Cal Performances Presents About the Artists Saturday, January , , pm Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profi t arts Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Zellerbach Hall organization dedicated to jazz. With the world- Festival, the Jazz for Young People Curriculum, renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra educational residencies, workshops and concerts with Wynton Marsalis (formerly known as the for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra), the Afro-Latin Center educational programs reaches over , Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O’Farrill and a com- students, teachers and general audience members. prehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center weekly radio se- with Wynton Marsalis Center advances a unique vision for the continued ries, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, is distributed by development of the art of jazz by producing a year- the WFMT Radio Networks. Winner of a round schedule of performance, education and Peabody Award, Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio broadcast events for audiences of all ages. Th ese is produced in conjunction with Murray Street productions include concerts, national and inter- Enterprise, New York. national tours, residencies, weekly national radio Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the and television programs, recordings, publications, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a an annual high school jazz band competition and third of the year on tour. Th e big band performs festival, a band director academy, a jazz apprecia- a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions tion curriculum for children, advanced training to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, in- through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, cluding compositions and arrangements by Duke music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, adult education courses and student and educa- Th elonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Billy tor workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Charles Mingus, Sy Oliver, Oliver Nelson and Board Lisa Schiff , Executive Director Katherine E. many others. Guest conductors have included Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff , Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Ellington Love Songs events during its – season. In October Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald , Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Wilson and Loren Schoenberg. Rose Hall—the fi rst-ever performance, education Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly premieres Wynton Marsalis music director, trumpet and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. works commissioned from a variety of compos- Sean Jones trumpet Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, com- ers, including Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Ryan Kisor trumpet posed of of today’s fi nest jazz soloists and en- Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Printup trumpet semble players, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, Chico O’Farrill, Freddie Vincent R. Gardner trombone resident orchestra for over years. Featured in all Hubbard, Charles McPherson, Marcus Roberts, Chris Crenshaw trombone aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, Geri Allen, Eric Reed, Wallace Roney and Sherman Irby saxophones the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Christian McBride, as well as from current and Ted Nash alto & soprano saxophones, clarinet Orchestra performs and leads educational events in former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Walter Blanding tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet New York, across the United States and around the Wynton Marsalis, Wycliff e Gordon, Ted Nash Victor Goines tenor & soprano saxophones, B-fl at & bass clarinets world; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and Ron Westray. Over the last few years, the Joe Temperley baritone & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet public parks, river boats and churches; and with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed Dan Nimmer piano symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students collaborations with many of the world’s leading Carlos Henriquez bass and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. symphony orchestras, including the New York Ali Jackson drums Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, Center’s mission and its educational activities the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston, are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras, the Program to be announced from the stage. Center Orchestra tour programming. Th ese pro- Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil grams, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center and others. In , the Jazz at Lincoln Center Cal Performances’ – season is sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank. Orchestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Orchestra collaborated with Ghanaian drum col- Young People family concert series, the Essentially lective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, to perform Brooks Brothers is the offi cial clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. 14 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 15 About the Artists About the Artists Congo Square, a composition Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Train (), Sweet Release & Ghost Story (), on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at State Department through their CultureConnect Addy co-wrote and dedicated to Mr. Marsalis’s Live in Swing City (), Jump Start and Jazz Lincoln Center. In , he released eight new re- program. Mr. Marsalis serves on Lieutenant native New Orleans. Th e Jazz at Lincoln Center (), Blood on the Fields (), Th ey Came to cordings in his unprecedented “Swinging into the Governor Landrieu’s National Advisory Board for Orchestra has also been featured in several educa- Swing (), Th e Fire of the Fundamentals () st” series and premiered several new composi- Culture, Recreation and Tourism, a national advi- tion and performance residencies in the last few and Portraits by Ellington (). tions, including the ballet Th em Twos, for a June sory board to guide the Lieutenant Governor’s ad- years, including those in Vienne, France; Perugia, For more information on Jazz at Lincoln collaboration with the New York City Ballet. ministration’s plans to rebuild Louisiana’s tourism Italy; Prague, Czech Republic; London, England; Center, please visit www. jalc.org. Th at same year he premiered the monumental and cultural economies. He has also been named Lucerne, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, work All Rise, commissioned and performed by to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, New Brazil; Yokohama, Japan and others. the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economi- programs have helped broaden the awareness of University Choir in December . Sony Classical cally and uniquely for every citizen. He helped lead its unique eff orts in the music. Concerts by the released All Rise on CD October , . Recorded the eff ort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have aired in the on September and , , in Los Angeles in home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the fi rst educa- United States, England, France, Spain, Germany, those tense days following /, All Rise features tion, performance and broadcast facility devoted the Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, Brazil, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra along with to jazz, which opened in October . Argentina, Australia, China, Japan, Korea and the the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Morgan State Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared University Choir, the Paul Smith Singers and the Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano saxophones, on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and Northridge Singers. On March , , he released clarinet) was born August , , in Cleveland, seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, car- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary on Blue Ohio to a musical family and began playing the ried by PBS stations nationwide; most recently Note Records, the follow-up CD to his Blue Note saxophone at age six. In , he moved with his on October , , during the grand opening Records releases Th e Magic Hour and Unforgivable family to New York City and, by age , he was of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Blackness: Th e Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the com- performing regularly with his parents at the Village Rose Hall and on September , , during Jazz panion soundtrack recording to Ken Burns’s PBS Gate. Mr. Blanding attended LaGuardia High at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefi t Concert, documentary of the great African-American boxer, School for the Performing Arts (which inspired the which raised funds for the Higher Ground Relief and Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes. TV series, Fame) and continued his studies at the Fund that was established by Jazz at Lincoln Mr. Marsalis is also an internationally respected New School for Social Research, receiving his BFA Center and administered through the Baton teacher and spokesman for music education and in May, . His debut release, Tough Young Rouge Area Foundation to benefi t the musicians, Major Keith has received honorary doctorates from dozens of Tenors, was acclaimed as one of the best jazz al- music industry related enterprises and other indi- Wynton Marsalis (music director, trumpet) is the universities and colleges throughout the United bums of the year, and his artistry began to impress viduals and entities from the areas in Greater New Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born States. He conducts educational programs for listeners and critics alike. Since that time, in addi- Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana in , Mr. Marsalis students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for tion to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, he has and to provide other general hurricane relief.