11:00 Jazz Orchestra and the UTJO with Tim Hagans, trumpet John and Claudine Bailey Distinguished Visitor in Jazz Jim Lewis and Gordon Foote, directors Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:30 pm Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. 11:00 Jazz Orchestra and the UTJO with Tim Hagans, trumpet John and Claudine Bailey Distinguished Visitor in Jazz Jim Lewis and Gordon Foote, directors PROGRAM Rivers composed and arranged by Mike Malone Power and Politics I composed and arranged by Andrew Rathbun poetry by Margaret Atwood Power and Politics II Power and Politics III 11:00 Jazz Orchestra, Jim Lewis, director with Jenna Pinard, vocals INTERMISSION Fractured composed and arranged by Andrew Rathbun Two Islands I composed and arranged by Andrew Rathbun poetry by Margaret Atwood Two Islands II Two Islands III UTJO, Gordon Foote, director with Meghan Gilhespy, vocals Please note that photography and recording are strictly prohibited during the performance. Kindly turn off all electronic devices as a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons. BIOGRAPHIES and Dexter Gordon. It was Thad Jones who encouraged Tim to write music, and Hagans’ first composition appeared on a Thad Jones Eclipse LP. For three years he was a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. For 15 years he was artistic director and composer-in-residence for the Norrbotten Big Band, traveling to Sweden to perform, conduct and arrange projects with guests including Rufus Reid, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine and Dave Jim Macnie of The Village Voice Liebman. The Avatar Sessions CD wrote: “Fetchingly situated between features music he created during Brownian blasts and Milesian that tenure, performed by Tim murmurs, the trumpeter’s lines Hagans, the Norrbotten Big Band, cover lots of emotional breadth. It and the above mentioned guest makes for a straight-ahead quintet artists. approach that is quite willing to bend the rules to suit a tune’s Tim Hagans is the featured soloist forgotten corners. His poetry with on the soundtrack by Howard standard ballads might hush this Shore for the movie The Score, room. Evidently he does know what starring Robert DeNiro and Marlon love is.” Brando. In 2001 he was the subject of an hour-long documentary made Tim Hagans was nominated for Swedish television entitled for Grammy Awards for Best Boogaloo Road. In June 2012 Instrumental Composition for he was awarded an honorary “Box of Cannoli” from The Avatar doctorate of music from the Sibelius Sessions (2010 Fuzzy Music); Best Academy in Helsinki. Contemporary Jazz CD for Re- Animation (2000 Blue Note) and Tim Hagans was the recipient of Animation-Imagination (1999 Blue the 2008 IAJE/ASCAP Established Note). Composer commission and was awarded a National Endowment for Hagans has performed and the Arts Composition Grant. Other recorded with Thad Jones, Ernie notable commissions include the Wilkins, Joe Lovano, Bob Belden Barent’s Composers Orchestra in 2009; NDR Big Band in Hamburg Saxophonist, composer, in 2001, 2004, 2013 and 2016; bandleader and Toronto native Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra Andrew Rathbun has achieved a in 2003, 2007 and 2014; and the rare depth of lyricism, authoritative UMO Jazz Orchestra in Helsinki in swing and compositional 1997 and 2005. He has composed intelligence in nearly 20 years as a music for Christer Engberg’s play recording artist. His work is rooted The Hostage and for Jazz Baltica. in modern jazz but also deeply informed by classical composition In 2007 he began performing — his recordings have included and composing for the Michele adaptations of Ravel, Mompou Brangwen Dance Ensemble, a and Glück, among others. He has contemporary dance company written big band commissions for dedicated to the use of live original the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, music in performance and the the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, integration of musicians into the the Metropole Orkest and other stage imagery. In 2009 he created ensembles, and performed and music for Get Outside, an evening- composed commercial music for length work for the Michele roughly 10 years as well. Brangwen Dance Ensemble in collaboration with the Norrbotten Another of Rathbun’s inspirations Big Band. In 2010 he collaborated is poetry: his recordings Jade with author, actor and filmmaker and True Stories set to music the Peter Josyph on The Way of the verse of Cathy Song and Margaret Trumpet, a performance work for Atwood, respectively (both albums improvised trumpet and haiku. featured acclaimed Brazillian vocalist Luciana Souza). His 2002 release Sculptures featured trumpet legend and Toronto native Kenny Wheeler in a set that “cloak[s] subtle avant-garde proclivities in soft light and open air” (JazzTimes). Rathbun has also tackled political subjects with his large- ensemble