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Thursday, September 29, 2016, 8pm Paramount Theatre, Oakland at Orchestra with

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 , tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet , tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela, baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet , 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 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 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- (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The positions and arrangements by , House of Swing”) and around the world, for , , Thelonious people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led Monk, Mary Lou Williams, , by chairman Robert J. Appel, managing and , , 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 , 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, , 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, , 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 . 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 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 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 , 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 with Wynton released eight new recordings in his unprece- Marsalis—was released in October 2015. Blue dented Swinging into the 21st series, and pre- Engine’s second offering—Carlos Henriquez’s miered several new compositions, including the The Bronx Pyramid—was released last Sep - ballet Them Twos, for a collaboration with the tember, and from the Jazz at . That same year, he pre- Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Mar - miered the monumental work All Rise, com- salis arrived in stores last October. The most missioned and performed by the New York recent release is The Abyssinian Mass, a Wynton Philharmonic along with the JLCO and the Marsalis composition featuring the JLCO with Morgan State University Choir. Sony Classical Wynton Marsalis, Damien Sneed, the 70-piece released All Rise on CD in 2002. Recorded on Gospel Choir Chorale Le Chateau, and special September 14 and 15, 2001, in Los Angeles dur- guest Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III. ing the tense days following 9/11, All Rise To date, 14 other recordings featuring the features the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra JLCO with Wynton Marsalis have been released along with the Los Angeles Philhar monic, the and distributed internationally: Vitoria Suite Morgan State University Choir, the Paul Smith (2010); Portrait in Seven Shades (2010); Congo Singers, and the Northridge Singers. In 2004, Square (2007); Don’t Be Afraid...The Music of Marsalis released The Magic Hour, his first of (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); six on Blue Note records. He followed All Rise (2002); Big Train (1999); Sweet Release up his Blue Note debut with Unforgivable & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing City (1999); Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jump Start and Jazz (1997); Blood on the Fields the companion soundtrack recording to Ken (1997); They Came to Swing (1994); The Fire Burns’ PBS documentary on the great African- of the Fundamentals (1993); and Portraits by American boxer; Wynton Marsalis: Live at The Ellington (1992). House Of Tribes (2005); From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007); , Wynton Marsalis (music director, trumpet) is featuring (2008); He and She the managing and artistic director of Jazz at (2009); Here We Go Again, featuring Willie Lincoln Center. Born in 1961 in New Orleans, Nelson, Wynton Marsalis, and Norah Jones Louisiana, Marsalis began his classical training (2011); and Wynton Marsalis & on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in Play The Blues (2011). To mark the 200th an- local bands and in diverse genres. He entered niversary of Harlem’s historical Abyssinian the at age 17 and soon joined Baptist Church in 2008, Marsalis composed a and the Jazz Messengers. Marsalis full mass for choir and jazz orchestra. The piece made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center, followed and has since recorded more than 70 jazz and with performances at the celebrated church. classical albums that have garnered him nine Marsalis composed his second symphony, Blues Grammy® Awards. In 1983, he became the first Symphony, which was premiered in 2009 by the and only artist to win both classical and jazz Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and performed Grammy Awards in the same year; he repeated again in 2010 by the Boston Symphony Orch - this feat in 1984. estra. That same year, he premiered his third Marsalis’ rich body of compositions includes symphony, Swing Symphony, a co-commission Sweet Release; Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements; by the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Phil - Jump Start and Jazz; Citi Movement/Griot New harmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The York; At the Octoroon Balls; In This House, On Barbican Centre. The Jazz at Lincoln Center This Morning; and Big Train. In 1997, he Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performed the became the first jazz artist to be awarded the piece with the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin ABOUT THE ARTISTS and with the New York Philharmonic in New Relief Fund. He led the effort to construct Jazz York City in 2010 and with the Los Angeles