Friday Evening, February 20, 2015 at 7:00 Saturday Evening, February 21, 2015 at 9:30pm Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director Greg Scholl, Executive Director SHERMAN IRBY’S JOURNEY THROUGH SWING SHERMAN IRBY, Music Director, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone Saxophones VICTOR GOINES, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet BRUCE HARRIS, Trumpet VINCENT GARDNER, Trombone ELI BISHOP, Violin JAMES CHIRILLO, Guitar, Steel Guitar, Banjo CHARLES CRAIG, SR, Piano GERALD CANNON, Bass ALVESTER GARNETT, Drums Please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices. This program is presented as part of the Ertegun Jazz Concert Series. Jazz at Lincoln Center thanks its season sponsors: Amtrak, Bloomberg, Brooks Brothers, The Coca-Cola Company, Con Edison, Entergy, HSBC Premier, The Shops at Columbus Circle at Time Warner Center, and SiriusXM. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Appel Room Frederick P. Rose Hall jazz.org Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. Jazz at Lincoln Center The Program JELLY ROLL MORTON Black Bottom Stomp transcribed by Don Vappie SIDNEY ARODIN and HOAGY CARMICHAEL Up the Lazy River LESTER YOUNG Countless Blues BUSTER MOTEN and BENNY MOTEN Moten Swing LEON MCAULIFFE Steel Guitar Rag JIM SOLDI, PEDRO DEPAUL, and SPADE COOLEY Oklahoma Stomp GENE AMMONS and SONNY STITT Blues Up and Down NAT SIMON and BUDDY BERNIER Poinciana arranged by Ahmad Jamal GERRY MULLIGAN Walkin’ Shoes AXEL STORDAHL, PAUL WESTON, and SAMMY CAHN I Should Care arranged by J.J. Johnson transcribed by Sherman Irby RALPH RAINGER and LEO ROBIN June in January CHARLIE PARKER Ko-Ko WAYNE SHORTER Free For All All songs arranged by Sherman Irby unless otherwise indicated. Jazz at Lincoln Center Notes on the Program By Ted Panken “It’s kind of my fault,” jokes Sherman Irby, prefacing the back story of this evening’s Journey Through Swing concert, during which he and a cohort of New York’s finest will trace the development of swing language by exploring six of its regional dialects. The timeline spans 1925, when Jelly Roll Morton recorded “Black Bottom Stomp,” through 1964, when Art Blakey and a spectacular edition of the Jazz Messengers documented Wayne Shorter’s thrilling “Free For All.” Irby recalls that he proposed the idea several years ago after Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis asked his band members to suggest programs for future seasons at the “House of Swing.” “I talked about the different swing styles from the various regions of the country during the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s,” he recalls. “A lot of musicians today don’t deal with them, because they think it’s old style, and with the internet and the growth of musical education, regional differences have smoothed out. But people from New Orleans, Kansas City, Texas, Chicago, California, and New York speak in different dialects. When I’m back home in Alabama, the way I speak is Southern. These things influence the way we play our music.” Widely acknowledged as a master of the alto saxophone since he moved to New York in 1994, Irby himself has first-hand acquaintance with all the approaches in question, including Western Swing, which he first assimilated during adolescence in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from frequent viewings of The Country Boy Eddie Show, and subsequently as a practitioner in the California-based group Cow Bop, led by guitarist Bruce Forman. His personal saxophone influence tree ranges from Sonny Stitt and Charlie Parker to John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, as evidenced on seven strong leader recordings, which include much original music; each showcases his enormous sound, impeccable execution, melodic focus, and ability to spin cogent narratives within the various genres—the blues, ballads, the American Songbook, bebop, hardbop, postbop, and the freedom principle—that bedrock 21st century hardcore jazz expression. He’s ten years into his second tour of duty with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (in which he doubles on flute), following an initial 1995–97 tenure. Thanks to Marsalis’ sagacious policy of eliciting compositions and arrangements from band personnel, Irby has recently augmented the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s vast book with a host of interesting charts, including bracing reinventions of Herbie Hancock’s “Riot,” Thelonious Monk’s “We See,” and Kenny Dorham’s “Short Story,” in addition to his own Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned work, Inferno. He remarks that the orchestra’s genre-spanning aesthetic, encapsulated by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mantra “all jazz is modern,” has expanded his consciousness. “It’s been a blessing to be exposed to so many areas,” Irby says. “The more I try to learn how to play and understand the older styles, to play the songs and arrangements the way the great musicians of those eras played them, the more I realize that I don’t have it together as completely as I thought.” As an example, Irby mentions Benny Carter, whose composition “June In January”— which the alto saxophone pioneer recorded in 1954 with iconic pianist Teddy Wilson and world-historic drummer Jo Jones—he will perform during the section devoted to New York City. “To play a Benny Carter solo is one of the hardest things you’d ever want to do,” Irby says. “To listen to a recording of him playing it is one thing. But when you try to play it, you say, ‘I don’t know how to phrase that way.’ It’s a different tone production. It’s a different volume. It’s a different technique. We didn’t learn those techniques the way they did. It’s humbling.” Jazz at Lincoln Center FRANK STEWART Meet the Artists Sherman Irby Sherman Irby (Music Director, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone Saxophones) was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He found his musical calling at age 12 and in high school he played and recorded with gospel immortal James Cleveland. He graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a B.A. in music education. In 1991 he joined Johnny O’Neal’s Atlanta-based quintet. In 1994 he moved to New York City then recorded his first two albums, Full Circle (1996) and Big Mama’s Biscuits (1998), on Blue Note. Irby toured the U.S. and the Caribbean with the Boys Choir of Harlem in 1995, and was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from 1995 to 1997. During that tenure he also recorded and toured with Marcus Roberts, and was part of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program and Roy Hargrove’s ensemble. After a fouryear stint with Roy Hargrove, Irby focused on his own group in addition to being a member of Elvin Jones’ ensemble in 2004 and then Papo Vazquez’ Vazquez’s Pirates Troubadours after Jones’ passing. From 2003–11 Irby was the regional director for JazzMasters Workshop, mentoring young children, and he has served as artist-in-residence for Jazz Camp West and an instructor for Monterey Jazz Festival Band Camp. He is a former board member for the CubaNOLA Collective. He formed Black Warrior Records and released Black Warrior, Faith, Organ Starter, Live at the Otto Club, and Andy Farber’s This Could Be the Start of Something Big. Since rejoining, Irby has arranged much of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s music, and he has been commissioned to compose new works, including Twilight Sounds, and his Dante-inspired ballet, Inferno. Victor Goines Victor Goines (Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet) is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout the world and recording more than 20 albums. As a leader, Goines has recorded seven albums including his most recent release Twilight (2012) on Rosemary Joseph Records. A gifted composer, Goines has more than 50 original works to his credit, including 2014’s Crescent City, premiered by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He has recorded and/or performed with noted jazz and popular artists including Ahmad Jamal, Ruth Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Willie Nelson, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and a host of others. Currently, he is the director of jazz studies and professor of music at Northwestern University. He received a bachelor of music degree from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1984, and a master of music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond in 1990. Bruce Harris Bruce Harris’ (Trumpet) love for jazz began when he listened to his grandfather play saxophone at a young age, and his love for the trumpet was born after viewing Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues. His journey continued at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, where he was mentored by trumpet virtuoso Jon Faddis and earned a Master’s degree in jazz performance in 2009. He has since performed with Barry Harris, Frank Wess, The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars, Winard Harper, T.S. Monk, Myron Walden, and Jimmy Cobb. In a 2013 Ebony magazine article, Wynton Marsalis highlighted Harris as one of the five important young jazz musicians that should be known. Marsalis went on to select Harris for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jazz at Lincoln Center After Midnight. In the show’s eight-month run, he shared the stage with stars such as Fantasia, Dulé Hill, Vanessa Williams, Toni Braxton, k.d. lang, and Patti LaBelle. Harris is a young cornerstone at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York and its new sister establishment in Doha, Qatar, where he has been invited to bring his band for weekly residencies, as well as in Shanghai, China, where he has performed education events and outreach in anticipation of the opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Shanghai. He has also toured the world regularly with the Count Basie Orchestra. Vincent Gardner Vincent Gardner (Trombone) was born in Chicago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton, Virginia. After singing, playing piano, violin, saxophone, and French horn at an early age, he decided on the trombone at age 12. He attended Florida A&M University and the University of North Florida. He soon caught the ear of Mercer Ellington, who