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Ellington Through the Ages

Ellington Through the Ages

Friday and Saturday Evening, May 3–4, 2019, at 8:00 , Managing and Artistic Director Greg Scholl, Executive Director

ELLINGTON THROUGH THE AGES

WYNTON MARSALIS, Music Director, JUMAANE SMITH, Trumpet RILEY MULHERKAR, Trumpet NOAH HALPERN, Trumpet ANTHONY HERVEY, Trumpet WYCLIFFE GORDON, JEFFERY MILLER, Trombone SAM CHESS, Trombone PATRICK BARTLEY, ZOE OBADIA, Alto Saxophone DAN BLOCK, JULIAN LEE, Tenor Saxophone BEN COHEN, GABE SCHNIDER, Guitar SEAN MASON, ENDEA OWENS, Bass RODNEY WHITAKER, Bass TJ REDDICK, Drums

This program is presented as part of the Ertegun Concert Series.

There will be one 15-minute intermission during this performance.

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Program

– to be selected from the following –

DUKE ELLINGTON and Almost Cried

DUKE ELLINGTON and BILLY STRAYHORN Amad (from )

EDVARD GRIEG Anitra’s Dance (from Peer Gynt Suite) arranged by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

DUKE ELLINGTON Banquet Scene (from Timon of Athens)

DUKE ELLINGTON and BUBBER MILEY

DUKE ELLINGTON and Caravan

DUKE ELLINGTON Chinoiserie (from Afro-Eurasian Eclipse Suite)

DUKE ELLINGTON Come Sunday (from Black, Brown & Beige)

DUKE ELLINGTON Cottontail

DUKE ELLINGTON Dancers in Love (from Perfume Suite)

DUKE ELLINGTON and BILLY STRAYHORN Island Virgin

DUKE ELLINGTON and

DUKE ELLINGTON and IRVING MILLS

DUKE ELLINGTON and IRVING MILLS Old Man

DUKE ELLINGTON Paris Stairs (from )

DUKE ELLINGTON Portrait of (from Suite)

DUKE ELLINGTON and BILLY STRAYHORN Ready, Go! (from Toot Suite)

DUKE ELLINGTON and Rockin’ in Rhythm

DUKE ELLINGTON and BILLY STRAYHORN Royal Ancestry (from Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald)

DUKE ELLINGTON

DUKE ELLINGTON, IRVING MILLS, and MITCHELL PARISH

DUKE ELLINGTON Stompy Jones

DUKE ELLINGTON (from Such Sweet Thunder)

BILLY STRAYHORN Take the A Train Jazz at Lincoln Center

Notes on the Program Smith, 37, played with Roosevelt at Essential- ly Ellington in 1999, graduated with Juilliard’s By Paul de Barros first jazz class and has been playing in Mi- chael Bublé’s orchestra for 14 years. Back in the 1980s, when Wynton Marsalis pro- posed that it was time for jazz, like European “Duke’s music is complex, but it’s also acces- classical music, to acknowledge a pantheon of sible,” he says. “His melodies are so lyrical. I past masters and their canonical work, one of feel like every part in his band is something his first two candidates was Duke Ellington (the you could sing.” other was ). The first step was to actually play Ellington’s music, which the Jazz “It’s the perfect combination of blues and at Lincoln Center Orchestra has been doing grit, combined with elegance,” explains Halp- since 1988. Marsalis realized early on, however, ern, 23, who competed at Essentially Elling- that if Ellington’s legacy were truly to thrive, he ton with the Roosevelt band and graduated would also have to educate and nurture coming from Juilliard this spring. generations. In the 1995–1996 school year, Jazz at Lincoln Center inaugurated the Essentially Essentially Ellington has not only exposed Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition youngsters to Duke’s music, it has fostered a and Festival, which has now touched more than real community. Halpern met three of his cur- half a million students and celebrates its 24th rent roommates at the competition, where edition at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 9–11. they played with the Tucson Jazz Institute, To help accommodate the flood of Ellington- a three-time first-place winner. (One of his savvy kids graduating from American high roommates is Sam Chess, playing trombone schools, Marsalis also helped found the first jazz in the band tonight.) Tucson also mentored degree program at The Juilliard School in 2001. Chloe Rowlands, who recently joined Mul- herkar’s brass quartet, The Westerlies. The young orchestra you see on stage tonight, augmented by Marsalis and three veterans of Duke Ellington’s music can be challenging for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—Wycliffe young musicians, but because Ellington wrote Gordon, Dan Block, and Rodney Whitaker—is with individual players in mind, it also leaves one of the fruits of Marsalis’ expansive vision. room for the development of a personal voice. Many of these players are veterans of Essen- tially Ellington as well as graduates of Juilliard. “It helps build that connection,” says Halp- Three of them—trumpeters Riley Mulherkar, ern, “which is so important for it to have any Jumaane Smith, and Noah Halpern—also hap- depth and meaning, and to convey that to an pen to hail from Seattle, the home of Garfield audience.” High School and Roosevelt High School, which dominated Essentially Ellington for a decade. All That should not be a problem for this out- three are keenly aware of the influence Ellington fit. Most of its members performed Duke’s and Marsalis have had on their lives and careers. masterpiece, Black, Brown & Beige, in Rose Theater two years ago. They also just played “I don’t think I ever would have had that expo- at the Levine Center for the Arts, in Charlotte, sure, otherwise,” recalled Mulherkar, 27, who South Carolina, where kids in the audience played lead trumpet at Garfield and graduated suddenly realized, as Mulherkar did, that they from Juilliard four years ago. “Essentially El- were hearing some of “the coolest music in lington made that music feel like the coolest the world.” And so it goes: the “blues, grit, music in the world. It’s easy to be distracted and elegance” of Duke’s music is passed on by old records, but when you hear Duke’s to yet another generation. music live, you’re hit with the feeling.” Jazz at Lincoln Center

