JAZZ AT THE SOUTHERN THEATRE CONCERT SERIES Speakeasy Hot Jazz featuring Tony Glausi ON-DEMAND FRI, FEB 26 – SUN, MAR 7, 2021 ARTISTIC CHAIR SPONSOR Ann & Tom Hoaglin www.JAG.tv JAZZ ARTS GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS Gary Wadman | President Jim Negron | Past President Managing Partner | BakerHostetler President | Corna Kokosing Construction Tami Van Tassell | Treasurer Kevin L. Murch | Secretary Partner | PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Partner | Perez & Morris LLC John Ammendola Robert Lee Heather Brod Therese McCann Alessandro Ciaffoncini Pete Mills Steve Driver Michael Peddicord Kevin Flanigan, MD Milton Ruffin Dale Greeson Larry Smith John Johanssen Press Southworth Ron Johnson Kelly Wilson Bill Kiefaber ADMINISTRATION Press Southworth III Byron Stripling Chief Executive Officer CJO Artistic Director Yvette Boyer Mary Manos Accountant Jazz Academy Coordinator & Orchestra Manager Alexa Brennan Education & Outreach Coordinator Pete Mills Program Director, Alex Burgoyne Jazz at The Lincoln Theatre Digital Media Manager Sarah Simon Diane Cattran Office Administrator & Database Specialist Grant Manager Louis Tsamous Zach Compston Director of Affiliate Musicians Director of Education & Community Engagement Terence Womble Director of Marketing & Communications Kimberlee Goodman Director of Development PRODUCTION TEAM Vital Companies Jason Clayton – Chief Marketing Officer and Founding Partner Fred Blitzer – CEO and Founding Partner The Social Firm Matt Erney – Strategy Director Jason Willis – Creative Director The Columbus Jazz Orchestra (CJO) was formed as a vehicle to create performance opportunities for jazz musicians in a big band setting. Forty-eight years later, the CJO is considered one of the world's finest jazz orchestras and a model for success, presenting big band jazz and world-renowned guest artists to thousands each year. The flagship performing ensemble of the Jazz Arts Group, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra consists of musicians who are highly regarded as performers and educators across the country and around the globe. The CJO presents over 20 subscription concerts each season in Columbus, Ohio. By incorporating contemporary arrangements into its repertoire and commissioning new arrangements and masterworks for jazz orchestra, the CJO promotes the future of big band jazz and cultivates the dynamic, adventurous spirit that has kept audiences coming back again and again. The CJO has toured Europe and has collaborated with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, BalletMet Columbus, Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Opera Columbus, and the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. The CJO is led by world-renowned band leader and trumpet virtuoso Byron Stripling, former lead trumpet for the Count Basie Orchestra. Stripling has been a featured soloist with orchestras including the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Pops, the National Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has been a featured soloist at the Hollywood Bowl and performs at jazz festivals throughout the world. He has performed and recorded extensively with the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, and Lionel Hampton, among This JAG TV concert is others, as well as the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the GRP All-Star Big Band. dedicated to the memory of In 2020, Byron Stripling was appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the famed Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, holding the Henry and Elsie Hillman Principal Pops Conductor Chair. This is only the second time in the orchestra’s storied history that a Principal Pops Conductor has been named. In this new role, “The World’s Greatest Xylophonist,” Stripling succeeds Emmy, Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Golden Globe and Pulitzer prize-winning composer/ conductor Marvin Hamlisch. Ian Finkel who inspired this concert Speakeasy Hot Jazz Musicians Roster and continues to bring us joy Byron Stripling – Leader/Trumpet/Vocal Tony Glausi – Guest Trumpet Soloist through his musical legacy. Bobby Floyd – Piano Andy Woodson – Acoustic Bass Jim Rupp – Drums ABOUT TONIGHT’S ARTISTS TONY GLAUSI Tony Glausi Hailed as “a great writer and a terrific trumpet player” by legendary songwriter ColumbusMakesArt.com Burt Bacharach, Tony Glausi is an international award-winning trumpeter, #artmakescbus keyboardist, singer, writer, and producer in New York City. Among other accolades, Tony won first prize in the jazz division of the 2014 National Trumpet Competition, first prize in the jazz division of the 2017 ITG International Trumpet Competition, and first prize in the 2017 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Solo Competition. Tony has been recognized in several issues of Downbeat Jazz & Blues Magazinefor outstanding improvised solos and compositions, and he was the sole recipient of the 2016-17 Laurie Frink Career Grant, an award given every other year to a young brass player in honor of Laurie’s legacy as an incomparably inspiring pedagogue, mentor, and friend. Growing up in a musical family in Portland, Oregon, Tony began to sing and play the piano at a young age. Citing Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Tracy Jazz has played a major role in bringing people together. It’s a language, Chapman, Paul Simon, Queen, Chet Baker, and Earth Wind & Fire amongst an expression of ideas, a means of communicating. When jazz speaks, it his earliest influences, by 10 years old he had started to play the trumpet and conveys thoughts. It moves some intellectually and others emotionally. In our compose, later becoming his emphases. Tony now resides in New York and community you’ll find every form of art from all genres of music, dance, visual performs and records with the likes of Billboard-charting pianist and singer arts, spoken word, etc. And for those who observe it, art affects them the same Peter Cincotti, GRAMMY-nominated pianist Randy Porter, highly celebrated way ... it crosses boundaries and transcends barriers, so that it’s shared by all. vocalist Halie Loren, and a wide array of artists based in the city. To date, I’m Bobby Floyd. Music is my art and there’s no place I’d rather make it. Glausi has produced eight records of his own music in physical and digital Learn more about Bobby’s story and other Columbus artists, performances, formats, garnering awards, high-praising press, and an ever growing buzz exhibitions, concerts, public art and more at ColumbusMakesArt.com. amongst fans of all ages across social media platforms. As a diversified composer, his works have been commissioned on many occasions to be performed and recorded by world-class musicians. He has toured dozens of countries around the world playing at renowned festivals and clubs including Additional support from: The Sol Morton and Dorothy Isaac, Rebecca J. Wickersham the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Leopolis Jazz Festival in and Lewis K. Osborne funds at The Columbus Foundation. Photo: Stephen Pariser | Design: Formation Studio | Design: Formation Pariser Stephen Photo: Ukraine, the New Morning in Paris, and the Blue Note in New York, while also having performed as a featured guest artist with ensembles such as the SUPPORTING ART. United States Marine Corps All Star Jazz Band, the Eugene Symphony, and ADVANCING CULTURE. high school and college bands throughout the states. Artist and cultural organization Tony is on teaching staff at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music grants and resources. in New York and at The Idyllwild Arts Academy in Los Angeles. Over the years GCAC.org he has also held teaching positions at the University of Oregon, where he completed his degrees, and the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, where he founded the Shedd Youth Jazz Orchestras. 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