ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Performing Arts Division We appreciate the valuable contribution that the following private teachers make to New Trier High School: Julian Arron, Susan Arron, Jared Bulmer, Bonnie of Campbell, Marques Carroll, Tamaron Conseur, Bruce Daugherty, Ann Dufek, Mary Ann Grannemann, Wendy Hoffhines, Steve Horne, John Jaffe, Michael Maganuco, New Trier High School Beth Mazur-Johnson, Rob McNeill, Dan Nicholson, Stephen Reinfranck, Martez Rucker, Mike Sassetti, John Shaffer, Guyneth Sharp, Bret Sher, Jeff Siegfried, presents and Amy Yassinger. Special thanks to Bruce Daugherty, Bret Sher, Dan Leali, and Peter Benson for assistance in the instrumental music program.

The Performing Arts Division wishes to thank Technical Directors Richard Penrod, David Ferguson, Denise Karczewski, Andrew Clark, and the student production crew, who make every production possible.

We also appreciate SOUNDTRAKS, New Trier’s student recording club, for video and audio taping all Music Department concerts. Nic Meyer, Tim Estberg, and David Ladd, sponsors. Many thanks to the following people for their invaluable assistance: Sarah “Turn Out The Stars” Kropski (program layout); New Trier Physical Plant Services Staff, John Ackermann (manager); New Trier News, Carlo Trovato (sponsor); Niki Dizon (Communications); Pioneer Press; Anne James-Noonan (Coordinator of featuring Performing Arts); Anna Jones, concert wear coordinator; and to the New Trier Fine Arts Association (Wendi Williams, President), and its donors, for their generosity and support throughout the year. the Martin Wind Quartet

Visit the New Trier High School Performing Arts website for information regarding the radio, internet, and television broadcasts of events. Many concerts and other performing arts events are broadcast on the internet at www.ntjazz.com and on New Trier Television (NTTV), which is shown on Cable Channel 18 in Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth and on Channel 16 in Wilmette and Northfield as well Friday, November 21, 2014 ~ 7:30 p.m. as on AT&T U-Verse in other areas. Many concerts are broadcast live on WNTH Radio (88.1).Times, dates, and venues are subject to change. Please check the Gaffney Auditorium Calendar tab at newtrier.k12.il.us for the most up-to-date information. Winnetka, Illinois ______

We thank you for joining us, and remind you of your responsibilities as the final ingredient necessary for the success of tonight’s performance.

PLEASE celebrate the creative achievements of all performers through appropriate means without calling individuals’ names or by exhibiting boisterous behavior.

PLEASE do not disrupt the performance or disturb other audience members by moving about, leaving early, or entering late.

PLEASE turn off watch alarms, cell phones, and beepers; at no time are cameras, audio or video recording devices permitted in the theatre. Tonight’s concert is being broadcast live on ntjazz.com, NTTV, and WNTH 88.1 Concert Program The 32nd Annual Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival at New Trier High School will take place on Saturday, February featuring the Martin Wind Quartet 7th, 2015 and will feature The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band with tenor saxophone legend Jimmy Heath! Jazz Ensemble 1 Tickets for this incredible concert are on sale tonight in the Nic Meyer, director lobby, and can also be purchased online at www.ntjazz.com

Cute Neal Hefti Become a Jazz Festival Sponsor or Supporter The Mooche Duke Ellington and Irving Mills For a donation of $250 you will receive 4 prime tickets to the evening concert and will be listed in our program as a Ah, That’s Freedom Hank Jones, arr. Thad Jones Jazz Festival Sponsor. Sponsors may purchase additional tickets, as well. Jazz Festival Supporters are those who The Cruise Blues Martin Wind support our festival with a donation of less than $250. For Get It? Martin Wind more information and a sponsor/supporter form, go to www.ntjazz.com/festival

Chamber Orchestra Volunteer for the Peter Rosheger, director Jazz Festival Bruce Daugherty, assistant director The enormous scope of our festival requires

