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massjazz.com massvacation.com 1 J BERKLEE BEANTOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL September 30, 2017 Free Outdoor Festival berklee.edu/beantownjazz

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 Greetings: Governor Charlie Baker 5 Credits 6 Tourism Welcome

JAZZ STORIES 8 Massachusetts - The State of Jazz 9 Fred Taylor Scholarship Fund 11 Jazz Supreme at Berklee Beantown Fest 10-11 12 40 Years - Wood’s Hole 13 40 Years - John Coltrane 16 Les Zygomates Makes You Smile 18 Darryl’s + Slade’s = Jazz + Food Combo 24 Cape Cod Jazz 26 Profile: Amanda Carr on the Radio 28 New England Jazz Hall of Fame at WPI 29 WGBH Jazz is Out of this World 30 Berklee + Shanghai Conservatory 31 Esperanza Spalding at Harvard 20-24 33 Small Venues Offer Big Jazz Artists 14-17 BERKLEE 34 Profile: Ed Bride, Pittsfield CityJazz Fest 35 Profile: Mark Redmond, Mandorla Music 36 Northampton Jazz Workshop BEANTOWN 38 Profile: Yoko Miwa, Pianist JAZZ SCHEDULES JAZZ FESTIVAL 10 Fall Jazz Festivals 20 Jazz and Blues Concerts September 30, 2017 22 Jazz and Blues in Clubs Free Outdoor Festival LISTINGS 3838 berklee.edu/beantownjazz 6-7 Tourism & Cultural Groups 14-17 Live Jazz in Clubs, Bars & Restaurants 21 Concert Venues 23 Jazz in Hotels 25 Jazz Brunches 27 Blogs, Websites & Jazz Radio massvacation.com 32 Jazz Education 37 Community Groups & Jazz Promoters MASS azz.com

September 2017

Dear Visitor,

In Massachusetts, we have a deep appreciation for our performing arts traditions, including our vibrant jazz scene.

Our colleges and universities include internationally acclaimed jazz teachers, composers and performers who attract music students from over 100 countries and all 50 states to study here.

Our robust night life features exceptional live jazz and blues, from hotels, neighborhood restaurants and cafes to concert halls, college campuses and community centers.

The 2017-18 MassJazz Guide profiles prominent jazz musicians, composers and promoters, and includes a directory of jazz radio stations, college courses, night clubs and jazz brunches only found in Massachusetts.

As America’s most original art form, jazz inspires us through its creativity, inclusion and global perspective. We hope you enjoy the music and that you are inspired by everything Massachusetts has to offer.

Sincerely, Sincerely,

CHARLES D. BAKER KARYN E. POLITO GOVERNOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

4 The 2017-18 MassJazz Guide was produced by Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism Massachusetts Marketing Partnership Project Director: Michael Quinlin

Thanks to the following for their contributions to the MassJazz Guide.

CREDITS Tom Riley, Tessil Collins, Mark Tosi, James Lyons, Darryl Settles, Stefany Slades, Jan Mullen, Jay Ash, Nam Pham, Francois-Laurent Nivaud, Diane Roberts, Arthur Shea, Martin Kaye, Michelle Hillman, Sam Kaufman, Annie Moloney, Phyllis Cahaly, Shannon Healey, Maria Speridakos, John Alzapiedi, Ricky Guillaume, Abey Phillips, Daniela De Caro-Heavey, Kristen Mitchell- Hughes, Suzanne Beck, Wendy Northcross, Pat Moscaritolo, David O’Donnell, Ann Marie Casey, Susan Nicholl, Lauri Klefos, Fred Taylor, Amanda Carr, Yoko Miwa, Ed Bride, Paul Arslanian, Mark Redmond, John Allen, Matt Nicholl, Janelle Browning, Margot Edwards, Nick Balkin, Brian Gonzalez, Camille Colatosti, Dan Berube, Sue Auclair, Leonard Brown, Mary Curtin, Sandrine Sheon, Jill Radsken, Irene Chang, Bob Kelly, Ann Braithwaite, John Basile, Kyra Gregerson, Eric Jackson, Alison Kennedy, Rich Falco, Brent Banulis, Tom Renshaw and Mike Wilpizeski.

Special thanks to MOTT Interns for their research, writing and proofreading: Kimberly Downs, Hannah Paborsky, Sarah Plotnick and Anxin (Sylvia) Gu.

Graphic Design: Diane Russell, Middle Ridge Design Printing: Universal Wilde

Front Cover Photo courtesy of Esperanza Spalding.

PHOTO CREDITS: 3, Jazzmeia Horn, photo by Jacob Blickenstaff, Les Zygomates, Yoko Miwa; 4, Governor Charlie Baker & Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, courtesy of Governor’s Office; 5, 6, 7, Photos courtesy of MOTT; 8, photos courtesy of MassJazz; 9, Courtesy of Fred Taylor, photos of Kurt Elling, Terri Lyne Carrington and Grace Kelly courtesy of Berklee; 10, photos Afro-Cuban Experience courtesy of Jazz Berkshires, Blue Man Group, courtesy of Berklee, Damas de Ferro, courtesy of Honk!; 11, Beantown photos courtesy of Berklee; 12, Nikki Parrott, courtesy of Woods Hole Jazz Series; 13, courtesy of JCMC; 14, courtesy of Top of the Hub; 16, courtesy of James Lyons; 18, courtesy of Stefany Slade; 21, Chris Botti, courtesy of the artist; 24, Cape Cod Jazz courtesy of The History Press, Grand Cru courtesy of Bart Weisman; 26, Amanda Carr, courtesy of WICN; 27; Chris Lydon, courtesy of Open Source, Eric Jackson, courtesy of WGBH; 28, courtesy of New England Jazz Alliance; 29, courtesy of WGBH; 30, courtesy of Berklee; 31, Esperanza Spalding courtesy of the artist; 33, courtesy of Sue Auclair; 34, courtesy of Berkshires Jazz; 35, courtesy of Mandorla Music; 37, courtesy of Northampton Jazz Workshop; 38, photo by Steven Sandrick. BRANT POINT LIGHT, NANTUCKET

5 WELCOME TRAVEL & TRANSPORTATION

“The performing arts bring Massachusetts Office people together, especially of Travel & Tourism jazz, which is innovative 617 973-8500 and creative in spirit, just 800 227-6277 like Massachusetts. Thank massvacation.com you for visiting and for supporting the arts.” Massachusetts Convention Nam Pham Center Authority Assistant Secretary 617 954-2000 Massachusetts Office of massconvention.com Business Development & International Trade Massachusetts Port Authority 800 262-3335 “Visitors to Massachusetts massport.com can explore our history, Logan International Airport culture, cuisine and 1-800-235-6426 outdoor beauty any time massport.com/logan-airport of year. Please enjoy your visit and come back again Worcester Regional Airport soon.” 508 849-5550 François-Laurent Nivaud massport.com/worcester-airport Executive Director Flynn Cruiseport Boston Massachusetts Office 617 946-4477 of Travel & Tourism massport.com/Cruiseport

Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts Office of Transportation Travel & Tourism Authority (MBTA) 136 Blackstone Street 617 222-3200 Boston, MA 02109 mbta.com 617 973-8503 North Station Boston Train, Bus & Subway 800 872-7245 (Amtrak)

massvacation.com South Station Boston Train, Bus & Subway MASS (617) 222-3600 azz.com south-station.net BRANT POINT LIGHT, NANTUCKET

J REGIONAL TOURISM COUNCILS (RTCs)

1Berkshire Greater Springfield CVB* North of Boston CVB* 413 499-1600 413 787-1548 978 465-6555 1berkshire.com valleyvisitor.com northofboston.org

