see Lester Young hugely productive years. Both men were the man who drove Miles, play at The Carnegie Hall in New York compelled to continue their journeys forecast Heavy Weather and City. Right there and then, the young separately but they appeared at times lent jazz-minded rock the Shorter declared that he “had to get to be moving in similar directions, albeit credibility it needed to grow up me a clarinet”. It seems an impetuous along dissimilar paths. The ideas and and join the world of adults. beginning to a career marked by a instrumentation on In A Silent Way consistently cerebral way with music. morphed into a cosmopolitan (and The SNJO is joined by Branford Nevertheless, he was smitten by one of cosmic) outlook in Weather Report which Marsalis in an orienteering the most seductive propositions in music in turn provided Shorter with a vehicle for expedition through the music - the sound of jazz. some of his most dazzling compositions, of Wayne Shorter. Where they not least the irresistible Harlequin and lead we can only follow, and get Now in his eightieth year, Shorter is still panoramic Palladium. happily lost in some of the finest in love with jazz and is currently occupied jazz compositions in any century. with a new engaged in complex Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter together re-workings of many of his most famous with Jaco Pastorius constituted a pieces. It is not premature to mention gravitational force that attracted many this so early in the narrative of his career, others. Weather Report did not break for Wayne Shorter has always operated down musical barriers so much as simply in the present tense. His compositional behave as if those borders did not exist. style may be governed by forethought, Many musicians have been inspired by meticulous scoring and precise notation, that swagger, and still strive towards but he has never been locked in by the similar goals. The great gift that Wayne past, nor held hostage to the future. Shorter has made to modern music is to suggest that a maverick tendency could His first roles as a sideman were be a modal approach to composition. with in the fifties, and subsequently with that great employer Shorter’s achievements in instrumental of emergent talent, . It was jazz music are essentially twofold. only after a prolonged courtship that he Firstly, he continually re-painted the walked through the revolving door of the high watermark for jazz composition WAYNE centre for dangerous minds. with original tunes such as JuJu, Yes or No, Infant Eyes and Footprints from his There were, if any, few arguments Blue Note years, and through his work between these kindred spirits. Miles was with Miles Davis and Weather Report. Photo by RobertAscroft SHORTER SPEAK NO EVIL SCOTTISH NATIONAL arrangement Pino Jodice JAZZ ORCHESTRA NEFERTITI arrangement Florian Ross BRANFORD VIRGO RISING REEDS arrangement Martin Kershaw MARSALIS THIS IS FOR ALBERT Paul Towndrow arrangement Christian Jacob Tommy Smith Konrad Wiszniewski YES OR NO Bill Fleming arrangement Fred Sturm

There will be an interval TRUMPETS of 20 minutes Tom Walsh Cameron Jay WITCH HUNT Tom MacNiven Lorne Cowieson arrangement Jacob Mann EL GAUCHO arrangement Photo by Palma Kolansky TROMBONES FOOTPRINTS Chris Greive Branford Marsalis is a triple In the early 80’s, after graduating from arrangement Manu Pekar Berklee School of Music, Branford was Phil O’Malley Grammy award-winning jazz saxophonist Kieran McLeod who is widely respected for his quickly drafted into Art Blakey’s Jazz INFANT EYES Michael Owers achievements in vastly different musical Messengers and later joined his brother arrangement Michael Abene environments. Not only a jazzman, a jazz Wynton’s first quintet. This early phase innovator and a jazz educator, he is also a of his career was marked by his first ESP arrangement Mike Gibbs jazz emissary and has taken the best that recording, Scenes in the City and guest RHYTHM jazz can offer into the realm of classical appearances with Miles Davis and Dizzy music and of mainstream rock and pop. Gillespie. SECTION Perhaps just as importantly, he has taken Steve Hamilton (piano) In 1985, he featured on The Dream of jazz into the community with a range of Calum Gourlay (bass) highly regarded educational initiatives. the Blue Turtles, the debut solo album by jazz-influenced rock bassist and Alyn Cosker (drums) One of six siblings, Branford was born singer, Sting. This was the start of a long into a musical family in Beaux Bridge, association with the former