Thursday Evening, May 1, 2014, at 7:00
Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director
Greg Scholl, Executive Director
THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
AND HOST BILLY CRYSTAL
Love, Loss and Laughter: The Story of Jazz
JOEY ALEXANDER, Piano
JONATHAN BATISTE, Piano
BILL COSBY
AARON DIEHL, Piano
JON FADDIS, Trumpet
DOMINICK FARINACCI, Trumpet
NORM LEWIS, Vocals
TAJ MAHAL, Guitar, Vocals
PEDRITO MARTINEZ, Percussion
MARK O’CONNOR, Violin and Leader of Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing
SHANNON POWELL, Snare Drum and Leader of Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band
DIANNE REEVES, Vocals
MARCUS ROBERTS, Piano
CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT, Vocals
DARRYL ADAMS, Saxophone
BOBBY ALLENDE, Percussion
TERRENCE ANDREWS, Bass Drum
JAMES CHIRILLO, Guitar
RICKY GORDON, Grand Marshall
DAVID HARRIS, Trombone
JEFFREY HILLS, Tuba
JULIAN LAGE, Guitar
KEVIN LOUIS, Trumpet
FRANK VIGNOLA, Guitar
MARC BRUNI, Director
Dance numbers choreographed by RYAN FRANCOIS
Dancers: HANNAH FLYNN, RYAN FRANCOIS, CRAIG FUCHS, KRISTAN JACKSON,
BRIAN T. LAWTON, SAMANTHA L. SIEGEL, ELYSE SPARKES, LANA WILLIAMS
There will be no intermission during this performance.
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WYNTON MARSALIS, Music Director, Trumpet
RYAN KISOR, Trumpet
KENNY RAMPTON, Trumpet
MARCUS PRINTUP, Trumpet
CHRIS CRENSHAW, Trombone
ELLIOT MASON, Trombone
VINCENT GARDNER, Trombone
SHERMAN IRBY, Alto Saxophone
TED NASH, Alto Saxophone
VICTOR GOINES, Tenor Saxophone
WALTER BLANDING, Tenor Saxophone
JOE TEMPERLEY, Baritone Saxophone
DAN NIMMER, Piano
CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, Bass
ALI JACKSON, Drums
The Program
“Love, Loss and Laughter: The Story of Jazz”
The Jazz at Lincoln Center 2014 Gala
May 1, 2014
Hosted by Billy Crystal
Music Selections
Down By the Riverside/
When the Saints Go Marching In ....................Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band
Traditional
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out ...................................Taj Mahal
By Jimmie Cox
King Porter Stomp............................................................................Marcus Roberts
By Jelly Roll Morton
The Charleston ............................Dancers, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO)
By James P. Johnson
Paul Whiteman Orchestra Arrangement, Re-orchestrated by Chris Crenshaw
A-Tisket, A-Tasket ..................................Cécile McLorin Salvant, Aaron Diehl, JLCO
By Ella Fitzgerald and Van Alexander
Arranged by Klauss Lessman
Mystery Pacific...............................................................Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing
By Django Reinhardt
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Blues in the Night........................................Norm Lewis, Dominick Farinacci, JLCO
By Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer
Arrangement by Sherman Irby
Jumpin’ at the Woodside..........................................Dancers, James Chirillo, JLCO
By William “Count” Basie
Things to Come ..............................................Jon Faddis & Wynton Marsalis, JLCO
By Dizzy Gillespie
Arrangement by Gil Fuller
After Hours...............................................................................Dianne Reeves, JLCO
By Rozzo Gordon
Arrangement by Michael Abene
A Gozar Timbero..........................................Pedrito Martinez, Bobby Allende, JLCO
By Osvaldo Estivill & Israel “Cachao” Lopez
Arrangement by Carlos Henriquez
‘Round Midnight ................................................................................Joey Alexander
By Thelonious Monk
Moanin’...............................................................................................................JLCO
By Charles Mingus
Arrangement by Sy Johnson
Welcome to the House of Swing ........................................Jonathan Batiste, JLCO
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Notes on the Program
by Ted Panken
If asked, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Managing
and Artistic Director, Wynton Marsalis, will
cherrypick some particularly memorable
moments from the 26 gala concerts that
Jazz at Lincoln Center has staged since
1996, when it officially joined Lincoln
Center. “We’ve had a lot of good ones,”
recalls Marsalis. He mentions a 1996
appearance by the late piano giant Oscar
Peterson; grand diva Diana Ross’s contribution to Here’s to the Ladies: A
Celebration of Great Women in Jazz ; Ray
Charles, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, and Willie
Nelson convening to raise the roof of
Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Blowin’ the
Blues Away. He also cites more recent iterations, at which the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra explored the connections
between jazz and contemporary American
popular and vernacular song with iconic
practitioners Nelson, Clapton, Paul Simon,
and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Still, Marsalis prefers to focus less on the
musical particulars than the selflessness
displayed by all of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
featured guests in contributing to its mission. “They are truly giving, because we’re
not paying them,” he says emphatically.
“The amount of effort and energy that the
musicians have put into it is unbelievable.
It’s uplifting. That’s what I’m always left
with—how hard these artists work, their
respect for our art form and our institution.
Believe me, it’s a lot to go through to do
something for free.
“They identify with jazz, and they like to
play with the band. The great jazz musicians mean something to them, and they
know we’re trying to embody them. We
ask a lot of musicians, and a lot of people
won’t do it. We’re very grateful that these
musicians were willing to make that kind of
sacrifice for us.”
On this evening, Jazz at Lincoln Center
departs from past practice with a presentation worthy of its scope. “This gala is about
who we are and what we do,” Marsalis
says. “We are a jazz institution, bringing
people together through swing, and this is
a chance to celebrate the history of jazz
music—our music—in all its glory, all its
emotional colors. Hence the title—Love,
Loss and Laughter.”
Providing the latter attribute in abundance,
as he remarks upon the proceedings, will
be renowned emcee Billy Crystal, himself
descended from a prominent jazz family and
a master improviser of the spoken word, as is
Bill Cosby, who came of age in Philadelphia’s
thriving jazz culture of the 1950s. The cast
of characters incorporates world-class artists
from five generations, all of whom
embrace and embody Marsalis’ dictum,
“all jazz is modern.” They include the
members of the incomparable Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra, and also the Fairview
Baptist Church Brass Band from New
Orleans, which was directed by the iconic
banjoist-raconteur Danny Barker when
Marsalis, then eight, joined it in 1969. Marcus
Roberts, Taj Mahal, Dianne Reeves, Norm
Lewis, Mark O’Connor, Pedrito Martinez, and
Jon Faddis, all established stars in diverse
stylistic arenas, will showcase their skills,
as will best-and-brightest twenty-somethings
Jonathan Batiste, Aaron Diehl, Dominick
Farinacci, and Cécile McLorin Salvant, each
of whom has grown and blossomed under
JALC’s watchful mentorship.