Cape Cod Chamber Hampshire County Plymouth County CVB* of Commerce Tourism & Visitors Bureau 508 747-0100 508 362-3225 413 584-1900 seeplymouth.com capecodchamber.org visithampshirecounty.com Southeastern Discover Central Johnny Appleseed Trail Massachusetts CVB* Massachusetts Association 508 999-5231 508 753-1550 978 534-2302 visitsemass.com discovercentralma.org appleseed.org ARTS & CULTURE Franklin County Martha’s Vineyard Chamber of Commerce Chamber Of Commerce ArtsBoston 413 773-5463 508 693-0085 617 262-8632 franklincc.org mvy.com artsboston.org

Greater Boston CVB* MetroWest Tourism BOSTIX 617 536-4100 & Visitors Bureau Half Price Tix bostonusa.com 508 361-9881 Day of Show metrowestvisitors.org 617 262-8632 Greater Merrimack Valley bostix.org CVB* Mohawk Trail Association 978 459-6150 413 743-8127 Massachusetts Cultural merrimackvalley.org mohawktrail.com Council 617 727-3668 Nantucket Island massculturalcouncil.org Chamber Of Commerce 508 228-1700 CVB = Convention & Visitors nantucketchamber.org Bureau

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7 MASSACHUSETTS THE STATE OF JAZZ azzMASS Dear Friend, Made in Massachusetts is a tagline we are proud of here in the Bay State. It refers to the home-grown products, ideas, innovations and inventions that have propelled our state going back to the 17th century. What we do here impacts the world.

Jazz Festivals The same can be said about our performing arts Latin Jazz en Mass and specifically about jazz, which has been beautifully MIT + 50 = Jazz made in Massachusetts since the early days of the art MASS form. That tradition continues today, not just in Boston, Jazz in Massachusetts Summer/Fall 2013 but also Cape Cod, Worcester, the Berkshires, North of J MassJazz.comazz Boston and everywhere in between. Massachusetts has its own unique jazz culture. Where but in Boston can you find jazz artists celebrating the music of John Coltrane for the past forty years in a row? Where else can you find a school like Berklee College of Music that scours the world to bring the very best music students and teachers to Massachusetts? And there is only one place where you’ll find the New England Jazz Hall of Fame – right in Worcester. FESTIVALS / CONCERTS / NIGHT CLUBS / COURSESGuide / RADIO / BRUNCH Jazz is made in Massachusetts every night of the MASS year, in concert halls, jazz clubs, college campuses and community centers. Jazz in Massachusetts azzGUIDE Summer 2015 - Spring 2016 The 2017-18 MassJazz Guide tells you where to find live jazz, along with stories on local musicians, massvacation.com massjazz.com 1 teachers, promoters and jazz venues. And read our J profiles on Esperanza Spalding and Yoko Miwa to learn about musicians who also teach. Our jazz scene would not be so bright without the tireless work and passion of promoters like Fred Taylor 2016 and groups like Berkshires Jazz, Woods Hole Jazz, Northampton Jazz Workshop and Mandorla Music, along with radio personalities like Amanda Carr, Eric Jackson and Tessil Collins. The MassJazz Guide complements the larger visitor landscape that features Massachusetts history, culture, cuisine and natural beauty. So thanks for visiting, and enjoy the music. massvacation.com massjazz.com 1 J - Michael Quinlin

8 MASSACHUSETTS FRED TAYLOR THE STATE OF JAZZ SCHOLARSHIP FUND AT BERKLEE

Fred Taylor, beloved music impresario on The jazz community has unparalleled the Boston scene for over five decades, is respect for Taylor, who has devoted his life to having a scholarship named in his honor nurturing artists ranging from Norah Jones for students majoring in performance and and Esperanza Spalding to Grace Kelly, music business at the Berklee College of Christian Scott and Chris Botti. Music. Through his legendary clubs, Paul’s Mall A benefit concert on Tuesday, September and the Jazz Workshop, and serving as 12, includes an all-star collection of artistic director for the Tanglewood Jazz musicians, at the Berklee Performance Festival and Scullers Jazz Club, Taylor has Center. Among the artists: Pat Metheny, presented hundreds of great jazz musicians, Terri Lyne Carrington, Kurt Elling, Danilo such as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Perez, John Patitucci, Catherine Russell, Coltrane, Miles Davis and many more. Taylor Grace Kelly, Monty Alexander, Jason Palmer, also booked beyond jazz, with such popular Kat Edmonson and James Montgomery. artists as Bob Dylan, Diana Ross and Bruce NPR Host Robin Young and saxophonist Springstein. Grace Kelly served as the masters of ceremony.

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9 FALL JAZZ FESTIVALS IN MASSACHUSETTS

September 24 Newton Jazz Festival Walnut St. & Highland Ave Newton newtonjazzfest.org

September 30 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival Columbus Ave & Mass Ave South End, Boston berklee.edu/beantownjazz

September 29 – October 8 JazzFest Falmouth DIZZY GILLESPIE AFRO-CUBAN EXPERIENCE, AT PITTSFIELD CITYJAZZ FESTIVAL Various Venues Falmouth, Cape Cod jazzfestfalmouth.org

October 6-8 Festival of Activist Street Bands Somerville & Cambridge honkfest.org BLUE MAN GROUP’S 4TH ANNUAL DRUM OFF AT October 6-15 THE BERKLEE BEANTOWN FESTIVAL Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Various Venues Pittsfield berkshiresjazz.org

DAMAS DE FERRO (“IRON LADIES”) FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL AT HONK! FESTIVAL

1010 A JAZZ SUPREME AT BERKLEE BEANTOWN FEST The Boston area has many iconic outdoor events – the Boston Marathon, the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert on the Esplanade, the Charles River Regatta and Opening Day at Fenway Park. And taking its place among these perennial favorites for residents and visitors alike is the annual Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival. The free, day-long street party, held outdoors in Boston’s beautiful South End, features live music on multiple stages, street vendors, kids’ activities, musical instrument demonstrations, and a perfect ambiance for enjoying autumn in New England. The year’s Beantown takes place on Saturday, September 30 on Columbus Avenue, starting at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and stretching back six blocks to Burke Street. The 2017 festival theme is “Jazz: A Peace Supreme,” a reference to jazz’s worldwide reputation as a spiritual and healing kind of music.

Among the featured performers this year: . Turkish-American composer and Grammy nominated Mehmet Ali Sanlikol & Whatsnext?; . Oscar Stagnaro and the Peruvian Tinge; . Cape Verdeon singer Assol Garcia; . Drummer Marko Djordjevic and Sveti; and . Afro-pop band Kina Zore, featuring Mozambique singer Helder Tsinine.

Founded by Darryl Settles, the Beantown Festival has been produced by Berklee College of Music since 2007. Don’t miss it this year. berklee.edu/beantownjazz

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1111 40 YEARS OF LIVE JAZZ IN WOODS HOLE

Jazz doesn’t need reviving in the seaside village of Woods Hole nestled in Falmouth on Cape Cod. The