work “Power Politics Suite” and his 2007 quintet session Affairs of State. His other recordings of note are Renderings (duo with pianist George Colligan), Days Before and After (co- led with drummer Owen Howard), Shadow Forms (featuring George Garzone), Where We Are Now (featuring Billy Hart), The Idea of North and Numbers & Letters. ensemble featuring her poems and the unique voices of trumpeter Rathbun earned a Masters in Tim Hagans, drummer Bill Stewart Performance from Boston’s New and vocalists Luciana Souza England Conservatory, where he and Aubrey Johnson, who vividly studied with George Garzone, capture the imagery and emotions Jimmy Giuffre and George Russell. of Atwood’s poetry. Rathbun’s He became a fixture on the New rich, multi-textured compositions York jazz scene during his years and his use of the large ensemble in Brooklyn, helping to shape as his musical voice was largely the sound of the music in the influenced by collaborations with new millennium as he earned the late, and legendary, trumpeter/ a Doctorate in Jazz Arts from composer Kenny Wheeler in the Manhattan School of Music. He is early 2000s. Wheeler’s supple, dark currently Professor of Saxophone tones floating over the group and and Jazz Studies at Western Luciano Souza’s voice bringing Michigan University in Kalamazoo, to life Atwood’s poetry inspired where he lives with his family. He Rathbun to more deeply explore continues to perform in New York these concepts. and internationally. Upcoming Jazz Concert Vocal Jazz Ensemble with John Oswald, composer and saxophonist Christine Duncan, director Wed Mar 27 at 7:30 pm Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park Free admission An ambitious, multi-faceted Visit uoftjazz.ca for full composer, saxophonist and concert listings bandleader, Andrew Rathbun had Follow uoftjazz on used poetry as an inspirational Instagram and Facebook catalyst for several recordings over the last 20 years. Particularly enamored by the works of famed novelist Margaret Atwood, Rathbun composed three suites for large 11:00 Jazz Orchestra Alto Saxophone Trumpet Guitar Brenon Parmar Shannon McDougall Wes White Garret Hildebrandt Lucas Udvarnoky Evan Garner Piano Tenor Saxophone Madeleine Ertel Max Donaldson Sam Demets Christian Antonacci Dermot O’Halloran Bass Trombone Leighton Harrell Baritone Saxophone Blair Scanling Thomas Steele Andrew Gormley Drums Ray Sun Evan Ng Bien Carandang Jim Lewis is a freelance trumpet a regular member of the Frank player, improviser, composer/ Lozano Group (Colour Fields), arranger and currently an Assistant an improvising trio with Andrew Professor, Teaching Stream and Downing and Jean Martin (On Jazz Area Chair at the University a Short Path From Memory to of Toronto where he teaches Ear Forgotten) and the Juno (2015) Training, Seminar in Jazz Studies, nominated Bristles Trio with Andrew Applied Trumpet, advises the Downing and David Occhipinti D.O.G. Ensemble, and directs (Bristles). Jim can be heard in clubs the 11:00 Jazz Orchestra. Jim’s in the Toronto area, and across the early performance credits include country as a sideman with various Rainer Wiens’ Silk Stockings other groups, and has played Jazz (Donde esta el Mercado). Over Festivals across Canada, and in the years Jim has performed and the United States and Europe, with improvised with some of Canada’s many of Canada’s most creative finest improvisers, and is currently jazz musicians and improvisers. The Faculty of Music is a partner of the Bloor St. Culture Corridor bloorstculturecorridor.com University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra Saxophones Christian Antonacci Guitar Zach Griffin Ben Frost Julien Bradley-Combs Griffin Vona Geoffrey Claridge Trombones Piano Jacob Chung Nick Adema Anthony D’Alessandro Alex Manoukas Vonne Aguda Charlotte McAffee- Bass Trumpets Brunner Evan Gratham Evan Dalling Kyle Orlando Kaelin Murphy Drums Jacob Slous The University of Toronto Jazz Gordon Foote is currently Orchestra (UTJO) is now in the Associate Dean, Performance seventh year under the leadership and Public Events, and Professor of Gordon Foote. The band is of Jazz at the Faculty of Music. quickly becoming one of Canada’s Before moving to Toronto in 2012, finest university jazz orchestras. he spent 26 years as a professor The 17-member ensemble is in the Jazz Studies Program at the flagship group of the Jazz the Schulich School of Music of Studies Program at the University McGill University, in Montreal. He of Toronto. The program offers served as Dean (interim), Associate Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Dean (academic and student degrees in Jazz. The UTJO works affairs), Chair of the Department of hard to produce performances Performance, Director of Graduate that are musical and exciting, with Studies and Chair of the Jazz precision and energy. Area. Previous to that he was a professor for six years at St.