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angelcityjazz.com Angel City Jazz Festival Every year the Angel City Jazz Festival presents a theme around which In another expression of the Artists and Legends theme, Angel City’s a two-week festival of cutting-edge music is assembled. Last year’s Rocco Somazzi has joined forces with the Jazz Bakery’s Ruth Price theme was Global Jam, featuring musicians from around the world, to co-produce the 2012 Angel City Jazz Festival and Young Artists and the previous year’s theme was Rethinking Jazz, with musical Competition. These two organizations working together - the upstart celebrations centered around painting, film, dance, and even food. cutting-edge music festival and the legendary jazz club that is building The theme for the fifth annual Angel City Jazz Festival is Artists & a new performance center in Culver City - bodes well for the future of Legends, providing an opportunity for creative artists to celebrate their jazz in Los Angeles. legendary mentors in concert. Angel City Arts, the non-profit organization that produces the Angel Angel City’s founder Rocco Somazzi and co-artistic director Jeff City Jazz Festival, has received generous support from several Gauthier hit upon this theme during a particularly moving event at last distinguished philanthropic organizations. The Herb Alpert Foundation year’s festival. During this concert, Drummer/percussionist Alex Cline and mediaThe Foundation continued their annual support, and this offered up a tribute to legendary composer/woodwind player Roscoe year there were new grants from Chamber Music America, the Doris Mitchell as prelude to a performance by Mitchell’s trio. This tribute Duke Foundation, The Shifting Foundation and the Los Angeles County was a personal re-imagining of Mitchell’s landmark composition Arts Commission. Everyone associated with Angel City is grateful to all “People in Sorrow” with an all-star large ensemble. The feelings these organizations, and to our talented grant writer Heidi Lesemann that arose from one artist honoring another on the same stage were for opening many of these doors for us. We would also like to thank very special, and allowed the listener to view both artists in a very our many individual donors without whom the festival would not exist. different light. This is the kind of tribute that could only happen in an We hope that you enjoy the 2012 Angel City Jazz Festival, and that aural tradition like jazz, where so much value is placed on mentorship, this discussion about Artists & Legends will serve to illuminate your musical lineage and respect. listening experience. The lineup for the 2012 festival theme of Artists & Legends provides Please go to www.angelcityarts.org many opportunities to explore musical lineage. Just as saxophonist Archie Shepp cut his teeth with Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane in –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– the ‘60s, a line can be drawn from Shepp to Monk Institute award- winning trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, who often tours Europe with Basic Membership: $50 Shepp. And as cornetist Bobby Bradford performed and recorded - Tax deduction - ACJF T-Shirt with Ornette Coleman in the ‘60s and ‘70s, a line can be traced from Bradford to bassist Mark Dresser, who began playing in bands with Patron Membership $100 Bradford in the early ‘70s. Other artist and legend pairings include All of the above plus: pianists Myra Melford and Marilyn Crispell - two of the most inspiring - 20% discounts on all Angel City Arts presentations women in jazz - and guitarist/composer Bill Frisell and filmmaker - 2 CD, 1 DVD gift from Cryptogramophone Bill Morrison, whose film The Great Flood honors the legendary blues musicians of the Mississippi Delta. Vijay Iyer, the #1 pianist VIP Membership: $250 in the 2012 Down Beat Critics Poll, was influenced by innovative All of the above plus: saxophonist Steve Coleman, whose avant-funk-influenced M-Base - Preferred seating and backstage access at all Angel City Jazz Festival events techniques revolutionized jazz. Peter Erskine, who has played drums - Insider’s club access - including advance notice of events with everyone from Stan Kenton to Weather Report, performs with his nephew, bassist Damian Erskine, and rising-star pianist Vardan Benefactor: $500 & up Ovsepian. Pairing the local legend Phil Ranelin with the winners of All of the above plus: Angel City’s Young Artists Competition is a tribute to Ranelin’s ability - Acknowledgement on ACA & ACJF websites and festival program to connect with younger audiences and musicians, and the trio of - 15 tickets to the Angel City Jazz Festival Anthony Wilson, Larry Goldings and the legendary Jim Keltner spans - Invitation to exclusive “meet & greet” events with Festival artists two generations and many musical genres. The symposium “Honoring and Breaking With Lineage” specifically addresses the festival’s focus through discussions with some of LA’s local artists and legends. -Rocco Somazzi, Jeff Gauthier & Ruth Price, Festival Producers angelcityjazz.com WINNERS OF THE 2012 YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION THE ANTHONY LUCCA QUINTET