Woods Hole Jazz series has NICKI PARROTT put on about a dozen jazz performances a year for the past 40 years! The series began in the 1970s when a local resident, who was a native of New Orleans, passed away. She had wanted a New Orleans- Word about the series began to spread. Well-known style funeral procession, musicians like Dave McKenna, Al Cohn and Bobby and her daughter asked Greene became regular performers. Woods Hole Jazz founder “We try to bring great musicians from Boston, Tom Renshaw for the use of Providence and New York – performers that people his antique flat bed truck. wouldn’t ordinarily see here. It’s a pretty relaxed and Renshaw put a Dixieland informal vibe for musicians and audience alike,” says band on the back and led Renshaw. “The people in the audience even put their a procession down Water own chairs away after the show.” Street. Audience size has doubled in the past few years and Renshaw, a bass player Woods Hole Jazz sold out its first summer concert and carpenter, began hosting series, co-hosted with nearby Highfield Hall and Dixieland concerts in Woods Gardens. Recent performers include pianist Laszlo Hole Community Hall, built Gardony, singer & bassist Nicki Parrott and pianist Paul in 1878 and restored by Tom Broadnax. and others. Renshaw began “For generations visitors and Cape Codders alike have producing jazz concerts in enjoyed a vibrant, year ‘round music scene that stirs both Community Hall and the soul,” says Wendy Northcross, CEO of Cape Cod the Fishmonger Café, the Chamber of Commerce. “The variety and quality of our restaurant next door. The Hall artisans continue to uphold our long-standing traditions still hosts Woods Hole Jazz of talented performers in intimate settings by the sea.” programs today. woodsholejazz.org 1212 40TH ANNIVERSARY JOHN COLTRANE MEMORIAL CONCERT To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the John Coltrane Memorial Concert (JCMC), Friends of JCMC presents a series of events to expose and educate audiences to the majestic contributions of the great master. The JCMC is the world’s oldest annual performance tribute to the musical and spiritual legacy of John Coltrane. “We encourage you to participate in the 40th anniversary celebration of this unique and powerful annual gathering that only happens in Massachusetts,” says co-founder Dr. Leonard Brown. Events include a photo exhibit, film screening, lecture and musician reflections, culminating in two concerts on October 6 & 7 at Blackman Auditorium at Northeastern University. Visit friendsofjcmc.org for more details.

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13 JAZZ CLUBS BY TOWN

ARLINGTON Scullers Jazz Club Darryl’s Corner Bar CAMBRIDGE Bistro Duet 400 Soldiers & Kitchen Atwood’s Tavern 190 Mass Ave Field Rd. 604 Columbus Ave. 877 Cambridge St. Arlington 617 562-4111 617 536-1100 617-864-2792 781 316-8808 scullersjazz.com dcbkboston.com atwoodstavern.com bistroduet.com BOSTON BACK BAY Petit Robert Bistro Beat Brasserie ASHLAND Café 939 480 Columbus Ave. 13 Brattle St. Stone’s Public House 939 Boylston St. 617 867-0600 Harvard Square 179 Main St. 617 747 2261 petitrobertbistro.com 617 499-0001 508 881-1778 cafe939.com beatbrasserie.com stonespublichouse.com Slade’s Bar & Grill Top of the Hub 958 Tremont St. Cantab Lounge BELMONT Restaurant & 617 442-4600 738 Mass. Ave. Savinos Grill Skywalk sladesbarandgrill.com 617 354-2685 449 Common St. Prudential Tower cantab-lounge.com 617 484-3499 617 536-1775 Wally’s savinosgrill.com topofthehub.net 427 Mass. Ave. Lily Pad 617 424-1408 1353 Cambridge St. BEVERLY BOSTON/ wallyscafe.com 617 955-7729 Chianti Jazz Lounge DORCHESTER lilypadinman.com 285 Cabot St. Levi’s Restaurant & Boston/West 978 921-2233 Lounge Roxbury Lizard Lounge 1667 Mass. Ave. chiantibeverly.com 323 Washington St. Eat with Jack O’Neill 617 547-0759 617 265-1618 1885 Centre St. BOSTON lizardloungeclub.com facebook.com/ eatwithjackoneill.com House of Blues Levis323 15 Lansdowne St. Outpost 186 BROOKLINE 888 693-2583 186 Hampshire Street, Boston/Hyde Park Brothers Restaurant houseofblues.com/ Inman Sq. The Fairmount Grill 404 Harvard St. boston outpost186.com 81 Fairmount Ave. 617 383-6268 857 345-9649 brothers-restaurant. Plough & Stars Les Zygomates fairmountgrille.com Wine Bar com 912 Mass. Ave. 617 576-0032 129 South St. BOSTON SOUTH BURLINGTON ploughandstars.com 617 542-5108 END/ROXBURY Tuscan Kitchen winebar129.com/ Beehive 2400 District Ave. Regattabar at restaurant 541 Tremont St. 781 229-0300 Charles Hotel 617 423-0069 tuscanbrands.com/ One Bennett St. Lucky’s Lounge beehiveboston.com 355 Congress St. Kitchen/Burlington 617 395-7757 617 357-LUCK Club Café regattabarjazz.com luckyslounge.com 209 Columbus Ave. 617 536-0966 clubcafe.com

14 Ryles Jazz Club GREAT BARRINGTON NORTHAMPTON SALISBURY 212 Hampshire St. Castle Street Café Iron Horse Music Hall The Deck 617 876-9330 10 Castle St. 20 Center St. 978 499-4422 ryles.com 413 528-5244 413 586-8686 thedecksalisbury.com castlestreetcafe.com iheg.com Thelonious Monkfish SHERBORN 524 Mass. Ave. HAVERHILL Union Station Heritage of Sherborn 617-441-2116 Chit Chat Lounge Grand Ballroom 33 North Main St. theloniousmonkfish. 103 Washington 125A Pleasant St. 508 655-9521 com 978 374-9710 413 341-3161 heritageofsherborn. chitchatlounge.com unionstationbanquets. com CONCORD com Trails End Cafe HOLLISTON SHIRLEY 97 Lowell Rd. Jasper Hill Café & PITTSFIELD Bull Run Restaurant 978 610-6633 Bistro Mission Bar and 215 Great Rd. thetrailsendcafe.com 770 Washington St. Tapas 978 425-4311 774 233-0853 438 North St. bullrunrestaurant.com Village Forge Tavern jasperhillcafe.com 424 548-0234 at Colonial Inn missionbarandtapas. SOMERVILLE LENOX 48 Monument Sq. com Burren Pub 978 369-9200 Gateways Inn & 247 Elm St. concordscolonialinn. Lounge PLYMOUTH Davis Square com 51 Walker St. Martinis Bar & Grill 617 776-6896 413 637-2532 50 Court St. burren.com FITCHBURG gatewaysinn.com 774 773-9782 Destare Martini Bar martinisplymouth. SUDBURY 320 Main St. MARLBOROUGH com Bullfinch’s Restaurant 978 345-5734 Fish Restaurant & Catering destare.com & Wine Bar QUINCY 730 Boston Post Rd. 29 South Bolton St. Maggy’s Lounge 978 443-4094 FRAMINGHAM 508 460-3474 609 Washington St. bullfinchs.com Angry Ham’s eatatfish.com 617 481-5141 2 Beacon St. maggyslounge.com WATERTOWN 508 620-8888 METHUEN Stellina Restaurant angryhamsgrill.com Sahara Club SALEM 47 Main St.t 34 Bates St. Gulu-Gulu Café 617 924-9475 Pho Dakao Restaurant 978 683-9200 247 Essex St. stellinarestaurant.com 101 Concord Street jockosjazz.com 978 740-8882 508 872-2211 gulu-gulu.com phodaokao.com NEEDHAM Three Squares Craft Rockafellas of Salem GLOUCESTER Kitchen & Cocktails 231 Essex S. Cape Ann Brewing Co. 669 Highland Ave. 978 745-2411 11 Rogers St. 781 444-4644 rockafellasofsalem. (continued on page 17) Gloucester 3squaresneedham. com 978-282-7399 com

1515 LES ZYGOMATES PUTTING A SMILE ON YOUR FACE

Since opening in 1994, Les dining experience Tuesday Zygomates (pronounced lay- through Saturday evenings. zee-go-matt, roughly translating Les Zygomates features to “the muscles in the face that world renowned artist Yoko make you smile”) has earned Miwa, who is the artist-in- a distinguished reputation for residence on Saturdays (see its inviting atmosphere, superb Yoko’s profile on page 38). In cuisine and its award-winning addition, the nightly musical wine list. Located in Boston’s line-up features current and Leather District, it is a minute’s walk from the former Berklee students and faculty. South Station Train and Bus Terminal. Les Zygomates also specializes in group Its large dining area seats 150 people events, including weddings, holiday parties, comfortably with seating for 50 guests in the wine tastings and corporate activities. private dining room. Both lunch (served Monday “Whether your plans call for an intimate – Friday) and dinner (served six nights a week) evening for two or an uninhibited celebration boast a moderately priced menu, with specials for many, Les Zygomates’ selection of available. fine wines, exceptional cuisine, and live The Bar hosts a dollar Oyster Happy Hour with entertainment will put a smile on your face,” $1 oysters, Monday-Friday from 3-7 p.m. The says owner Mark Tosi. Jazz Side of the restaurant features live Jazz winebar129.com and Blues performances to accompany your

129 South Street Boston, MA 02111 (617) 542-5108

Les Zygomates is conveniently located in Boston’s Leather YOKO MIWA MARK GREEL District across from the South Station Train and Bus terminal.