Police-man, Louisiana on August 26th, 1960. His that continued until 1999. The playing father, Ellis Marsalis, is an eminent jazz of Branford Marsalis on six of the star’s Arrangements commissioned pianist and educator while three of his platinum albums is emblematic of by the SNJO with subsidy from five brothers, Wynton, Jason and Delfeayo the mature influence of jazz on adult- Creative Scotland are all prominent jazz musicians. orientated rock. A good example is on All compositions continue overleaf by Wayne Shorter PROGRAMME ... continued ARRANGERS the hit single Love is the 7th Wave where and Four MF’s Playin’ Tunes. Marsalis’ sophistication meets Sumner’s A snapshot of a full career and busy life, currently composer, arranger pop intuition. MICHAEL ABENE MIKE GIBBS Branford has also managed to establish musical director and principal arranger and trombonist has worked with many , a record label designed to for the WDR in Cologne, has music luminaries, including , Perhaps surprisingly, Branford took up manage his own output and provide an had an eventful career since joining John McLaughlin, , Narada the baton as leader of the house band incubator for emergent talent. Maynard Ferguson’s band as a teenager Michael Walden, Michael Mantler, Gary on ’s Tonight show and became in 1961. While with Ferguson he wrote Burton, Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel a familiar face on national television His many awards and accolades include many arrangements, including On Green and . Born in Salisbury, Southern between 1992 and 1995. Nevertheless, three Grammys, a Drama Desk Award Dolphin St, Whisper Not and Airegin, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), he his association with music on primetime before going on to work with, among grew up playing trombone and piano for “Outstanding Music in a Play” for the TV, along with guest appearances with many other musicians, , Gary and was awarded scholarships to attend 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s The , served to reach Burton, Jon Faddis, James Moody, Take Lenox School of Jazz and Tanglewood Fences; an Honorary Doctorate from the increasingly diverse audiences and 6, Mike Stern, Maceo Parker and Paquito Summer School, where he studied with D’Rivera. In 1986, Abene began an Gunther Schuller, George Russell, J.J. confound prejudices about popular music University of North Carolina and an NEA affiliation with GRP Records, producing Johnson, Lukas Foss, and Iannis Xenakis. amongst critics. Jazz Masters Award, shared with his father and brothers for their outstanding many of the company’s most successful Having graduated from Berklee College recordings, including the Grammy- of Music with a diploma in arrangement But Marsalis is, and always has been, contribution to jazz. In June 2012, winning Digital Duke and the three GRP and composition in 1962, he moved to the a jazz saxophonist who is equally Marsalis, together with his friend Harry All-Star Big Band albums which were UK, played trombone for Tubby Hayes, accomplished on soprano, alto, baritone Connick, Jr., received the Jefferson Award all Grammy nominated and for each of , and Cleo or tenor. His own personal commitment for Public Service for their work setting up which he received personal nominations Laine, and by the late 1960s was generally to jazz and classical forms began in the Musicians’ Village of in as arranger. He enjoyed further Grammy recognised as one of the leading young success with the WDR Big Band for composer-arrangers in jazz. His albums, earnest in the mid to late-1990’s, with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. the establishment of his own quartet. producing and arranging Patti Austin’s including and In the Public As the new millennium began, so too 2007 album, Avant Gershwin, and was Interest, won him numerous awards Branford already has strong connections again nominated in the arranger category and after nine years as composer-in- did fruitful explorations within the with Scotland. Contemporary Scots in 2009 for ’s Symphonnica residence at Berklee, during which time classical oeuvre. The release in 2001 of composer Sally Beamish heard Branford album, which featured the WDR Big he orchestrated Joni Mitchell’s Don Juan’s Creation, a collaboration with the Orpheus perform her composition The Imagined Band and the WDR Rundfunk Orchestra. Reckless Daughter album among many Chamber Orchestra marked a thoughtful Sound of Sun on Stone at the North Sea He has also written for and conducted others, he returned