hired Gardner for his first professional job. After graduating from college, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, completed a world tour with Lauryn Hill in 2000, then joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Gardner has served as instructor at The Juilliard School, as visiting instructor at Florida State University and Michigan State University, and as adjunct instructor at The New School. He has contributed many arrangements to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and other ensembles. In 2009 he was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center to write “The Jesse B. Semple Suite,” a 60-minute suite inspired by the short stories of Langston Hughes. Gardner is featured on a number of notable recordings and has recorded five CDs as a leader for Steeplechase Records. He has performed with The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Connick, Jr., The Saturday Night Live Band, Chaka Khan, A Tribe Called Quest, and many others. Eli Bishop Eli Bishop (Violin) began his musical studies with the violin at the age of three. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Bishop was exposed to a wide variety of musical styles during his formative years. He was a student in the pre-college program at The Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and later attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In February 2013 Bishop was a guest soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for a performance of Marsalis’ oratorio, Blood on the Fields. Bishop’s extensive study of various musical styles has provided him with opportunities to perform with artists such as Victor Wooten, Ivan Lins, The Time Jumpers, and Christian Howes. James Chirillo James Chirillo (Guitar, Steel Guitar, Banjo) has worked with the swing era’s recognized greats, including Benny Carter, Eddie Durham, Eddie Barefield, Earle Warren, Frank Wess, and many others. He studied guitar with Remo Palmier and “Tiny” Grimes and composition, arranging, and orchestration with John Carisi and Bill Finegan. Chirillo was a member of Benny Goodman’s last band, and his broadcast performances include PBS’ Let’s Dance. He has recorded with Tony Bennett, Joe Lovano, Marcus Roberts, Bob Wilber, Dick Hyman, and works regularly with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. In 1995 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded him a Jazz Composition Grant for his Homage Concerto for Clarinet and Jazz Orchestra. In 2000 his recording debut as leader, Sultry Serenade, was selected as a critic’s pick by Dan Morgenstern and C. Michael Bailey in Jazz Times and allaboutjazz.com, respectively. In 2002 he was commissioned to write and premiere Grainger Suite, in celebration of the U.S. Military Academy bicentennial. In 2010 he was a member of the onstage band on Jazz at Lincoln Center Broadway for Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away and recently played guitar in After Midnight with the Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars. Charles Craig, Sr. Charles JP Craig, Sr. (Piano) is an accomplished jazz pianist. Craig attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and has played alongside such notable jazz artists as Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Teodross Avery, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Arturo Sandoval, Sherman Irby, Gerald Cannon, Stanley Turrentine, Nicholas Payton, Von Freeman, Bill Pierce, Delfeayo Marsalis, Joshua Redman, and Christian Scott. His piano technique has been featured in recordings of artists including: Art Porter (Polygram), Teodross Avery (My Generation and In Other Words; GRP/Impulse), Roy Hargrove (Polygram), Arturo Sandoval (N2K), and Christian McBride (A Family Affair). Charles has performed live on BET and at various jazz festivals around the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Charles was born in Norfolk, Virginia and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He resides in Rock Hill, South Carolina with his wife, Annette, and their three children, Catrina, Charles, Jr., and Charlene. Gerald Cannon Born in Racine Wisconsin, musician, composer, and visual artist Gerald Cannon’s (Bass) initial inspiration was his father Benjamin, who bought his first electric bass at the age of 12. In 1988 Cannon moved to New York City and began working with jazz giants Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins, Jimmy Smith, Frank Foster, Jimmy Scott, Stanley Turrentine, Roy Hargrove, and Elvin Jones until 2004. Since then he has worked with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Pat Martino, Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Legacy Band, and Abbey Lincoln. Cannon is also a member of the prestigious McCoy Tyner Trio and the Monty Alexander Trio. He was a faculty member for five years at the Conservatory of Maastricht (the Netherlands), taught last semester (2014) at Oberlin College in Ohio, and has given master classes in Europe, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Africa, Japan, and beyond. Alvester Garnett Alvester Garnett (Drums) studied with jazz greats including Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Max