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis (Music Director, Trumpet)
is the managing and artistic director of Jazz
at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned
trumpeter and composer. Born in New
Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began
his classical training on trumpet at age 12,
entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and
then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messengers. He made his recording debut
as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded
more than 60 jazz and classical recordings,
which have won him nine GRAMMY®
Awards. In 1983 he became the first and
only artist to win both classical and jazz
GRAMMYs® in the same year and repeated
this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman
for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six
books; his most recent are Squeak,
Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by
Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to
Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your
Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by
Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis
became the first jazz artist to be awarded
the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for
his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was
commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In
2001 he was appointed Messenger of
Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, and he has
also been designated cultural ambassador
to the United States of America by the
U.S. State Department through their
CultureConnect program. Marsalis was
instrumental in the Higher Ground
Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz
at Lincoln Center. The event raised more
than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief
Fund to benefit the musicians, music
industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in
Greater New Orleans who were impacted
by Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis helped lead
the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—
the first education, performance, and
broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which
opened in October 2004.
NIGEL PARRY
FRANK STEWART
Meet the Artists
So eat, drink, be merry, and allow Jazz at
Lincoln Center to leave you feelin’ good.
Billy Crystal
Tony and Emmy Award–winning comedian,
actor, producer, writer, and director Billy
Crystal (Host ) is known to audiences
around the world as the star of such fea-
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ture films as When Harry Met Sally…, City
Slickers, and Analyze This; as a cast
member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live; and
as the acclaimed nine-time host of the
Academy Awards. Crystal landed his first
major television role in 1977 on the
comedy series Soap, playing Jodie Dallas,
one of the first openly gay characters on
TV. In 1984 he hosted Saturday Night Live
and a few months later joined the regular
cast. His best-known SNL creation was
Fernando, an unctuous talk-show host
whose tagline, “You look mahvelous!”
entered the popular lexicon.
Crystal’s many feature-film credits include
the buddy cop comedy Running Scared
(1986), Rob Reiner’s comic fairy tale The
Princess Bride (1987), and Danny DeVito’s
dark comedy Throw Momma from the
Train (1987). But his breakthrough role
came in 1989 when he starred opposite
Meg Ryan in Reiner’s When Harry Met
Sally…, which became a romantic touchstone for a generation of moviegoers.
He is the voice of one eyed Mike Wazowski,
in Disney•Pixar’s animated global blockbusters Monsters Inc. and Monsters
University. As a director, Crystal was nominated for both an Emmy and a Directors
Guild Award for his direction of the 2001
HBO movie 61*, which told the dramatic
story of the 1961 race between Mickey
Mantle and Roger Maris to break Babe
Ruth’s single-season home-run record.
Most recently, Crystal was seen on the big
screen opposite Bette Midler and Marisa
Tomei in the Christmas 2012 family comedy
Parental Guidance, which he also produced.
In addition to hosting the Oscars nine
times—most recently in 2012—Crystal has
also hosted the GRAMMY® Awards three
times. His work as a host, writer, and producer on the televised awards shows has
earned him 14 Emmy nominations and five
wins. Crystal won a sixth Emmy for his
1989 comedy special, Billy Crystal:
Midnight Train to Moscow.
The recipient of the 2007 Mark Twain Prize
for American Humor, Crystal has written
five books, including Absolutely Mahvelous
(1986), 700 Sundays (2005), and two children’s books, I Already Know I Love You
(2004) and Grandpa’s Little One (2006). In
his most recent book, a memoir titled Still
Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m
Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?
Crystal offers his heartfelt and humorous
observations on aging. The book, which
was released in September 2013, became
an instant New York Times Bestseller. The
audiobook version debuted at No. 1 on
iTunes and was nominated for a GRAMMY®
Award for the Best Spoken Word Album.
Crystal made his Broadway debut in 2004
with the original production of his one-man
show 700 Sundays, for which he won a
Tony Award. Most recently, the Broadway
production was taped in front of a live audience for an HBO special that aired in April.
He lives in Los Angeles and New York with
Janice, his wife of 43 years.
Marc Bruni
Marc Bruni (Director ) is the director of
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on
Broadway and recently directed a new production of The Sound of Music for the
Chicago Lyric Opera. Off-Broadway credits
include The Explorers Club (MTC) and Old
Jews Telling Jokes (NY and Chicago). Other
directing credits include Pipe Dream
(Encores!), Fanny (Encores!), Ordinary Days
(Roundabout), In the Mood (Berkshire
Theatre Festival), 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee (Paper Mill/Philadelphia
Theatre Company), Irving Berlin’s White
Christmas (Paper Mill), Such Good Friends
(NYMF Directing Award), High Spirits (York
Mufti), Glimpses of the Moon (Oak Room),
and six shows for the St. Louis MUNY,
including The Music Man, The Sound of
Music (Kevin Kline nominations), Legally
Blonde, My One and Only, Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers, and Thoroughly Modern
Millie. He has been associated with Walter
Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall, Jerry Mitchell,
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Casey Nicholaw, and Jerry Zaks on numerous
Broadway shows and tours including, most
recently, The Book of Mormon, Nice Work
if You Can Get It, Anything Goes, Legally
Blonde, and The Pajama Game.
Joey Alexander
Born in 2003 on the Island of Bali, Joey
Alexander (Piano ) was introduced to jazz at
an early age, listening to Louis Armstrong
and Harry Connick, Jr. Alexander’s musical
talents soon came to the fore when he
started learning the keyboards at age six,
studying classical music, but his tendency
was always to swing. Due to the lack of
jazz education where he lived, he began
playing jazz piano mostly by ear at age
seven. As his parents regularly took him to
jam sessions where senior musicians in
Bali would ask Alexander to join, his musical
intuition and love of playing jazz grew.
The Ellen Degeneres Show. Recently, he
made a successful debut appearance at the
International Java Jazz Festival with his trio
and was recognized by the founder of the
festival. Now, at age ten, he receives the
great honor of performing at Jazz at Lincoln
Center and a chance to learn from his role
model, Wynton Marsalis, and experience
firsthand the best jazz orchestra today. Jazz
has become spiritual to Alexander and he
thanks the Lord for his musical talent, which
he intends to share with the world and use
to get new generations into jazz.
Jonathan Batiste
Jonathan Batiste (Piano) has ignited the
NYC music scene with his unique voice on
piano and dapper sense of style. Batiste
comes from a celebrated lineage of musicians in New Orleans. He has performed in
more than 40 countries and conducted
clinics and master classes worldwide. He
is a Juilliard graduate, Movado Future
Legend award recipient, and Steinway
Performing Artist. Now 27, he is featured
on the HBO series Tremé, has successfully
begun to innovate jazz music and arts education, and is a music curator at the
National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
At age eight, the family moved to the city of
Jakarta for Alexander to learn and experience more jazz, a sacrifice that allowed him
to progress. Not long after, he was invited
by UNESCO in Jakarta to play solo piano for
the jazz legend Herbie Hancock. For
Alexander, the experience marked the start
of further explorations in this true American
art. He would point out that everything he
listens to directs his musical development
in some way, including Thelonious Monk,
Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and John
Coltrane. He also has a special affinity to
trumpet players such as Clifford Brown,
Lee Morgan, and Wynton Marsalis.