to the UK in 1985. He point of departure for Marsalis and Jazz Festival and was inspired to re- the Metropole Jazz Orchestra and the has since written extensively for films featured a selection of pieces by French Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and continues and television and worked with the NDR conceive her work-inprogress, Under the impressionist composers such as Ravel, to teach jazz composition at Manhattan and WDR bands in Germany, and in 2004 Wing of the Rock. Branford duly returned Debussy, Satie, Milhaud and Ibert whose School of Music and to selected students received an Honorary Fellowship from the compliment by participating in the in the Cologne area. Birmingham Conservatoire. work meets at a juncture in creativity already familiar to jazz musicians. premiere performance of this piece at Celtic Connections in 2009. Since then, his career has flourished as he continues along parallel lines of It is, therefore, fitting that he should investigation in jazz and the classics. receive the warmest of Scottish He has performed with Philharmonia welcomes in this series of concerts Brasileira, The North Carolina featuring the work of jazz iconoclast Symphony Orchestra and The New York Wayne Shorter. Fans of musical Philharmonic with music by, among excellence can look forward to intensely others, Villa-Lobos, Glazonov, John absorbing performances as The SNJO Williams and Christopher Rouse. His directed by Tommy Smith once more jazz quartet has been characterized by takes the stage with Branford Marsalis. diversity and versatility exemplified by the sharply contrasting albums Eternal, August 2013 CHRISTIAN JACOB born in PINO JODICE born in Naples in GEOFFREY KEEZER born in JOE LOCKE initially known in Lorraine, France, began classical piano 1965, studied classical piano and received Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1970, grew up Scotland and internationally as a studies at the age of four and went his classical piano diploma in 1987. All in a musical family, with both parents flamboyant and exciting vibes player, has on to study with Pierre Sancan at the the time he was studying classical music, music teachers, and began studying piano become recognised also as a supremely Paris Conservatory. Having heard Oscar however, he was also showing an interest aged three. In 1989, after completing talented composer and arranger. Born in Peterson and Dave Brubeck when he in jazz. He joined summer workshops with his first year at Palto Alto, California, Locke was playing was nine or ten, he played jazz as a leading Italian pianist Franco D’Andrea, in , he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz with such jazz luminaries as Dizzy hobby throughout his Conservatory in Siena, and studied jazz arrangement Messengers. Since then, he has worked Gillespie, Pepper Adams and Mongo years but then, having become one of at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He with virtually all of jazz’s living legends Santamaria while still at high school and the youngest students to graduate now teaches at the St Cecilia Conservatory and has appeared on countless recordings since moving to New York in 1981, he has from the Conservatory, he decided to of Music in Rome and at the Conservatory both as a leader and as an accompanist. released more than thirty albums under change allegiances. Without knowing a Martucci in Salerno. His many awards for His career has spanned many projects his own name and appeared on over composition and arrangement include word of English he moved to the United and genres. He has had compositions 120 recordings as a guest artist. He has first prizes at Castel Del Mondi and Barga States to study jazz at Berklee College commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Jazz appeared with musicians ranging from and Positano jazz festivals and he will of Music, where he won a number of Band, Saint Joseph Ballet, Mainly Mozart and the Mingus Big Band already be familiar to Scottish National Festival in San Diego, and the Zeltsman to Rod Stewart and The Beastie Boys and awards, including the Oscar Peterson Jazz Orchestra audiences through his Marimba Festival and was a recipient has toured extensively across the world Jazz Masters Award, the Great American gripping and panoramic fantasia based of Chamber Music America’s 2007 New both leading his own projects and as Jazz Piano Competition and Down Beat on John Coltrane’s Satellite, at SNJO’s Works grant. He has also played bass featured soloist. He first visited Scotland