Music: Live Jazz and Blues performances during dinner Tuesday-Saturday evenings.

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17 DARRYL’SDARRYL’S & SLADE’S PERFECT COMBO OF MUSIC & FOOD

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19 JAZZ & BLUES October 1 December 8 Chick Corea Gadd Band Fred Taylor’s IN CONCERT Berklee Performance Center Jazz & Heritage Series Boston Glenn Miller Band The Cabot October 4 Beverly Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra December 8-9 Mechanics Hall Grace Kelly Worcester Natick Center for the Arts Natick October 5 Herbie Hancock December 23 Orpheum Theatre John Pizzarelli Quartet + Boston Catherine Russell Mahaiwe Performing Arts October 6 Center Robert Cray Great Barrington Plymouth Memorial Hall Plymouth January 14 Juan de Marcos and Afro- October 8 Cuban All Stars Regina Carter Berklee Performance Center Shalin Liu Performance Boston Center Rockport February 7 Beantown Swing Orchestra November 12 Shalin Liu Performance The Bad Plus Center Berklee Performance Center Rockport Boston Here is a selection of February 16 November 24 touring artists coming to Dianne Reeves Roomful of Blues Berklee Performance Canter Massachusetts this fall Narrows Center for the Arts Back Bay, Boston Fall River and winter. Find a full February 22 December 3 calendar at The Message with Donald Cape Ann Big Band Harrison massjazz.com/events. Shalin Liu Performance Fine Arts Center Center UMass/ Amherst Rockport March 9 December 7-9 Lady Smith Mambazo Chris Botti Colonial Theatre Wilbur Theatre Pittsfield Boston

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20 CONCERT VENUES Jordan Hall Roxbury Center 30 Gainsborough St. for Arts Boston, MA 02115 Hibernian Hall 617 585-1260 184 Dudley St. necmusic.edu Roxbury, MA 02119 617 541-3900 Lowell Memorial madison-park.org Auditorium 50 East Merrimack St. Sanders Theatre (617) 531-1257 45 Quincy St. spectacleshows.com Cambridge, MA 02138 Mechanics Hall 617 496-2222 321 Main St. fas.harvard. Worcester, MA 01608 edu/~memhall/ SHALIN LIU 508 752-5608 sanders.html mechanicshall.org Shalin Liu Narrows Center Performance Center Amazing Things Boston Symphony for the Arts 37 Main St. Art Center Hall 16 Anawan St. Rockport, MA 01966 160 Hollis St. 301 Mass, Ave. Fall River, MA 02721 978 546-7391 Framingham, MA Boston, MA 02115 508 324-1926 Rockportmusic.org 01702 617 266-1492 narrowscenter.org 508 405-2787 bso.org The Cabot amazingthings.org Natick Center 286 Cabot St. Cary Hall for the Arts Beverly, MA 01915 Berklee 1605 Mass. Ave. 14 Summer St. 978 927-3100 Performance Center Lexington, MA 02420 Natick, MA 01760 thecabot.org 136 Mass Ave. (617) 531-1257 508 647-0097 Boston, MA 02116 spectacleshows.com natickarts.org The Fine Arts Center 617 747-2261 151 Presidents Dr. Firehouse Center berkleebpc.com Plymouth Amherst, MA 01003 for the Arts Memorial Hall 413 545-2511 Berkshire Theatre One Market Sq. 83 Court St. fineartscenter.com Group Newburyport, MA Plymouth, MA 02630 111 South St. 01950 508 747-1622 Villa Victoria Pittsfield, MA 01201 978 462-7336 memorialhall.com 85 W. Newton St. 413 997-4444 firehouse.org Boston, MA 02118 thecolonialtheatre.org Rogers Center 617 927-1737 Hanover Theatre for the Arts baboston.org/ Blackman Theatre 2 Southbridge St. Merrimack College arts-program 360 Huntington Ave. Worcester, MA 01608 315 Turnpike St. Boston, MA 02115 877 571-7469 North Andover, Wilbur Theatre 617 373-5136 thehanovertheatre.org MA 01845 246 Tremont St. centerforthearts. 978 837-5355 Boston, MA 02116 neu.edu merrimack.edu 617 248-9700 thewilburtheatre.com

21 JAZZ AND BLUES IN THE CLUBS

Here is a selection of live jazz & blues at local clubs this fall. Find a full calendar at massjazz.com/clubs.

September 14-15 October 19 Mike Stern Band Laszlo Gardony Regattabar @ Charles Regattabar Hotel @ Charles Hotel Cambridge Cambridge

September 22 October 20-21 Austin Piazzolla Quintet Arturo Sandoval Lily Pad Scullers Jazz Club Somerville Boston

September 27 October 21 Ran Blake and Kevin Harris Christine Correa Third Life Studio Regattabar @ Somerville Charles Hotel Cambridge October 26 Yoko Miwa October 10 Scullers Jazz Club Donna Byrne Boston Sahara Club Methuen November 4 T.S. Monk November 11 October 12 Scullers Benny Golson Quartet Freddie Bryant Jazz Club Scullers Jazz Club December 8 Scullers Jazz Club Boston Boston Elan Trotman Boston Scullers Jazz Club November 10 November 17 Boston October 16 Brian Blade Wanda Houston Band Roberto Ottaviano Trio Scullers Jazz Club Castle Street Café Outpost 186 Boston Great Barrington Cambridge December 1-2 October 17 Dee Dee Bridgewater Yulia Musayelyan: Scullers Jazz Club Tango Meets Jazz Boston Regattabar @ Charles Hotel Cambridge

DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER 22 ATLAS SOUL AT HOTELS WITH LIVE JAZZ THE REGATTABAR

Attleboro Mandarin Oriental Colonel Blackinton Inn Bar Boulud Boston 203 N. Main St. 776 Boylston St. 508 222-6022 617 535-8800 colblackintoninn.com barboulud.com/ boston Boston Battery Wharf Hotel Cambridge 3 Battery Wharf Charles Hotel 877 794-6218 RegattaBar batterywharfhotelboston. Harvard Sq. com One Bennett Street 617 864-1200 Colonnade Hotel charleshotel.com Brasserie JO 120 Huntington Ave. Concord 617 425-3240 Colonial Inn colonnadehotel.com/ Village Forge Tavern brasserie-jo 48 Monument Sq. 978 369-9200 Doubletree Suites concordscolonialinn. by Hilton com Scullers Jazz Club 400 Soldiers Field Rd. Harwich 617 562-4111 Wequassett Resort scullersjazz.com 2173 Route 28