Meet the Artists Department through their CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enter- prises, and other individuals and entities

JOE MARTINEZ Wynton Marsalis from the areas in Greater New Orleans who Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, Trumpet) were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Mar- is the managing and artistic director of Jazz salis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned at Lincoln Center’s home—Frederick P. trumpeter and composer. Born in New Or- Rose Hall—the first education, perfor- leans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his mance, and broadcast facility devoted to classical training on trumpet at age 12,en- jazz, which opened in October 2004. tered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Mes- Dan Block sengers. He is now the director of jazz stud- Dan Block (Tenor Saxophone) has a dual ies at The Juilliard School, a role he has reputation as a mainstream jazz musician been in since 2014. He made his recording and a specialist in traditional jazz. He adapts debut as a leader in 1982 and has since re- to a host of musical genres on numerous corded more than 60 jazz and classical instruments. He has worked as a sideman recordings, which have won him nine with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Wess, Richard Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the Wyands, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orches- first and only artist to win both classical and tra with Wynton Marsalis, Harry Allen, Jerry jazz Grammys in the same year and repeat- Dodgion, and Howard Alden. On the more ed this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an in- traditional side, he has worked frequently ternationally respected teacher and spokes- with Vince Giordano, Marty Grosz, and Judy man for music education and has received Carmichael. Much of his work has been honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. with singers like Michael Feinstein, Natalie universities and colleges. He has written Cole, Ann Hampton Callaway, Bobby Short, six books; his most recent are Squeak, Linda Ronstadt, and Rosemary Clooney. Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illus- Block is a regular on the circuit, trated by Paul Rogers and published by playing every year at Chautauqua and the Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to past three years at Norwich, as well as the Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Atlanta, Wilmington, Elkhart, and San Diego Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by festivals. His and saxophone have Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis been heard in such films as The Aviator, became the first jazz artist to be awarded The Good Shepherd, Revolutionary Road, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for and, most recently, HBO’s series Board- his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was walk Empire. He has also played on count- commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In less radio and television commercials. 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Block has recorded as a leader for Arbors Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General Records, Concord, and Music Minus One. of the United Nations, and he has also been His latest , Almost Modern, and a designated cultural ambassador to the Unit- subsequent record, Nostalgia—both on ed States of America by the U.S. State Sackville Recording—received excellent Jazz at Lincoln Center reviews internationally. Block is classically he serves as artist-in-residence at Augus- trained (Juilliard 1980), and he has played ta University. He also serves on the jazz genres including salsa, Caribbean music, arts program faculty at Manhattan School and klezmer, which have come together to of Music and as music director for the form his own unique sound. Louis Armstrong Legacy Project in . His songbook and accompanying CD, This Wycliffe Gordon Rhythm on My Mind, was released in 2012, Musical ambassador and interpreter of and Sing It First, covering Gordon’s unique America’s music, Wycliffe Gordon (Trom- approach to playing, was released in 2011. bone) enjoys a career of touring the world, His lead sheets, trombone music, and big performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead band charts are all available on his website. jazz to great acclaim. He is recognized for Across the world, he works with musicians his modern mastery of the plunger mute, and audiences, from elementary schools to exceptional technique, and signature universities, through master classes, clinics, sound. Gordon was named Best in Trom- workshops, children’s concerts, and lectures. bone by the DownBeat Critics Poll in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018, and the Jazz Rodney Whitaker Journalists Association named him Trom- Renowned bassist and educator Rodney bonist of the Year in 2018 (for the tenth Whitaker (Bass) is the professor of jazz time since 2001). He is a past recipient of bass and the director of jazz studies at the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award. In Michigan State University. He is also the addition to an extremely successful solo artistic director of the Michigan State Uni- career, Gordon regularly tours the world versity Professors of Jazz, former artistic with the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet. Gordon advisor of jazz at Wharton Center, director is a former member of the Wynton Marsalis of Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Jazz Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Or- Orchestra, and a former member of the chestra and has been a featured guest artist Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Whita- on Billy Taylor’s Jazz at the Kennedy Center ker received his first national recognition series. His “Jazz a la Carte” show, which performing with the Harrison/Blanchard debuted at the Apollo Theater, was named Quintet. Whitaker has since earned interna- one of the “top five best moments in jazz” tional recognition as one of the finest jazz of 2011 by the Wall Street Journal. Gordon bassists and educators. He completed a has released 20 solo and eight as a seven-year tenure as bassist with the Wyn- co-leader. His most recent releases include ton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Within Our Gates, Somebody New, and Center Orchestra (then the LCJO). He has Signature Series. In 2013 Criss Cross Jazz performed internationally for the past 25 released The Intimate Ellington: Ballads and years, working with legends such as Jimmy Blues, showcasing Gordon’s knowledge of Heath, , , Vanes- Ellington and Strayhorn techniques. Gordon sa Rubin, Kathleen Battle, Dianne Reeves, is also a gifted (and frequently commis- Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Benny Gol- sioned) composer and arranger, with an son, Regina Carter, Pat Metheny, Nicholas extensive catalog of original compositions Payton, Jimmy Cobb, Joshua Redman, that spans jazz and chamber music. His Stefon Harris, Johnny O’Neal, Branford music is performed throughout the world, Marsalis, Greg Hutchinson, Carl Allen, Herlin and his of the theme song to Riley, Jeff “Tain” Watts; with the late greats NPR’s All Things Considered is heard daily. , Mulgrew Miller, Tommy Gordon is a committed music educator, and Flanagan, John Lewis, Marian McPartland, Jazz at Lincoln Center

