4-3 NEA JAZZ.qxp_WPAS 3/24/17 8:41 AM Page 1 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN, Chairman DEBoRAh F. RUTTER, President CONCERT HALL Monday Evening, April 3, 2017 at 7:30 The Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts present The 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert Honoring the 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER IRA GITLER DAVE HOLLAND DICK HYMAN DR. LONNIE SMITH Jason Moran is the Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz. This performance will be livestreamed online, and will be broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. WPFW 89.3 FM is a media partner of Kennedy Center Jazz. Patrons are requested to turn off cell phones and other electronic devices during performances. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in this auditorium. 4-3 NEA JAZZ.qxp_WPAS 3/24/17 8:41 AM Page 2 THE 2017 NEA JAZZ MASTERS TRIBUTE CONCERT Hosted by JASON MORAN, Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz With remarks from JANE CHU, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts DEBORAH F. RUTTER, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts KENNY BARRON, NEA Jazz Master DAN MORGENSTERN, NEA Jazz Master GARY GIDDINS, jazz and film critic JESSYE NORMAN, Kennedy Center Honoree and recipient, National Medal of Arts The 2017 NEA JAzz MASTERS Performances by PAQUITO D’RIVERA, saxophone LEE KONITz, alto saxophone Special Guests Bill Charlap, piano Sherrie Maricle and the Theo Croker, trumpet DIVA Jazz Orchestra Aaron Diehl, piano Sherrie Maricle, leader and drummer Robin Eubanks, trombone Tomoko Ohno, piano James Genus, bass Noriko Ueda, bass Donald Harrison, saxophone Jennifer Krupa , lead trombonist Booker T. Jones, Hammond B-3 Leslie Havens, bass trombone Peter Martin, piano Sara Jacovino, trombone Jason Moran, piano Tanya Darby, lead trumpet Jami Dauber, trumpet Mike Moreno, guitar Alexandra Mae Signor, trumpet China Moses, vocals Rachel Therrien, trumpeter Steve Nelson, vibraphone Alexa Tarantino, lead alto saxophone Kassa Overall, drums Roxy Coss, tenor saxophone Chris Potter, saxophone Leigh Pilzer, baritone saxophone Dianne Reeves, vocals Janelle Reichman, tenor saxophone Nate Smith, drums Audrey Welber, alto saxophone Dan Tepfer, piano Matthew Whitaker, Hammond B-3 4-3 NEA JAZZ.qxp_WPAS 3/24/17 8:41 AM Page 3 NEA JAZZ MASTERS 1982–2017 Muhal Richard Abrams Dexter Gordon Marian McPartland Jamey Aebersold Lorraine Gordon Carmen McRae Toshiko Akiyoshi Charlie Haden Jay McShann Mose Allison Jim Hall James Moody George Avakian Chico Hamilton Dan Morgenstern David Baker Lionel Hampton Anita O’Day Danny Barker Slide Hampton Jimmy Owens Ray Barretto Herbie Hancock Wendy Oxenhorn Kenny Barron Barry Harris Eddie Palmieri Count Basie Roy Haynes Sun Ra Louie Bellson Jimmy Heath Max Roach Tony Bennett Percy Heath Sonny Rollins George Benson Joe Henderson Annie Ross Art Blakey Luther Henderson George Russell Carla Bley Jon Hendricks Pharoah Sanders Anthony Braxton Nat Hentoff Gunther Schuller Dee Dee Bridgewater Billy Higgins Jimmy Scott Bob Brookmeyer Andrew Hill Joe Segal Cleo Brown Milt Hinton Artie Shaw Ray Brown Dave Holland Archie Shepp Dave Brubeck Bill Holman Wayne Shorter Kenny Burrell Shirley Horn Horace Silver Gary Burton Freddie Hubbard Jimmy Smith Donald Byrd Bobby Hutcherson Dr. Lonnie Smith Candido Camero Dick Hyman Billy Taylor Benny Carter Milt Jackson Cecil Taylor Betty Carter Ahmad Jamal Clark Terry Ron Carter Keith Jarrett Toots Thielemans Kenneth Clarke J.J. Johnson McCoy Tyner Buck Clayton Elvin Jones Rudy Van Gelder Jimmy Cobb Hank Jones Sarah Vaughan George Coleman Jonathan “Jo” Jones Cedar Walton Ornette Coleman Quincy Jones George Wein Chick Corea Sheila Jordan Frank Wess Miles Davis Orrin Keepnews Randy Weston Richard Davis Andy Kirk Joe Wilder Buddy DeFranco Lee Konitz Joe Williams Jack DeJohnette Hubert Laws Gerald Wilson Lou Donaldson Yusef Lateef Nancy Wilson Dorothy Donegan John Levy Teddy Wilson Paquito D’Rivera John Lewis Phil Woods Harry “Sweets” Edison Ramsey Lewis Snooky Young Roy Eldridge David Liebman Gil Evans Abbey Lincoln Art Farmer Melba Liston Ella Fitzgerald Charles Lloyd Tommy Flanagan Johnny Mandel Frank Foster The Marsalis Family Von Freeman (Ellis Jr., Wynton, Curtis Fuller Delfeayo, Jason, Dizzy Gillespie Branford) Ira Gitler Tom McIntosh Benny Golson Jackie McLean 4-3 NEA JAZZ.qxp_WPAS 3/24/17 8:41 AM Page 4 MEET ThE 2017 JAZZ MASTERS Dee Dee Bridgewater is as Sally Bowles) while concurrently perform - a daring performer of ing and recording her jazz material. great depth whose O singing talents have The vocalist has created a diverse collection N I H earned her three Grammy of recordings, including tribute albums to S A G Awards as well as a Tony Horace Silver, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, I H Award. In addition, her and Kurt Weill; an album of French love K R A commanding personality songs, J’ai Deux Amours , spurred by a