One of America’s most beloved comedians
of all time, Bill Cosby has captivated generations of fans with his comedy routines,
iconic albums, and best-selling books such
as Fatherhood. His comedy transcends
age, gender, and cultural barriers.
By age nine, he had already played in jazz
festivals and other major events overseas. In
June 2013 he brought home the Grand Prix
Award after winning the Master-Jam Festival
contest in Odessa, Ukraine, in which 43 talented jazz professionals from 17 countries
participated. Alexander’s story has been
written about by major media across much
of Asia, in the famous Moscow jazz magazine The Good News, and was featured on
Cosby broke television’s racial barrier with
I Spy, becoming the first African American
to co-star on a television series, while winning three consecutive Emmys. He created
and produced the Emmy-winning cartoon
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which
began airing in the 1970s and was made
into a film in 2004. The show, based on
Cosby’s childhood in Philadelphia, was
designed to educate and entertain.
Bill Cosby
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The former Navy serviceman’s illustrious
list of accomplishments includes roles on
the children’s educational show Electric
Company and creating and producing the
Emmy Award–winning Little Bill, which is
based on his best-selling book series.
Perhaps Cosby’s greatest contribution to
American entertainment and culture is The
Cosby Show, about a close-knit, upper
middle class black family. Cosby said his
intent was to portray an American family.
Time magazine called the show “an
encouraging sign of maturity in matters of
race.” The Cosby Show dominated the
No. 1 spot for years, earning nearly unanimous critical praise. Life magazine
described the program as “a gentle, whimsical, warmhearted” show whose “delicious ordinariness of its pleasures and
tribulations has given millions a fresh,
laughter-splashed perspective on their own
domestic lives.”
Cosby’s first television special in 30 years,
Far From Finished, premiered on Comedy
Central last fall. As always, Cosby crafts
stories around topics such as marriage and
parenting with his singular point of view
and renowned sense of humor.
In his current best seller, I Didn’t Ask to Be
Born, But I’m Glad I Was, Cosby talks
about the Bible, being a grandfather, and
his first love in his humorous and insightful
manner. Cosby has received the Kennedy
Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of
Freedom (America’s highest civilian honor),
the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor,
and the Marian Anderson Award.
Cosby has been busy raising a family, too.
He married the former Camille Hanks on
January 25, 1964, while she was still a student at the University of Maryland. They
raised four daughters (Erika, Erinn, Ensa,
and Evin) and one son (Ennis) and now
have three grandchildren. The family
resides in New England.
Aaron Diehl
Columbus, Ohio native Aaron Diehl (Piano)
seeks to stand out in his era as an artist to
exemplify quality, authenticity, and a fluency in the American musical vernacular.
The 2011 Cole Porter Fellow of the
American Pianists Association, Diehl has
been hailed by the New York Times as “a
smart young pianist with a fastidious grasp
of jazz traditions.” He is committed to
unearthing the treasures of a rich musical
language through collaborative efforts with
artists across generations.
Born in 1985, Diehl grew up in a nurturing
musical environment. His grandfather, pianist/
trombonist Arthur Baskerville, was his first
influence. Diehl began studying classically
at age seven, and discovered his passion for
jazz music while attending Interlochen
Summer Camp. There he met piano
prodigy Eldar Djangirov, who made a lasting
impression on Diehl through his enthusiasm
for Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum.
In 2002 Diehl was a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln
Center's Essentially Ellington competition,
where he was awarded “Outstanding
Soloist.” The following year, he was invited
to tour with the Wynton Marsalis Septet on
their European tour. A 2007 graduate of the
Juilliard School, he studied with Kenny
Barron, Oxana Yablonskaya, and Eric Reed.
He is a Martin E. Segal Award recipient.
Diehl released his first live album in 2008, a
solo concert recorded at the Caramoor
Festival. In 2010 Live at the Players featured
two of his working trios—David Wong and
Paul Sikivie on bass, along with Quincy
Davis and Lawrence Leathers on drums. His
latest release, The Bespoke Man's
Narrative, (Mack Avenue) is the current
product of Diehl's ensemble cultivation,
influenced partly by John Lewis and the
Modern Jazz Quartet. He is the 2013 Jazz
Journalist Association's Up-And-Coming
Musician of the Year Award recipient.
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Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis (Trumpet ) is a consummate
musician, conductor, composer, and educator. Marked by both intense integrity and
humor, Faddis earned accolades from his
close friend and mentor John Birks “Dizzy”
Gillespie, who declared of Faddis, “He’s
the best ever, including me!” As a trumpeter, Faddis possesses a virtually unparalleled range and full command of his
instrument, making the practically impossible seem effortless. Born in 1953, Faddis
began playing at age seven, inspired by an
appearance by Louis Armstrong on television. Meeting Dizzy Gillespie at 15 proved
to be a pivotal beginning of a unique friendship that spanned almost three decades.
Shortly before his 18th birthday, Faddis
joined Lionel Hampton’s band, moving
from Oakland, California to New York.
Faddis worked as lead trumpet for the
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, formed
his own quartet, and soon began directing
orchestras, including the GRAMMY®
Award–winning United Nation Orchestra,
the Dizzy Gillespie 70th Birthday Big Band,
the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, the
Carnegie Hall Centennial Big Band, and the
Chicago Jazz Ensemble. He has also
served as guest conductor and featured
guest with the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra. Faddis’ distinctive trumpet
appears on hundreds of records and
numerous soundtracks for film and television. His recordings as a leader include the
GRAMMY®-nominated Remembrances
(Chesky 1998), Hornucopia (Epic 1991),
Into the Faddisphere (Epic 1989), and
Teranga (Koch 2006). Faddis remains true
to the tradition of honoring mentors, regularly leading master classes, and clinics
worldwide. He is a full-time faculty
member at the Conservatory of Music at
SUNY–Purchase College, where he is
artist-in-residence, professor, and director
of the jazz performance program.
Dominick Farinacci
Recently featured on ABC’s Good Morning
America and at the Amy Winehouse
Inspiration Awards, Dominick Farinacci
(Trumpet ) has garnered critical acclaim
around the globe. Upon the release of his
U.S. debut CD, Lovers, Tales and Dances,
the great Quincy Jones stopped by Los
Angeles club Vibrato to check out the now
30-year-old trumpeter. Farinacci had
recorded an obscure Q composition, “The
Theme from the Pawnbroker.” Jones’
classic response: “This kid is 360
degrees!”—a reference to the cosmopolitan, culturally expansive range of
American and world music influences
Farinacci brings to his music. Farinacci has
won numerous awards that speak to his
wide-ranging impact and appeal, including
the International New Star Award (along
with Diana Krall and Christian McBride) and
Disney New Star Award. He was also
invited to perform at the O2 in London,
opening for Jamie Cullum and Jeff Beck. In
January 2012 he was featured on NPR’s
Jazz Rising Stars. He released six albums
between 2003 and 2007 on Japan’s Pony
Canyon/M&I Records, and Farinacci blossomed with the full-throttle eclectic
approach he took to Lovers, Tales and
Dances, the first jazz recording produced by
GRAMMY® Award–winning Russ Titelman
(formerly with Eric Clapton, Steve
Winwood, and James Taylor). Farinacci was
invited by Wynton Marsalis to headline the
newly established Jazz at Lincoln Center
Doha in Doha, Qatar, and he has since been
invited to return for a one-month residency.
