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Jazz At Tanglewood

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday September 2, 3, 4, and 5, 1993 Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts

Thursday, September 2, at 8:30 p.m. QUARTET Theatre-Concert Hall

Friday, September 3, at 7:30 p.m. with THE COUNT BASIL Koussevitzky Music Shed

Saturday, September 4

at 4:30 p.m. QUARTET Theatre-Concert Hall

at 7:30 p.m. A TRIO OF TRIOS' TRIO MARIAN McPARTLAND TRIO TRIO Koussevitzky Music Shed

Sunday, September 5

at 4 :30 p.m. TS. MONK, JR., Theatre-Concert Hall

at 7:30 p.m. THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA QUINTET Koussevitzky Music Shed

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.T*** ARTISTS Gerry Mulligan formed in 1960, he toured North America and Europe and recorded five albums for Saxophonist, . In 1968 he performed as , ar- soloist on the Cincinnati Symphony's re- ranger, and cording of 's oratorio The conductor Gerry Light in the Wilderness. Mr. Mulligan commis- Mulligan has sioned a from Amer- played an impor- ican composer ; the work was tant role in the premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony in history of mod- 1973. In 1984 he commissioned Canadian ern jazz. He has composer to write "The performed with Sax Chronicles," of some such jazz immor- Gerry Mulligan melodies in the styles of tals as , , classical . Mr. Mulligan has , , Jack Tea- performed with numerous symphony garden, and Billie Holliday and has won a in the and Europe; record 29 consecutive Down Beat Readers he completed his first composition for Poll awards. Born in , Gerry Mulli- symphony orchestra and solo saxophone in gan began studying at the age of 1984. Entitled "Entente for Baritone seven and later took up . He studied Saxophone and Orchestra," the work re- saxophone with Sam Correnti, who encour- ceived its premiere in June 1984 with the aged him to begin arranging, and, as a Filarmonia Veneta (Italy) under Rico Sac- teenager, he sold arrangements to several cani. Gerry Mulligan is the recipient of bandleaders. Soon Mr. Mulligan began numerous honors and awards, including studying with and associating the Connecticut Arts Award, the prestigious with such artists as , Charles Viotti Prize (the first jazz musician to be so Mingus,Thelonius Monk, , and honored), a Grammy award (for his DRG Jack 'Zoot' Sims. His compositions and album Walk on the Water), and several arrangements from this period made an Grammy nominations. Among his recent invaluable contribution to his recording achievements is "Jazz in June," a ten-day , considered one of the annual series ofjazz concerts at Ravinia, seminal albums of modern jazz. While in introduced in 1991. Mr. Mulligan began California in 1951, Gerry Mulligan formed 1992 with a recording project entitled the first piano-less quartet, an innovation Re-Birth of the Cool, based on the music of that would influence musicians for decades the landmark 5?rf/i of the Cool ensemble. to come and would become synonymous The Re-Birth of the Cool band toured during with "." Mr. Mulligan has that summer, including performances at continued to lead bands of varying sizes, the Ravinia Festival, , and in all of which evolved from the piano-less Europe. quartet idea. With his Concert , Tony Bennett The

