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ROSENBURG the company MJCHAEL BLAKE DARRJAN FORD STEPHANlE GUILAND ALDA WNA MORRJSON JENNlFER FERGUSON APRJL WANSTALL HECTOR VEGA Drastic Cuts is made possible through the continued generosity and support of Andrea and Rita Reese and First Impressions Performances for Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century. Special support for this program has also been provided by The Harkness Foundations for Dance. •' Manhattan Brooklyn Roosevelt Field Manhasset Garden C i ty Huntington Sunrise Mall Smith Haven Vel ley Stream Queena White Plains Paramus ,. Short Hilla Woodbridge Monmouth Starrett at Spring Creek • Photo by ANTHONY BARBOZA where harmony is a way of life Crenadier Realty Corp. Managing Agent of Starrett At Spring Creek DONALD BYRDffHE GROUP DONALD BYRD/THE GROUP , for the Alvin Ailey American Dance since its inception in 1978, has devel T heater, t he Alvin A iley Repertory oped a reputation for boldly inventive Ensemble, Dance Theatre of Harlem and and physically irresistible choreogra Nieuwe DansGroep of Holland; and has phy. Under the g uidance of artistic been presented in the Soviet Union, director a nd choreographer Donald Hungary, Yugoslavia, Holland, France, Byrd, the compan y presents works England and across the United States. which articulate such universal con cerns as isolation and community and MIO MORALES (composer) has been a which tackle issues of disease, drugs, freelance composer and musician since and racial and gender relations. 1974, specializing in music for concert dance and theater. He has collaborated Donald Byrd/The Group has toured with The Alvin Ailey Repert o ry extensively, presenting provocative Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance dance works crafted with astonishing Company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, speed, rhythm and grace to widespread a nd the Concordanse Compagnie acclaim throughout Europe, Japan and lnternationale de Danse du Paris, among the United States. The company is the others. recipient of a M etro po lita n Life Foundation Emerging Dance Award, a DANCERS Composer/Choreographer Award from Michael Blake, Jennifer Ferguson, M eet The Composer, and grants from Darrian Ford, Stephanie Guiland, the AT&T Foundation, NYSCA, Arts Risa Masuhara, Aldawna Morrison, International, the Harkness Foundations Laura Rossini, Ruthlyn Salomons, for Dance, the Community Arts Fund, Leonora Stapleton, Hecto r Vega, the NEA, and the Jerome Foundation. 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GARRISON, electric bass PEVEN EVERETT, trumpet ALVESTER GARNETT, drums AARON GOLDBERG, piano ANDRE HAYWARD, trombone ANTONIO PARKER, alto sax MARCUS PRINTUP, trumpet RUBEN ROGERS, bass ADONIS ROSE, drums J MATTIAS SVENSSON, bass WILL TERRILL m, drums ANTHONY WONSEY, piano MARK ZUBEK, bass BEITY CARTER BETTY CARTER was born in Flint, Charles. Following the release of the Michigan and grew up in Detroit-a now-classic "Ray Charles & Betty city noted worldwide for its musical Carter" a lbum, her career took off. contributions in areas from rhythm 'n' She went on to record on the Impulse, blues and jazz to gospel and pop. Ms. Epic and Peacock labels during the Carter studied at the Detroit '50s and '60s. Conservatory of Music and, at the age of 16, entered and won an amateur tal As the '60s came to an end, the popu ent contest at Detroit's Paradise larity of jazz began to wane, leading to Theatre. Havi ng done a great deal of fewer recording opportunities. To fill singing in high school, she could impro the void, Betty Carter formed her own vise quickly and easily. label, Bet-Car Records. She toured with her group and recorded for Bet Ms. Carter later sat in with Dizzy Car throughout the '70s and '80s. Gillespie's big band, and, by the time Along the way, she picked up two she was 18, had performed with Grammy nominations for Best Female Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Jazz Vocalist. In 1988, she signed with Roach and Duke Jordan, without ever Verve, with the dual purpose of record leaving Detroit. Soon after graduating ing new projects and re-releasing her from high school in 1948, she joined back catalogue on compact disc. Lionel Hampton's band for her first job Verve's first Carter release, "Look and spent two and a half years with the What I Got," won her a 1989 Grammy. group. While with Hampton, she per fected her improvisational skills and Betty Carter has also appeared as a learned the basics of band management, guest o n "The Cosby Show"-acting composition and arrangement. "When and singing-and has worked with Bill I left the band," she says, " I was able to Cosby on a Coke commercial. She was write and arrange my music. That's featured in the Gang Starr video "It's a how I got to play with so many great Jazz Thing" (from the soundtrack to musicians, because I had great arrange Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues), and was ments and they wanted to play them. I the recipient of a 1992 Jazz Master still do the arranging." Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1951, Betty Carter struck out on her own, coming to New York City, where Over the years, Betty Carter's interest she quickly established herself as a in education, audience development promising performer. She paid her and the general development of jazz as dues in small clubs and, before long, an art form has been all-encompassing. t she was performing at larger clubs and During the '70s, when she became a theaters s uch as the Apollo, the staple on the college circuit, she ven Howard and the Royal. tured in search of a new audience: the young. With Betty Carter: jazz Ahead Ms. Carter came to a major turning '94, she continues to seek out ways of point in her career when a gig with connecting a younger audience to the Miles Davis led to a tour with Ray meaning and spirit of jazz. MICHAEL ZWACK January A FAVORITE OF THE CULTURAL ELITE! ROBERT LA COLOMBE d'OR CUMMING February Cafe R estaurant Provcn~al 26th S treet jus t cast of Lexin g ton Avenue KEVIN Tel: 689-0666 LARMON March MARC 0 BAG NOLl . . . .. , April ...... ------....•,. ~ ~.·" • ' ~ ~. . ,. •' ••.._.,. . ·- ,, ..... , . .t': ~·., • , I ·c.J • RICHARD ·:~'.~·~:·~·~ PETTIBONE •..,, •. • • # '... . .' ' ,, . 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Wasmund AdvuiiSing Sa/es ...... •...... •• Walter Hewett ~~ THE GRAND PROSPECT HALL r .PDTIBS I GUll CELEIUTIOIS! Ola 'III'.DQWIK fOil THE lAST 100 YEARS. ..! Iq 1) <;. 0 )1_ 5 4 - I 9 rr3s .0 I 2 lo 0 r \ ()w?- .4=. . PRESENTS BETTY CARTER: jAZZ AHEAD '94 Apri/17, 1993 BETTY CARTER TR10 CYRUS CHESTNUT (age 29), piano, study with Alan Dawson. His appear first met Betty Carter as a student at ances include the Mt. Fugi jazz the Berklee College of Music, where Festival in Tokyo, the Du Maurier she was teaching a master class. He jazz Festi"val in Toronto, CA, the joined her trio in 1991. Cyrus has Atlanta jazz Festival, the West Palm performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Beach Jazz Festival, Entertainment Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Tonight with Dizzy Gillespie and Chick Corea, Joe Williams, Charnett Black Entertainment Television with Moffett, George Adams, Jon the Ellis Marsalis Trio. Hendricks, Terrence Blanchard and Donald Harrison at venues that CHRISTOPHER THOMAS (age 22), include Avery Fisher Hall, The Blue bass, has studied at the University of Note, Village Vanguard, the JVC Jazz Wisconsin and the University of New Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Orleans. He has performed with the Newport Jazz Festival in Japan, Marcus Roberts, Ellis Marsalis, Kenny the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, Garrett and Yo Yo Ma. He toured "Sesame Street" on PBS, and "The last year as a member of jazz impres Tonight Show with Jay Leno." sario George Wein's jazz Features II. CLARENCE PENN (age 24 ), drums, has spent the last few years traveling throughout the world as a member of PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS Betty Carter's trio. He has performed TEODROSS AVERY (age 19), tenor with Billy Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, sax, is a Music Education major at the Ellis Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Hubert Berklee College of Music. He has per Laws, Terrence Blanchard, Clark formed in the Monterey, Redwood, Terry and Mel Torme. In 1990, he Oakpark and Oakland jazz Festivals, received a $40,000 grant from the sharing musical moments with National Endowment for the Arts to Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, tJI Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Art Jazz Drums Competition. He has per Blakey and Elvin Jones. formed with Ellis Marsalis, Milt Hinton and Clark Terry. BRIAN BLADE (age 22), drnms, has toured nationally with the Joshua MATTHEW J. GARRISON (age 22), Redmon Band. electric bass, is a 1992 graduate of the Berklee College of Music. He has per MELVIN BUTLER (age 23), tenor formed with the Gary Burton Quartet, sax, is currently completing a 5-year Jack DeJohnette, Joe Zawinul, Chico dual major in jazz Composition and Freeman, Rashied Ali, Ravi Coltrane, Saxophone Performance at Berklee Terri Lynn Carrington, and Antonio College of Music. He has performed Hart, touring to Japan and throughout with Branford Marsalis, Jimmy Smith, the United States. jack Dejohnette, josef Zawinul, Peter Erskine and Donald Byrd. ANDRE HAYWARD (age 20), trom bone, is a Music Education major at CHRIS BYARS (age 22), tenor sax, Texas Southern University in Houston was a semi-finalist in the 1991 and a member of TSU's Jazz Ensemble Thelonious Monk Competition in under the direction of Howard C. Washington, D.C. and has performed Harris. He received his first private with Barry Harris, jon Hendricks and lessons from Richard Reeves, a bass Cecil Payne. He recently completed a trombonist for the