Friday, September 18, 2015, 8pm Zellerbach Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis t r a w e t S k n a r F Tonight’s program will be announced from the stage. Jazz at Cal Performances is sponsored by Nadine Tang and Bruce Smith. This performance is made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Joseph and Sherry Felson, and Deborah and Bob Van Nest. Cal Performances’ $"#%–$"#& season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. ORCHESTRA ROSTER Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis Music Director, trumpet Ryan Kisor trumpet Kenny Rampton trumpet Marcus Printup trumpet Vincent Gardner trombone Chris Crenshaw trombone Elliot Mason trombone Sherman Irby alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Ted Nash alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Victor Goines tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet Walter Blanding tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Joe Temperley* baritone saxophone Carlos Henriquez bass Dan Nimmer piano Ali Jackson drums * Joe Temperley does not appear on this tour. Paul Nedzela performs in his place. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. For more information, visit jazz.org . Become a fan on Facebook: facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter . Follow the JLCO on Twitter: twitter.com/jazzdotorg . Watch the orchestra on YouTube: youtube.com/jazzatlincolncenter . PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS HE MISSION of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music, and Tentertain, enrich, and expand a global WBGO have partnered to create the next gen - community for jazz through performance, ed - eration of jazz programming in public radio: ucation, and advocacy. Jazz Night in America . The series showcases With the world‐renowned Jazz at Lincoln today’s vital jazz scene while also underscor - Center Orchestra (JLCO) and guest artists ing the genre’s storied history. Hosted by spanning genres and generations, Jazz at bassist Christian McBride, the program fea - Lincoln Center produces thousands of per - tures hand‐picked performances from across formance, education, and broadcast events the country, woven into the colorful stories of each season in its home in New York City the artists behind them. Jazz Night in America (Frederick P. Rose Hall, “The House of Swing”) and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s radio archive can and around the world, for people of all ages. be found at jazz.org/radio. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Chairman The JLCO spends over a third of the year Robert J. Appel, Managing and Artistic on tour. The big band performs a vast reper - Director Wynton Marsalis, and Executive toire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz Director Greg Scholl. at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, in - The JLCO, comprising 15 of the finest jazz cluding compositions and arrangements by soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Chick orchestra performs and leads educational events Corea, Oliver Nelson, and many others. Guest in New York, across the United States and conductors have included Benny Carter, John around the globe, in concert halls, dance venues, Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray jazz clubs, public parks, and with symphony or - Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert chestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson, and ever‐expanding roster of guest artists. Under Loren Schoenberg. Mr. Marsalis, its Music Director, the JLCO Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly pre - performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic mières works commissioned from a variety of compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center‐ composers including Benny Carter, Joe commissioned works, including compositions Henderson, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Wayne Shorter, Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, Chico Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, O’Farrill, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny McPherson, Marcus Roberts, Geri Allen, Eric Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. Reed, Wallace Roney, and Christian McBride, Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln as well as from current and former JLCO Center’s mission; its educational activities are members Mr. Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted coordinated with concert and JLCO tour pro - Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris gramming. These programs, many of which Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez. feature JLCO members, include the celebrated Over the last few years, the JLCO has per - Jazz for Young People family concert series, the formed collaborations with many of the world’s “Essentially Ellington” High School Jazz Band leading symphony orchestras, including the New Competition and Festival, the Jazz for Young York Philharmonic, the Russian National People curriculum, educational residencies, Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston, workshops, and concerts for students and Chicago, and London symphonies, and the adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center edu - Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paolo, Brazil. In cational programs reach over 110,000 students, 2006, the JLCO collaborated with Ghanaian teachers, and general audience members. drum collective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, ABOUT THE ARTISTS to perform Congo Square , a composition co- Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis,” which aired written by Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Addy and ded - on PBS in 1999. In September 2002, BET Jazz icated to Mr. Marsalis’s native New Orleans. premièred a weekly series, Journey with Jazz The JLCO performed Mr. Marsalis’s Swing at Lincoln Center , featuring performances by Symphony with the Berlin and New York phil - the JLCO from around the world. harmonics in 2010 and with the Los Angeles To date, 14 recordings featuring the JLCO Philharmonic in 2011 . Swing Symphony is a with Mr. Marsalis have been released and in - co‐commission by the New York Philharmonic, ternationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010 ), Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Portrait in Seven Shades ( 2010 ), Congo Square and the Barbican Centre. (2007 ), Don’t Be Afraid…The Music of Charles The JLCO has also been featured in several Mingus (2005 ), A Love Supreme (2005 ), All education and performance residencies in the Rise (2002 ), Big Train (1999 ), Sweet Release & last few years, including those in Vienne Ghost Story (1999), Live in Swing City (1999 ), (France), Perugia, Prague, London, Lucerne, Jump Start and Jazz (1997 ), Blood on the Fields Berlin, São Paulo, and Yokohama. (1997 ), They Came to Swing (1994 ), The Fire of Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln the Fundamentals (1993 ), and Portraits by Center programs have helped broaden the Ellington (1992 ). awareness of its unique efforts in the music. Concerts by the JLCO have aired in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Norway, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts carried by PBS stations nationwide, including a program which aired on October 18, 2004, during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new z e n i home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and on t r a September 17, 2005, during Jazz at Lincoln M e o Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert. Jazz J at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, trumpet ) is Concert raised funds for the Higher Ground the Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Relief Fund that was established by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Lincoln Center, and was administered Louisiana, in 1961, Mr. Marsalis began his through the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to classical training on trumpet at age twelve and benefit the musicians, music industry‐related soon began playing in local bands of diverse enterprises, and other individuals and entities genres. He entered the Juilliard School at age from the areas in Greater New Orleans who 17 and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz were impacted by Hurricane Katrina, and to Messengers. Mr. Marsalis made his recording provide other general hurricane relief. The début as a leader in 1982, and has since band is also featured on the Higher Ground recorded more than 70 jazz and classical al - Benefit Concert CD that was released on Blue bums which have garnered him nine Grammy Note Records following the concert. The Awards. In 1983, he became the first and only JLCO was featured in a Thirteen/WNET pro - artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys duction of Great Performances entitled in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984. “Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Mr. Marsalis’s rich body of compositions PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS includes Sweet Release , Jazz: Six Syncopated year, Mr. Marsalis premièred his third sym - Movements , Jump Start and Jazz , Citi Movement/ phony, Swing Symphony , a co‐Commission by Griot New York , At the Octoroon Balls , In This the New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles phil - House, on This Morning , and Big Train . harmonics and London’s Barbican Centre. The In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the first jazz JLCO with Mr. Marsalis performed the piece artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer with the Berlin and New York philharmonics Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the in in 2010 and with the Los Angeles Fields , which was commissioned by Jazz at Philharmonic 2011. Mr. Marsalis is also an in - Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new ternationally respected teacher and recordings in his unprecedented Swinging into spokesman for music education, and has re - the 21st series, and premièred several new ceived honorary doctorates from dozens of compositions, including the ballet Them Twos , universities and colleges throughout the for a 1999 collaboration with the New York United States.