Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Summer, 1993
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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. GERRY MULLIGAN QUARTET Theatre-Concert Hall Friday, September 3, at 7:30 p.m. TONY BENNETT with THE COUNT BASIL ORCHESTRA Koussevitzky Music Shed Saturday, September 4 at 4:30 p.m. RUSSELL MALONE QUARTET Theatre-Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. A TRIO OF JAZZ TRIOS' HERBIE HANCOCK TRIO MARIAN McPARTLAND TRIO JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO Koussevitzky Music Shed Sunday, September 5 at 4 :30 p.m. TS. MONK, JR., QUINTET Theatre-Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA RAMSEY LEWIS QUINTET Koussevitzky Music Shed ilm' <*^>>. .T*** ARTISTS Gerry Mulligan formed in 1960, he toured North America and Europe and recorded five albums for Saxophonist, Verve Records. In 1968 he performed as composer, ar- soloist on the Cincinnati Symphony's re- ranger, and cording of Dave Brubeck's oratorio The conductor Gerry Light in the Wilderness. Mr. Mulligan commis- Mulligan has sioned a saxophone concerto from Amer- played an impor- ican composer Frank Proto; 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 Harry Freedman to write "The performed with Sax Chronicles," arrangements of some such jazz immor- Gerry Mulligan melodies in the styles of tals as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, classical composers. Mr. Mulligan has Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Jack Tea- performed with numerous symphony garden, and Billie Holliday and has won a orchestras in the United States and Europe; record 29 consecutive Down Beat Readers he completed his first composition for Poll awards. Born in New York, Gerry Mulli- symphony orchestra and solo saxophone in gan began studying piano at the age of 1984. Entitled "Entente for Baritone seven and later took up clarinet. 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 Gil Evans and associating the Connecticut Arts Award, the prestigious with such artists as John Lewis, Charles Viotti Prize (the first jazz musician to be so Mingus,Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, 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 Birth of the Cool, 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 "West Coast Jazz." Mr. Mulligan has that summer, including performances at continued to lead bands of varying sizes, the Ravinia Festival, Carnegie Hall, and in all of which evolved from the piano-less Europe. quartet idea. With his Concert Jazz Band, Tony Bennett The Count Basie Orchestra 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 Ira Gershwin. 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- (New York City), 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 Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Joe ing under his given name. Tony Bennett Williams, Tony Bennett, and Frank Sinatra 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 1950s, the ing contract with Columbia Records, 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 England, 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 Irving Berlin, 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 John Williams 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 London's Prince Edward Theatre in which Mr. Bennett is accompanied by the Ralph Sharon Trio and the London Chamber Orchestra. Tony Bennett is making a return Tanglewood appearance, having performed during the 1991 Jazz Festival. ••lit;:'-" "- '-J:<' "^Jif. , 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 Thad Jones. 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 soundtrack 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 Quincy Jones. 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 Miles in the Sky 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 Chicago in 1940, Herbie Hancock started award for his arrangement of "Deedles studying piano at age seven. By eleven he Blues." was performing Mozart with the Chicago Symphony, only taking up jazz in high school, when he came under the influence Russell Malone of Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson. He was Guitarist Russell twenty when he went to New York with Malone recently trumpeter Donald Byrd. 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.