Houston Opera. second Latin American tour. GREGORY HUTCHINSON (age 21), PEVEN EVERETT (age 18), trnmpet, drums, is a former member of the began playing music at the tender age Betty Carter Trio. He is currently per of 3. Since then, he has played the forming with the Roy Hargrove Band. drums, the piano and the trombone before settling down with the trumpet ANTONIO PARKER (age 23), alto as his instrument of choice. A gradu sax, is a graduate student at Howard ate of Thornridge High School in University focusing on Composition Harvey, IL, he hasn't yet made a deci and Arrangement. A native sion regarding the college he will Philadelphian, he has recorded 4 attend in the fall. albums with the Howard University Jazz Ensemble and has performed at ALVESTER GARNETT (age 22), the Library of Congress, the John F. drnms, is currently a senior in the jazz Kennedy Center for the Performing Studies program at Virginia Arts and the MENC National Commonwealth University. He was Biennial In-Service Conference in the Third Place Award winner in the Washington, D.C. 1992 Thelonius Monk International MARCUS PRINTUP (age 25), trum Kenny Barron and Claudio Roditi. He pet, recently performed with Wynton will be touring Europe with both the Marsalis on the world premiere of Danilo Perez group and Slide "j azz: In Syncopated Movements," a Hampton and the Jazz Masters. piece commissioned by the New York City Ballet. He was the winner of the MATTIAS SVENSSON (age 25), bass, 1991 International Trumpet Guild is presently enrolled at the New School jazz competition and a semi-finalist in for Social Research in New York the 1991 Louis Armstrong where his teachers include Reggie International jazz competition. He is Workman, Buster Williams and Jim currently a member of the Marcus Hall. Born in Landskrona, Sweden, he Roberts Group. has performed with Arnie Lawrence, Arne Domnerus and Philip Wilson. REUBEN ROGERS (age 18), electric/acoustic bass, has played with JACKY TERRASSON (age 27), piano, Joe Beck, Marcus Roberts and Alvin was born in Germany and lived in Batiste. A student at the Berklee Paris until he finished high school. He College of Music, this St. Thomas has since lived in Boston and Chicago native has a deep-seated love for all and now resides in New York City. music, including reggae, calypso, Jacky has performed with Wallace gospel, r & b, funk, latin and jazz. Roney, Guy Lafitte, Ray Brown, and Dee Dee Bridgewater. He joined Art ADONIS ROSE (age 18), drums, has Taylor's group, The Wailers, in 1992. appeared at the New Orleans jazz & Heritage Festival and the Loyola WILLIE JAMES TERRILL, III (age University jazz Festival; toured the U.S. 19), drums, is a sophomore Music and Japan; performed with Wynton major at North Carolina Central Marsalis, Terrence Blanchard, Delfeayo University. In 1990 and 1991, he was Marsalis, Clark Terry and Marcus named North Carolina All-State Roberts; and assisted Terrence Percussionist and has participated in Blanchard on the soundtrack for the workshops led by Wynton Marsalis motion picture Malcolm X. He is a and the Count Basie Orchestra. student at the Berklee College of Music. ANTHONY WONSEY (age 21 ), DAVID SANCHEZ (age 24 ), tenor piano, has performed with sax, is a native of Puerto Rico. He Christopher Hollyday, Delpheayo attended Rutgers University as a trans Marsalis, Bill Pierce, Von Freeman, fer student from the University of Jay Branford and Antonio Hart. He is Puerto Rico. He has performed with currently a film scoring major at the Eddie Palmieri, Dizzy Gillespie's Berklee College of Music and studies United Nations Band, John Hicks, with Mulgrew Miller. OJ MARK ZUBEK (age 19), bass, has Guild, the Alabama Shakespeare studied with Patrick Collins, Reggie Festival, the New Federal Theater and Workman, Barry Smith and Barry the Dallas Theatre Center, as well as Harris. A native of Toronto, Canada, many other regional and off-Broadway he was awarded "Best Jazz companies. He has designed for Performance" at the Kiwanis Music DANCEAFRICA at BAM for the past Festival in 1991 and "Best Jazz four years. Combo" three years in a row at the Ontario Jazz Festival and, in 1989, Mr. Grant has been the designer for toured Japan. He is a student at the 651 since its inception in 1988. His Berklee College of Music. designing credits also include the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and WILLIAM H GRANT III (lighting American Ballet Theater. He is the designer) has designed lighting for resident lighting designer for The dance, opera and theater throughout Philadelphia Dance Company (PHI the United States, Canada, Europe, LADANCO). Mr. Grant has taught Africa, South America, the Caribbean, lighting design at the City College of the Middle East and the former Soviet New York and is the author of A Union. He has designed extensively Basic Handbook of Stage Lighting. In for the Milwaukee Repertory his spare time, Mr. Grant is an accom Company, the Philadelphia Drama plished harpist.