Bill Charlap Trio with Cécile Mclorin Salvant Thu / Feb 8 / 7:30 Pm
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BILL CHARLAP TRIO WITH CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT THU / FEB 8 / 7:30 PM Bill Charlap, piano Kenny Washington, drums Peter Washington, bass Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals Photo credit: Philippe LEVY-STAB Philippe credit: Photo Jazz & Blues at The Broad Stage made possible by a generous gift from Richard & Lisa Kendall. Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. There will be no intermission. 30 JAN/FEB 2018 BIOS Arts at New York City’s 92Y. He has also produced concerts for Jazz at Lincoln BILL CHARLAP, piano, is one of the Center, New Jersey Performing Arts world’s premier jazz pianists and has Center (NJPAC), the Chicago Symphony performed with many leading artists Center and the Hollywood Bowl. Mr. of our time, ranging from Phil Woods Charlap is currently Director of Jazz and Tony Bennett to Gerry Mulligan and Studies at William Paterson University in Wynton Marsalis. He is known for his Wayne, New Jersey. Founded in 1973, the interpretations of American popular program is one of the longest-running songs, and has recorded albums featuring and most respected jazz programs in the the music of Hoagy Carmichael, Leonard world. Bernstein, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Duke Born in New York City, Mr. Charlap began Ellington. Mr. Charlap’s collaboration with playing the piano at age three. His father Tony Bennett, The Silver Lining: The Songs was Broadway composer Moose Charlap, of Jerome Kern, on the RPM/Columbia whose credits include Peter Pan, and label, won the 2016 GRAMMY® Award his mother is singer Sandy Stewart, who for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. toured with Benny Goodman, appeared It features Mr. Charlap and Mr. Bennett on the Ed Sullivan and Perry Como shows, together and in collaboration with The Bill and earned a GRAMMY® Award nomination Charlap Trio and duo piano performances for her recording of “My Coloring Book.” with Renee Rosnes. Mr. Charlap is married to renowned jazz The Bill Charlap Trio, with bassist pianist Renee Rosnes. The couple released Peter Washington and drummer Kenny their highly acclaimed two-piano album, Washington, marks its 20th year together Double Portrait in 2010 on the Blue Note this season. The Trio’s latest recording, label. Mr. Charlap’s website is Uptown Downtown, was released in billcharlap.com. September on Mr. Charlap’s current label, Impulse!/Verve, and has been KENNY WASHINGTON, drums, was born nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best in Brooklyn. In 1977, while still in his Instrumental Jazz Album. Last season’s teens, he worked with Lee Konitz and his Notes from New York, received a 5-star nonet. He has been a member of the Bill review in Downbeat, and The Trio has Charlap Trio for the past 13 years and has received two additional GRAMMY® Award performed and recorded with dozens of nominations for Somewhere: The Songs major artists, giving him a discography of of Leonard Bernstein, and for The Bill hundreds of titles. Artists include Benny Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard, Carter, Betty Carter, Johnny Griffin, Ron both on the Blue Note label. The Bill Carter, Clark Terry, Milt Jackson, Tommy Charlap Trio tours all over the world, Flanagan, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval and their New York appearances include and Benny Goodman. Washington is a regular extended engagements at Jazz at noted jazz historian and radio personality; Lincoln Center and the Village Vanguard. he has written liner notes and helped prepare re-releases by Art Blakey, Count Next summer, Bill Charlap celebrates his Basie and others, and has also been a disc 14th year as artistic director of the Jazz jockey on WBGO and Sirius satellite jazz in July festival at the Tisch Center for the radio. He currently serves on the faculties JAN/FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 31 of Purchase College, State University Her 2016 GRAMMY® Award-winning album, of New York and The Juilliard School, For One To Love may be the defining teaching drums and jazz history. jazz statement on romance in the new millennium, a heartfelt album that both PETER WASHINGTON, bass, is one of the embodies the full range of the American most in demand and recorded bassists popular song idiom, but distills it into in modern jazz, with a discography of a distinctly personal expression of a over 400 recordings. Born in Los Angeles, modern-day poet-troubadour. Washington played classical bass as a teen On the album, McLorin Salvant shows and majored in English Literature at U.C. her uncanny knack of channeling her Berkeley, where he became interested own personality into the work of her in jazz. He was invited by Art Blakey to predecessors, both the acclaimed (Bessie join the Jazz Messengers in New York. Smith) and the less well-known (Blanche From there Washington became part of Calloway, whose fame during her lifetime two of jazz’s most celebrated trios: the was eclipsed by her brother Cab). “I’ve Tommy Flanagan Trio, and for the past 13 made some choices about celebrating years, the Bill Charlap Trio. Washington’s strong women,” McLorin Salvant explains. freelance work roster is a “who’s who” “And I want to celebrate independence, of jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Clark the courage not to look or act a certain Terry, Milt Jackson, Johnny Griffin, Bobby way.” Hutcherson and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. In 2008, Washington became part In 2017, McLorin Salvant’s newest of The Blue Note 7, a septet formed in album, Dreams and Daggers, received honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Jazz Note Records. The group recorded the Vocal Album. album Mosaic and toured the U.S. in 2009. CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT, vocals, grew up in a bilingual household in Miami, the child of a French mother and Haitian father. She started piano studies at age five, and at eight began singing with the Miami Choral Society. After graduating high school, McLorin Salvant decided to pursue her education in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. In this unlikely setting, she embarked on a new career as a jazz performer, while pursuing a degree in French law and her training as a classical and baroque singer. 32 JAN/FEB 2018.