He is the creator and artistic director for the
Tommy Lipuma Creative Center for the Arts,
a youth outreach program in his hometown
of Cleveland. Farinacci also serves as an
artistic consultant to the newly established
Amy Winehouse Foundation. Farinacci
recently performed at Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s annual Ring In The Swing: A New
Year’s Eve Dance Party in The Appel Room.
Norm Lewis
Norm Lewis (Vocals ) was last seen as
Senator Edison Davis on the hit ABC drama
Scandal. He recently received Tony, Drama
Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics
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Circle Award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production
of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. His many
Broadway credits include Sondheim on
Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les
Misérables (Drama League nomination),
Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side
Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who’s Tommy.
He was seen in the West End/London in Les
Misérables,
Les
Misérables
25th
Anniversary Concert (London’s O2 Arena,
PBS), and Off-Broadway in The Tempest
(The Public Theater), Ragtime with the New
York Philharmonic, Dessa Rose (Drama
Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award), The
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League
nomination), Captains Courageous, and A
New Brain. He was also featured in the
Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis
collaboration, A Bed and a Chair: A New
York Love Affair.
Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (Guitar, Vocals ) is a composer,
multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and one of
the most prominent and influential figures
in late 20th-century blues and roots music.
Though his career began more than four
decades ago with American blues, he has
broadened his artistic scope over the years
to include music representing virtually
every corner of the world—West Africa,
the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the
Hawaiian islands, and more. What ties it all
together is his insatiable interest in musical
discovery. Over the years, Mahal’s passion
and curiosity have led him around the
world, and the resulting global perspective
is reflected in his music. Born Henry St.
Claire Fredericks in Harlem on May 17,
1942, Mahal grew up in Springfield,
Massachusetts. His father was a jazz
pianist, composer, and arranger of
Caribbean descent, and his mother was a
gospel-singing schoolteacher from South
Carolina. In addition to piano, the young
musician learned to play the clarinet, trombone, and harmonica, and he loved to sing.
He discovered his stepfather’s guitar and
became serious about it in his early teens
when a guitarist from North Carolina
moved in next door and taught him the various styles of Delta and Chicago blues.
Inspired by a dream, he adopted the
musical alias of Taj Mahal and formed the
popular University of Massachusetts party
band, the Elektras. After graduating, he
headed west in 1964 to Los Angeles,
where he formed the Rising Sons, a sixpiece outfit. This diversity of musical experience served as the bedrock for Mahal’s
first three recordings: Taj Mahal (1967), The
Natch’l Blues (1968) and Giant Step (1969).
He returned to a full recording and touring
schedule in the 1990s. In 2000 Mahal
released a second GRAMMY®-winning
album, Shoutin’ in Key, and recorded a
second album with the Hula Blues,
Hanapepe Dream, in 2003. Mahal will
appear in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2014–15
season alongside John Scofield in
Celebrating Muddy Waters.
Pedrito Martinez
Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez (Percussion)
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1973. He
began his musical career at the age of 11,
performing with such Cuban legends as
Tata Guines and Los Munequitos de
Matanzas. Bandleader Jane Bunnett
brought Martinez to Canada in 1998, and he
remained in North America to pursue his
career. Two years later, he won first place in
the Thelonious Monk Institute Competition
for Afro-Latin Hand Drumming.
A consummate master of Afro-Cuban folkloric music, he does not just play the obligatory handful of standard batá rhythms; he
plays the monumentally complex Oru seco
exquisitely on each drum, or on all three at
once. Martinez is also the world’s first-call
rumbero—playing, singing, and dancing
with dozens of groups, performing on
more than 100 recordings, and contributing
to or appearing in several important films,
including Calle 54 (2000) and Chico and
Rita (2010). Equally at home in popular
Jazz at Lincoln Center
music, his voice combines popular and
folkloric influences, and his infectious
energy, humor, charisma, and dance
moves make him a formidable front man.
Since settling in New York City in 1998,
Martinez has recorded and/or performed
with Paquito D’Rivera, Wynton Marsalis,
Paul Simon, Eddie Palmieri, Bebo Valdés,
Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Rosewoman,
Cassandra Wilson, Brian Lynch, Arturo
O’Farrill, Joe Lovano, Issac Delgado, Edie
Brickell, Eliane Elias, Stefon Harris,
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and Sting.
Mr. Martinez was a founding member of
the highly successful Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat
band Yerba Buena, with which he recorded
two albums and toured the world.
Martinez’ album Rumba de la Isla, featuring
the music of the flamenco great Camarón
de la Isla, was released in 2013.
The Pedrito Martinez Group came together
in 2005, and regular visitors to their gigs
have included Roger Waters, Eric Clapton,
Derek Trucks, John Scofield, Steve Gadd,
Steve Winwood, and Taj Mahal, to name a
few. The group has appeared at premier
venues and festivals around the world, and
recently performed at Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s annual Ring in the Swing: A New
Year’s Eve Dance Party. Their debut album,
The Pedrito Martinez Group, was released
on October 8, 2013. It was produced by
Steve Gadd and Pedrito Martinez and features special guests Wynton Marsalis,
John Scofield, Steve Gadd, Marc
Quinones, and Gary Schreiner. It was
chosen among NPR’s Favorite Albums of
2013, iTunes Top Ten Jazz Albums for
2013, and Boston Globe Critics Top Ten
Albums of 2013.
Martinez has been honored with the
Thelonious Monk Award for Afro-Latin
Hand Percussion in 2000, The Sphinx
Medal of Excellence in 2014, The Jazz
Journalists Association Percussionist of
the Year in 2014, and Modern Drummer
Readers Poll #1 Percussionist of the Year in
2014. Martinez will join Wynton Marsalis,
the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and
Chucho Valdés in September, 2014 to open
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2014–15 season.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor (Violin and Leader of Mark
O’Connor’s Hot Swing) is a multiGRAMMY® Award–winning American jazz,
folk, and classical violinist, composer, and
author. His orchestral concertos and symphonies have received more than 500 performances around the country, and his
million-seller “Appalachia Waltz” is one of
the most loved string pieces since Barber’s
“Adagio.” O’Connor is also an eloquent
spokesman for the role of the arts in
society and a keen observer of the evolution of American music. The O’Connor
Method - A New American School of String
Playing has joined the Suzuki method as
the most popular method to learn from
around the country, as students respond to
the cultural proximity of the American
musical material featured in the method.
O’Connor’s new CD, An Appalachian
Christmas, has just been released.
