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Friday, September 18, 2015, 8pm Zellerbach Hall

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis Music Director, trumpet Kenny Rampton trumpet Marcus Printup trumpet Vincent Gardner Chris Crenshaw trombone Elliot Mason trombone Sherman Irby alto and , flute, clarinet Ted Nash alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet and soprano saxophones, clarinet, clarinet Walter Blanding tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet * baritone Carlos Henriquez bass Ali Jackson drums

* Joe Temperley does not appear on this tour. Paul Nedzela performs in his place.

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HE MISSION of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music, and Tentertain, enrich, and expand a global WBGO have partnered to the next gen - community for jazz through performance, ed - eration of jazz programming in public radio: ucation, and advocacy. Jazz Night in America . The series showcases With the world‐renowned Jazz at Lincoln today’s vital jazz scene while also underscor - Center Orchestra (JLCO) and guest artists ing the genre’s storied history. Hosted by spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Christian McBride, the program fea - Lincoln Center produces thousands of per - tures hand‐picked performances from across formance, education, and broadcast events the country, woven into the colorful stories of each season in its home in the artists behind them. Jazz Night in America (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”) and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s radio archive can and around the world, for people of all ages. be found at jazz.org/radio. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman The JLCO spends over a third of the year Robert J. Appel, Managing and Artistic on tour. The performs a vast reper - Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive toire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz Director Greg Scholl. at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, in - The JLCO, comprising 15 of the finest jazz cluding compositions and by soloists and ensemble players today, has been the , , Fletcher Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since Henderson, , Mary Lou 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Williams, , , Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile , , Chick orchestra performs and leads educational events Corea, , and many others. Guest in New York, across the United States and conductors have included , John around the globe, in concert halls, dance venues, Lewis, , Chico O’Farrill, Ray jazz clubs, public parks, and with symphony or - Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, , Robert chestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an Sadin, David Berger, , and ever‐expanding roster of guest artists. Under . Mr. Marsalis, its Music Director, the JLCO Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly pre - performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic mières works commissioned from a variety of compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center‐ composers including Benny Carter, Joe commissioned works, including compositions Henderson, , Jimmy Heath, and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count , , , Chico Basie, , Thelonious Monk, O’Farrill, , Charles Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny McPherson, , Geri Allen, Eric Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. Reed, , and Christian McBride, Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln as well as from current and former JLCO Center’s mission; its educational activities are members Mr. Marsalis, , Ted coordinated with concert and JLCO tour pro - Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris gramming. These programs, many of which Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez. feature JLCO members, include the celebrated Over the last few years, the JLCO has per - Jazz for Young People family concert series, the formed collaborations with many of the world’s “Essentially Ellington” High School Jazz Band leading symphony orchestras, including the New Competition and Festival, the Jazz for Young York Philharmonic, the Russian National People curriculum, educational residencies, Orchestra, the , the , workshops, and concerts for students and Chicago, and London symphonies, and the adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center edu - Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil. In cational programs reach over 110,000 students, 2006, the JLCO collaborated with Ghanaian teachers, and general audience members. drum collective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, ABOUT THE ARTISTS to perform Congo Square , a composition co- Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis,” which aired written by Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Addy and ded - on PBS in 1999. In September 2002, BET Jazz icated to Mr. Marsalis’s native . premièred a weekly series, Journey with Jazz The JLCO performed Mr. Marsalis’s Swing at Lincoln Center , featuring performances by Symphony with the Berlin and New York phil - the JLCO from around the world. harmonics in 2010 and with the Los Angeles To date, 14 recordings featuring the JLCO Philharmonic in 2011 . Swing Symphony is a with Mr. Marsalis have been released and in - co‐commission by the , ternationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010 ), Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Portrait in Seven Shades ( 2010 ), Congo Square and the Barbican Centre. (2007 ), Don’t Be Afraid…The Music of Charles The JLCO has also been featured in several Mingus (2005 ), A Love Supreme (2005 ), All education and performance residencies in the Rise (2002 ), Big Train (1999 ), Sweet Release & last few years, including those in Vienne Ghost Story (1999), Live in Swing City (1999 ), (France), Perugia, Prague, London, Lucerne, Jump Start and Jazz (1997 ), Berlin, São Paulo, and Yokohama. (1997 ), They Came to Swing (1994 ), The Fire of Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln the Fundamentals (1993 ), and Portraits by Center programs have helped broaden the Ellington (1992 ). awareness of its unique efforts in the music. Concerts by the JLCO have aired in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts carried by PBS stations nationwide, including a program which aired on October 18, 2004, during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new z e n i

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September 17, 2005, during Jazz at Lincoln M

e o Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert. Jazz J at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, trumpet ) is Concert raised funds for the Higher Ground the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Relief Fund that was established by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Lincoln Center, and was administered Louisiana, in 1961, Mr. Marsalis began his through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to classical training on trumpet at age twelve and benefit the musicians, music industry‐related soon began playing in local bands of diverse enterprises, and other individuals and entities genres. He entered the at age from the areas in Greater New Orleans who 17 and joined and the Jazz were impacted by Hurricane Katrina, and to Messengers. Mr. Marsalis made his recording provide other general hurricane relief. The début as a leader in 1982, and has since band is also featured on the Higher Ground recorded more than 70 jazz and classical al - Benefit Concert CD that was released on Blue bums which have garnered him nine Grammy Note Records following the concert. The Awards. In 1983, he became the first and only JLCO was featured in a Thirteen/WNET pro - artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys duction of entitled in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984. “Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Mr. Marsalis’s rich body of compositions

PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS includes Sweet Release , Jazz: Six Syncopated year, Mr. Marsalis premièred his third sym - Movements , Jump Start and Jazz , Citi Movement/ phony, Swing Symphony , a co‐Commission by Griot New York , At the Octoroon Balls , In This the New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles phil - House, on This Morning , and Big Train . harmonics and London’s Barbican Centre. The In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the first jazz JLCO with Mr. Marsalis performed the piece artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer with the Berlin and New York philharmonics Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the in in 2010 and with the Los Angeles Fields , which was commissioned by Jazz at Philharmonic 2011. Mr. Marsalis is also an in - Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new ternationally respected teacher and recordings in his unprecedented Swinging into spokesman for music education, and has re - the 21st series, and premièred several new ceived honorary doctorates from dozens of compositions, including the ballet Them Twos , universities and colleges throughout the for a 1999 collaboration with the New York United States. He conducts educational pro - City Ballet. That same year, he premièred the grams for students of all ages and hosts the monumental work All Rise , commissioned popular Jazz for Young People concerts pro - and performed by the New York duced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Philharmonic along with the JLCO and the Mr. Marsalis writes and is the host of the Morgan State University Choir. Sony Classical video series Marsalis on Music and the radio released All Rise on CD in 2002. Recorded on series Making the Music . He has also written September 14 and 15, 2001, in Los Angeles in six books: Sweet Swing Blues , in the tense days following 9/11 , All Rise features collaboration with photographer Frank the JLCO along with the Los Angeles Stewart; Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life , Philharmonic, the Morgan State University with Carl Vigeland; To a Young Musician: Choir, the Singers and the Letters from the Road , with Selwyn Seyfu Northridge Singers. In 2004 , he released The Hinds; Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Magic Hour , his first of six on Blue Note Whomp! , illustrated by Paul Rogers, published records. He followed up his Blue Note début in 2012 ; and Moving to Higher Ground: How with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jazz Can Change Your Life , with Geoffrey C. Jack Johnson , the companion soundtrack Ward, published by Random House in 2008. recording to ’s PBS documentary of In October 2005, Candlewick Press released the great