Tony Bennett The Count Basie Orchestra made its debut won the Grammy in 1935 at Kansas City's Reno Club. Pianist award in 1993 in William Basie, a New Jersey native, had the Traditional come to Kansas City on the national vaude- Pop Vocal cate- ville circuit. There he briefly joined Walter gory for his Paige's Blue Devils, then stayed on with the album Perfectly Benny Moten Orchestra, with which he Frank, a 24-song recorded beginning in 1932. With Benny tribute to his Moten's sudden death three years later, friend Frank Mr. Basie went from pianist to bandleader, Sinatra. The taking the name "The Count" when his songs include works by Sammy Cahn, Jule new group headlined at the Reno Club. Styne, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, and Soon, radio airtime and recordings had George and . The son of an popularized the band from coast to coast. It Italian-born grocer, Anthony Dominick performed at the 1939 World's Fair in San Benedetto was born in Astoria, Queens Francisco and ushered in the 1940s attract- (), in 1925. He grew up sing- ing wonderful soloists and bigger crowds. ing and drawing pictures and now enjoys a Post-war film appearances and recordings flourishing second career as an artist, paint- with , , Joe ing under his given name. Tony Bennett Williams, Tony Bennett, and was discovered by Bob Hope in 1949. The exported the swinging "Basie sound" to following year, Mr. Bennett signed a record- Europe and the Far East. In the , the ing contract with , which Count Basie Orchestra triumphed with led to a series of hit singles, including European concert tours, a command per- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Because formance for the Queen of , and a of You," "Just in Time," "Cold, Cold Heart," sold-out 13-week engagement at the Wal- "Stranger in Paradise," and "Rags to Riches." dorf-Astoria. By the 1960s, when pundits The 1962 release of "I Left My Heart in declared the big bands officially dead, the San Francisco" made Tony Bennett an Count Basie Orchestra enjoyed more tours international star and earned two Grammy (to Europe, Japan, and the Orient), regular awards. The Art ofExcellence , the 1986 album television and Las Vegas appearances, and that marked his renewed association with performances across North America, main- Columbia Records, received overwhelming taining a pace that continues unabated. praise. Mr. Bennett's subsequent albums Though "The Count" himself passed away have \nc\uded Bennett IBerlin, his 1987 in 1984, the Count Basie Orchestra of tribute to master songwriter , today consists of nineteen performers Astoria: Portrait of the Artist, which earned a committed to upholding and advancing 1990 Grammy nomination, and a boxed set this American "institution." Some members of four compact discs entitled Forty Years: are new, but many are musicians hand- The Artistry ofTony Bennett and released in picked by Count Basie himself. The band July 1991. That same year he sang at the July 4th celebration in Washington, D.C. (which was televised by PBS), appeared with and the Boston Pops Orchestra in a performance taped for PBS's Evening at Pops, and received from Columbia Records a plaque marking the sale of 30 million records since he first signed with the label. In addition, Tony Bennett Live— Watch What Happens was released as a home video by SMV (Sony Music Video). It is a concert performance at 's

Edward Theatre in which Mr. Bennett is accompanied by the Trio and the London Chamber Orchestra. Tony Bennett is making a return Tanglewood appearance, having performed during the 1991 Jazz Festival.

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has won every respected jazz poll at least Herbie Hancock once and continues to gather awards and Keyboardist-com- recognition. Current bandleader Frank poser Herbie Foster is the third to take on this position, Hancock has following Eric Dixon and . The attained an orchestra's tenor sax soloist from 1953 to enviable balance 1964, Dr. Foster first joined the group right of commercial out of the Army, and wrote and arranged and artistic more than 125 charts for the band. In the success. This years since his first membership, he has year the Oscar fronted a combo, as well as a 12-piece and winner (for his 23-piece ensemble of his own. Composer of to the 1980 Winter Olympics' Lake Placid Suite, the film Round Midnight) signed with Qwest Dr. Foster has conducted workshops at the Records, the label presided over by his old New England Conservatory of Music and friend and fellow Chicagoan . served as Assistant Professor of Music and Ever since he began playing electric piano Black Studies at the State University of New on Miles Davis's album in York at Buffalo and as adjunct professor at 1968, Mr. Hancock has been on the cutting Rutgers University. He has earned many edge of the new technology. Born in Grammy nominations and a 1989 Grammy in 1940, Herbie Hancock started award for his of "Deedles studying piano at age seven. By eleven he ." was performing Mozart with the Chicago Symphony, only taking up jazz in high school, when he came under the influence Russell Malone of and . He was Guitarist Russell twenty when he went to New York with Malone recently trumpeter . Eventually Mr. released his Hancock came to the attention of Miles debut album on Davis and joined his new quintet, which ^^^L^ ^I^^^^^^^B Columbia Rec- became one of the most influential jazz ords. Entitled groups of the 1960s. During the same Russell Malone period, Herbie Hancock was also recording the recording his own sessions with Blue Note, creating includes stan- such classic works as Maiden Voyage and dards as well as Speak Like a Child. In 1966 he wrote the original composi- soundtrack for Antonioni's film Blow Up tions. A member of Harry Connick, Jr.'s and three years later the music for Bill jazz quartet and since 1990, Mr. Cosby's "Fat Albert" television special. By