Turn Out The Stars Bill Evans, arr. Martin Wind over 100 parent volunteers working My Foolish Heart Victor Young, arr. Martin Wind prior to the festival as well as the day The Days of Wine and Roses (Quartet) Henry Mancini of. Please sign up to Jeremy Scott Robinson help by filling out our parent volunteer form Memories of Scotty Don Freidman, arr. Martin Wind at www.ntjazz.com/ festival. Thank you Blue in Green Bill Evans, arr. Martin Wind for your support! Bill wrote the score for the film “On the Shoulders of Giants,” Kareem Abdul- Jabbar’s homage to the Harlem Rens basketball team of the 1920s and ’30s. The Chamber Orchestra Jazz Ensemble 1 movie recently received an NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary. Bill’s soundtrack was nominated for Best Album. He recently completed scoring a film noir by Singaporean director Ying J. Tan and is producing a jazz album for singer VIOLIN CLARINET ALTO SAX Freda Payne. Emelia Suljic + Sterling Ruemmler Trip Werd # Concertmaster Liah Watt * + David Weller #& Bill was awarded a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement for “West Side Daniel Chen Story Medley,” on the album “Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson” Associate BASSOON TENOR SAX (Resonance Records, 2009). In addition to receiving five Grammy nominations, he Concertmaster Hunter Chang * Guerin Holtermann # is a two-time Emmy nominee. Dennis Anastos Carlyn Chrabaszcz Justin Dunn The Los Angeles Jazz Society honored Bill in 2010 with its Composer/Arranger Daniel Bergelson * Maddy Tung + Award. That year he was also named a Distinguished Faculty Member of the Paul Brandfonbrener BARI SAX College of the Arts at Cal State Fullerton, where he is a jazz studies professor. Emily Chen ** + FRENCH HORN Billy Brady He also teaches at the Skidmore Jazz Institute and the Vail Jazz Workshop. Bill Sophie Coppieters Todd Anastos currently plays with his trio; his big band; his Latin band, Imaginación; and his Leah Levitin Anastasia Maragos * TRUMPET classical-jazz ensemble, Trimotif. Sam Lim Camille Morhun Christian Barzallo Emmy Shelton Kathryn Berkey & For more information, please visit www.billcunliffe.com Joey Suizzo TRUMPET Emiel De Jaegher #& Samantha Yang Emiel De Jaegher + Jacob Mehlman # Joe La Barbera, Drums Jacob Mehlman * + VIOLA TROMBONE Joe La Barbera has enjoyed a long and varied career in music, Isabel Frye * + TROMBONE Brendan Gloyd a career that has taken him all over the world with some of the Solena Rizzato ** Nick Mirasol Nick Mirasol finest names in jazz. He is regarded by his peers as a musical Kathryne Tao Jas Schuldt drummer and a supportive accompanist. In 1978 Joe was Oliver Tsang + PERCUSSION Fisher Katlin – bass & asked to join Bill Evans in what was to become a landmark Matthew Wronski Kurt Findling * + trio. Along with bassist Marc Johnson, the trio grew over a Declan O’Reilly GUITAR two-year period to become one of Evans’ finest. After Bill’s CELLO Jonathan Anastos untimely death in 1980, Joe joined pop singer Tony Bennett. Alexandra Kim * + HARP Will Finnegan Currently residing in Los Angeles, Joe is involved in a wide Angela Lee ** + Michael Maganuco Karl Lungmus range of music locally, nationally and internationally. On the local scene he is Carissa Yang busy with his own quintet as well as sideman duties with many well-known jazz Students Listed PIANO artists. Recent dates in North America include performances with Bill Mays, Eddie BASS Alphabetically Charlie Clark Daniels, Randy Brecker and brother Pat La Barbera. Marek Buckman * + * Principal Peter Schulz # Adam Clemmitt ** Associate Principal Jian Li During the last few years, Joe has toured Europe with Kenny Wheeler, Bassline + ILMEA (with Hein Van De Geyn and John Abercrombie) and the WDR Big Band. Most FLUTE BASS recently, he toured Japan with Lee Konitz, Europe with The West Coast All Stars Haley Hultquist * Marek Buckman #& and with Karrin Allyson, and South America with Bud Shank. Charlotte Office Joe Faught In 1999 along with Tom Warrington, Larry Koonse and Clay Jenkins, Joe created OBOE DRUMS JazzCompass, an independent recording company dedicated to the kind of Katie Shia Kurt Findling # creative music that has always been close to his heart. Joe has two releases on Alex Yenkin * + Sean O’Reilly # JazzCompass, ìLiveî(JC1004) and ìMark Timeî(JC1437) which was selected one Adam Wrobel # of the top 10 2003 releases in Dr. Herb Wongís Blue Chip Jazz CD Awards. He is also heard on other JazzCompass projects including brother John La Barberaís # - ILMEA District 7 Jazz exciting new big band recording, ìOn The Wild Sideî(JC1007). & - ILMEA Concert Martin Wind, Bass Scott Robinson, Tenor Sax Bassist and composer Martin Wind was born Scott Robinson is an American jazz musician best known in Flensburg, Germany in 1968 and moved for his work with various styles of saxophone, but