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Charles Lloyd and the Marvels with Special Guest Charles Lloyd and the Marvels With Special Guest Lucinda Williams WHEN: VENUE: FRIDAY, BING SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 CONCERT HALL 7∶30 PM Artists About the Program Charles Lloyd, saxophone Lucinda Williams, vocals When Lucinda Williams joined Charles Lloyd and the Marvels at UCLA’s Royce The Marvels Hall in April 2017, the musicians beamed Bill Frisell, guitar with unbridled joy. Same for the fans fortunate to witness, to share the depths Eric Harland, drums of the artistry and exploration Greg Leisz, pedal steel guitar happening on stage. There were tears, Reuben Rogers, bass too, as Williams reached inside herself for expressions of love, longing and loss in equal measures. But the image that remains strongest from this remarkable night is of Lloyd, radiant and enchanted, at times not even playing, just taking in Program the wonders of this grouping that had come together around him. Tonight’s program will feature selections from their new album That same energy and elation buzzed Vanished Gardens. through the compact sessions in a Los Angeles studio that brought us the luminescent music heard on Vanished Gardens, the radiant new album This program is generously supported by the Koret Foundation. featuring Lloyd and Williams with the The Koret Jazz Project is a multiyear initiative to support, expand, and singular set of talents that comprise celebrate the role of jazz in the artistic and educational programming of Stanford Live. The Marvels: Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums—musicians who just as Lloyd and Williams have done have set their own courses, found their own ways of expression and exploration, while thriving most profoundly in sparks- PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you. filled collaborative settings. Upcoming Events More jazzy nights in the Bing Studio Tickets and information: Jon Cleary The Baylor Project live.stanford.edu Sep 22 • 7∶00 & 9∶00 PM Two-time GRAMMY® Nominees Bing Studio Sep 23 • 7∶00 PM • Bing Studio About the Artists CHARLES LLOYD album Forest Flower, Live at enough footing to record a self-titled Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1938, Monterey, sold over one million album that would become a touchstone Lloyd was immersed in that city’s rich copies. for the embryonic Americana musical life and was exposed to jazz. movement—helping launch a thousand He began playing the saxophone at Disillusioned with the music business musical ships along the way. the age of nine. Pianist Phineas world, Lloyd retreated to Big Sur for 10 Newborn became his mentor, and took years. Following a near death For the past 30 years, Lucinda him to Irvin Reason for lessons. His experience in 1986, Lloyd decided to Williams has channeled her closest friend in high school was rededicate himself to music. In 1989, perspective as a proud but vulnerable trumpeter, Booker Little. Lloyd worked Lloyd reestablished an active touring Southern female into a string of stellar in Phineas Sr’s band, and became a schedule and began recording for albums, each of which weave rock, sideman in the Blues bands of B.B. ECM Records. Noteworthy albums country, folk and blues so tightly that King, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnnie Ace, include Fish Out of Water, Canto, Voice In each of the elements seems to Bobbie “Blue” Bland, and others. the Night, The Water Is Wide (featuring disappear. Lucinda Williams (1988) was Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie, her breakthrough disc, but her In 1956 Lloyd moved to Los Angeles Larry Greadier, and Billy Higgins) magnum opus, 1998’s Car Wheels on a and earned Master’s degree from the Sangam with Zakir Hussain and Eric Gravel Road, sealed the her reputation University of Southern California. Harland. Rabo de Nube and Mirror are as a formidable singer-songwriter. During this period Lloyd played in highly acclaimed recordings with his Ruminating on disappointments, Gerald Wilson’s big band, and formed New Quartet with Jason Moran, fretting over lost friends, and his own group that included Billy Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland. celebrating the subtlest of life’s joys, it Higgins, Don Cherry, Bobby was an obvious masterpiece that Hutcherson, and Terry Trotter. Lloyd Commissioned by Jazztopad in resounds with immediacy. Car Wheels joined Chico Hamilton in 1960. His Wroclaw, Poland to write a new also earned the singer a Grammy for influence as a composer quickly composition to premiere at their 2013 Best Contemporary Folk Album and pushed the group in a more festival, Lloyd wrote “Wild Man Dance became the first commercially progressive post-bop direction when Suite” for piano, bass, drums, cimbalom successful record of her career, going Hamilton asked him to be the group’s and lyra, released on Blue Note gold within a year of its release. music director. In 1964, Lloyd