magazine’s distinction as Top Collegiate Coltrane tribute concert at Glasgow Jazz in a rock band and contributed artwork in the mid 1980s, playing alongside Jazz Soloist. He joined the Berklee faculty Festival 2007, and for his compelling to David Mack’s comic Kabuki. Keezer’s SNJO director Tommy Smith, and has as a piano tutor on graduating in 1985, arrangements of animated film composition and arranging talents will returned often, playing at Glasgow, subsequently toured with favourites for SNJO’s Jazz Toons concert be familiar to the Scottish National Jazz Edinburgh and Dundee jazz festivals. and as musical director with trumpeter series in 2008. Aside from his teaching, Orchestra audience through his South Three times awarded the US Jazz Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau composing and arranging commitments, Alaska Suite, which was commissioned Journalists Association’s Mallet Player Band, and recorded the first of his five Pino leads his own trio and quintet, specially by SNJO and premiered in of the Year prize and revered by fellow trio CDs for Concord Records, with Peter which has recorded with special guests, February 2005. He also contributed vibes players including Erskine and , in 1997. He saxophonists Dick Oatts and Tommy arrangements to SNJO’s John Coltrane and Mike Mainieri, Locke has shown his has since worked with Flora Purim & Airto Smith, and co-leads the Giuliana Soscia and tributes. His latest outstanding ability as an arranger by Moreira, Phil Woods and Bill Holman and & Pino Jodice Italian Tango Quartet. He’s project, Áurea, is a highly acclaimed contributing a haunting Naima for SNJO’s has composed and arranged for big bands also pianist, arranger and composer of adventure into South American folkloric John Coltrane tribute and high energy re- and orchestras, including the Bangkok the Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra of music, featuring collaborators from Peru, imaginings of Evidence and Inner Space Symphony. Rome. Argentina and New York. for SNJO’s Monk and Corea projects. JACOB MANN (b. 1992, Las Vegas) MANU PEKAR born in Paris in FLORIAN ROSS born in 1972, FRED STURM is a prolific composer is a pianist and arranger based in Los 1955, grew up listening to his parents’ studied piano and composition with and arranger who combines his position as Angeles, CA. He is currently a music record collection. His mother, a classically , Bill Dobbins, Joachim Ullrich, Director of Jazz and Improvisational Music student at the Univerisity of Southern trained violinist, liked New Orleans and Jim McNeely and Don Friedman at the at the Lawrence University Conservatory California (USC), where he has studied swing, especially Django Reinhardt, and Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne, of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin with with some of the world’s greatest jazz his father favoured Miles Davis, Dave at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, guest conducting roles in Germany, musicians, including Alan Pasqua, Bob Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet. London and at New York University. Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway Mintzer, , and Ambrose In his teens, inspired by groups including Since 1998 he has released seven albums and various directorships, composer-in- Akinmusire. In 2011, Mann came first in Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Santana, featuring both small and large ensembles, residencies and educational commitments the American Society of Music Arrangers Pekar took up guitar. He played with and has written approximately one throughout the United States. Regular and Composers big band arranging rock bands and studied with the great hundred compositions and arrangements SNJO concertgoers will know Fred’s work competition and has had his arrangement French guitarist Frederic Sylvestre and for large jazz ensembles. As well as through the orchestra’s Steely Dan and of Joy Spring played by Chris Walden’s after gaining a masters degree in Physics various other prizes, he received the Astor Piazzolla projects. But this is just Big Band. He has also contributed and Mathematics, he decided to pursue prestigious Thad Jones Composition scratching the surface of his industry. Born arrangements to the award-winning USC music as a career. He studied at Berklee Competition Award in 2000 and won the just outside Chicago to musical parents College of Music from 1984-1987 and WDR Jazz Composition prize in 2006. His – his father played