508 432-5400 World-Class Entertainment, Four Seasons wequassett.com Legendary Performances Hotel Boston The Bristol Bar Hyannis UPCOMING FALL HIGHLIGHTS SEPT KENNY GARRETT 200 Boylston St. Cape Codder Hotel OCT JAVON JACKSON “WE FOUR” with JIMMY fourseasons.com/boston Grand Cru Wine Bar COBB, EDDIE GOMEZ AND GEORGE CABLES NOV BENNY GOLSON QUARTET 1225 Iyannough Rd. DEC DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Langham Hotel 855 861-4370 250 Franklin St. capecodderresort. 617 451-1900 com/amenities/ langhamhotels.com/en/ dining-cape-cod/ the-langham/boston grand-cru-winebar-grill Liberty Hotel Liberty Bar Salem Visit the new scullersjazz.com for a 215 Charles St. Hawthorne Hotel complete listing of shows and tickets 617 224-4000 Nathaniel’s libertyhotel.com/ 18 Washington Located in the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton restaurants-bars Boston — Cambridge Square West [email protected] | Tickets: (866) 777-8932 | @scullersjazz 978 825-4311 hawthornehotel.com 23 READING JAZZ LIVE JAZZ ON CAPE COD & ISLANDS

Chatham Mashpee Wequassett Resort Bleu Restaurant 2173 MA-28 10 Market Street 508-432-5400 508-539-7907 Summer only. Sunday Jazz Brunch wequassett.com off season. bleurestaurant.com Hyannis Jazz on the Cape: Grand Cru Restaurant Nantucket From Colombo to the Columns Cape Codder Resort Chicken Box By John A. Basile 1225 Iyanough Rd. 6 Dave Street Foreword by Dick Golden 508 771-3000 508-228-9717 The History Press Friday & Saturday thechickenbox.com April 2017/ $21.99 / 128 pages nights year round Jazz on the Cape is a wonderfully written capecodderresort.com/ South Yarmouth tribute to the many jazz artists, venues and restaurants_grandcru. Riverway Lobster promoters who kept the music vibrant from php House the early 20th century to the present. 1338 Route 28 Written by seasoned journalist John Basile, Roadhouse 508-398-2172 the book is divided into three sections. Part 488 South St. Jazz Jam Cape Cod one highlights the Cape’s signature musicians, 508-775-2386 3rd Sunday year from Marie Marcus and Lou Colombo to Dave Mondays year round round McKenna and Bobby Hackett, bringing us roadhousecafe.com right up to the present. Bart Weisman, the indefatigable jazz drummer who runs the West End Provincetown Jazz Festival and runs a “Jazz in 20 Scudder Ave. the Schools” program for children, is profiled, 508 775-7677 along with popular artists like Donna Byrne westendhyannis.com and Greg Abate. Part two of the book pays tribute to some of the venues where jazz flourished. Including Bournehurst-on-the-Canal, which flourished in the 1920s; the Columns in West Dennis, where piano legends McKenna and Teddy Wilson had steady gigs in the 1970s. Other highlights include the Atlantic House, where Billie Holiday and Zoot Sims performed, and Storyville Cape Cod, which opened in 1957 with a performance by Louis Armstrong. Part three, Beyond Categories, recognizes those who kept jazz vibrant –from radio host Dick Golden to Jack Bradley, founder of the Cape Cod Jazz Society. 24 LIVE JAZZ JAZZ BRUNCHES ON CAPE COD & ISLANDS Amherst Charles River Bistro CAMBRIDGE Sandwich Cushman Market 5 Mugar Way Beat Brasserie Belfry Inn & Bistro & Cafe 617-435-1433 Restaurant 6 Jarves St. 491 Pine St. anthemhospitality.com/ 13 Brattle St. 508 888-8550 413 549-0100 charles-river-bistro 617 499-0001 belfryinn.com/bistro cushmanmarket.com beatbrasserie.com Darryl’s Corner Salem Arlington 604 Columbus Ave. Ryles Nathaniel’s Tryst Restaurant South End 212 Hampshire St. Restaurant 689 Mass. Ave. 617 536-1100 617 876-9330 Hawthorne Hotel 781 641-2227 dcbkboston.com rylesjazz.com 18 Washington Sq. trystrestaurant.com 978 825-4311 Devlin’s Thelonius Monkfish hawthornehotel.com/ Attleboro Colonel 332 Washington St. 524 Mass. Ave. dining Blackinton Inn Brighton 617 441-2116 203 North Main St. 617 779-8822 theloniusmonkfish. Somerville 508 222-6022 edevlins.com com Burren Pub colblackintoninn.com 247 Elm St. Fairmount Grille T.W. Food 617 776-6896 BOSTON 81 Fairmount Avenue 377 Walden St. burren.com Bar Boulud Boston Hyde Park 617 864-4745 Mandarin Oriental 857 345-9649 twfoodrestaurant.com Foundry on Elm 776 Boylston St. fairmountgrille.com 255 Elm St. Foxborough 617 535-8800 617 628-9999 Lucky’s Lounge Skipjack’s barboulud.com/boston facebook.com/ 355 Congress St. 226 Patriot Place foundryonelm Beehive 617 357-5825 508 543-2200 541 Tremont St. luckyslounge.com skipjacks.com Sudbury 617 423-0069 Bullfinchs Restaurant The Bebop Mashpee beehiveboston.com & Catering 1116 Boylston St. Bleu 730 Boston Post Rd. Bristol Lounge 10 Market St. 617 250-4641 978 443-4094 Four Seasons Hotel thebebopboston.com Mashpee Commons bullfinchs.com 200 Boylston St. 508 539-7907 Tico 617 351-2037 bleurestaurant.com Waltham 222 Berkeley St. fourseasons.com Mad Raven 617 351-0400 Newbury 841 Main St. Café Fleuri ticoboston.com Plum Island Grille 781 894-8188 Langham Hotel 2 Sunset Blvd. themadraven.com 250 Franklin St. Top of the Hub 978 463-2290 Restaurant & 617 451-1900 plumislandgrille.com Westborough Skywalk langhamhotels.com/en/ Tavolino Italian 800 Boylston St. the-langham/boston/ Restaurant 617 536-1775 dining/cafe-fleuri 33 E. Main St. topofthehub.net 508 366-8600 tavolinorestaurant.us 25 AMANDA CARR - HEAR HER ON THE RADIO!

piano lessons since the age of gem of a station that will soon be 5, exhibiting perfect pitch, but celebrating its 50th year! Anyone singing for me came later in can listen online or download the my early teens. app at WICN.org. I didn’t have any interest in the American Song Book or How do you see your role – as a what I considered my ‘parents’ musician and radio executive – in music until the early 1990s keeping jazz strong and vibrant when I returned from Los in the years to come?

Angeles to Boston and started I keep jazz alive by performing filling in for my mother on big this music and keeping it band gigs. Then I realized on the airwaves as much as how cool that genre was and possible, thereby supporting the that my voice naturally lent musicians who create, record itself to that music. and perform the music we play on-air. The cycle feeds itself, but Congratulations on being all aspects have to work together. named Executive Director of My role is different as a musician WICN-FM, Worchester’s 24/7 than it is as a public radio station jazz station. What are your executive. But in the end, jazz goals in the new job? Hingham native Amanda music is an art form that requires Carr began her musical career So many goals, so little time financial support from listeners, in Boston area night clubs, to sleep! My first endeavor is both existing and new. WICN singing mostly rock and pop. to complete the performance is a willing media partner in After a stint on the West Coast, hall with a recording studio. supporting live jazz music and she returned to Boston and The space naturally lends those venues and institutions rediscovered the American itself to that and will provide that host performances or jazz Song Book, and has since income for the station. I want related events. I do my best to become one of the region’s to have more performances enhance every opportunity to most popular jazz vocalists. In and events at WICN. allow this music to be heard and May, Amanda was named the I also want to bring WICN experienced by as many people Executive Director of jazz radio more into the community, as possible. station WICN-FM (90.5). broadcasting on location and I find that if younger people using social media to bring are exposed to this music, they What inspired you to take up live jazz to our listeners. really dig it and it remains of jazz? Another priority is digitizing interest to them as they get older. our music library, which Like anything else, we have to Both my parents were part is mostly on CDs. We are expose emerging generations of the big band era and scene. collaborating with Worcester to art, culture and music, or else My mother, originally a big Polytechnic Institute to they won’t have an opportunity band singer, was in a lounge complete this effort by early to adopt it into their bevy of band in the 70’s and that’s 2019. I am overwhelmed by interests. when I began to sing and gig the potential of this wonderful popular music. I had taken wicn.org amandacarr.com 2626 BLOGS JAZZ & WEBSITES RADIO