Friday, October 5th, 2012 @LACMA 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 6:00pm Free Concert The Anthony Lucca Quintet Anthony Lucca piano Rob Sheppard tenor sax Daniel Fox trumpet Aneesa Al-Musawwir bass Ryan McDiarmid drums PHIL RANELIN SEXTET Anthony Lucca is a Los Angeles-based pianist and composer. He has performed at various festivals on 7:00pm Free Concert the West Coast such as the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival and the Long Beach Jazz Phil Ranelin Sextet Festival. In addition to jazz performance, Lucca also composes and directs musical theater. He is currently Phil Ranelin trombone a sophomore studying with Alan Pasqua at USC’s Thornton School of Music. The Anthony Lucca Quintet Mahesh Balasooriya piano is comprised of some of the University of Southern California’s finest jazz musicians. Pablo Calogero reeds Rob Sheppard is a 19-year-old saxophonist from Pleasanton, California., currently earning his Bachelor Randal Fisher tenor sax of Music degree. Sheppard has performed with Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Joshua Redman, Terence Trevor Ware bass Blanchard, Donny McCaslin, Benny Green and Taylor Eigsti, among many others. He has performed at Don Littleton drums the Monterey Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, and numerous other jazz festivals and clubs Andrew Acosta percussion in the U.S. and overseas. When Phil Ranelin packed his trombone and headed to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he figured he Los Angeles-based drummer and percussionist Ryan McDiarmid is a native of Lake Elsinore, California. had a pretty good setup. He’d been doing a lot of sessions and live dates for Motown Records artists At age 10, he taught himself to play by reading books and playing along to recordings. As a junior, he such as the Four Tops and Stevie Wonder in Detroit, and when the label moved west, he followed. became the only high school student to win a gold medal on snare drum at the Southern California Percussion Alliance Championships in Long Beach. McDiarmid was a valedictorian at Lakeside High Times were changing, though -- horn sections were giving way to synthesizers, and a slicker brand of School, and received many awards for academic excellence. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor of urban pop was replacing the earthy soul music of the previous generation. Work was sparse. Music degree, studying under the direction of professors Peter Erskine and Aaron Serfaty. Ranelin stayed in Los Angeles, however. He discovered a South L.A. community that reminded him Daniel Fox is a 19-year-old trumpet player from Boise, Idaho. Despite living in the remote mountainous of the radical collectives of Detroit, where he had co-founded the independent Tribe Records. He west, Daniel has been nationally recognized by Down Beat magazine and has performed alongside other hooked up with community beacon Horace Tapscott, playing in the pianist’s tempestuous ensembles. outstanding musicians at jazz festivals both national and international. He became a member of the great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s band, which scored a Japanese No. 1 record in 1981. He played dates with everyone from Freddie Redd and Marcus Belgrave to Teddy Aneesa Al-Musawwir was born and raised in Oakland, California. She began playing upright bass at Edwards and Art Pepper. He has recorded several albums as a leader. age12. Just eight months after she began playing, she was admitted to the prestigious Young Musicians Program at UC Berkeley, where she has studied under Ndugu Chancler, Wycliffe Gordon, Esperanza In the 2000s, Ranelin participated in Build an Ark, a large group revolving around a core of Tapscott Spalding, Joshua Redman and many others. She went on to join other musical organizations in the Bay stalwarts including singer Dwight Trible and percussionist Derf Reklaw. With the inclusion of many Area such as the Oakland Youth Orchestra, and S.F. Jazz High School All-Stars. Al-Musawwir is currently younger musicians from hip-hop and turntable cultures, Build an Ark helped perpetuate a jazz lineage pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree, and has worked with and received accolades from Bennie whose threads were stretching thin. His exciting sextet here includes the young saxophonist Randal Maupin, Jaz Sawyer, Ari Hoenig and many other amazing musicians. Fisher, who has been performing alongside scene veterans since he was a teenager. angelcityjazz.com SYMPOSIUM Part of the Herb Alpert Creative Music Series at REDCAT ANTHONY WILSON, LARRY GOLDINGS & JIM KELTNER Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @REDCAT 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 8:30pm 7:30pm Tickets: $25 General Admission Symposium: “Honoring and Breaking with Lineage” Anthony Wilson, Larry Goldings & Jim Keltner Greg Burk moderator Anthony Wilson guitar Ruth Price panelist ANTHONYLarry Goldings pianoWILSON, Bobby Bradford panelist Jim Keltner drums Steve Isoardi panelist LARRYAnthony Wilson, GOLDINGS Larry Goldings and Jim Keltner & approach JIM the familiar KELTNER guitar-organ-drums trio Ambrose Akinmusire panelist format with a new spirit of play and possibility.