Shannon Powell
Shannon Powell (Snare Drum and Leader of
Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band ) is a
highly sought after drummer and percussionist who has achieved international
acclaim for his commanding technique and
style, rooted in the characteristic funky
drum beats of New Orleans. As a youth
growing up in New Orleans’ storied
Faubourg Tremé, home to many of the
city’s jazz performers, Powell was surrounded by music. By age six, Powell was
playing drums regularly for his church, the
First Garden Christ Church. It was a natural
transition from the raw spiritualism and
rhythms of his church to the driving
grooves of traditional New Orleans jazz.
Soon after, he began visiting and performing at the historic Preservation Hall
alongside local legends such as Cié Frasier
and Freddie Coleman.
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While in elementary school, Powell met
the legendary Danny Barker, a veteran of
Cab Calloway’s Orchestra who had
returned home to New Orleans in the mid1960s to teach traditional jazz to neighborhood youth. Barker chose Powell for his
legendary Fairview Baptist Brass Band.
Within a few years, Powell became a regular member of Barker’s band and played
professionally with Danny Barker & His
Original Jazz Hounds.
Powell spent his teenage years in the
acclaimed concert band at Joseph S.
Clark High School, from which he graduated. He also studied at the Black
Academy of Arts, headed by pianist
Willie Metcalf Jr. and played in Metcalf’s
band along with fellow academy students Wynton Marsalis and Branford
Marsalis. He further honed his skills and
broadened his stylistic palette with bandleader and tenor saxophonist David
Lastie, as well as the Original Taste of
New Orleans.
From 1987 to 1992 Powell toured extensively with Harry Connick, Jr. and released
two platinum albums with Connick,
including We Are in Love and Blue Light
Red Light. He also recorded Lofty’s Roach
Souffle with Connick. During subsequent
years, Powell has toured with Wynton
Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra, Marcus Roberts, Diana Krall, Dr.
John, Earl King, the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band, and John Scofield. Powell has also
recorded with a long list of noteworthy
artists, including Ellis Marsalis, Jason
Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Donald
Harrison, Irvin Mayfield, Leroy Jones, Blind
Boys of Alabama, Topsy Chapman, John
Boutte, Kermit Ruffins, Tommy Ridgely,
Charmaine Neville, Jeremy Davenport,
Chuck Carbo, Johnny Adams, Lars
Edegran, Russell Malone, Juanita Brooks,
Henry Butler, Mighty Sam McClain,
Barbara Shorts, George Porter Jr., Snooks
Eaglin, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Currently, he is a bandleader and has
recorded his own CD, Powell’s Place, which
showcases a mix of traditional and original
jazz songs and also features Powell on
vocals. Powell is considered a leading force
on the traditional jazz circuit and also serves
as an educator and clinician. He has been
featured at workshops presented at universities and jazz festivals all over the world.
Considered a living legend in New Orleans
music, Powell is heralded as “The King of
Tremé,” the neighborhood where he grew
up in New Orleans, which has given birth to
countless musical inspirations and innovations. He will be leading the Fairview Baptist
Church Brass Band at Dizzy’s Club CocaCola this weekend, from May 2–4.
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves (Vocals ) is one of the preeminent jazz vocalists in the world. As a
result of her breathtaking virtuosity, improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B
stylings, Reeves received the GRAMMY®
Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance
for three consecutive recordings—a
GRAMMY® first in any vocal category.
Reeves was featured in George Clooney’s
six-time Academy Award–nominated Good
Night, and Good Luck, which chronicles
Edward R. Murrow’s ongoing confrontations with Senator Joseph McCarthy. The
soundtrack recording of the film provided
Reeves with her fourth Best Jazz Vocal
GRAMMY® Award.
She has recorded and performed extensively with the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, who said
of Reeves, “She has one of the most powerful, purposeful, and accurate voices of
this or any time.” Reeves has also
recorded with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim
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and was a featured soloist with Sir Simon
Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. In addition, she was the first Creative Chair for
Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and
the first singer to ever perform at the
famed Walt Disney Concert Hall.
In recent years Reeves has toured the world
in a variety of contexts, including a program
entitled “Sing the Truth,” a musical celebration of Nina Simone which also featured Lizz
Wright and Angelique Kidjo. She also performed at the White House at the State
Dinner for the President of China as well as
the Governors’ Ball—and was hard at work
on her album Beautiful Life, released this
past February.
Beautiful Life is Reeves' first album in five
years, and it features her arsenal of talents
on a compelling collection of covers and
originals. Produced by Terri Lyne
Carrington, Beautiful Life also features
Richard Bona, Gerald Clayton, George
Duke, Robert Glasper, Lalah Hathaway,
Gregory Porter, and Esperanza Spalding.
Marcus Roberts
Marcus Roberts (Piano) is from Jacksonville,
Florida. He has always been influenced by
the early exposure to his mother’s gospel
singing and the music of the local church.
Roberts lost his sight at age five. His parents
bought him a piano when he was eight
years old, and he was self-taught for four
years. He decided that he wanted to be a
jazz pianist after listening to the music of
Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Mary Lou
Williams, and others on the radio. After
graduating from high school, he left
Jacksonville to attend Florida State
University, where he studied classical piano
with Leonidus Lipovetsky. While at FSU,
Roberts won the young artist’s competition
at the 1982 National Association of Jazz
Educators annual conference. The next year
he won the Great American Jazz Piano
Competition, followed by first prize at the
Thelonious Monk International Jazz
Competition in 1987. He was honored to
receive a National Academy of Achievement
award in 1995 and, in 1998, he received the
award that he considers his highest honor,
the Helen Keller Award for Personal
Achievement. At age 21, Roberts joined
Wynton Marsalis’ band and toured and
recorded with the trumpeter for six years.
Roberts signed his first recording contract
with BMG/Novus in 1988 and completed six
recordings for them before signing with
Columbia Records early in 1994. Several
recordings have reached the No. 1 spot on
Billboard’s traditional jazz chart. He has
written numerous suites of music, as well
as a very large number of original songs and
arrangements, all of which are important
contributions to jazz. As an assistant professor at the school of music at Florida State
University, where he still teaches when he
is not on tour, Roberts became more
involved in the formal instruction of young
musicians and composers. In 2009 he
released New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol.
1, and in 2011, he released Celebrating
Christmas, both on J-Master Records.
Roberts will be performing Piano Masters of
Melody in JALC’s 2014–15 season.
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Cécile McLorin Salvant (Vocals ) was born
and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French
mother and a Haitian father. She started
classical piano studies at age five, and
began singing in the Miami Choral Society
at age eight. Early on, she developed an
interest in classical voice, began studying
with private instructors, and later with
Edward Walker, vocal teacher at the
University of Miami.
In 2007 Salvant moved to Aix-en-Provence,
France, to study law as well as classical and
baroque voice at the Darius Milhaud
Conservatory. It was in Aix-en-Provence, with
reedist and teacher Jean-François Bonnel,
that she started learning about improvisation,
instrumental, and vocal repertoire ranging
from the 1910s on, and sang with her first
Jazz at Lincoln Center
band. In 2009, after a series of concerts in
Paris, she recorded her first album Cécile,
with Jean-François Bonnel’s Paris Quintet. A
year later, she won the Thelonious Monk
competition in Washington, D.C.