Roach, and Lewis Nash. After winning third place in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Drum Competition and graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University, Garnett moved to New York in 1993, working in the bands of both Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln. He has since worked with artists including Wynton Marsalis, James Carter, Regina Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Harry Belafonte, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Patti LaBelle, Fantasia Barrino, k.d. lang, Vanessa Williams, Stefon Harris, Papo Vazquez, Steve Turre, Terry Edwards, and Charenee Wade. In 2013 and 2014 Garnett was the principal percussionist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center All Stars in the Tony Award–winning Broadway show After Midnight. Garnett can be heard in Papo Vazquez’s Big Band and Pirates Troubadours ensembles, performing Puerto Rican bomba and plena jazz. Garnett has started to integrate African percussion with Regina Carter’s Reverse Thread ensemble. He can also be heard on Andy Farber’s recent recording, This Could Be The Start of Something Big. 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, Jazz at Lincoln Center education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. 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During our season-long journey through the Americas, we proudly showcase virtuosos of these rich musical styles, featuring fresh new jazz works, as well as interpretations of foundational composers led by today’s living masters. Anchored by the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, we kicked off the 2014-15 season with the debut of a new collaboration by Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdés, fellow Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez, and Mr. Marsalis. Native Brazilian ensemble SpokFrevo Orquestra made its JALC debut, and musical polymath Bill Frisell returns to curate our Roots of Americana series. We honor legendary baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, a beloved member 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 timeless music of Count Basie, Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Frank Sinatra, and more. Our 27th concert season presents jazz in all its depth, beauty, diversity, relevance, and continuity. Join us and we promise you’ll leave feelin’ good. 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. 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Overman and Paul Weltchek Joan and Howard Weinstein Mildred Weissman Robert C. Wesley, Jr. Naida S. Wharton Foundation Katherine C. Wickham Michael E. Wiles Shelley and Robert Willcox Audrey Strauss and John Wing Richard M. Winn III Benjamin Winter The Craig E. Wishman Foundation Wolfensohn Family Foundation As of December 21, 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Live in Cuba Exhibit On View Now Free and open to the public during scheduled performances In celebration of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Across the Americas season, our current exhibit—Live in Cuba—tells the story of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s week-long residency in Cuba in October, 2010. This historic tour included five performances at the Teatro Mella in Havana, Cuba, in addition to educational workshops throughout the country. The exhibit, located on the fifth floor of Frederick P. Rose Hall, features the photography of Frank Stewart and Ayano Hisa, plus rare video footage from the tour. In addition to an illustrious and international career as a professional photographer, Frank Stewart serves as senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Ayano Hisa, a 2013 fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, is a freelance photographer whose clients include Jazz at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, and Savannah Music Festival. Please stop by the free exhibit to learn more! UPCOMING EVENTS Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall February 2015 THE APPEL ROOM Elio Villafranca’s Music of the Caribbean Featuring Jon Faddis and Leyla McCalla February 20 at 9:30pm/February 21 at 7pm An artist who incorporates elements of Bebo Valdés, Perez Prado, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Elio Villafranca is a leading voice of music today and part of an extraordinary lineage of Cuban pianists. Villafranca possesses a unique gift of conceptualizing projects that fuse the jazz idiom with his extensive knowledge of percussion and Latin rhythms. Along with his band the Jass Syncopators and special guests trumpeter and Dizzy Gillespie protégé Jon Faddis and singer, cellist, and banjo player Leyla McCalla, plus trumpeter Michael Rodriguez, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, trombonist Steve Turre, tenor saxophonist Greg Tardy, clarinetist Michele Wright, bassist Greg August, drummer Willie Jones III, and percussionists Arturo Stable and Jonathan Troncoso, Villafranca will present CinquéSuite of the Caribbean, a debut work focusing on the influences of the Congolese traditions of rhythms, melodies, and dances through the