has also to New York in 1996 to study at New York performed with the clarinet, flute, and sarrusophone, along University (NYU) with a scholarship by the with other, more obscure instruments. German Academic Exchange Service. Robinson has appeared on more than 200 LP and CD In 1995 he earned himself a diploma as releases, including eleven under his leadership, with Orchestra Musician at the Music Conservatory musicians such as Lionel Hampton, Anthony Braxton, John in Cologne, Germany while studying with Scofield, Joe Lovano, Ella Fitzgerald, Paquito D’Rivera, Prof. Wolfgang Guettler, former bassist with Sting, Maria Schneider, Elton John, Buck Clayton, and the New York City Opera. the Berlin Philharmonics. In 1998 he earned Two of these recordings won a Grammy Award.[3] He has also received four his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Composition studying with Mike Richmond, Jim McNeely, Tom Boras, Mike Holober and In 2000, the U.S. State Department named Robinson a “Jazz Ambassador” for the Kenny Werner. year 2001, funding a tour of West Africa in which Robinson played the early works of Louis Armstrong. Material from these appearances was subsequently released Since his move to New York Martin has become on the album Jazz Ambassador: Scott Robinson Plays the Compositions of Louis a regular at all major jazz clubs and is also in Armstrong by Arbors Records. demand as a session player; his credits include movies such as “The Alamo”, “Intolerable Cruelty”, “ Mona Lisa Smiles”, “Fur”, “True Grit” and “The Adventures Throughout his career, Robinson has worked to keep unusual and obscure of Walter Mitty”. instruments in the public view. For example, he has recorded an album featuring the C-melody saxophone and performs with the ophicleide. He also owns and In 1995 Martin came in third at the International Thelonious Monk Bass Competition records with a vintage contrabass saxophone, so rare that fewer than twenty in in Washington, D.C. In 1996 Martin Wind won the first Cognac Hennessy/Blue playable condition are known to exist. Note Jazz Search in Germany with his trio “Dreikland” and got to record an album for Blue Note Records. In 2000 he was the first Jazz musician to win the Cultural Bill Cunliffe, Piano Award of his home state Schleswig-Holstein. Jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award-winning Martin was commissioned to write music for the American Place Theatre arranger Bill Cunliffe is known for his innovative and swinging productions of Tim O’Brien’s “The things they carried” (2005) and Jeanette Walls’ recordings and compositions. Bill began his career as pianist “The Glass Castle” (2007). One of his arrangements appeared on the 2014 movie and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band and worked with “Love is Strange” featuring John Lithgow and Tony Molina. Frank Sinatra, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and James Moody. He has since established himself In 2014 Martin released the album “Turn out the Stars – music written or inspired as a solo artist and bandleader, with more than a dozen albums under his name. by Bill Evans” on his newly founded “What if Music” Record Label. The recording features Martin’s current Quartet consisting of Scott Robinson (tenor sax), Bill His latest recording is the Bill Cunliffe Trio album “River Edge, New Jersey,” with Cunliffe (piano) and Joe La Barbera (drums), as well as the Italian “Orchestra bassist Martin Wind and drummer Tim Horner, released in April by Azica Records. Filarmonica Marchigiana” – Paquito D’Rivera called the album “disgustingly Other recent releases include his Overture, Waltz and Rondo for jazz piano, trumpet beautiful!” and orchestra (BCM+D Records, 2012). Bill performed the work with trumpeter Terell Stafford and the Temple University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Luis Currently Martin is a member of the trios of Bill Mays, Dena DeRose, Bill Cunliffe, Biava. The recording won Bill his fifth Grammy nomination, in the Best Instrumental Ann Hampton Callaway, Ted Rosenthal, as well as of Matt Wilson’s Quartet “Arts Composition category. and Crafts”. Since 2013 he has also been touring with Belgian guitarist and jazz legend Philip Catherine, playing material from their duo album “New Folks” (ACT Also released in 2012 was his Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, with tubist Jim Records). Self and the Hollywood Ensemble, with Bill conducting (Metre Records, 2012). Bill’s album of solo improvisations on Christmas carols, “That Time of Year” (Metre Martin Wind is on the faculty at New York University and Hofstra University; he has Records, 2011), was described as a “tour de force ” in the Los Angeles Times. taught at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra Germany and the Centrum, Stanford and Litchfield Jazz Camps among others.