Berklee Blogs Amherst WMBR 88.1 FM National Jazz berklee-blogs.com WMUA 91.1 FM MIT Programs UMass Amherst wmbr.org Boston Jazz Scene wmua.org Jazz on NPR bostonjazzscene. Great Barrington npr.org/music/ blogspot.com WFCR 88.5 FM NPR genres/jazz/ UMASS Amherst WAMQ-FM 105.1 Brilliant Corners, nepr.net wamc.org Jazz at Lincoln brilliantcorners Center with Wynton abostonjazzblog. Boston Northampton Marsalis blogspot.com Berklee Internet WEIB 106.3 FM jazz.org Radio Jazz Lives Smooth Jazz thebirn.com Pat Metheny Radio jazzlives.wordpress.com weibfm.com patmetheny.com/ Ken Franckling Sun Music Waltham pmradio kenfrancklingjazznotes. Internet Radio WBRS.100.1 FM Radio Delux with blogspot.com sun-music.net Brandeis University John Pizzarellia wbrs.org MassJazz radiodeluxe.com Touch 106.1 FM massjazz.blogspot.com Worcester & New Fabric of the Black England Region Open Source with The Arts Fuse Community WICN 90.5 FM Chris Lydon artsfuse.org touchfm.org “120 hours of jazz radioopensource.org WGBH Jazz Scene Blog WBUR 90.9 FM each week” wgbh.org/blogs/jazzscene Boston University wicn.org LYD RIS ON H Jose Masso C

National

facebook.com/ All About Jazz ConSalsaJoseMasso allaboutjazz.com WGBH 89.7 FM JazzBeat with Tom Reney National Public Radio NE Public Radio Eric in the Evening npr.org/podcasts National Public Radio Jazz Beyond Jazz wgbh.org artsjournal.com/ Zumix Radio C JACK jazzbeyondjazz RI S E O East Boston N

Jazz Times zumix.org jazztimes.com Cambridge Peter Hum Jazz Blog WHRB. 95.3 FM jazzblog.ca Harvard University Jazz Spectrum whrb.org

27 NEW ENGLAND JAZZ HALL OF FAME FINDS HOME AT WPI

The Worcester Polytechnic Institute is at WPI, students, researchers, and jazz fans the new home to the New England Jazz have access to the historical information Hall of Fame. The news was announced at our permanent home in Worcester,” in April during Jazz Appreciation Month in Banulis says. “It is an hour’s drive from the United States. New England’s three most populous state First established in 2000, the NE Jazz capitals, Boston, Providence, and Hartford.” Hall of Fame has told the illustrious story Also in April, WPI officials launched of the region’s jazz history through a the International Jazz History Data Base series of exhibitions, performances and (JHDB), led by Professor Richard Falco, WPI talks taking place in schools and at jazz Director of Jazz Studies. The database is festivals. It is administered by the New an interactive multimedia museum focused England Jazz Alliance (NEJA), a board of on artists deserving of wider recognition jazz historians, musicians and promoters. and dedicated to the preservation of ‘at- This new arrangement, in partnership risk’ jazz artifacts. with WICN-FM and NEJA, gives the exhibit “For more than a decade, the JHDB has boards a permanent home at WPI. primarily featured New England artists, NE Jazz Hall of Fame founder Brent but WPI is now expanding the platform Banulis first came to Berklee as a student and inviting collaborators across the world in 1969, and quickly realized how rich to trace the origins and influence of jazz the city and region were in jazz. He music in various regions,” said Professor has worked ever since to share those Falco. traditions with jazz lovers and the public. nejazz.org | wpi.edu | wicn.org “By establishing our physical presence 28 JAZZ AT WGBH STILL OUT OF THIS WORLD

Legendary jazz radio host programmers, recording sought after as a master of Eric Jackson and equally company promotion and ceremonies and lecturer in all acclaimed producer Tessil marketing representatives, things jazz. Collins were recognized broadcasting and streaming Collins, a veteran media nationally at the JazzWeek technology managers and specialist, is executive trade magazine industry artists to meet. Topics director of Spectrum conference in San Jose, CA include best practices in jazz Broadcasting Corp and on August 10-11, 2017. music selection and rotation, producer of the company’s WGBH walked away playlist reporting, social internet radio station, Sun- with 2017 Station of the media, mobile applications, Music.net. Year – Fewer than 40 hours specific trade concerns and wgbh.org/jazz per week, in recognition of award recognition. Jackson’s popular show, Eric Described as “the dean in the Evening. And Jazz of the Boston jazz scene 24/7, Collins’ automated for over 25 years” by stream of jazz, won the Boston Magazine, Eric 2017 Non-Terrestrial Station Jackson has won numerous of the Year award. awards for his knowledge The bi-annual event is of jazz and the music of an opportunity for radio African-Americans. He is

Bos ton’s Jazz Music Source

station of the year JAZZWEEK 2017 NON-TERRESTIAL

An on-line music service featuring the music of Eric in the Evening. Listen all day, every day to a fresh mix of new artists, old favorites and modern jazz classics. wgbh.org/jazz247 On-air at 89.7 WGBH, Saturday and Sunday at midnight

29 BERKLEE + SHANGHAI CONSERVATORY ESTABLISH SILK ROAD FOR MUSIC

Last spring, the Berklee College of Music students at both institutions now have “the announced a new partnership with the opportunity to perform, collaborate, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM), learn at a global level.” opening a new musical “Silk Road” between The initiative includes credit transfers, Massachusetts and China. joint degrees, faculty and student The collaboration supports the exchanges, summer programs, workshops, development of modern music in China music production and research, tours, and through a joint Contemporary Music festivals, Nicholl says. Institute, which explores cross-cultural SHCM has invited two well-established exchanges that aim to develop young, alumni to be resident artists at the institute: talented musicians. Du Yun, composer and 2017 recipient of the In June, the two music institutions toured Pulitzer Prize for Music, and Chang Shilei, a China with a jazz big band ensemble, Chinese singer and music producer. visiting Xi’an, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Currently, 37% of Berklee students are and Shanghai. Then in August, the first international, and the school hopes to reach Berklee on the Road (BOR) program visited 45% by 2020, Nicholl says. Shanghai, where professors from both “This new partnership is part of Berklee’s schools focused on music arranging, vision to create affordable ways to reach recording and production and performance. musicians around the globe.” Matthew Nicholl, Berklee’s associate Berklee.edu/international vice president for global initiatives, said