Malone is joined by Mr. Connick as guest 1971 Mr. Hancock had left the quintet to pianist for several selections. Also on the form a band that would explore the outer recording are such respected musicians as limits of electronic jazz. It was the begin- Donald Brown, Yoron Israel, Shannon ning of the fusion revolution, and Mr. Powell, Robert Leslie Hurst III, Jeff 'Tain' Hancock's album Headhunters became the Watts, and . Born in 1963 in largest-selling jazz album in history. His Albany, Georgia, Russell Malone was intro- other albums from this time include Thrust, duced to music in church, and, at the age of Treasure Chest, the score for the film Death six, was playing guitar there. By age ten, he Wish, Manchild, Sunlight, and Feets Don't Fail had developed an interest in blues and Me Now. At this critical juncture in his countr)' music, after seeing musicians such career, Herbie Hancock returned to his as Chet Atkins, , B.B. King, roots as an acoustic pianist, recording and and, most especially, George Benson per- performing with the V.S.O.P. Quintet, the form on television. Ultimately, though, it Herbie Hancock Quintet and Quartet, was jazz that Russell Malone chose to play. , and Oscar Peterson. In 1983 He has shared the stage with artists repre- he topped the charts with Future Shock, an senting a rainbow of musical idioms. These album that included "Rock It," which won include Patti Austin, Little Anthony, Regina him a Grammy for best R&B Instrumental. Belle, Peabo Bryson, , Clar- The video of that track garnered five MTV ence Carter, , Frank Foster, awards. The title track of his next album, , Jack McDufF, Jimmy Smith, entitled Sound System, won a second Gram- and the Winans. my in the same category. The momentum of these hits carried over into Mr. Hancock's met renowned cornetist Jimmy McPartland, work on the film Round Midnight, which then a member of the U.S. Army Special included both his score and an appearance Service. The two formed a combo (which in an acting role. His subsequent film scores played for troops in the front lines) and have included A Soldier's Story, Jo Jo Dancer, soon thereafter were married. Back in the Action Jackson, and Colors. Herbie Hancock U.S. in 1946, Ms. McPartland played with enjoyed unprecedented television exposure her husband's quintet in Chicago before as host of Showtime's unique series of forming her own trio, which opened in specials entitled Coast-to-Coast, which offered New York in 1950 at the Embers Club. concert footage and interviews with a cross- Eventually the Hickory House on 52nd section of today's most important and Street became home base for Marian exciting musical personalities. McPartland and her group into the 1960s. In 1970 Ms. McPartland started her own record company, Halcyon. The label's first Marian McPartland release was Interplay, and the catalogue now numbers eighteen albums, including Mahan Marian McPart- McPartland Plays the Music ofAlec Wilder, The virtuosity land's Maestro and Friend (with ), and at the piano and Concert in Argentina with , Teddy her personal Wilson, and Ellis Larkins. During the last style ofjazz have ten years, Ms. McPartland has recorded for her interna- won the Concord label; her compact discs for tional acclaim that label include From This Moment On, and a large Portrait ofMarian McPartland, At the Festival, following, Together, and Live at Maybeck Hall. through her Among her compositions are "In the Days appearances on of Our Love," "Twilight World," "There'll concert stages, in nightclubs, at colleges Be Other Times," and the Grammy-nomi- and universities, and on radio, television, nated "Ambiance." Marian McPartland has records. regular guest at major festi- and A made many appearances on television, States Europe, she is vals in the United and including CBS Sunday Morning, The Today of awards, including also the recipient many Show, The Home Show, a number of PBS both the Peabody Award and the ASCAP- specials (including tributes to Bix Beider- Deems Taylor Award for her National Public becke and ), Now's the Time with Radio program "Piano Ms. McPart- Jazz." other women jazz musicians, a children's land studied at the Guildhall program entitled The Key ofD is Daffodil School of Music in her native England, but, Yellow, and Live at WolfTrap with George discovered jazz, left school to join a having Shearing, Teddy Wilson, and Eubie Blake. four-piano group touring in vaudeville She has served as moderator for the series theatres countrywide. During World War on the Arts and Entertain- II, she entertained the troops, first with ment network. ENSA and then the USO. In Belgium she John Pizzarelli Montreal Jazz Festival was taped for a spe- cial recently broadcast on Canadian tele- John Pizzarelli, vision and now available worldwide on home who composes, video. His plans for the current year call for sings, and plays extensive trio and big band performances, seven-string including tours ofJapan and Australia. guitar, recently completed a successful Euro- Thelonius Monk, Jr. pean tour that included six The newest performances as release by drum- the opening act mer Thelonius