Donald Walden, Joe Henderson, Hank Bartley also enjoys performing in a wide Jones, Frank Morgan, Betty Carter, and Roy range of musical styles, including classical, Hargrove; and with leading symphony Afro-Cuban, Japanese music, and various orchestras worldwide. He has also ap- types of electronic music. He strives to fur- peared and presented master classes at the ther his lifelong study in the various ways International Association of Jazz Educators that melody and rhythm affect and unite conferences and at top universities world- people. This encourages him to deeply wide. Featured on over 100 recordings, explore the plethora of multicultural music Whitaker has recorded with musicians, from around the world and let it affect him including Roy Hargrove, Pat Metheny, and personally. In addition to building his career Wynton Marsalis and on such film scores as a performer and composer, Bartley intends as China and Malaria and Malawi: Fighting to to pursue his passion for Japanese music Save the Children (PBS). The latter earned and continue his original music project, the Whitaker an Emmy Award for Best Original J-MUSIC Ensemble, which focuses on bring- Music. He also released the DVD Inside ing new perspectives to modern Japanese Jazz, featuring Michigan State University’s pop and art music. jazz department, and two new Mack Ave- nue albums: Get Ready and Word To Do. He Sam Chess is also a consultant with the Detroit Sym- Sam Chess (Trombone) is a trombonist phony Orchestra in the development of the who recently graduated from The Juilliard jazz education department and has served School. Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, he on the faculties of University of Michigan was exposed to a lot of jazz and blues, being and The Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies. the grandson of Chess Records’ co-found- He was nominated for a 2006 Juno Award er, Phil Chess. Sam got his start playing for his work on Let Me Tell You About My with the Tucson Jazz Institute, a non-profit Day (Alma Records). extracurricular music school. Through this organization he played at many jazz festi- Patrick Bartley vals, including the Monterey Jazz Festival Patrick Bartley (Alto Saxophone) is a Gram- and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially El- my Award–nominated and award-winning lington High School Jazz Band Competition saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, com- & Festival, which inspired him to move to poser, and arranger from Fort Lauderdale, New York and study music. Chess contin- Florida, now gaining recognition as an ues to perform with members of the Jazz emerging artist in . He has at Lincoln Center Orchestra and plays trom- recorded and performed alongside such bone in the New York area. renowned musicians as Louis Hayes, , Mulgrew Miller, Jeff Coffin, and Ben Cohen Wynton Marsalis, and has performed at Ben Cohen (Baritone Saxophone), 18, at- such world-renowned venues as the Sta- tended LaGuardia High School in Manhat- ples Center, Madison Square Garden, and tan. He began playing saxophone in fourth the Black Sea Jazz Festival. Throughout his grade and joined Jazz at Lincoln Cen- secondary and post-secondary educational ter’s youth program in seventh grade. He years, he has been featured as a member was a member of LaGuardia High School’s of the Grammy Jazz Ensemble, Next Gener- Senior Jazz Band, led by Kevin Blancq, and ation Jazz Orchestra, and Vail Jazz Workshop the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra, All-Stars, and he has received two DownBeat led by Vincent Gardner. He also participated Student Awards in the jazz soloist category. in the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Jazz at Lincoln Center

