Seventy-Ninth Program of the 2020-21 Season ______Jazz Ensemble John Raymond, Director ______
The Music of Mulgrew Miller
MULGREW MILLER (1955-2013) Wingspan (arr. Garrett Fasig) Soloists Brayden Wisley, Alto Saxophone Nicholas Recktenwald, Trumpet Charlie Harriman, Guitar Collin Waugh, Drums
Know Wonder (arr. John Raymond) Soloists Garrett Spoelhof, Piano Andrew Kreitner, Tenor Saxophone
The Eleventh Hour Soloists Carter Pearson, Drums Quinn McGuire, Guitar Nicholas Recktenwald, Trumpet Brendan Sullivan, Trombone
______Musical Arts Center Monday Evening October Twenty-Sixth Eight O’Clock
Indiana University prohibits the unauthorized recording, publication, and streaming of live performances. Please silence all electronic devices. Holding Hands (arr. Charlie Harriman and Andrew Kreitner) Soloists Galen Morris, Bass Charlie Harriman, Guitar
Grew’s Tune (arr. Sam Butler) Soloists Garrett Spoelhof, Piano Andrew Kreitner, Tenor Saxophone
Go East, Young Man (arr. John Raymond) Soloists Ethan Wood, Trumpet Brendan Sullivan, Trombone Quinn McGuire, Guitar
John Raymond is assistant professor of music in jazz studies (trumpet) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Recently voted a rising star trumpeter in DownBeat magazine’s Critics Poll, Raymond has been making a name for himself as one of the most promising up-and-coming jazz musicians in the world. He has performed with some of the most well- respected names in jazz including Kurt Rosenwinkel, Billy Hart, Orrin Evans, Gilad Hekselman, and Linda Oh, among others. Raymond has released six albums since 2012, all of which have garnered critical acclaim from The New York Times, DownBeat magazine, JazzTimes, and others. He has been a featured artist at the Festival of New Trumpet Music and New York City’s Winter Jazz Fest, was interviewed by The Gospel Coalition and WBGO’sThe Checkout program, and received the 2015 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. Raymond has also established himself as a sought-after educator as a guest clinician and soloist at schools around the world. He has presented multiple times at the Jazz Education Network national conference, and his two-part article “Developing the Entrepreneurial Mind: Teaching Students How to Bloom Where They’re Planted” was recently published by JAZZed magazine. Raymond’s frequent critical acclaim includes The New York Times naming him “a prepossessing young trumpet player,” and DownBeat commenting that, “Raymond is steering jazz in the right direction.” Raymond’s newest album, Real Feels Live, Vol. 2, was released in January 2019 on Sunnyside Records. (Photo by Eric Ryan Anderson) American jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller (1955-2013) combined “the bright precision of bebop, as exemplified by Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson, with the clattering intrigue of modal jazz, especially as defined by McCoy Tyner” (The New York Times). Miller grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi, during the Civil Rights Movement and first began playing blues and gospel music in church. He attended Memphis State University in 1973, where he met fellow jazz piano legends James Williams and Donald Brown, who were also in school at the time. After he finished his studies, he was offered a job with the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington. He went on to perform as a sideman with many other seminal bandleaders including Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Woody Shaw, and Tony Williams, among others, and appeared on over 500 albums throughout his career. A widely respected bandleader in his own right, working with a trio or his own group, Wingspanm he also served as the director of jazz studies at William Paterson University from 2005 until his passing in 2013. Although he may not have garnered broad recognition during his lifetime, his style continues to influence generations of younger pianists. (Photo by Jean-François Laberine)
John Raymond Jazz Ensemble Saxophone Brayden Wisley, Alto/Soprano/Flute Andrew Kreitner, Tenor/Bass Clarinet
Trumpet/Flugelhorn Chase Murray, Lead Nicholas Recktenwald Ethan Wood
Trombone Brendan Sullivan Keller Orosz, Bass
Rhythm Section Garrett Spoelhof, Piano/Keyboard Charlie Harriman, Guitar Quinn McGuire, Guitar Galen Morris, Bass Carter Pearson, Drums Collin Waugh, Drums