at Lincoln Center’s new home—Frederick P. Philharmonic in Los Angeles in 2011. Rose Hall—the first education, performance, Marsalis is also an internationally respected and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which teacher and spokesman for music education, opened in 2004. and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano saxo- the United States. He conducts educational phones, clarinet,) was born into a musical fam- programs for students of all ages and hosts the ily on August 14, 1971, in Cleveland, Ohio, and popular Jazz for Young PeopleTM concerts pro- began playing the saxophone at age six. In 1981, duced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has he moved with his family to New York City; also written and is the host of the video series by age 16, he was performing regularly with his Marsalis on Music and the radio series Making parents at the Village Gate. Blanding attended the Music. He has written several books: Sweet LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Swing Blues on the Road, in collaboration with Performing Arts and continued his studies at photographer Frank Stewart; Jazz in the Bitter - the New School for Social Research, where he sweet Blues of Life, with Carl Vigeland; To a earned a bachelor’s degree in 2005. His 1991 Young Musician: Letters from the Road, with debut release, Tough Young Tenors, was ac- Selwyn Seyfu Hinds; Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! claimed as one of the best jazz albums of the Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers; year, and his artistry began to impress listeners and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz and critics alike. He has been a member of the Can Change Your Life, with Geoffrey C. Ward, JLCO since 1998 and has performed, toured, published by Random House. In 2005, Can - and/or recorded with his own groups and with dlewick Press released Marsalis’ Jazz ABZ: such renowned artists as the Cab Calloway An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, 26 poems Orchestra, , Hilton Ruiz, Count celebrating jazz greats, illustrated by poster Basie Orchestra, Illinois Jacquet Big Band, artist Paul Rogers. Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Roberts, the Wynton In 2001, Marsalis was appointed Messenger Marsalis Quintet, Isaac Hayes, and many oth- of Peace by Kofi Annan, former Secretary- ers. Blanding lived in Israel for four years and General of the United Nations; he has also been had a major impact on the music scene while designated cultural ambassador to the United touring the country with his own ensemble and States of America by the US State Department with US artists such as Louis Hayes, Eric Reed, through their CultureConnect program. In Vanessa Rubin, and others. He taught music in 2009, Marsalis was awarded France’s Legion of several Israeli schools and eventually opened Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the his own private school in Tel Aviv. During this French government. He serves on former Lieu - period, Newsweek International called him a tenant Governor Landrieu’s National Advisory “Jazz Ambassador to Israel.” Board for Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, a national advisory board to guide the adminis- Chris Crenshaw (trombone) was born in tration’s plans to rebuild Louisiana’s tourism Thomson, Georgia, on December 20, 1982. and cultural economies. Marsalis has also been Since birth, he has been driven by and sur- named to the Bring New Orleans Back Com - rounded by music. When he started playing mission, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray piano at age three, his teachers and fellow Nagin’s initiative to help rebuild New Orleans students noticed his aptitude for the instru- culturally, socially, economically, and uniquely ment. This love for piano led to his first gig with for every citizen. Marsalis was instrumental in Echoes of Joy, his father Casper’s gospel quartet the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, group. He started playing the trombone at age produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which 11, receiving honors and awards along the way. raised over $3 million for the Higher Ground Crenshaw graduated from Thomson High

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School in 2001 and received his bachelor’s de- lege, completed a world tour with Lauryn Hill gree with honors in jazz performance from in 2000, and then joined the Jazz at Lincoln Valdosta State University in 2005. He was Center Orchestra. Gardner has served as an named Most Outstanding Student in the VSU instructor at the Juilliard School, as a visiting Music Department and College of Arts. In instructor at Florida State University and 2007, Crenshaw received his master’s degree in Michi gan State University, and as an adjunct jazz studies from the Juilliard School, where his instructor at The New School. He is currently teachers included Dr. Douglas Farwell and the director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Wycliffe Gordon. He has appeared as a sideman Orchestra, and he has contributed many on fellow JLCO trumpeter Marcus Printup’s arrangements to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Ballads All Night and on Wynton Marsalis and Orchestra and other ensembles. In 2009, he was Eric Clapton Play the Blues. In 2006, Crenshaw commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center to joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and write The Jesse B. Semple Suite, a 60-minute in 2012, he composed God’s Trombones, a spir- work inspired by the short stories of Langston itually focused work that was premiered by the Hughes. In addition, Gardner is a popular in- orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center. structor at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ongoing jazz education program, Swing University, teaching Vincent Gardner (trombone) was born in courses on bebop and more. Gardner is fea- Chicago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton, tured on a number of notable recordings and Virginia. After singing and playing piano, vio- has recorded five CDs as a leader for Steeple - lin, saxophone, and French horn at an early age, chase Records. He has performed with The he decided to focus on the trombone at age 12. Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, He attended Florida A&M University and the Harry Connick, Jr., the Saturday Night Live University of North Florida, and soon caught Band, Chaka Khan, A Tribe Called Quest, and the ear of Mercer Ellington, who hired Gardner many others. Gardner was chosen as the top for his first professional job. He moved to Rising Star Trombonist in the 2014 DownBeat Brooklyn, New York, after graduating from col- Critics Poll. ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxophones, University School of Music since 2008, and was clarinet, bass clarinet) is a native of New music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of Orchestra’s cultural exchange with the Cuban the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Institute of Music with Chucho Valdés in 2010. Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout the world and recording over 20 Sherman Irby (alto and soprano saxophones, albums. As a leader, Goines has recorded seven flute, clarinet) was born and raised in Tusca - albums, including Pastels of Ballads and Blues loosa, Alabama. He found his musical calling at (2007) and Love Dance (2007) on Criss Cross age 12 and in high school played and recorded Records, and Twilight (2012) on Rosemary with gospel immortal James Cleveland. He Joseph Records. A gifted composer, Goines graduated from Clark Atlanta University with has more than 50 original works to his credit, a bachelor’s degree in music education. In 1991, including 2014’s Crescent City, premiered by he joined Johnny O’Neal’s Atlanta-based quin- the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He has tet, and in 1994, he moved to New York City, recorded and/or performed with many noted where he recorded his first two albums, Full jazz and popular artists, including Ahmad Circle (1996) and Big Mama’s Biscuits (1998), Jamal, , , for Blue Note. Irby toured the US and the , , Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Caribbean with the Boys Choir of Harlem in Kravitz, , Ellis Marsalis, 1995 and was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln , Willie Nelson, Marcus Roberts, Center Orchestra from 1995 to 1997. During , , and a host of that time he also recorded and toured with others. Currently, Goines is the director of jazz Marcus Roberts and was part of ’s studies/professor of music at Northwestern Jazz Ahead Program and Roy Hargrove’s Uni versity. He received a bachelor’s degree from ensemble. After a four-year stint with Roy Har - Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984, and grove, Irby focused on his own group in addi- a master’s in music from Virginia Common - tion to being a member of ’ wealth University in Richmond in 1990. ensemble in 2004 and then Papo Vazquez’ Vazquez’s Pirates Troubadours after Jones’ pass- Carlos Henriquez (bass) was born in 1979 in ing. From 2003-11, Irby was the regional the Bronx, New York. He studied music at a director for JazzMasters Workshop, mentoring young age, played guitar through junior high young children. He has served as artist-in- school, and took up the bass while enrolled residence for Jazz Camp West and an instructor in the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement for Band Camp. Irby is a Program. He entered LaGuardia High School former board member for the CubaNOLA of Music & Arts and Performing Arts and was Collective. He formed Black Warrior Records involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz and released Black Warrior, Faith, Organ Ensemble, which went on to win first place in Starter, Live at the Otto Club, and Andy Farber’s Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington This Could Be the Start of Something Big. High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival Since rejoining JLCO, Irby has arranged much in 1996. In 1998, just after leaving high school, of the ensemble’s music, and he has also been Henriquez joined the Wynton Marsalis Septet commissioned to compose new works, includ- and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, tour- ing Twilight Sounds and his Dante-inspired ing the world and featured on more than 25 al- ballet, Inferno. bums. Henriquez has performed with artists including Chucho Valdés, Paco De Lucía, Tito Ali Jackson (drums) developed his skill on Puente, the Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, Bob drums at an early age. In 1993, he graduated Dylan, Stevie Wonder, , Marc from Cass Tech High School and in 1998, he re- Anthony, and many others. He has been a ceived Michigan’s prestigious Artserv Emerging member of the music faculty at Northwestern Artist award. As a child, he was selected as the

PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS soloist for the “Beacons Of Jazz” concert that also the voice of “Duck Ellington,” a character in honored legend at The New School. the Penguin book series Baby Loves Jazz that After earning an undergraduate degree in was released in 2006. music composition, he studied under Elvin Jones and Max Roach. Jackson has been part of Ryan Kisor (trumpet) was born in 1973 in Young Audiences, a program that educates New Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet at York City youth on jazz. He has performed and age four. In 1990, he won first prize at the recorded with artists including Wynton Mar - Institute’s first annual Louis salis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aretha Frank lin, Armstrong Trumpet Competition. Kisor en- George Benson, Harry Connick, Jr., KRS-1, rolled in School of Music in 1991, Marcus Roberts, Joshua Redman, Vinx, Seito where he studied with trumpeter . Kinen Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa, Diana He has performed and/or recorded with the Krall, and the New York City Ballet. His pro- Mingus Big Band, the Orchestra, duction skills can be heard on George Benson’s , and Charlie GRP release Irreplaceable. Jackson is featured Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the on the Wynton Marsalis Quartet recordings Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris Jazz The Magic Hour (Blue Note, 2004) and From the All-Stars, and others. In addition to being an Plantation to the Penitentiary. He also collabo- active sideman, Kisor has recorded several rated with jazz greats Cyrus Chestnut, Reginald albums as a leader, including Battle Cry (1997), Veal, and James Carter on Gold Sounds (Brown The Usual Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival Brothers, 2005), which transformed songs by (2000). He has been a member of the Jazz at indie alternative rock band Pavement into Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1994. unique virtuosic interpretations with the atti- tude of the church and juke joint. He has been Elliot Mason (trombone) was born in England a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1977 and began trumpet lessons at age four Orchestra since 2005. Jackson currently per- with his father. At age seven, he switched his forms with the Wynton Marsalis Quintet and focus from trumpet to trombone. At 11 years Horns in the Hood, and leads the Ali Jackson old, he was performing in various venues, con- Quartet. He also hosted “Jammin’ with Jack - centrating on jazz and improvisation. At 16, son,” a series for young musicians at Jazz at Mason was chosen to receive a full scholarship Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. He is to attend Berklee College of Music. He has won

e Cal Performances Jazz Series continues in November…

Myra Melford & Snowy Egret Language of Dreams Sat, Nov 19, 8pm, Zellerbach Hall Fresh from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s season- opening September concerts in New York, Myra Melford joins her all-star ensemble Snowy Egret to perform Language of Dreams, featuring video, narration, and movement, and inspired by the writings of Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. Melford is an electrifying improviser and an inci- sive composer who combines a passion for groove and lyricism with an experimentalist’s spirit of invention. For tickets, visit calperformances.org. ABOUT THE ARTISTS the following awards: Daily Telegraph Young recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orch - Jazz Soloist (under 25) Award, the prestigious estra and was released in 2010. The is the Frank Rosolino Award, the International Trom - first composition released by the JLCO featur- bone Association’s Under 29 Jazz Trom bone ing original music by a band member other Competition, and Berklee’s Slide Hamp ton than bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Nash’s latest Award in recognition of outstanding perform- album, Chakra, was released in 2013, and the ance abilities. Mason moved to New York City Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra premiered his after graduation, and in 2008 joined North - commissioned work Presidential Suite in 2014. western University’s faculty as the jazz trom- bone instructor. He has performed with the Paul Nedzela (baritone and soprano saxo- Count Basie Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, phones, bass clarinet) has become one of today’s the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and the May - top baritone saxophone players. He has played nard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau. A member of with many renowned artists and ensembles, in- the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 2006, cluding Wess Anderson, George Benson, The Mason also continues to co-lead the Mason Birdland Big Band, Bill Charlap, Chick Corea, Brothers Quintet with his brother Elliot. The Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Benny Mason Brothers released their debut album, Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Roy Haynes, Chris - Two Sides, One Story, in 2011. tian McBride, Eric Reed, Dianne Reeves, , Maria Schneider, Frank Sinatra Jr., The Ted Nash (alto and soprano saxophones, flute, Temptations, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, clarinet) enjoys an extraordinary career as a Reginald Veal, and Max Weinberg. Nedzela has performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and performed in Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show educator. Born in Los Angeles into a musical Come Fly Away and in major festivals around family (his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late the world. He has studied with some of the fore- Ted Nash, were both well-known jazz and stu- most baritone saxophonists in the world, in- dio musicians), Nash blossomed early, a “young cluding , Gary Smulyan, and lion” before the term entered marketing ver- Roger Rosenberg. Nedzela graduated with hon- nacular. Nash has that uncanny ability to mix ors from McGill University in Montreal with a freedom with accessibility, blues with intellect, bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 2006. A re- and risk-taking with clarity, and his group cipient of the Samuel L. Jackson Scholarship Odeon has often been cited as a creative focus Award, he continued his musical studies at the of jazz. Many of Nash’s recordings have received Juilliard School and graduated with a master’s critical acclaim and appeared on the “best-of” degree in 2008. lists in the New York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, and The New Yorker. His recordings The Dan Nimmer (piano) was born in 1982 in Mancini Project and Sidewalk Meeting have , Wisconsin. With prodigious tech- been placed on several “best-of-decade” lists. nique and an innate sense of swing, his playing Nash’s album Portrait in Seven Shades was often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically

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Oscar Peterson, , Erroll Garner, The New Boogaloo, Peace in the Abstract, Bird of and . As a young man, Nimmer’s Paradise, London Lullaby, Ballads All Night, A family inherited a piano and he started playing Time for Love, and his most recent, Homage by ear. He studied classical piano and eventu- (2012) and Desire, (2013) featuring Riza Prin - ally became interested in jazz. At the same time, tup on the harp. He made a big screen appear- he began playing gigs around Milwaukee. Upon ance in the 1999 movie Playing by Heart and graduation from high school, Nimmer left recorded on the film’s soundtrack. Edu cation is Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois important to Printup, as he is a popular clini- University, and soon, he was one of Chicago’s cian teaching middle schools, high schools, and busiest piano players. Working in Chicago, colleges across the US. He teaches privately at Nimmer decided to leave school and make the the prestigious Mannes New School of Music. move to New York City, where he immediately August 22 has been declared “Marcus Printup emerged onto the jazz scene. A year later, he be- Day” in his hometown of Conyers, Georgia. came a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Kenny Rampton (trumpet) joined the Jazz at Nimmer has worked with Norah Jones, Willie Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2010. In addition Nelson, Dianne Reeves, George Benson, Frank to performing in the JLCO, Rampton leads his Wess, , Tom Jones, Benny Golson, own groups. He released his debut solo CD Lewis Nash, , Ed Thigpen, Moon Over Babylon in 2013. He is also the Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Fareed Haque, trumpet voice for the popular PBS’ Sesame and many others. He has appeared on The Street. Rampton performed with the Scottish Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with National Jazz Orch estra at the Edinburgh David Letterman, The View, The Kennedy International Festival, and was the featured Center Honors, Live from Abbey Road, and PBS’ soloist on the /Gil Evans classic ver- Live from Lincoln Center, among other broad- sion of Porgy and Bess. He has been a regular casts. Nimmer has released four of his own al- member of Mingus Epitaph (under the direc- bums on the Venus label (Japan). tion of Gunther Schuller), the Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty, George Gruntz’ Con - Marcus Printup (trumpet) was born and raised cert Jazz Band, Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban in Conyers, Georgia, and his first musical ex- Jazz Orchestra, Bebo Valdez’ Latin Jazz All- periences were hearing the fiery gospel music Stars, and The Manhattan Jazz Orchestra. his parents sang in church. While attending the Rampton spent much of the 1990s touring the University of North Florida on a music schol- world with the Ray Charles Orchestra, the arship, he won the International Trumpet Guild Jimmy McGriff Quartet, legendary jazz drum- Jazz Trumpet Competition. In 1991, Printup’s mer Panama Francis (and the Savoy Sultans), life changed when he met his mentor, the great as well as jazz greats Jon Hendricks, Lionel pianist Marcus Roberts, who introduced him to Hampton, and Illinois Jacquet. As a sideman, Wynton Marsalis. This led to Printup’s induc- he has performed with Dr. John, Christian tion into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in McBride, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, 1993. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, Charles Ear land, Geoff Keezer, and many oth- Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, ers. Some of Rampton’s Broadway credits in- Ted Nash, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, clude Anything Goes, Finian’s Rainbow, The Wiz, and Roberts, among others. He has recorded Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Young Frankenstein, several records as a leader: Song for the Beautiful and The Color Purple. Woman, Unveiled, Hub Songs, Nocturnal Traces,