Salvant performs unique interpretations of
unknown and scarcely recorded jazz and
blues compositions. She focuses on a theatrical portrayal of the jazz standard and
composes music and lyrics, which she also
sings in French, her native language, as
well as in Spanish. She enjoys popularity in
Europe and in the United States, performing in clubs, concert halls, and festivals accompanied by renowned musicians
like Jean-Francois Bonnel, Rodney
Whitaker, Aaron Diehl, Dan Nimmer, Sadao
Watanabe, Jacky Terrasson (with a noted
collaboration on his Gouache Universal
CD), Archie Shepp, and Jonathan Batiste.
For the second consecutive year, she sings
for Chanel’s Chance ad campaign. She
recently released WomanChild, featuring
Aaron Diehl, Rodney Whitaker, Herlin Riley,
and James Chirillo.
Salvant has performed at numerous festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Ascona,
Whitley Bay, Montauban, Foix, with the
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis in Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall and
Chicago’s Symphony Center, and with her
own band at the Kennedy Center, Spoleto
Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, and
other venues. Salvant will be featured in
Big Band Holidays and Cécile McLorin
Salvant Sings Billie Holiday during JALC’s
2014–15 season.
Syncopated City Dance Company
Syncopated City Dance Company (formerly
known as SwingFX) is a dynamic, New York
City-based company, taking inspiration from
the popular jazz dances of the 1920s–1950s.
Their work uniquely features both solo
movement and social, partnered-dance elements, in traditional form or recombined
into classical structures, and dramatic
scenes. The company roster includes some
of the greatest Lindy Hop dancers in the
world today, as well as classically trained
dancers and specialists in other vernacular
styles. They continue to make new work,
expressing their range, from acrobatic Lindy
Hop to saucy blues, and loose, earthy folkjazz to Fosse-styled precision.
Under their former name SwingFX,
Syncopated City’s work has been featured
at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, The
Kennedy Center, Ulster Performing Arts
Center, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra,
comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists
and ensemble players today, has been the
Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra
since 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz
at Lincoln Center’s programming, this
remarkably versatile orchestra performs
and leads educational events in New York,
across the U.S. and around the globe; in
concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs;
public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an
ever-expanding roster of guest artists.
Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s mission; its educational activities
are coordinated with concert and Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. These programs, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
members, include the celebrated Jazz for
Young People family concert series; the
Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band
Competition & Festival; the Jazz for Young
PeopleTM Curriculum; educational residencies; workshops; and concerts for students
and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln
Center educational programs reach over
110,000 students, teachers and general
audience members each year. The Jazz at
Lincoln Center weekly radio series, Jazz at
Lincoln Center Radio, is distributed by the
WFMT Radio Networks. Winner of a 1997
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Peabody Award, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Radio is produced in conjunction with
Murray Street Enterprise, New York. Under
Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz
at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a
third of the year on tour. The big band performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic
compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Centercommissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington;
Count Basie; Fletcher Henderson;
Thelonious Monk; Mary Lou Williams; Billy
Strayhorn;
Dizzy
Gillespie;
Benny
Goodman; Charles Mingus; Chick Corea;
Oliver Nelson; and many others. Guest
conductors have included Benny Carter;
John Lewis; Jimmy Heath; Chico O’Farrill;
Ray Santos; Paquito D’Rivera; Jon Faddis;
Robert Sadin; David Berger; Gerald Wilson;
and Loren Schoenberg.
Jazz at Lincoln Center also regularly premieres works commissioned from a variety
of composers including Benny Carter; Joe
Henderson; Benny Golson; Jimmy Heath;
Wayne Shorter; Sam Rivers; Joe Lovano;
Chico O’Farrill; Freddie Hubbard; Charles
McPherson; Marcus Roberts; Geri Allen;
Eric Reed; Wallace Roney; and Christian
McBride, as well as from current and
former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe
Gordon, and Ted Nash.
Over the last few years, the Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra has performed collaborations with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the New York
Philharmonic; the Russian National Orchestra;
the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the
Boston, Chicago and London Symphony
Orchestras; the Orchestra Esperimentale in
São Paolo, Brazil; and others. In 2006, the
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra collaborated with Ghanaian drum collective
Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, to perform
“Congo Square,” a composition Mr.
Marsalis and Mr. Addy co-wrote and dedi-
cated to Mr. Marsalis’ native New Orleans.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
performed Marsalis’ symphony, Swing
Symphony, with the Berliner Philharmoniker
in Berlin and with the New York
Philharmonic in New York City in 2010 and
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los
Angeles in 2011. Swing Symphony is a cocommission by the New York Philharmonic,
Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles
Philharmonic, and The Barbican Centre.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has
also been featured in several education and
performance residencies in the last few
years, including those in Vienne, France;
Perugia, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic;
London, England; Lucerne, Switzerland;
Berlin, Germany; São Paulo, Brazil;
Yokohama, Japan; and others.
Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln
Center programs have helped broaden the
awareness of its unique efforts in the
music. Concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra have aired in the U.S.;
England; 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
home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and on
September 17, 2005 during Jazz at Lincoln
Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground
Benefit Concert raised funds for the Higher
Ground Relief Fund that was established
by Jazz at Lincoln Center, and was administered through the Baton Rouge Area
Foundation to benefit the musicians, music
industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in
Greater New Orleans who were impacted
by Hurricane Katrina, and to provide other
Jazz at Lincoln Center
general hurricane relief. The band is also
featured on the Higher Ground Benefit
Concert CD that was released on Blue
Note Records following the concert. The
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was featured in a Thirteen/WNET production of
Great Performances entitled “Swingin’
with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis,” which aired on
PBS in 1999. In September 2002, BET Jazz
premiered a weekly series called Journey
with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra from around the world.
To date, 14 recordings featuring the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in
Seven Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007);
Don’t Be Afraid…The Music of Charles
Mingus (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); All
Rise (2002); Big Train (1999); Sweet
Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing
City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997);
Blood on the Fields (1997); They Came to
Swing (1994); The Fire of the Fundamentals
(1993); and Portraits by Ellington (1992).
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to
inspiring and growing audiences for jazz.
With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array
of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center
advances a unique vision for the continued
development of the art of jazz by producing a
year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of
all ages. These productions include concerts,
national and international tours, residencies,
weekly national radio programs, television
broadcasts,
recordings,
publications,
an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy,
jazz appreciation curriculum for students,
music publishing, children’s concerts and
classes, lectures, adult education courses,
student and educator workshops, and interactive websites. Under the leadership of
Managing and Artistic Director Wynton
Marsalis, Chairman Robert J. Appel, and
Executive Director Greg Scholl, Jazz at
Lincoln Center produces thousands of
events each season in its home in New York
City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the
world. For more information, visit jalc.org.