for Frank Sinatra. Mr. Pizzarelli's most Monk, Jr., on the recent album, entitled Naturally, is the Blue Note label,

follow-up to his well-received Novus/RCA is entitled TaA^' 1. debut album, A// ofMe. His seventh album The album as a leader. Naturally showcases Mr. Pizza- represents a relli's talents in two settings, small combo significant mo- and big band. Among the big band selec- ment in the tions are "Splendid Splinter" (a nod to record company's

Boston Red Sox fans and one of five Pizza- history: the son of a jazz giant is signed by relli originals), "Lady Be Good," and the label that put his father on the map. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream"; the But the younger Monk, whose twenty-year small-group selections include "Naturally," career has included success in the R&B

"I'm Confessin'," and "Your Song Is With field (under the name TS. Monk), is in a Me." Son of renowned guitarist Bucky classic jazz frame of mind on this recording. Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli began on guitar Three of the album's selections are classic at age twelve. He learned from his father's Monk compositions: "Skippy," "Think of teachers—his banjo-playing great-uncles One," and "Round Midnight" (the latter Peter and Bobby Dominick. For several based on an original arrangement by Max years he distinguished himself as a radio Roach). The others were composed by personality in New York, on WNEW-AM's some great jazzmen who made meaningful "Swingin Saturday Night" show. During contributions to the art, but never received the 1980s he made three albums as a leader the acclaim they rightly deserve, among for the Stash label: I'm Hip, Hit That Jive, them , Walter Davis, Elmo Jack, and Sing, Sing, Sing, all small-group Hope, and . Joining Mr. sessions with his father Bucky, as well as Monk on the recording are saxists Bobby two father-son duets for the same label. For Porcelli and Willie Williams, trumpeter Don he made two recordings, Sickler, pianist Ron Mathews, and Livefrom Studio A and My Blue Heaven. ]ohn . Encouraged to take up the Pizzarelli's performance at last summer's drums by two of his father's musical associ- [<^:r ^?^- ••Ui ates, Max Roach and Art Blakey, Thelonius Evans Orchestra. Born in New Orleans,

Monk, Jr., played in his father's band for trumpeter Nicholas Fayton was raised by i=:^ two years during the early 1970s. Later in musical parents. has been the decade he joined the nine-piece fusion and continues to be a significant figure in band Natural Essence and recorded with Mr. Fayton's development as a jazz musi- Paul Jeffrey's Big Band. The eponymously- cian. As a result of Mr. Marsalis' recommen- named group T.S. Monk, which he formed dations, Mr. Fayton has worked with Elvin with his sister Barbara Monk and vocalist Jones and Marcus Roberts. Trumpeter Yvonne Fletcher, had R&B hits with "Bon was encouraged by his father to Bon Vie" and "Too Much Too Soon." play the trumpet at age five. Influenced by