Division, where he studies with Vito Chia- Anthony Hervey vuzzo. For the past two years, Cohen has 20-year-old Anthony Hervey (Trumpet) is a participated in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s fourth-year student at The Juilliard School Summer Jazz Academy, where he worked of Music, where he is majoring in Jazz with saxophonist Ted Nash, bassist Rodney Studies. While in high school at Dillard Whitaker, and others. Cohen has had the Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale, privilege of studying with baritone saxo- Florida, he received an outstanding solo- phonists and Gary Smuly- ist award for four consecutive years and an, and he currently studies with Alastair the 2015 Ella Fitzgerald Award at Jazz at Ottesen and Dan Block. Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival and Competition. Noah Halpern Through a competitive selection process, Noah Halpern (Trumpet) is a New York- he was chosen to participate in the 2015 based trumpeter, composer, bandleader, Grammy Jazz Band and the 2014 and and educator. Originally from Seattle, 2015 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. In WA, Halpern grew up involved in youth addition, Hervey is a 2014 Vail Jazz All-Star jazz programs, where his passion for the and a 2016 YoungArts Finalist for Jazz music began. While at Roosevelt High Trumpet. He has performed with nota- School, Halpern was a member of the Next ble musicians such as Wynton Marsalis, Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Brubeck Rodney Whitaker, Wycliffe Gordon, Jazz Colony, and was a participant in Marquis Hill, Stephen Scott, Eric Harland, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz and Ira Sullivan. Hervey performed along- Band Competition & Festival, where he side Wynton Marsalis with the Young Jazz was twice awarded Outstanding Trumpet All-Stars at the 2016 Marciac Jazz Festival in Soloist. He received the “Waldo King Most France and onstage in a horn section behind Inspirational Award” from his high school Rihanna at the 2016 Video Music Awards. upon graduation. Since moving to New He was also a featured soloist with the Igor York, Halpern has been fortunate to play Butman Jazz Orchestra at the 2016 Future of around the city at venues including Dizzy’s Jazz Festival in Moscow, Russia. Club, Smalls, Blue Note, Club Bonafide, and Shapeshifter Lab, among others. He Julian Lee has shared the stage with a wide variety of Julian Lee (Alto Saxophone) is a recent artists including Matt Wilson, Eric Harland, graduate of The Juilliard School. In March James Morrison, the Jazz at Lincoln 2017 he was awarded the Lincoln Center Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Emerging Artist Award. Lee’s versatility and Bill Frisell, among others. He has as a tenor, alto, and baritone saxophonist, toured around the U.S., Japan, Europe, and as well as a clarinetist and flautist, has led Australia and has performed at major jazz him to play in some of the world’s finest festivals. He attended the Banff Workshop bands, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center for Jazz and Creative Music in 2016, and Orchestra, Mingus , Christian Mc- in 2017 he performed in Jazz at Lincoln Bride Big Band, Jon Batiste and Stay Hu- Center’s Count Meets the Duke concerts man, Michael Mwenso and the Shakes, and as part of Wynton Marsalis’ handpicked the the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. In group of young musicians. Halpern recently August 2016 he performed with Wynton graduated from The Juilliard School, where Marsalis and the Young Stars of Jazz at he earned a bachelor’s degree in music. the Marciac Jazz Festival. Beginning his studies at Juilliard in 2013, Lee had the Jazz at Lincoln Center honor of working with the legendary Joe Greensboro for two years. He is now resid- Temperley and currently studies with Ted ing in New York City and is continuing his Nash. He has performed at multiple New studies at The Juilliard School. York City venues as a leader and sideman, most notably at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jeffery Miller Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Diz- At the age of 15, New Orleans-bred jazz zy’s Club. He regularly performs at The Jazz trombonist and singer Jeffery Miller (Trom- Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, and has played bone) first performed at Carnegie Hall as major festivals including the Newport Jazz a part of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Festival and the Charlie Parker Festival. Lee 50th Anniversary, and since then, the is actively engaged in educational outreach. 21-year-old has continued to perform on For two years he was awarded the Gluck prestigious stages and venues including Community Service Fellowship at Juilliard, the Apollo Theater, the New Orleans Jazz which allowed him to perform at health- Heritage Festival, and Vail Jazz Festival. care facilities across the five boroughs. He was a member of the 2014 Grammy He also performs in workshops in schools Band and was selected as part of the 2016 across the country with Bryan Carter and Disneyland Resort All American College the Young Swangers. Lee grew up in a mu- Band. Miller has performed alongside jazz sical household and began playing piano greats such as Christian McBride, Donald at age four. At age seven, he took up the Harrison Jr., and Herlin Riley. He has been saxophone and studied privately with his featured with the Louisiana Philharmonic father, Mike Lee, a professional saxophonist Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet. and educator. For three years, he was featured on the acclaimed HBO series Treme, playing the Sean Mason role of a music student of Antoine Batiste Sean Mason (Piano) was born and raised (portrayed by ). He has re- in Charlotte, NC. Through being raised in ceived mentorship from Ellis, Delfeayo, and a southern, black Christian church, Mason Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Reggie began to sing in the church choir at a very Young, and Curtis Fuller. Miller has been a early age and continued to do so up until member of ’ Uptown Jazz his teens. Aside from his involvement in Orchestra since age 14 and is a leader of his musical church activities, he was also very own Quintet. Miller was handpicked by Jon involved in other art disciplines through- Batiste to lead International Jazz Day 2017 at out his schooling years, including theater, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Miller dance, and visual art. At age 13 Mason be- is currently on full scholarship at The Juilliard gan to teach himself how to play the piano, School, where he is a student of Steve Turre. and, after fumbling with the trombone, the drums, and the vibraphone, he decided to Riley Mulherkar primarily stick with the piano and get seri- Riley Mulherkar (Trumpet) has been rec- ous about music. In those teenage years ognized in publications like the New York Mason was interested in a variety of dif- Times and the Wall Street Journal as a ferent genres of music ranging from jazz to smart young musician to watch. Born and classical, rock, and everything in between, raised in Seattle, Mulherkar moved to New but he spent most of his high school years York in 2010 to study at The Juilliard School, performing jazz, pop, and gospel music. Af- where he completed his bachelor’s degree ter graduating high school, Mason went on in 2014 and his master’s in 2015, receiving to attend the University of North Carolina at the Knowles Prize for Jazz and the Peter Jazz at Lincoln Center

Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement Christian McBride, Antonio Hart, James and leadership in music. He is also an in- Carter, Victor Lewis, and others. She also augural recipient of Juilliard’s Marks Fellow- performed at the Pittsfield Jazz Festival in ship. In 2011 Mulherkar was named a “ris- 2014 as the featured young artist and at the ing jazz artist” by Wynton Marsalis in JET Caramoor Jazz Festival with her own group. magazine and in 2014 was the first recipi- She is a teaching assistant at Jazz at Lin- ent of the Laurie Frink Career Grant at the coln Center’s Middle School Jazz Academy Festival of New Trumpet Music. Mulherkar and the Jazz House Kids Summer Work- has performed at the Umbria Jazz Festival, shop and Chica Power program. Jazz à Vienne, and Carnegie Hall and has shared the stage with Wynton Marsalis, Endea Owens Leonard Slatkin, and Dave Douglas, among Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist of 2019 others. He is a founding member of The and Detroit native Endea Owens (Bass) is Westerlies, a new music brass quartet that a vibrant, up-and-coming bassist. She has has premiered over 50 original works since been mentored by the likes of Marcus its inception in 2011. Their debut album, Belgrave, Rodney Whitaker, and Ron Car- Wish the Children Would Come on Home, ter. She has toured and performed with received top critical accolades and was Jennifer Holliday, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee named Debut Album of the Year by NPR Bridgewater, Steve Turre, and Lea Delaria. Music’s Francis Davis. Mulherkar is actively Owens has written compositions for the engaged in educational outreach. He has Lansing Film Festival and has been a fea- taught at Harlem School of the Arts and tured artist at Spelman College and in Mon- founded the music program at StART Osceo- treal. Owens has done music exchange la, a summer arts intensive in Florida, where programs in Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago he has taught for the past five years. He has and has performed in London, India, Aus- also facilitated master classes in Brazil, Mex- tralia, Ukraine, South Korea, and many oth- ico, and across the . Mulherk- er countries. Along with being featured in ar also serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at the documentary Happy on the Ground: 8 Joye in Aiken, bringing leading young talent Days at Grammy Camp, Owens has been to the historic city of Aiken, South Carolina. featured on ABC7 News (New York) with Sandy Kenyon as well as ABC7’s Here and Zoe Obadia Now. These episodes aired in over 6,500 Zoe Obadia (Alto Saxophone) is an alto sax- taxis in the New York area. She has also ophonist from Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She been featured on The Indie Beat on the is currently studying at The Juilliard School Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Owens with saxophonists Steve Wilson and Ted recently graced the cover of Japan’s The Nash. She began playing the saxophone at Walker magazine and was featured in the age nine and became immersed in a com- Wall Street Journal and Billboard magazine. munity of great jazz musicians and educa- Owens’ much-anticipated album is Feel tors based in New Jersey. In high school, Good Music. she participated in the Essentially Ellington and Mingus festivals with the Jazz House TJ Reddick Kids Big Band and was a 2014 Grammy Taurien Reddick (Drums) is a native of Jack- Jazz Band member, a 2014 Young Arts Jazz sonville, Florida, who grew up in an urban Finalist, and a DownBeat High School So- neighborhood where there was much crime loist winner. Obadia has performed with and trouble in the community. Music very the Mingus Big Band, Wynton Marsalis, quickly became his “escape” from the Jazz at Lincoln Center surroundings. He became exposed to in- Jon Batiste and Stay Human, Wycliffe Gor- strumental music at a very early age. His don, Julian Lage, Bill T. Jones, Gene Perla, mother, grandmother, and other relatives and Esperanza Spalding, among others. took him to high school football games as a Schnider has performed at venues including toddler, where he became passionate about Dizzy’s Club, The Jazz Standard, Birdland, the sounds of the bands; he even brought Sweet Rhythm, Gracie Mansion, Carnegie along a personal toy drum and played along Hall, Capitol Records, Staples Center, the with the bands from the stands during Kennedy Center, and the Newport, Monte- the games. During