cello with the Chicago Thornton Jazz Orchestra directed by Bob soon afterwards recorded his first album commissioned works include pieces for Symphony Orchestra and his mother was Mintzer and wrote a special arrangement for CBS/Sony, featuring special guest, the German NDR and WDR big bands, a professional singer – Fred abandoned for the SNJO in 2012 which featured saxophonist Dave Liebman. He has since the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, piano, cello and violin lessons in short order Peter Erskine. The accolades are already worked with saxophonists Larry Schneider the BBC Big Band, the Danish Radio Jazz before settling on trumpet aged fifteen. coming in for Jacob Mann who won the and , among many other Orchestra, RTE Irish Radio Orchestra, and He then became hooked on big bands, 2013 student music award in Downbeat musicians, and has written music for a Sydney Mothership Jazz Orchestra and especially the Herman, Rich and Kenton Magazine for his compelling arrangement variety of ensembles, including woodwind artists including David Liebman, John models, and before entering jazz education, of It Could Happen To You. More recently, trio, jazz big band and string sextet. Pekar Scofield, George Duke, and Gary Burton. he spent four years on the road as a Jacob and his trio have been bringing has also written music for stage plays and SNJO regulars will remember Ross’s A professional musician. His compositions jazz to the people by playing al fresco in film soundtracks, including Paulo Antunes’ Day in the Life commission in 2002 and and arrangements have been performed by downtown Los Angeles as part of Jam! In Gu Nian, and contributed distinctive his brilliantly imaginative arrangements jazz, orchestral, wind, choral, and chamber LA!, a Jazz Appreciation Month event that arrangements of Tones for Joan’s Bones of Giant Steps, Crepuscule with Nelly ensembles worldwide and have featured took place in April 2013. “I’m expecting and Acknowledgement to SNJO’s Chick and Humpty Dumpty for SNJO’s Coltrane, , Bob Brookmeyer, Clark to see some smiles, maybe some feet Corea and John Coltrane tributes. He Monk and Corea tributes. In addition to Terry and Phil Woods. Fred’s recent work tapping, just people enjoying themselves,” is currently director of the Jazz and writing and touring with his own trio and includes a two-hour suite for singer Bobby Mann told Los Angeles Downtown News. Improvisational Music department at the Nils Wogram’s Nostalgia, Ross teaches McFerrin featuring indigenous music from “The sounds of the city are kind of nice National Conservatory of Music in Reims, piano and composition at the Hochschule twenty-one countries and a ‘nine-inning’ too. Maybe we can add to that a little bit.” France. für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. baseball symphony, Forever Spring. PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE SNJO/TSYJO To all our Friends and Supporters listed below and to those who have chosen to donate anonymously – your help has been very much appreciated and we thank you sincerely. 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24 OCT 2013 — DUNDEE Jacqui Dankworth is one of the foremost The Gardyne Theatre vocalists in British music and will join the SNJO as their very special guest when 01382 434940 | dundeebox.co.uk they tune up to bring you some of your favourite music from Toon Town and 25 OCT 2013 — INVERNESS screen gems from Film and TV. Eden Court Well loved tunes from The Lion King 01463 234234 | eden-court.co.uk or Aladdin, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow give just a taste of the music 27 OCT 2013 — GLASGOW in store which has all been specially Royal Conservatoire arranged by award winning jazz 0141 332 5057 | rcs.ac.uk composer, Pino Jodice.

AN EVENING WITH : SYNTOPICON Grammy winner, Kurt Elling is one of the greatest jazz singers of our time. With his rich baritone voice, he sings with astonishing technical mastery and huge emotional depth and the SNJO are delighted that Kurt will join them to bring their newly commissioned, Syntopicon to life. Exploring in music and song, philosophies such as love, knowledge, and life, Kurt has the creative talent and vision, which together with the fabulous sound of the SNJO will create a wonderful evening to remember. 21 FEB 2014 — PERTH Perth Concert Hall 01738 621 031 | horsecross.co.uk 22 FEB 2014 — EDINBURGH Queen’s Hall 0131 668 2019 | thequeenshall.net 23 FEB 2014 — GLASGOW Royal Conservatoire 0141 332 5057 | rcs.ac.uk Photo by Anna Webber