African‐American boxer; Wynton Mr. Marsalis’s Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes (2005 ); of Jazz Portraits , 26 poems celebrating jazz From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007 ); greats, illustrated by poster artist Paul Rogers. , featuring In 2001, Mr. Marsalis was appointed (2008 ); He and She (2009 ); Here We Go Again , Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, former featuring Mr. Nelson and Norah Jones ( 2011 ); Secretary‐General of the United Nations; he has and Wynton Marsalis & Play the also been designated cultural ambassador to Blues (2011 ). the United States of America by the U.S. State To mark the 200th anniversary of ’s Department through their CultureConnect historical Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2008, program. In 2009, Mr. Marsalis was awarded Mr. Marsalis composed a full mass for choir France’s Legion of Honor, the highest honor be - and jazz orchestra. The piece premièred at Jazz stowed by the French government. Mr. Marsalis at Lincoln Center and followed with perform - serves on former Lieutenant Governor ances at the celebrated church. Mr. Marsalis Landrieu’s National Advisory Board for composed his second symphony, Blues Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, a national Symphony , which was premièred in 2009 by advisory board to guide the Lieutenant the Symphony Orchestra and in 2010 Governor’s administration’s plans to rebuild by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That same Louisiana’s tourism and cultural economies. He ABOUT THE ARTISTS has also been named to the Bring New Orleans During this period, Newsweek International Back Commission, former New Orleans Mayor called him a “Jazz Ambassador to Israel.” C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economically, and Chris Crenshaw (trombone ) was born in uniquely for every citizen. Mr. Marsalis was in - Thomson, Georgia, in 1982. Since birth, he strumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane has been driven by and surrounded by music. Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln When he started playing piano at age three, Center, which raised over $3 million for the his teachers and fellow students noticed his Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the mu - aptitude for the instrument. This love for sicians, music industry related enterprises, and piano led to his first gig with Echoes of Joy, other individuals and entities from the areas in his father Casper’s gospel quartet group. He Greater New Orleans who were impacted by started playing the trombone at eleven, re - Hurricane Katrina. He led the effort to con - ceiving honors and awards along the way, struct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home— graduating from Thomson High School in Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first education, 2001 and receiving his B.M. with honors in performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz performance from Valdosta State jazz, which opened in October 2004. University in 2005. Mr. Crenshaw was awarded Most Outstanding Student in the Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano saxo - VSU Music Department and College of Arts. phones, clarinet ) was born into a musical fam - In 2007, he received his M.M. in jazz studies ily in 1971, in , Ohio, and began from the Juilliard School, where his teachers playing the saxophone at age six. In 1981, he included Douglas Farwell and Wycliffe moved with his family to New York City; by Gordon. He has appeared as a sideman on fel - age 16, he was performing regularly with his low JLCO trumpeter Marcus Printup’s Ballads parents at the . Blanding attended All Night and on Wynton Marsalis and Eric LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Clapton Play the Blues . In 2006 Mr. Crenshaw Performing Arts and continued his studies at joined the JLCO, and in 2012 he composed the New School for Social Research, where he God’s , a spiritually focused work earned a B.F.A. in 2005. His 1991 début re - which was premièred by the JLCO. lease, Tough Young , was acclaimed as one of the best jazz albums of the year, and his Vincent Gardner (trombone ) was born in artistry began to impress listeners and critics Chicago, in 1972, and was raised in Hampton, alike. He has been a member of the JLCO Virginia. After singing, playing piano, violin, since 1998 and has performed, toured, and/or saxophone, and French horn at an early age, he recorded with his own groups and with such decided on the trombone at age twelve. He at - renowned artists as the tended Florida A &M University and the Orchestra, , , Count University of North Florida. He soon caught Basie Orchestra, Big Band, the ear of , who hired Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Roberts, the Mr. Gardner for his first professional job. He Wynton Marsalis , Isaac Hayes, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, after graduat - many others. Mr. Blanding lived in Israel for ing from college, completed a world tour with four years and had a major impact on the Lauryn Hill in 2000, and then joined the JLCO. music scene while touring the country with Mr. Gardner has served as instructor at the his own ensemble and with such U.S. artists Juilliard School, as visiting instructor at Florida as , , Vanessa Rubin, and and Michigan state universities, and as adjunct others invited to perform there. He taught instructor at the New School. He is currently music in several Israeli schools and eventually the Director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth opened his own private school in Tel Aviv. Orchestra, and he has contributed many

PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS arrangements to the JLCO and other ensem - school, and took up the bass while enrolled in bles. In 2009, he was commissioned by Jazz at the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Lincoln Center to write The Jesse B. Semple Program. He entered LaGuardia High School Suite , a 60‐minute suite inspired by the short of Music & Arts and Performing Arts and was stories of Langston Hughes. In addition, involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz Mr. Gardner is a popular instructor at Jazz at Ensemble that went on to win in Jazz Lincoln Center’s ongoing pro - at Lincoln Center’s “Essentially Ellington” High gram, Swing University, teaching courses on School Jazz Band Competition and Festival in and more. He Gardner is featured on a 1996. In 1998, swiftly after high school, number of notable recordings and has recorded Mr. Henriquez joined the Wynton Marsalis five CDs as a leader for Steeplechase Records. Septet and the JLCO, touring the world and He has performed with the Duke Ellington performing on more than 25 recordings. Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Connick, Jr., Mr. Henriquez has performed with such artists the Saturday Night Live band, Chaka Khan, A as Chucho Valdés, Paco De Lucía, , Tribe Called Quest, and many others. the Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, , Mr. Gardner was chosen as the No. 1 Rising-Star , , and Marc Trombonist in the 2014 DownBeat Critics Poll. Anthony. He has been a member of the music faculty at School of Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxophones, Music since 2008, and was music director of clarinet, bass clarinet ) is a native of New the JLCO’s cultural exchange with the Cuban Orleans. He has been a member of the JLCO Institute of Music with Mr. Valdés in 2010. and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout the world and recording Sherman Irby (alto and soprano saxophones, over 20 albums. As a leader, Mr. Goines has flute, clarinet ) was born and raised in recorded seven albums including his latest re - Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He found his musical leases, Pastels of Ballads and Blues (2007) and calling at age 12, and in high school he played Love Dance (2007 ), on the Criss Cross label, and recorded with gospel immortal James and Twilight (2012) on Rosemary Joseph Cleveland. He graduated from Clark Atlanta Records. A gifted composer, Goines has more University with a B.A. in music educa tion. In than 50 original works to his credit, including 1991, he joined Johnny O’Neal’s Atlanta‐based 2014’s Crescent City , premièred by the JLCO. quintet. In 1994, he moved to New York City He has recorded and/or performed with many and recorded his first two al bums, Full Circle noted jazz and popular artists, including (1996 ) and Big Mama’s Biscuits (1998), on Blue , , Dee Dee Note. Mr. Irby toured the United States and Bridgewater, , Bob Dylan, Dizzy the Caribbean with the Boys Choir of Harlem Gillespie, Lenny Kravitz, , in 1995 and was a member of the JLCO from Ellis Marsalis, , Willie Nelson, 1995 to 1997. During that tenure, he also Marcus Roberts, , Stevie Wonder, recorded and toured with Marcus Roberts, and and a host of others. Currently, he is the was part of ’s Jazz Ahead program Director of Jazz Studies/Professor of Music at and Roy Hargrove’s ensemble. After a four‐year Northwestern University. He received a B.M. stint with Mr. Hargrove, Mr. Irby focused on from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984, his own group in addition to being a member and an M.M. from Virginia Commonwealth of ’s ensemble in 2004 and then University in Richmond in 1990. Papo Vazquez’s Pirates Troubadours after Mr. Jones’s passing. From 2003 to 2011, Mr. Irby Carlos Henriquez (bass ) was born in 1979 in was the regional director for JazzMasters the Bronx, New York. He studied music at a Workshop, me ntoring young children, and he young age, played guitar through junior high has served as artist‐in‐residence for Jazz ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Camp West and an instructor for Monterey and leads the Ali Jackson Quartet. He also Jazz Festival Band Camp. He is a former board hosted “Jammin’ with Jackson,” a series for member for the CubaNOLA Collective. young musicians at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Mr. Irby founded Black Warrior Records and Dizzy’s Club Coca‐Cola. He is also the voice of has released Black Warrior , Faith , Organ “Duck Ellington,” a character in the Penguin Starter , Live at the Otto Club , and Andy book series Baby Loves Jazz that was released Farber’s This Could Be the Start of Something in 2006 . Big . Since rejoining the JLCO, Mr. Irby has arranged much of the orchestra’s music, and Ryan Kisor (trumpet ) was born in 1973, in he has been commissioned to compose new Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet works, including Twilight Sounds and his at age four. In 1990, he won first prize at the Dante‐inspired ballet, Inferno . Thelonious Monk Institute’s first annual Trumpet Competition. In 1991, Ali Jackson (drums ) developed his talent on Mr. Kisor enrolled in School of drums at an early