Dave Brubeck: Jazz Ambassador
Part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dave Brubeck Festival
On View Now – June 2014
Free and open to the public during scheduled performances
As part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dave Brubeck Festival, our current exhibit, Dave Brubeck:
Jazz Ambassador, documents the life and work of one of America’s most significant
musicians to emerge after the Swing Era. A pianist, bandleader, and composer, Californiaborn Brubeck (1920–2012) grew new audiences—particularly on college campuses
nationwide—with a sophisticated, swinging style. In 1958, a far-ranging U.S. Department of
State tour to countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southern Asia gave Brubeck
the opportunity to serve as a cultural ambassador. A socially engaged artist, Brubeck
consistently fought for racial integration and equality at home and abroad. Our exhibit, found
on the fifth floor of Frederick P. Rose Hall, features historical photographs, scores,
ephemera—including concert programs and correspondence—and videos. Please stop by,
learn more about one of the legends of jazz, and enjoy!
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The Ed Bradley Award For Leadership
The Ed Bradley Award for Leadership celebrates
our friend and board member Ed Bradley, who
served on the Jazz at Lincoln Center board from
1992 until his death in 2007.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Award for Leadership
was renamed in his honor in 2008 and recognizes
and celebrates the integrity, wisdom, and
pioneering spirit of outstanding leaders in jazz.
The 2014 Recipient is
John Arnhold
Chairman and Chief Investment Officer,
First Eagle Investment Management
Board of Directors, Treasurer Jazz at Lincoln Center
Past recipients of the Ed Bradley Award for Leadership
(formerly known as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Award for Leadership)
2013
Mica Ertegun
2007
Ed Bradley
1999
Irene Diamond
2012
Lisa Schiff
2005
Hughlyn F. Fierce
1998
June Noble Larkin
2011
Dr. Billy Taylor
2003
Phoebe Jacobs
1997
Ahmet Ertegun
2009
Albert Murray
2001
Gordon J. Davis
1996
George Weissman
2008
Ken Burns
2000
Jack and Susan Rudin
Jazz at Lincoln Center
The Ed Bradley Award for
Leadership 2014 Recipient
John Arnhold
Chairman and Chief Investment Officer John P. Arnhold
joined First Eagle Investment Management, a familycontrolled asset management firm, in 1983, founding the Risk
Arbitrage Department. Before joining First Eagle Investment
Management, Mr. Arnhold was a research analyst in the Risk
Arbitrage Department at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Prior
to that, he was an officer in the corporate lending and merchant banking groups at Chase
Manhattan Bank. Mr. Arnhold received his B.A. from The University of California–Santa
Barbara in 1975.
In addition to his directorships at First Eagle Investment Management, and its affiliates,
Mr. Arnhold is a director of Arnhold Ceramics, and the Arnhold and Mulago Foundations.
Mr. Arnhold is also president and trustee of First Eagle Funds, a registered mutual fund
company. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Trinity Episcopal Schools Corp.,
Vassar College, WNET.org, and The International Tennis Hall of Fame.
Mr. Arnhold resides in New York City with his wife and two children.
The Inaugural
Ashley Schiff Ramos
Community Development in
Jazz Award
Ashley Schiff Ramos
From 2001–13 Ashley Schiff Ramos was a member of Jazz
at Lincoln Center’s Board of Directors. During this period she
produced 11 gala benefit concerts and dinners raising more
than $20 million for the organization. She also organized
numerous other fundraising activities and publicity events. Ashley was born and raised in
New York City. After graduating from Yale University with a bachelor of science degree,
she decided to pursue her interest in public relations and experiential marketing for more
than ten years in New York. Currently, Ramos works as a regional consultant for Christie’s
for the southeast. She sits on the board of the Palm Beach Zoo and is co-chairman of the
Everglades Foundation Annual Benefit in Palm Beach. Ramos lives with her husband and
two young children in Palm Beach, FL.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual artistic, educational, and archival programs are supported
by the following generous contributors:
Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn
The Ammon Foundation
Helen and Robert J. Appel
Anonymous (2)
Jody and John Arnhold
Siris Capital, LLC /
Robin and Peter Berger
Lisa and Dick Cashin
Columbus Center LLC
LEADERS
Barbara and Raymond Dalio Adam R. Rose and
The Irene Diamond Fund
Peter R. McQuillan
Diana and Joe DiMenna
The Andrew W. Mellon
Ford Foundation
Foundation
Mica Ertegun
Jennifer and Michael Price
The Kresge Foundation
Karen Pritzker/
Ann Tenenbaum and
Seedlings Foundation
Thomas H. Lee
The Rockefeller Foundation
MasterCard
Anonymous
The Argus Fund
Jessica Bibliowicz
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Bloomberg
Brooks Brothers
Valentino D. Carlotti
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Coca-Cola Company
GUARANTORS
The Shops at Columbus
Joan and George Hornig
Circle at Time Warner
HSBC Bank
Center
Kari Gronberg and
Gail and Al Engelberg
Little Johnny Koerber
Finneran Family
Wynton Marsalis
Foundation
National Endowment for
Larry Gagosian
the Arts
The Hearst Foundation, Inc New York City Department
Mady Hornig
of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on
the Arts
The Fan Fox & Leslie R.
Samuels Foundation, Inc.
Lisa and David T. Schiff
SiriusXM
Dianne and David J. Stern
Marlene Hess and
James D. Zirin
The Altman Foundation
Bank of America
Centric
Betsy and Alan D. Cohn
ConEdison
Sharon and Christopher
Davis
Melanie A. Shorin and
Greg S. Feldman
BENEFACTORS
Donna J. Astion and
Charles and Karen Phillips
Michael D. Fricklas
Prudential Financial
Susan and Roger Hertog
Louise and Leonard Riggio
Sonia and Paul T. Jones
Diana and Jonathan F.P. Rose
John S. and James L.
Lisa Roumell and
Knight Foundation
Mark Rosenthal
The Ambrose Monell
Barry F. Schwartz
Foundation
Therese S. Rosenblatt and
Cindy and Charles Murphy
H. Marshall Sonenshine
Gwen and Peter Norton
Starwood Hotels and
Resorts Worldwide
The Harold and Mimi
Steinberg Charitable Trust
Vital Projects Fund, Inc.
Vosshall Family
The Walton Family
Foundation
George T. Wein
World Stage
Anonymous
Donna and William
Acquavella
The Jeffrey Altman
Foundation
Jolynn Schmidt and Scott
Anderson
Augustine Foundation
Patricia Blanchet
CBRE, Inc.