left Records in 2015. Lloyd formed a new Hamilton’s group to join alto group called the Marvels featuring Bill Through her work with guitarists Bill saxophonist Cannonball Adderly. He Frisell, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland Frisell and Greg Leisz, Williams was recorded two albums as a leader for and Greg Leisz. They released “I Long introduced to jazz legend, Charles Columbia Records, Discovery and Of To See You” in 2016 (Blue Note Records) Lloyd. They immediately felt a Course, Of Course; his sidemen and their most recent album released connection through their Southern included Gabor Szabo, Don in June 2018 Vanished Gardens (Blue routes and have joined each other in Friedman, Herbie Hancock, Ron Notes Records) is a collaboration with concert and in recording. Williams’ Carter, Tony Williams, and Pete La the great American singer and poet, newest release, This Sweet Old World on Roca. In 1965 Lloyd formed a quartet Lucinda Williams. Highway 20 Records, is a remake of with pianist, Keith Jarrett, bassist, the album on its 25th anniversary. Cecil McBee, drummer, Jack LUCINDA WILLIAMS DeJohnette. It was a meeting of Three-time Grammy Award winner, BILL FRISELL straight-ahead post-bop, Free jazz, Lucinda Williams has been carving her Born in Baltimore, Bill Frisell’s interest rock, and world music. Their music own path for more than three decades in guitar began with his exposure to quickly caught the attention of jazz now. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, pop music on the radio. Soon, the fans and critics. They achieved Williams had been imbued with a Chicago Blues became a passion crossover success with young rock “culturally rich, economically poor” through the work of Otis Rush, B.B. fans and became the first jazz group worldview. Several years of playing the King, Paul Butterfield and Buddy Guy. to play in the famed Fillmore. The hardscrabble clubs gave her a solid In high school, he played in bands 3 covering pop and soul classics, James and encouraged him to study in New usually not accorded renowned steel Brown and other dance material. York City. Harland left his hometown players. During the 1990s, Leisz also Later, Bill studied music at the Houston, Texas to go to the Manhattan began making a name for himself as a University of Northern Colorado before School of Music on full scholarship. producer, helming releases by such attending Berklee College of Music in After music school, Harland studied at folks as Rosie Flores, Dave Alvin, Tom Boston where he studied with John Houston Baptist University (College of Russell, and Lisa Mednick. Damian, Herb Pomeroy and Michael Biblical Studies) and became an Gibbs. In 1978, Frisell moved for a year ordained minister. REUBEN ROGERS to Belgium where he concentrated on Raised in the Virgin Islands, Rogers writing music. In this period, he toured The pull of music was strong and cut exposed to a wide variety of music with Michael Gibbs and first recorded short his career as a preacher. He has including Calypso, Reggae, Jazz, Latin, with German bassist Eberhard Weber. played with many jazz and music and Gospel. Encouraged by his greats including Betty Carter, Joe parents, Rogers was motivated to Over the years, Frisell has contributed to Henderson, Joshua Redman, Wynton explore his exceptional musical talent. the work of such collaborators as Paul Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, McCoy His first instrument was the clarinet. He Motian, John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Ginger Tyner, Michael Brecker, Red Hot Chili then experimented with the piano, Baker, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Peppers, and John Mayer. saxophone, drums and guitar before Suzanne Vega, Loudon Wainwright III, finding his true love in the bass at the Van Dyke Parks, Vic Chesnutt, Rickie, GREG LEISZ age of 14. Lee Jones, Ron Sexsmith, Vinicius The word “ubiquitous” is usually placed Cantuária, Marc Johnson (in “Bass in front of pedal steel player and As a result of playing the bass, Rogers Desires”), Ronald Shannon Jackson and guitarist Greg Leisz’s name. With good was awarded numerous awards. He Melvin Gibbs (in “Power Tools”), reason—the man’s résumé is daunting, received various grants and Marianne Faithful, John Scofield, Jan boasting spots with Joni Mitchell, scholarships from the St. Thomas Arts Garbarek, Lyle Mays, Vernon Reid, Julius Sheryl Crow, Peter Case, Paul Council and other local organizations. Hemphill, Paul Bley, Wayne Horvitz, Hal Westerberg, Me’Shell NdegeOcello, He was chosen to study at Interlochen Willner, Robin Holcomb, Rinde Eckert, Victoria Williams, Joe Cocker, Dave Arts Camp in Michigan and Berklee The Frankfurt Ballet, film director Gus Alvin, k.d. lang, Wilco, Lucinda College of Music five-week summer Van Sant, David Sanborn, David Sylvian, Williams, Bruce Cockburn, Shawn program in Boston. Upon completing Petra Haden, and numerous others.
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