M made her a natural for Kennedy Center Valentine’s Day concert; hosting the award-winning National Public and an album born out of Bridgewater’s Radio syndicated radio show JazzSet with search for her African ancestry, Red Earth , Dee Dee Bridgewater from 2001 to 2014. recorded in Bamako, Mali, and featuring Malian, U.S., and European musicians. Bridgewater was born Denise Eileen Garrett Bridgewater has produced all her own in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Flint, recordings since 1993 and has had her own Michigan, in a music-filled home. Her moth - label, DDB Records, since 2006. er introduced her to Ella Fitzgerald’s music, which became an inspiration to Bridgewater Bridgewater serves on the Thelonious throughout her career, and her father was a Monk Institute of Jazz’s Advisory Board jazz trumpeter who taught music at where she has judged several jazz vocals Memphis’s famed Manassas High School. competitions. She also co-leads UNESCO While attending the University of Illinois, she (the United Nations Educational, Scientific joined the University of Illinois jazz band for a and Cultural Organization) and U.S. U.S. State Department tour of the Soviet Department of State sponsored tours to Union in 1969. In 1970, she wed her first Russia, India, China, and France, and husband, trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater. They since 1999 she has been a United Nations moved to New York City where she found Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture her first professional gig with the Thad Organization. Bridgewater continues to Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra as lead tour nationally and internationally. vocalist. Bridgewater’s career then took off L L and she soon performed and recorded with I Ira Gitler is an American G - some of the giants of the music: Dizzy N jazz historian, journalist, I L Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach, H educator, and author who G Sonny Rollins, and Clark Terry. In 1974, she U has written several books A L recorded her first album as a leader, Afro C about jazz and hundreds M Blue . S of liner notes for jazz E C recordings. He has also N A Bridgewater was also drawn to musical the - R written for many jazz pub - F ater. Her portrayal of Glinda the Good Witch lications, and served as in the Broadway musical The Wiz garnered associate editor of DownBeat during the her a Tony Award in 1975. When the interna - 1960s. In the 1980s and ‘90s he produced tional touring company of Sophisticated concerts for George Wein’s New York jazz fes - Ladies (in which she was the female lead tivals. Gitler also taught jazz history at several performer) ended in Paris, France, colleges and is considered one of the great Bridgewater decided to stay. During her time historians and champions of the music. in Paris from 1986 to 2007, she starred in Stephen Stahl’s musical Lady Day in Paris From age seven, Gitler immersed himself in and London (for which she earned a the music of the swing bands of the 1930s Lawrence Olivier Award nomination), and and early 1940s. In the mid-1940s, Dizzy continued to perform in musicals such as Gillespie and Charlie Parker’s new bebop Black Ballad (with Archie Shepp) and innovations brought an epiphany. His profes - Cabaret (being the first black actress to star sional writing career began in 1951, when he 4-3 NEA JAZZ.qxp_WPAS 3/24/17 8:41 AM Page 5 MEET ThE 2017 JAZZ MASTERS was asked to write Prestige Records’ first liner Dave Holland is one of notes for a 10-inch LP of Zoot Sims Swings the most versatile bassists the Blues . His duties at Prestige in the early in jazz, working across dif - 1950s included producing recording sessions ferent styles seamlessly, with musicians such as Miles Davis, R from traditional to avant- E Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins. In his B garde jazz to world and U R 1958 liner notes for Soultrane , he coined the G folk music. He is also an I L term “sheets of sound,” likening John L accomplished composer Coltrane’s emerging style to undulating fabric. U and bandleader, bringing together musicians of exceptional talent to In 1954, Gitler began assisting leading jazz perform his intricate compositions. In a career authority Leonard Feather in preparing The spanning five decades, he has continued to Encyclopedia of Jazz , one of the first great jazz evolve musically with each new project while reference books. He became co-author start - honing his instantly identifiable sound. ing with the 1970s edition, and completed The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz in Mostly self-taught, Holland picked up the 1999 after Feather’s death in 1994. ukulele at the age of four, switched to guitar at 10, and then bass guitar at 13. He left school at Gitler’s own first book was Jazz Masters of age 15 to work as a professional musician and the Forties (reissued as The Masters of began playing acoustic bass when he was 17.