age. In 1993, he graduated Music, where he studied with trumpeter Lew from Cass Tech High School and in 1998 was Soloff. He has performed and/or recorded the recipient of Michigan’s prestigious Artserv with the Mingus Big Band, the Emerging Artist award. As a child, he was se - Orchestra, , , lected as the soloist for the “Beacons of Jazz” Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, concert that honored legend at the Jazz Band, the Philip Morris New School University. After earning an un - Jazz All‐Stars, and others. In addition to being dergraduate degree in music composition at an active sideman, Mr. Kisor has recorded the New School University for Contemporary several albums as a leader, including Battle Music, he studied under Elvin Jones and Cry (1997 ), The Usual Suspects (1998 ), and Mr. Roach. Mr. Jackson has been part of Point of Arrival (2000). He has been a member Young Audiences, a program that educates of the JLCO since 1994 . New York City youth on jazz. He has per - formed and recorded with such artists as Elliot Mason (trombone ) was born in Wynton Marsalis, , England in 1977 and began trumpet lessons , George Benson, Harry at age four with his father. At age seven, he Connick, Jr., KRS‐1, Marcus Roberts, Joshua switched his focus from trumpet to trombone. Redman, Vinx, the Seito Kinen Orchestra and At 11 years old, he began performing in vari - conductor Seiji Ozawa, Diana Krall, and New ous venues, concentrating on jazz and im - York City Ballet. His production skills can be provisation. At age 16, he was chosen to heard on George Benson’s GRP release receive a full tuition scholarship to attend Irreplaceable . Mr. Jackson is also featured on . Mr. Mason has won Wynton Marsalis Quartet recordings The the following awards: Daily Telegraph Young Magic Hour and From the Plantation to the Jazz Soloist (under-25) Award, the Frank Penitentiary . Mr. Jackson collaborated with Rosolino Award, the International Trombone jazz greats , Reginald Veal, and Association’s Under-29 com - James Carter on Gold Sounds (Brown petition, and Berklee’s Award Brothers, 2005) that transformed songs by in recognition of outstanding performing indie alternative rock band Pavement into abilities. He moved to New York City after unique virtuosic interpretations with the atti - graduation, and in 2008 joined Northwestern tude of the church and juke joint. He has been University’s faculty as its jazz trombone in - a member of the JLCO since 2005. structor. Mr. Mason has performed with the Mr. Jackson currently performs with the , the Mingus Big Band, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Horns in the Hood, the Maria Schneider Orchestra, and Maynard

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Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau. A member of the festivals around the world. He has studied with JLCO since 2006, Mr. Mason also continues to some of the foremost baritone saxophonists in co‐lead the Mason Brothers Quintet with his the world, including Joe Temperley, Gary brother. The Mason Brothers released their Smulyan, and Roger Rosenberg. In 2006, début , Two Sides, One Story , in 2011 . Mr. Nedzela graduated with honors from McGill University in Montreal with a B.A. in Ted Nash (alto and soprano saxophones, flute, mathematics. A recipient of the Samuel L. clarinet ) enjoys an extraordinary career as a Jackson Scholarship Award, he continued his performer, conductor, composer, arranger, musical studies at the Juilliard School and grad - and educator. Born in Los Angeles into a mu - uated with an M.M. in 2008. sical family (his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late Ted Nash, were both well‐known jazz Dan Nimmer (piano ) was born in 1982 in and studio musicians), Mr. Nash blossomed , Wisconsin. With a prodigious tech - early, a “young lion” before the term became nique and innate sense of swing, his playing marketing vernacular. Mr. Nash has that un - often recalls that of his own heroes, specifically canny ability to mix freedom with accessibil - , , Erroll Garner, ity, blues with intellect, and risk‐taking with and . As a young man, Nimmer’s clarity. His group Odeon has often been cited family inherited a piano and he started playing as a creative focus of jazz. Many of Mr. Nash’s by ear. He studied classical piano and eventually rec ordings have received critical acclaim, and became interested in jazz. At the same time, he have appeared on the “best‐of” lists in The New began playing gigs around Milwaukee. Upon York Times , , The Village Voice , graduation from high school, Mr. Nimmer left and . His recordings, The Milwaukee to study music at Northern Illinois Mancini Project and Sidewalk Meeting , have University. It didn’t take him long to become been placed on several “best‐of-decade” lists. one of Chicago’s busiest piano players. Working His album Portrait in Seven Shades was a lot on the Chicago scene, Mr. Nimmer decided recorded by the JLCO and was released in 2010. to leave school and make the big move to New The album is the first composition released by York City, where he immediately emerged on the JLCO featuring original music by a band the scene. A year after moving to New York, he member other than Mr. Marsalis. Mr. Nash’s became a member of the JLCO and the Wynton latest album, Chakra , was released in 2013 , and Marsalis Quintet. Mr. Nimmer has worked with the JLCO recently premièred his