Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
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Thursday, September 29, 2016, 8pm Paramount Theatre, Oakland Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis, music director, trumpet Ryan Kisor, trumpet Kenny Rampton, trumpet Marcus Printup, trumpet Vincent Gardner, trombone Chris Crenshaw, trombone Elliot Mason, trombone Sherman Irby, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Ted Nash, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Victor Goines, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet Walter Blanding, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela, baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Ali Jackson, drums Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage and performed without an intermission. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. For more information, please visit jazz.org. Facebook: facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter Twitter: twitter.com/jazzdotorg YouTube: youtube.com/jazzatlincolncenter Cal Performances' presentations in Oakland are generously underwritten by Signature Development Group. Jazz residency and education activities are generously underwritten by the Thatcher Meyerson Family. ABOUT THE ARTISTS he mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is country, woven with the colorful stories of the to entertain, enrich, and expand a global artists behind them. Jazz Night in America and Tcommunity for jazz through perform- Jazz at Lincoln Center’s radio archive can be ance, education, and advocacy. With the found at jazz.org/radio. world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orch - Under music director Wynton Marsalis, the estra and guest artists spanning genres and JLCO spends over a third of the year on tour. generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces The big band performs a vast repertoire, from thousands of performance, education, and rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln broadcast events each season in its home in Center-commissioned works, including com- New York City (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The positions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, House of Swing”) and around the world, for Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, by chairman Robert J. Appel, managing and Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles artistic director Wynton Marsalis, and execu- Mingus, Chick Corea, Oliver Nelson, and many tive director Greg Scholl. others. Guest conductors have included Benny The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico (JLCO), comprising 15 of today’s finest jazz O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon soloists and ensemble players, has been the Jazz Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. Wilson, and Loren Schoenberg. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Cen - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra also regu- ter’s programming, this remarkably versatile larly premieres works commissioned from a va- orchestra performs and leads educational riety of composers including Benny Carter, Joe events in New York, across the US, and around Hen derson, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, the world; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz Wayne Shorter, Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, clubs, and public parks; and with symphony Freddie Hub bard, Chico O’Farrill, Charles orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an McPherson, Marcus Roberts, Geri Allen, Eric ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Reed, Wallace Roney, and Christian McBride, Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln as well as from current and former JLCO mem- Center’s mission; its educational activities are bers Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Center Orchestra tour programming. These Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez. programs, many of which feature JLCO mem- Over the last few years, the Jazz at Lincoln bers, include the celebrated Jazz for Young Center Orchestra has performed collaborations PeopleTM family concert series; the Essentially with many of the world’s leading symphony Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition orchestras, including the New York Philhar - & Festival; the Jazz for Young PeopleTM Cur - monic, the Russian National Orchestra, and the riculum; educational residencies; workshops; Berlin Philharmonic Orch estra; the symphony and concerts for students and adults worldwide. orchestras of Boston, Chicago, and London; Jazz at Lincoln Center educational programs the Orchestra Esperi mentale in São Paolo, reach over 110,000 students, teachers, and gen- Brazil; and others. In 2006, the JLCO collabo- eral audience members. rated with Ghanaian drum collective Odadaa!, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music, and led by Yacub Addy, performing Congo Square, WBGO-FM have partnered to create the next a composition Marsalis and Addy dedicated to generation of jazz programming on public Marsalis’ native New Orleans. The Jazz at radio: Jazz Night in America. The series show- Lincoln Center Orchestra performed Marsalis’ cases today’s vital jazz scene while also under- Swing Sym phony with the Berlin Philharmonic scoring the genre’s storied history. Hosted by and the New York Philharmonic in 2010 bassist Christian McBride, the program features and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in hand-picked performances from across the 2011. Swing Symphony was co-commissioned PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS Frank Stewart by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Phil - cert (a project that raised funds for the Higher harmonic, Los Angeles Philhar monic, and The Ground Relief Fund, established by Jazz at Barbican Centre. Lincoln Center and administered through the The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has Baton Rouge Area Foundation to benefit the also been featured in several education and musicians, music industry-related enterprises, performance residencies in recent years, in- and other individuals and entities from the cluding those in Vienne, France; Perugia, Italy; areas in Greater New Orleans who were im- Prague, Czech Republic; Lon don, England; pacted by Hurricane Katrina, and to provide Lucerne, Switzerland; Ber lin, Germany; São other general hurricane relief). The band is also Paulo, Brazil; and Yoko hama, Japan. featured on the Higher Ground Benefit Concert Television broadcasts of JLCO programs CD that was released on Blue Note Records fol- have helped broaden the awareness of the or- lowing the concert. The JLCO was featured in a chestra’s unique activities. Concerts by the Jazz Thirteen/WNET production of Great Perfor - at Lincoln Center Orchestra have aired in mances entitled “Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln the US, England, France, Spain, Germany, the Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis,” Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, Brazil, which aired on PBS in 1999. In September Argentina, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, 2002, BET Jazz premiered a weekly series called and the Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center broadcasts and eight Live From Lincoln Center Orchestra from around the world. broadcasts carried by PBS stations nationwide, In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced including a program that aired on October 18, the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new plat- 2004, during the grand opening of Jazz at form to make its vast archive of recorded con- Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Rose certs available to jazz audiences everywhere Hall, and on September 17, 2005, during Jazz (www.jazz.org/blueengine). The label is dedi- at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Con - cated to releasing new studio and live record- Donor Spotlight Cal Performances Salutes the Thatcher Meyerson Family This season, Cal Performances’ jazz residency and education activities are generously underwritten by the Thatcher Meyerson Family. Their generous gift is inspired by— and in loving memory of—family heads David and Shirley Thatcher. In 1946, David and Shirley met working on a Democratic campaign in Philadelphia. The couple married the following year, and Shirley always said that she fell for David partly because of his jazz record collection. Shortly thereafter, the Thatchers moved to California to fulfill David’s dream of attending UC Berkeley, where he eventually received his Ed.D. Enthusiastic swing dancers, and always actively engaged in community life, David and Shirley soon welcomed three children to the family. As the years passed, the two campaigned for local Democrats, marched against the Vietnam War, volunteered for the PTA, gave citizenship classes, and edited the Peace and Justice newsletter. And through it all, they always included jazz concerts, museum visits, films, and adventurous dining in their family activities. David and Shirley’s middle child, Maris Thatcher Meyerson, remembers coming to Zellerbach Hall with her parents shortly after it opened in 1968. Now serving on Cal Performances’ board of trustees as co-chair of the Education and Community Outreach Committee, Maris is grateful to continue her parents’ legacy of giving back to the community. PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS ings as well as archival recordings from past Jazz prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his ora- at Lincoln Center performances. Its first torio Blood on the Fields, which was commis- record—Live in Cuba, recorded on a historic sioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he 2010 trip to Havana by the JLCO