Thelonius Monk, Jr., also serves as chair- , , and Kenny man of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Dorham, Mr. Kisor has performed with the Jazz, in which capacity he champions the Mingus Big Band. Marcus Printup did not discovery of new jazz talent. The institute's discover jazz until he was in high school;

centerpiece event is an annual instrumental while still in college he was one of twenty competition spotlighting new artists. Past musicians selected for the first annual winners have included pianist Marcus Louis Armstrong International Trumpet Roberts and tenor saxophonist Joshua Competition. That same year he won the Redman. International Trumpet Guild Competition, and he has received numerous other awards, including Best Soloist in the 1991 The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra National Collegiate Jazz Competition. Trombonist has enjoyed a Under the artistic direction of Wynton distinguished career on the road and in the Marsalis,y<2zz at Lincoln Center has entered studios, but is best remembered for his its third season of year-round jazz program- years as soloist with Duke Ellington. Mr. ming. The program, dedicated to perpet- Woodman was featured in the Broadway uating the entire canon ofjazz and the rich show Black 'n Blue. Arthur Baron is a trom- oral tradition that first spawned the art bonist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer form, brings together master musicians who has performed with Duke Ellington, and younger players both on stage and in , and Wayne Horvitz's New the classroom. The Lincoln Center Jazz York Composers Orchestra. He currently Orchestra, assembled to showcase leads the Duke's Men, an ensemble of Duke Duke Ellington's work in the most authentic Ellington alumni. Influenced by John- performance practice available, has ex- J.J. son, Trummy Young, and Lawrence Brown, panded to include other great jazz compos- Ronald Westray received his B.A. from ers' work as well. David Berger, who has South Carolina State University and is now transcribed more than 250 Duke Ellington working on his M.A. at Eastern scores, has conducted the orchestra since its University. He joined the Marcus Roberts inception in 1988. Mr. Berger first played Septet in March 1991 and has performed trumpet with some of the finest big bands, '^- and recorded with Wynton Marsalis. Born but he has worked most often as a composer in Washington, D.C., Herb Harris began and arranger with , Gerry his musical studies on clarinet, switching at Mulligan, Clark Terry, Thad Jones and Mel age fifteen to , and at seven- Lewis, , Quincy Jones, Lee teen to , which he plays Konitz, Mercer Ellington, and the Amer- today. Mr. Harris has toured and recorded ican Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Berger has written with Wynton Marsalis and Marcus Roberts scores for numerous television shows, and was a featured member of the Jazz commercials, industrial films, Broadway Futures, a group that toured the east coast shows (including Sophisticated Ladies), mo- and European festivals in the of tion pictures (including Brighton Beach summer 1991. Bill Easley, a first-call musician for Memoirs and The Cotton Club), dance com- the past two decades, has played in the reed panies (including Alvin Alley), and record- sections of the Duke Ellington, Illinois ings (including ' /r^c^^/i^ Jacquet, and the American Jazz orchestras Freeloader). Trumpeter Lew SoloflF, formerly a featured member of the Grammy-winning and for such Broadway musicals as Sophisti- cated Ladies and Black 'n Blue. has toured band Blood, Sweat and Tears, studied at He and recorded with such artists as Mercer Juilliard and the Eastman School of Music. Ellington, McGriff, Williams, His collaboration with the late Gil Evans Jimmy James and . NorrisTurney followed spanned twenty years, and Mr. Soloff con- Hodges playing alto tinues his long association with the Gil Johnny saxophone j^m with the Ellington Orchestra. He is often of Music vocal scholarship winner from the