Diane M. Coffey
Peggy Cooper Davis and
Gordon J. Davis/
Venable LLP
SUSTAINERS
Jurate Kazickas
Annette and Oscar
Lear Family Foundation
de la Renta
Arthur Levine Foundation
Jennifer and Viet Dinh/
Lincoln Center Corporate
Bancroft PLLC
Fund
The Ella Fitzgerald
Mericos Foundation
Charitable Foundation
MLGW LLP/Lester
The David Geffen
Weingarten CPA, Partner
Foundation
Daniel Rozzi and Todd
Charles Evans Hughes
Yanuzzi/Morgan Stanley
Memorial Foundation
Adam Silver/National
Hughes Hubbard &
Basketball Association
Reed LLP
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Caroline and Ed Hyman
Jacqueline L. Bradley and
M. Billie Lim and
Clarence Otis
Stephen M. Ifshin
Amy and David Abrams
Simi Ahuja
Judy and John Angelo
Angelson Family
Foundation
Anonymous (2)
Rose M. Badgeley
Charitable Trust
Leslie and Harrison Bains
Norman Benzaquen
Brook and Roger Berlind
Barbara and Timothy
Boroughs
Broadway Across America
Ambassador and Mrs. W. L.
Lyons Brown
ANGELS
Carolyn Surgent and
Valerie S. Brown
Jacques Friedman
Betty and Philippe Camus
Arlyn and Edward Gardner
Kathryn and Kenneth I.
Jennifer and Gregory Geiling
Chenault
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Frederick P. Rose Hall
May 2014
ROSE THEATER
JLCO Hosts: Christian McBride &
Kurt Rosenwinkel
May 23–24 at 8pm
For the second “JLCO Hosts” concert, Music
Director Wynton Marsalis and drummer Ali Jackson
present the compositions of a pair of Philadelphiaborn, post-Boomer virtuosos: 2014 GRAMMY®
Award nominee, bassist Christian McBride and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Rosenwinkel’s JALC debut
will culminate a musical relationship that began two
decades ago at Smalls in Greenwich Village, where
Rosenwinkel refined his unique guitar sound and
influential compositions, blending dense harmonies,
gorgeous melodies, and complex forms with, as
Jackson states, “a very conscious and present
understanding of the blues and what the blues are in
jazz music.” Himself the leader of a big band that
earned a 2012 GRAMMY® Award, McBride will continue a relationship with JALC that began in 1995
when he met Marsalis while still in high school. The
full Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra appears.
Free pre-concert discussion, nightly, 7pm.
THE APPEL ROOM
The Music of Cole Porter
May 14 at 7pm, May 15 at 7pm & 9pm
Michael Feinstein focuses on the genius of Cole
Porter, who, he notes, “was in that rare echelon of
songwriters who supplied both words and music.”
Feinstein himself is ideally suited to interpret Porter’s
archly comic, ambiguous, pointed lyrics, and to execute his memorable melodies, several dozen of which
have inspired generations of jazzfolk to improvise at
the highest level. “Mr. Porter didn’t go out and get
loaded because of an arrangement somebody else
made of his music,” Feinstein quotes Frank Sinatra.
“It made no difference to him, as long as the song was
done in its entirety.” Marilyn Maye, Denzal Sinclair,
Kate Davis, and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
join Feinstein to bring Porter’s music to life.
New Jazz Standards
May 16 at 7pm, May 17 at 9:30pm
On a program that may impel those of the opinion that
21st century jazz doesn’t concern itself with melodic
values to question their assumptions, New Jazz
Standards — convened under the auspices of Jazz at
Lincoln Center’s new A Side, B Side series — presents an all-star ensemble of melody-masters who
have written new works specifically for this freshlyassembled collaboration. Songwriters include Tin Hat
violinist Carla Kihlstedt, pianist-composer Guillermo
Klein, tenorman Bill McHenry, The Bad Plus bassist
Reid Anderson, and drummer Eric Harland.
Nuevo Jazz Latino
May 16 at 9:30pm, May 17 at 7pm
Nuevo Jazz Latino—convened under the auspices of
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new A Side, B Side series—
presents an all-star ensemble of a decidedly Afro-Cuban
orientation, whose members have written new
works specifically for this freshly-assembled collaboration. Songwriters include Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra bassist Carlos Henriquez, a Bronx native, and
four brilliant Cubans: pianist Elio Villafranca, saxophonist
Yosvany Terry, drummer (and MacArthur Award winner)
Dafnis Prieto, and conguero-vocalist Pedrito Martinez.
IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER
Swing University Spring Term
May 6–June 4
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s jazz education program,
Swing University, offers students of all ages a chance
to learn about jazz from musicians and scholars.
Spring Term classes include Discography, with former
curator of the Institute of Jazz Studies Ed Berger, and
Cecil Taylor, with WKCR director Ben Young.
Please visit jalc.org/swingu, call 212-258-9922, or
email [email protected] for more information. Single
tickets are available.
2014–15 SEASON
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Join us for the 27th season of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Anchored by the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, we kick off the
2014–15 season with the debut of a new collaboration by Chucho Valdés, Pedrito Martinez, and
Marsalis. Brazilian ensemble SpokFrevo Orquestra
makes its JALC debut, and Bill Frisell returns to
curate our Roots of Americana series. We honor legendary baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley of Duke
Ellington’s band and our own, and showcase jazz’s
varied cultural interpretations with Elio Villafranca’s
“Music of the Caribbean” and Sherman Irby’s
“Journey Through Swing.” We welcome visionaries
like Michael Feinstein, Wayne Shorter, Rubén
Blades, and Dianne Reeves, and honor the music of
Count Basie, Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Muddy
Waters, Frank Sinatra, and more. Customize your
season with the Take 3,4,5 series.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Frederick P. Rose Hall
May 2014
Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band
featuring Shannon Powell
with Kevin Louis, David Harris, Darryl Adams,
Jeffrey Hills, and Terrence Andrews
May 2–4
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Temple University Jazz Band
featuring Jon Faddis & Jimmy Heath
May 5
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
Jazz Ensemble
with Scott Belck and special guests Craig Bailey,
Rick Van Matre, and Fareed Haque
May 6
7:30pm & 9:30pm
The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra: Celebrating
Duke Ellington & Gerald Wilson
May 7–11
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Monday Nights With WBGO
Oran Etkin CD Release: Gathering Light
with Lionel Loueke, Ben Allison, and Curtis Fowlkes
May 12
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Mary Lou Williams’ Zodiac Suite:
Chris Pattishall Quintet
with Ricardo Pascal and Alphonso Horne
May 13
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Ted Rosenthal Trio CD Release:
Rhapsody in Gershwin
with Martin Wind and Tim Horner
May 14
7:30pm & 9:30pm
René Marie’s I Wanna Be Evil:
With Love to Eartha Kitt
with Kevin Bales, Elias Bailey, Quentin Baxter,
Robert Stringer, Adrian Cunningham, and
Etienne Charles
May 15–18
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Juilliard School Ensemble
May 19
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Donald Harrison’s Berklee Quintet: Part of the
Berklee Masters on the Road Program
with Donald Harrison, Santiago Bosch, Osmar
Okuma, and Darryl Stave
May 20
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Terell Stafford and the Jazz Orchestra
of Philadelphia
May 21
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Ben Wolfe Quintet featuring Nicholas Payton
with Dave Kikoski, Donald Edwards, and
Stacy Dillard
May 22–25
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Ryan Kisor Quintet
with Peter Zak, Willie Jones III, John Webber, and
Peter Bernstein
May 26–27
7:30pm & 9:30pm
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