30 ESPERANZA GOES TO HARVARD Jazz bassist, singer, arranger and composer Esperanza Spalding has joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Harvard University as Professor of Practice. She begins teaching in spring 2018. “Spalding will teach a range of courses in songwriting, arranging, improvisation and performance, while also bringing her commitment to music as a voice for social justice,” according to Harvard. Spalding is a four-time Grammy winner and has five critically acclaimed solo albums, winning numerous awards for her playing. She taught at the Berklee College of Music at age 20, from 2005-2008 after graduating from Berklee with a Bachelor of Music. Joining Spalding on the music faculty is renowned flutist Clair Chase, who has performed over 100 world premiers for the flute throughout the world and is considered a critical voice for musical innovation across genres. Suzannah Clark, chair of Harvard’s Music Department, said that both artists “signal a commitment to the creative performing arts as a core feature of liberal arts education in the 21st century. (They) position the department for the musical landscape of the future, while providing students — and all of us — with bold models for how to live as artists in the world.” Spalding is known for her unique blend of jazz, rock, funk, soul and R&B, along with influences from Brazilian music. Her prizes include an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist, a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for the Performing Arts, and a Jazz Vanguard Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation. “Esperanza is a superstar performer: Not only does she sing and play multiple instruments, she’s multilingual and writes her own lyrics, which are often witty and wry and always assuredly profound and perspicacious,” said Clark. “There is a great thirst amongst current students at Harvard for courses in songwriting and music video, in both improvised and composed formats. Esperanza brings a formidable experience and dazzling range of stylistic capacities in these areas.” music.fas.harvard.edu esperanzaspalding.com/

31 JAZZ EDUCATION LISTINGS

AMHERST Jazz courses and Massachusetts Jazz performance Amherst College performance ensemble Institute ensemble 413 542-2000 longy.edu of Technology wellesley.edu Jazz Ensemble Music and Theater and Combos New England Arts WESTFIELD amherst.edu Conservatory 617 253-3210 Westfield State 617 585-1100 Jazz courses and College UMass Degree programs in jazz performance 413 572-5356 Fine Arts Center - necmusic.edu ensemble Department of Music 413 545-6048 mit.edu Degree programs Degree programs Northeastern University in jazz in jazz studies and African-American LOWELL wsc.mass.edu performance ensemble Institute UMass WILLIAMSTOWN umass.edu 617 373-3143 978 934-4000 Williams College Jazz studies and Jazz courses and Bernhard Music BOSTON performance ensemble performance Center Berklee College northeastern.edu ensemble 413 597-2415 of Music uml.edu 617 266-1400 BRIDGEWATER Jazz performance Berklee Global Bridgewater State SOUTH HADLEY ensemble Jazz Institute University Mt. Holyoke College music.williams.edu

berklee.edu 508 531-1000 413 538-3140 WORCESTER Jazz courses and Jazz performance Clark University Boston College performance ensemble ensembles Music Department 617 552-3018 bridgew.edu mtholyoke.edu bOp! Jazz ensemble 508 793-7711 bc.edu BROOKLINE SPRINGFIELD Jazz courses and John Payne Springfield College performance Boston Conservatory Music Center 413 748-3158 ensemble at Berklee 617 277-3438 Jazz Dance clarku.edu 617 536-6340 Jazz instruction springfield.edu Jazz courses and in all instruments. Holy Cross College performance ensemble jpmc.us WALTHAM 508 793-2011 bostonconservatory.edu Brandeis University Jazz courses and CAMBRIDGE 781 736-3310 performance Boston University Harvard University Jazz Performance ensemble Boston University Bands The Harvard Jazz Bands ensemble holycross.edu 617 358-BAND 617 496-2263 brandeis.edu bu.edu Jazz performance Worcester ensemble WELLESLEY Polytechnical Longy School of Music hcs.harvard.edu/~jazz Wellesley College Institute of Bard College Department of Music 508 831-5000 617 876-0956 781 283-2077 Jazz courses wpi.edu 3232 SMALL CONCERT VENUES PERFECT FOR JAZZ

GEORGE CLINTON AT THE CABOT, JUNE 2017

Grand concert halls provide small halls, which are often when the room is full. Small perfect acoustics for live from a former era. venues are great for the fans jazz, and small night clubs “Many of these halls have because everyone is close to and cafes bring just the wonderful acoustics,” Berube the action.” right ambiance to the music. says. “Cary Hall, for instance, Auclair and Taylor have some Somewhere in the middle – is home to the Lexington great shows coming up this and of equal excellence - are Symphony, so a room of the fall and winter, from Jake the modest concert halls in this quality works really well Shimabukuro in October and smaller cities and towns that for jazz as well. For fans in Darlene Love in November to are often the perfect place to the suburbs who are used John Pizzarelli with Jessica hear jazz. to going into Boston to see Molaskey and the Glenn Miller Longtime jazz promoter Sue national names, it’s great to Orchestra in December. Auclair has been using The have these artists play right in Spectacle is excited about Cabot Theatre in Beverly since their backyard.” two big shows this season, 2015, working with her fellow “The artists love the place,” blues artist Robert Cray at promoter Fred Taylor and says Auclair about The Cabot. Plymouth Memorial Hall and others to bring a variety of “It has great acoustics and Pink Martini at Cary Hall, both great music to the Theatre. sightlines and our team in October. “The Cabot is a fabulous members are all fun people “This is our first time working theatre that was founded in and we have a blast working with Pink Martini,” Berube the 1920s for silent films and there.” says, citing the Cambridge vaudeville,” says Auclair. It Promoters agree that there connections of lead singer celebrates its 100th birthday is an intricate balance of China Forbes and bandleader/ in 2020 and it’s going to be theater, music and audience pianist Thomas Lauderdale. exciting.” when booking shows. ‘Pink Martini usually plays Spectacle Management also “No matter what genre large venues than Cary Hall, so plies live music as smaller you are talking about, you I’m sure for many fans, they theatres, including Cary Hall in are always trying to match are excited to see them play in Lexington, Plymouth Memorial the right artist with the right a‘ more intimate setting.” Hall and Chevalier Theatre. venue,” says Berube. “No spectacleshows.com Dan Berube, Spectacle’s matter how big or small, it sueauclair.com Marketing Director, also is going to feel better for speaks of the grandeur of the audience and the artist

33 ED BRIDE JAZZ FROM THE BERKSHIRES

Crawl” in local restaurants while Tell us about the youth holding the main concert on a educational opportunities your separate weekend. The festival program encourages. now spans 10 days. We send Andy Kelly’s Sister City Jazz Ambassadors into And what about the elementary schools for concerts, organization Berkshires Jazz? where they demonstrate In order to fundraise, we instruments, explain improvisation, needed to be aligned with a non- and jam with students. We profit organization. For the first instituted a Jazz Artist in Ed Bride founded the Pittsfield five years, the Berkshire Music Residence program, where CityJazz Festival (2004) and School operated as our fiscal professional musicians come BerkshiresJazz.org (2009), two agent. The festival team decided into the middle schools and work organizations that promote jazz we were in it for keeps, and so in with their jazz ensembles. And in the Berkshires throughout the 2009 we formed an independent we select an “All-Star” middle- year. We spoke with Ed about 501c3, Berkshires Jazz, with school (and alumni) jazz ensemble his work on behalf of jazz. the dual mission of presenting to open for the headliner at the jazz events and encouraging jazz Pittsfield CityJazz Festival. Tell us about your own jazz education in the Berkshires. interests and how you came What’s in store for jazz to start Pittsfield CityJazz Has the Berkshires always listeners in the 2017 Pittsfield Festival? had a jazz tradition? CityJazz Fest? Growing up in Bristol, CT, I was The history of jazz hereabouts We start with our “Jazz Crawl,” turned-on to jazz in elementary goes back to 1950, with the where restaurants and lounges school with the sounds of Stan world-famous Music Inn being in Pittsfield’s Upstreet Cultural Kenton’s trombones. Stan a jazz resort and concert District feature local musicians... became my idol, and through destination. It was the first place no cover, no minimum. Next the Villanova Intercollegiate Jazz to host outdoors jazz festivals... is our Jazz Prodigy Concert at Festival, a friend. even before Newport. More than Berkshire Athenaeum, where we When we moved to Pittsfield a performance venue, it also present young musicians whom in 2004, you could go for hosted a school. we expect to be a force in jazz weeks without seeing live Eventually Music Inn closed, someday. Our headliners this year music downtown, and months but the presence of jazz feature vocalist Samirah Evans without seeing jazz. In 2004, I remained, with programs at and a concert celebrating Dizzy put together a weekend with the Jacob’s Pillow and Tanglewood Gillespie’s 100th birthday with New Black Eagle Jazz Band and festooning the summer cultural the Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban the New England Jazz Ensemble, scene. Tanglewood ran an Experience. For dessert, we have and thus was born the Pittsfield excellent jazz festival on Labor a jazz brunch on Sunday, October City Jazz Festival. Guitarist Andy Day weekend which closed 15. Kelly suggested that we bring after 2011. So the Pittsfield BerkshiresJazz.org restaurants into the mix, and CityJazz Festival is now the eventually we started a “Jazz longest-standing festival in the Berkshires.