featured with George Wein and the New- All-City Chorus of New York. He is one of port Festival All-Stars and is a member of the rare vocalists ever to be spotlighted by the Duke's Men. Saxophonist Jerry Dod- Duke Ellington and his orchestra on tour gion has been one of the key alto soloists in and on recordings. An accomplished actor, jazz for more than three decades. A found- Mr. Grayson has appeared in Black Nativity, ing member of the Thad Jones- Bubbling Brown Sugar, and Raisin. He made Orchestra, he was part of 's his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Under- landmark 1962 Soviet tour and has made taker in Gershwin's . Among countless appearances with artists as diverse his many television credits are the CBS as Count Basie, Herbie Hancock, Charles Black Heritage series and In Performance at Mingus, Mercer Ellington, Clark Terry, the White House with Leontyne Price. Donald Byrd, and Marian McPartland. A skilled arranger-composer, Mr. Dodgion has contributed scores to the repertoires of the Ramsey Lewis Mel Lewis Orchestra and other ensembles. ''M Born in Chicago , a widely-traveled Scottish jS^^^^iLJKj in 1935, Ramsey baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and bass W jHPm^B^H^ W Lewis grew up in clarinetist, followed Harry Carney into the ^^^ ^^^^E a musical family is u ^g_ ^^^B Ellington Orchestra. He the anchor of ^^ ^»**-j^^^ of the Mercer Ellington ^j^(j began study- ing classical band. Pianist Marcus Roberts, blind since piano at the age the age of four, began formal piano training of nine with at age twelve. Nine years of classical piano Dorothy Mendel- studies, including four years as a music sohn. In his major at Florida State University in Tallahas- teens, Mr. Lewis see, helped lay the foundation for his mas- added jazz to his repertoire, performing on terful technique. After winning several weekends with two friends. Red Holt on local jazz competitions, Mr. Roberts was drums and Eldee Young on bass. Soon the invited by Wynton Marsalis in 1985 to Ramsey Lewis Trio was performing in replace the departing in Chicago clubs recording for a new jazz the Marsalis band. Marcus Roberts played and label. Chess Records. Following a successful with the band for six years and appeared three months of performing in New York, on five of the group's albums. In 1987 he the trio returned to Chicago, then em- won first prize at the first Thelonius Monk barked (in a 1957 Plymouth station wagon) International Jazz Competition. Mr. on a "Grand Tour" of the United States. Roberts was the first artist whose first three They performed in such cities as Boston, recordings reached number one on the York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel- Billboard traditional jazz chart. Born in New phia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas Baltimore, bassist Ben Wolfe grew up in City, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, where he performed as a and Seattle, and, about 1960, were asked to freelancer. Moving to New York in 1985, he be the house band at Chicago's London continued his freelance work before begin- House. In the mid-sixties, the original trio ning a four-year stint with Harry Connick, disbanded and Ramsey Lewis teamed with Jr. He appeared with Mr. Connick on televi- Cleveland Eaton (who moved on to the sion and on such recordings as When Harry Count Basie band) and Maurice White Met Sally, We Are in Love, and Red Light, Blue (who went on to form Earth, Wind & Fire). Light. Drummer Herlin Riley was born into Later Mr. Lewis assembled a septet, which a musical New Orleans family. He was an toured with Earth, Wind & Fire; in the aspiring trumpeter, but soon found it was early 1980s he broke the group down into a easier to find work as a drummer. Mr. Riley trio. His regular group now is a quintet. In played and recorded with addition to performing, Ramsey Lewis from 1984 through 1987. He has also re- records a syndicated radio program at corded with Harry Connick, Jr., George in Chicago and serves as a host for Benson, Donald Byrd, and Mark Whitfield. WNUA Black Entertainment Network in Washing- Mr. Riley joined the Wynton Marsalis band ton. is the owner and musical director in spring 1988 and has been touring the He of a restaurant and nightclub in Chicago world with the group ever since. A native of and has recently begun to compose again. Brooklyn, Milt Grayson is a Juilliard School \^A Put yourself in our shoes! In fact, put yourself in all of the famous label fashions you'll find at Cohoes and save big on some of the biggest and best names in the business!

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