his formative years, rey, and Toronto International Jazz Festivals. his school band director at MLK Academy, Schnider is a former member of the Next Reginald Haywood, exposed him to the Generation Jazz Orchestra and Brubeck trumpet, which he played through elemen- Institute Summer Jazz Colony, a two-time tary school. He also taught Reddick how to selectee for the Grammy Jazz Ensembles, read music and exposed him to jazz, which and a National Foundation for Advancement he immediately fell in love with and began of the Arts YoungArts winner in Jazz. He is to pursue. He went on to attend the local also involved in film scoring and recently middle school of the arts, Lavilla. Christo- served as guitar arranger for the award- pher Banks and Dr. Kenneth Williams taught winning Teresa is a Mother. Schnider was him about classical music percussion a semifinalist in the prestigious Montreux instruments, including timpani, marimba, Jazz Festival’s International Guitar Competi- xylophone, tambourine, and many others. tion. A graduate from the Manhattan School At Lavilla, Reddick switched from the trum- of Music, Schnider is also a recent graduate pet to the drums and learned to play in a of The Juilliard School as a recipient of the jazz big band setting under the direction of Greene Fellowship. In addition to working Mr. Banks. Reddick then attended Douglas frequently for a variety of diverse projects, Anderson School of the Arts and was a part Schnider is also working to release his of the school’s Jazz Ensemble 1 under the di- first record. rection of Ace Martin first, and then Donald Zentz. He was also part of the school’s Wind Jumaane Smith Symphony under the direction of Ted Shis- Jumaane Smith (Trumpet) is a trumpet- tle. Reddick went on trips to the Midwest er and vocalist from Seattle, Washington, Clinic in Chicago, Swing Central Festival in who trained at The Juilliard School of Music Savannah, and Jazz Education Network (2001–05) and privately with Wynton Mar- conference in New Orleans. Throughout salis. Over the past 15 years, Smith has es- his grade school years, Reddick has been tablished himself as first-call lead trumpeter awarded many school awards and won with performance and recording credits that state music competitions. He is now in his include collaborations with some of music’s second year at The Juilliard School, pursuing most notable artists, including Stevie Won- a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies. der, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and many others. Recordings he has performed Gabe Schnider on have won five Grammy Awards. Smith Gabe Schnider (Guitar) has performed or has toured and recorded extensively with recorded with Wynton Marsalis, James Michael Bublé for over 12 years and cur- Moody, Joshua Bell, , rently performs as lead trumpeter with Har- Dianne Reeves, Junior Mance, Kenny Bur- ry Connick Jr.’s band. In 2013 Smith toured rell, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Arturo as guest soloist for Jackie Evancho’s Songs O’Farrill, Anthony Wilson, Jane Monheit, of the Silver Screen world tour. He released Jazz at Lincoln Center his critically acclaimed debut album, I Only performance, education, and broadcast Have Eyes for You, in 2014, featuring spe- events for audiences of all ages. These cial guests Michael Bublé, Jackie Evancho, productions include concerts, national and and Naturally 7. Smith’s credits also include international tours, residencies, weekly performances at the White House and the national radio programs, television broad- Grammy Awards (with Stevie Wonder), as casts, recordings, publications, an annual well as appearances on The Today Show, high school jazz band competition and The Tonight Show, Oprah, and American festival, a band director academy, jazz Idol. As a composer, Smith has scored mu- appreciation curricula for students, music sic for the critically acclaimed filmsHand - publishing, children’s concerts and classes, some Harry and Being in the World. lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops, a record label, Jazz at Lincoln Center and interactive websites. Under the lead- Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to ership of Managing and Artistic Director inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. 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As of April 17, 2019 UPCOMING EVENTS Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall May 2019 ROSE THEATER