commissioned Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, work, Presidential Suite , in 2014 . George Benson, , , Tom Jones, Benny Golson, , Peter Paul Nedzela (baritone and soprano saxo - Washington, , Wess Anderson, phones, bass clarinet ) has become one of today’s Fareed Haque, and many more. He has ap - top players. He has played peared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , The with many renowned artists and ensembles, in - Late Show with , The View , cluding Wess Anderson, George Benson, the The , Live from Abbey Birdland Big Band, , , Road , and PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center , Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Benny among other broadcasts. He has released four Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, , of his own albums on Japan’s Venus label. Christian McBride, Eric Reed, Dianne Reeves, Herlin Riley, Maria Schneider, , Marcus Printup (trumpet ) was born and Jr., the Temptations, the Vanguard Jazz raised in Conyers, Georgia. His first musical Orchestra, Reginald Veal, and Max Weinberg. experiences were hearing the fiery gospel Mr. Nedzela has performed in ’s music his parents s ang in church. While Broadway show, Come Fly Away , and in major attending the University of North Florida on a ABOUT THE ARTISTS music scholarship, he won the International drummer and the Savoy Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet competition. In Sultans, and jazz greats , Lionel 1991, his life changed when he met his mentor, Hampton, and Illinois Jacquet. As a sideman, the great pianist Marcus Roberts, who intro - Mr. Rampton has also performed with duced him to Mr. Marsalis. This led to Dr. John, Christian McBride, the Maria Mr. Printup’s induction into the JLCO in 1993. Schneider Orchestra, Charles Earland, Geoff Mr. Printup has recorded with Betty Carter, Keezer, and a host of others. Some of his Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, Broadway credits include Anything Goes , Finian’s Ted Nash, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, Rainbow , The Wiz , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , and Roberts, among others. He has recorded Young Frankenstein , and The Color Purple . several albums as a leader: Song for the Beautiful Woman , Unveiled , Hub Songs , Joe Temperle y* ( baritone saxophone ) was born Nocturnal Traces , The New Boogaloo , Peace in in Scotland and first achieved prominence in the Abstract , Bird of Paradise , London Lullaby , the United Kingdom as a member of Ballads All Night , A Time for Love , and his most ’s band from 1958 to 1965. recent, Homage (2012 ) and Desire (2013 ), fea - In 1965, Mr. Temperley came to New York City, turing Riza Printup on the harp. Mr. Printup where he performed and/or recorded with made a big-screen appearance in the 1999 , , , movie Playing by Heart and recorded on the Duke Pearson, the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, film’s soundtrack. Education is important to the ad Jones‐ Orchestra, and Clark Mr. Printup; he is an in‐demand clinician Terry, among many others. In 1974, he toured teaching middle schools, high schools, and col - and recorded with the Duke Ellington leges across the United States. He teaches pri - Orchestra as a re placement for . vately at the prestigious Mannes New School of Mr. Temperley played in the Broadway show Music. August 22 has been declared “Marcus Sophisticated Ladies in the 1980s , and his film Printup Day” in his hometown of Conyers. soundtrack credits include Cotton Club , Biloxi Blues , Brighton Beach Memoirs , When Harry Kenny Rampton (trumpet ) joined the JLCO Met Sally , and Tune in Tomorrow , composed by in 2010. In addition to performing in the Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Temperley is a mentor JLCO, Mr. Rampton leads his own groups. He and co‐founder of the FIFE Youth Jazz released his début solo CD, Moon Over Orchestra program in Scotland, which now en - Babylon , in 2013 . He is also the trumpet voice rolls 70 young musicians, ages seven to 17 , play - for the popular PBS-TV series . ing in three full‐size bands. He has released In summer 2010, Mr. Rampton performed several albums as a leader, including Nightingale with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra at (1991 ), Sunbeam and Thundercloud (with pi - the Edinburgh International Festival, and was anist Dave McKenna, 1996 ), With Every Breath the featured soloist on the and Gil (1998 ), Double Duke (1999 ), Portraits (2006 ), Evans’s classic version of . and Cocktails for Two (2007 ). His most recent Mr. Rampton has been a regular member of release is The Sinatra Songbook (2008 ). He is the Mingus Big Band, Orchestra, and an original member of the JLCO, and serves Dynasty, Mingus Epitaph (under the direction on the faculties of the Juilliard Institute for Jazz of ), George Gruntz’s Studies and the Manhattan School of Music. Concert Jazz Band, Chico O’Farrill’s Through the years, Mr. Temperley has been Afro‐Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Bebo Valdés’s named in DownBeat ’s Critics Polls and was the All‐Stars, and the Manhattan Jazz featured artist in the 2009 Edinburgh Jazz Orchestra. He spent much of the 1990s tour - Festival, where he performed with the ing the world with the Ray Charles Orchestra, Edinburgh Jazz Orchestra. the Jimmy McGriff Quartet, legendary jazz * Mr. Temperley does not appear on this tour.

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