34 MARK REDMOND SACRED MUSIC

of myself and into a more says. “September kicks off expansive place, especially with a great band led by live music. I know I’m a twenty-something jazz not alone in this. That harpist. Other fall shows experience - of being both include the great pianist powerfully in the present Kevin Harris paying tribute to moment and connected Thelonious Monk to mark the to something bigger 100th anniversary of Monk’s than oneself - is pretty birth; shows from great Jazz promoter Mark important.” Boston saxophonists Kurtis Redmond, founder of In 2017, Redmond Rivers and Andy Voelker; and Mandorla Music, has been expanded his jazz series a duo of cello and guitar, a music lover his whole life, to the Parish of All Saints’ two women playing music often describing live music Peabody Hall in Dorchester, inspired by Brazilian folk and as a “sacred experience.” in collaboration with Greater jazz traditions.” So in 2013, when people Ashmont Main Street. The Looking ahead, Redmond he knew opened The concerts featured Jason remains grateful for the Green Room in Somerville, Palmer in spring and Gerry artists he works with and for a concert space with a Beaudoin in summer. the audience who supports piano, Mark decided to ““I lived in Dorchester for them. “try my hand at putting years and still live nearby. “It’s not easy to get folks to on some shows.” Since It’s so exciting to present come out to hear live music,” then, Redmond has been live jazz in a beautiful space he says. “I am humbled by organizing jazz shows, first in an area with many fewer musicians’ trust in me and by at the Green Room and options for live music,” he listeners’ support of what I’m more recently at Third Life says. trying to do. I’ll be curious to Studios. This fall, Mandorla see how things continue to As a therapist during the Music has some great acts unfold.” day, Mark understands the scheduled in both Somerville mandorlamusic.net. healing power of music. and Dorchester. We have “Music has the power a broad range of music - By Hannah Paborsky to bring me right into the and some very exciting ARRIS moment and pull me out and unusual acts,” Mark H IN V E K

35 JAZZ PART OF NORTHAMPTON INDIE SPIRIT

Every Tuesday night in Northampton, you are be who they want to be,” says Suzanne Beck, guaranteed to hear amazing live jazz for free, executive director of Greater Northampton thanks to the Northampton Jazz Workshop, a Chamber of Commerce and Director of the seven-year, musician-inspired initiative that Hampshire County Regional Tourism Council. presents live jazz to local residents and tourists “The Northampton Jazz Workshop is a great passing through town. example,” Beck says. “Musicians not only The weekly event features a steady stream of perform here, they live here, they are inspired guest artists from New York City or Boston, who here. Northampton has a great craft scene sit in with the house band, Green Street Trio, because the artists live here and create here. which includes pianist Paul Arslanian, bassist The local food, farm-to-table scene grew from George Kaye and drummer Jon Fisher. the 200+ farms in the area. In a national culture Recent guests have included sax player driven by sameness, people love to be here Greg Abate, flutist Jamie Baum and Boston because they crave authentic, real experiences.” trumpeter Jason Palmer. Arslanian himself moved to the area in 1984, LUNG “We invite a guest soloist to join cC attracted by strong jazz scene M the Trio for a one-hour set that M in Western Massachusetts, O mixes standards and originals, T citing jazz pianist Tom McClung, and then the bandstand opens saxophonists Yusef Lateef and up for an organized jam Archie Shepp, drummer Max session,” says Arslanian. Roach and many others. “At night’s end, the featured In September, he is organizing soloist returns to play with the a tribute concert Gateway City assemblage on stage.” Arts in Holyoke for McClung, an The Northampton Jazz Amherst native and influential Workshop takes place at the City Sports Grille pianist who died last May in France. at 525 Pleasant Street, part of the Spare Time The McClung tribute, Arslanian says, will “cast Bowling complex. “We’ll be here two years a glorious light on the jazz related music scene in October,” says Arslanian, who launched the that has developed here since the seventies with Workshop at now-closed Green Street Café, a focus on Tom as well as all the musicians and before moving to the Clarion Hotel for three supporters who have passed and are now part of years. our history and origin.” Tourism officials say that jazz exemplifies the Find @NorthamptonJazzWorkshops on cultural ambiance that make Northampton and Facebook. Hampshire County so special. explorenorthampton.com “People visit Northampton because its indie VisitHampshireCounty.com spirit inspires people to do what they love and

21 36 JAZZ ORGANIZATIONS JAZZ PROMOTERS

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3737 YOKO MIWA DESTINED TO PLAY PIANO Japan as a classical pianist locals, other musicians, my but I sought out piano lessons students, and tourists at my on the side from Minoru gigs. International visitors tend Ozone, father of legendary to seek out jazz when they visit Japanese jazz pianist Makoto Boston because to them jazz is Ozone. synonymous with this city. When I received the Berklee scholarship I (thought) I would Your new album, Pathways, attend just one year, that was contains your own 20 years ago and I’m still compositions plus songs here. by Joni Mitchell and the Beatles. How do you What kind of audience determine what songs go attends your gigs at Les into an album? Zygomates and other local The Yoko Miwa Trio has Jazz pianist Yoko Miwa spots? been together a long time is a popular performer in I have a fan base in the and because we perform so Massachusetts, where she Boston area, and throughout regularly we are constantly and her trio have regular the year I see nearly all my adding new material to our concerts and residencies. fans, they come out when repertoire to keep it fresh, not The Japanese native first I play a concert setting at only for our listeners but for came to Boston in 1997 on Regattabar or Scullers, and ourselves as well. We have a full scholarship to Berklee, particularly at my Friday night nearly 300 working songs in and ended up teaching there residencies at Thelonious our repertoire. as well. Today she is a full- Monkfish and Saturday nights We actually spent 3 days time faculty member, teaching at Les Zygomates as well as in the studio and recorded 30 students a semester. second and fourth Sundays at 18 songs; only 8 of those Ryles Jazz Brunch. songs made it on the album! Yoko, please tell us about Monkfish and Zygomates are Sometimes it’s hard to your musical background in restaurants which have live choose, you have to think Japan. music but we don’t approach about which songs are the My mother had two them as background music best performances but also daughters and she wanted gigs and the audiences how all the songs fit together one of us to be a pianist. I at both places respond as a package. With my own discovered at the age of 3 accordingly. Of course having compositions I can craft them that I had perfect pitch and some of the best sushi in as I like because they are I began piano lessons at the town like Monkfish or some mine, when I perform a song age of four. It seemed as of the best French cuisine by Joni Mitchell or the Beatles though I was destined for a and incredible wine list like I don’t just do a piano cover career as a classical pianist Zygomates doesn’t hurt! version of the song rather I use even though I wanted to If you can appreciate good their songs as a vehicle for do more than just interpret food and drink, that leaves improvisation. written music. I was attending you open to appreciate Yokomiwa.com Osaka College of Music in good jazz as well. I also see 38 MASS azz Jazz in Massachusetts

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