ROSE THEATER Joey DeFrancesco with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Essentially Ellington May 17–18 at 8pm May 10 at 2pm / May 11 at 10am & 1pm Joey DeFrancesco—arguably the greatest B-3 Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual Essentially Elling- Hammond organ player alive—joins the Jazz at ton High School Jazz Band Competition & Festi- Lincoln Center Orchestra for the first time. De- val is one of the most innovative jazz education Francesco and the JLCO will explore two clas- events in the world, bringing high school mu- sic records that defied the organ’s typical small sicians from across North America to New York group confines. First up is Duke Ellington’s New City for three days of workshops, jam sessions, Orleans Suite, a lesser-known and delightfully rehearsals, and performances. The Competition & varied repertoire of Ellington excellence. The Festival is the culmination of the yearlong Essen- second half of the show explores Oliver Nel- tially Ellington program, during which participat- son’s unique take on Peter & The Wolf, a playful ing bands submit recordings and 15 finalists are suite full of fiery solos by legendary organist selected through a rigorous screening process. Jimmy Smith. Each finalist band comes to New York to put up their “Dukes” and perform before Wynton Mar- June 2019 salis and a panel of esteemed judges. Join us in Rose Theater to witness these talented young THE APPEL ROOM musicians perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers. : A New Orleans Life in Jazz May 31–June 1 at 7pm & 9:30pm THE APPEL ROOM “He made us believe in the music,” says Wyn- ton Marsalis. Jazz raconteur Danny Barker spent Michael Feinstein: Great American Crooners most of his career here in New York, but when he May 15 at 7pm / May 16 at 7pm & 9pm finally returned home to New Orleans, he gave The Jazz & Popular Song series continues its ninth the world a gift that you will see on stage tonight. consecutive season with a celebration of great The youth band that Barker founded nurtured a American crooners. Michael Feinstein returns as new generation of jazz leaders, and a group of director, host, performer, and all-around entertain- those musicians now reunites as a tribute to their er. With effortless charm, the Tedd Firth Big Band, mentor. Featuring music director and clarinetist and Nick Ziobro and Milton Suggs as special guest Dr. Michael White, vocalist Catherine Russell, vocalists, Feinstein sets a glamorous scene in The trombonist Lucien Barbarin, trumpeters Gregg Appel Room and shines new light on America’s Stafford and , bassist/tuba player Phil- most beloved artists. Tonight’s performance fo- ip Norris, drummers and Herlin cuses on quintessential crooners Frank Sinatra, Riley, and guitarist/banjoist Don Vappie. Enjoy au- Tony Bennett, and Bobby Darin. thentic New Orleans jazz at its finest.

Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor. Tickets starting at $10. To purchase tickets: Visit jazz.org or call CenterCharge: 212-721-6500. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office is located on Broadway at 60th Street, Ground Floor. Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10am–6pm; Sunday, 12pm–6pm. For groups of 12 or more: 212-258-9875 or jazz.org/groups. For more information about our education programs, visit academy.jazz.org. For Swing University and WeBop enrollment: 212-258-9922. Find us on Facebook (jazzatlincolncenter), Twitter (@jazzdotorg), YouTube (jazzatlincolncenter), and Instagram (jazzdotorg). UPCOMING EVENTS

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall May 2019 Bill Charlap Trio with Peter Washington and Kenny Washington Houston Person Quartet May 14–19 with Lafayette Harris, Matthew Parrish, 7:30pm & 9:30pm and Vincent Ector May 3–4 Berklee Masters on the Road 7:30pm & 9:30pm with special guest Melissa Aldana May 20 Akiko/Hamilton/Dechter 7:30pm & 9:30pm with Jeff Hamilton, Akiko Tsuruga, and Graham Dechter Bill Charlap Trio May 5–6 with Peter Washington and Kenny Washington 7:30pm & 9:30pm May 21–26 7:30pm & 9:30pm Sax & Taps with DeWitt Fleming, Jr. & Erica von Kleist Matthew Whitaker with Mark G. Meadows, bassist Endea Owens, May 27 and drummer Carroll Dashiell III 7:30pm & 9:30pm May 7 10pm Alexa Tarantino Quartet CD Release Celebration Essentially Ellington Alumni Band with Christian Sands, Joe Martin, May 8 and Ulysses Owens, Jr. 7:30pm & 9:30pm May 28 7:30pm Juilliard Jazz Orchestra: Music of Duke Ellington Jeffery Miller May 9–12 May 28 7:30pm & 9:30pm 9:30pm

Monday Nights with WBGO: Terraza Big Band Nicole Henry: Where Love Is One Day Wonder Album Release Celebration May 29–30 May 13 7:30pm & 9:30pm 7:30pm & 9:30pm

In deference to the artists, patrons of Dizzy’s Club are encouraged to keep conversations to a whisper during the performance. Artists and schedule subject to change.

Dizzy’s Club is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor New York. Reservations: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys; Groups: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys/group-sales Nightly Artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Late Night Session sets Tuesday through Saturday; doors open at 11:15pm Cover Charge: $20–45. Special rates for students with valid student ID. $10 minimum food & beverage purchase. Full menu available. Rose Theater and The Appel Room concert attendees, present your ticket stub to get 50% off the late-night cover charge at Dizzy’s Club Fridays and Saturdays. Jazz at Lincoln Center merchandise is now available at the concession stands during performances in Rose Theater and The Appel Room. Items also available in Dizzy’s Club during evening operating hours. Dizzy’s Club gift cards now available. Find us on Facebook (DizzysClub), Twitter (@jazzdotorg), YouTube (jazzatlincolncenter), and Instagram (jazzdotorg). We hope you enjoyed your show in Rose Theater or The Appel Room tonight! Present your ticket stub for % o the : PM late-night cover charge at Dizzy’s Club Fridays and Saturdays.

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