music of Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. Via this six-movement work, Villafranca will showcase unifying elements of these islands, which share similar cultures despite their diverse histories. Free pre-concert discussions, 8:30pm (2/20) & 6pm (2/21). ROSE THEATER New Orleans Songbook February 20–21 at 8pm Pianist Aaron Diehl and vocalists Cyrille Aimée and Milton Suggs kick off the evening by celebrating the composers and inspired songs of New Orleans, the historic epicenter of jazz. The prodigious Diehl, who has reimagined the music of masters like New Orleans’ own Jelly Roll Morton, serves as Music Director. DownBeat calls Suggs, “A commanding singer... steeped in tradition... but with modern sensibilities." The Washington Post describes Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition finalist Aimée as possessing “a voice like fine whiskey – oaky and smooth, with a hint of smokiness.” The evening continues with The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s premiere of founding Artistic Director Irvin Mayfield’s “New Orleans Jazz Market,” a composition celebrating the Orchestra’s soon-to-be-built permanent home of the same name. Free pre-concert discussion nightly, 7pm. Jazz Across the Americas February 27–28 at 8pm Don’t miss the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in their last New York City performance before kicking off an historic tour to South America. For the first time in a decade, the JLCO will visit Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and more. Our audiences in New York City will be the first to witness the Orchestra express the jazz idiom across the Americas through its leading musicians and composers. Lalo Schifrin of Argentina; Hermeto Pascoal of Brazil; Canadians Oscar Peterson and Gil Evans; and Chico O’Farrill of Cuba represent some of the best examples of jazz as an international musical medium of endless exchange. The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis will perform works illuminating the appropriation of jazz by these legendary composers, inspired songs that celebrate jazz as definitively American, and demonstrate the adoption of international classics into the canon of American jazz. Among these will be Gillespiana, Schifrin’s five-movement concerto for long-time collaborator Dizzy Gillespie, and Peterson’s Canadiana Suite, a rare offering of original music that snapshots his embodiment of American traditions such as swing, blues, and gospel. Free pre-concert discussion nightly, 7pm. March 2015 THE APPEL ROOM Salute to Betty Carter March 6–7 at 7pm & 9:30pm Betty Carter blazed her own trail as one of the most original jazz vocalists of our time. Drummer and music director Alvester Garnett and rising star vocalist Charenee Wade celebrate the legacy of Carter, who would have turned 85 this year. Garnett, joined by other past members of Betty Carter’s band including saxophonist Craig Handy, pianists Jacky Terrasson and Stephen Scott, bassists Michael Bowie and Curtis Lundy, and drummer Winard Harper will share memories of his first touring experience with Carter, performing some of her trademark tunes including “What A Little Moonlight Can Do” and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Rounding out the performance will be tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman, who recently paid tribute to Betty Carter in a performance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. Free pre-concert discussion nightly, 6pm & 8:30pm. Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor Tickets starting at $10 To purchase tickets call CenterCharge: 212-721-6500 or visit: jazz.org. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office is located on Broadway at 60th Street, Ground Floor. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 12pm-6pm. For groups of 15 or more: 212-258-9875 or jazz.org/groups. For more information about our education programs, visit academy.jazz.org. For Swing University and WeBop enrollment: 212-258-9922. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. UPCOMING EVENTS Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall February 2015 Sounds of Brazil: Mario Adnet with Duduka Da Fonseca, Eduardo Belo, Vitor Gonçalves, and Billy Drewes February 20–22 7:30pm & 9:30pm MONDAY NIGHTS WITH WBGO Jimmy Greene Quartet: Beautiful Life with David Bryant, Luke Sellick, and Jimmy MacBride February 23 7:30pm & 9:30pm William Paterson University Jazz Ensembles & Orchestra February 24 7:30pm & 9:30pm The Amigos and Ken Peplowski with Justin Poindexter, Sam Reider, Noah Garabedian, and Will Clark February 25 7:30pm & 9:30pm The Music of Dexter Gordon: A Celebration The Dexter Gordon Legacy Ensemble with George Cables, Gerald Cannon, Lewis Nash, Joe Locke, Abraham Burton, and Craig Handy February 26–March 1 7:30pm & 9:30pm March 2015 Eastman Jazz Ensemble with Dave Glasser Tribute to Billy Strayhorn March 2 7:30pm & 9:30pm Cyrus Chestnut Trio March 3–5 7:30pm & 9:30pm The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery Featuring Calvin Keys & Yotam Silberstein March 6–8 7:30pm & 9:30pm Chihiro Yamanaka Trio with Yasushi Nakamura and Kush Abadey March 9 7:30pm & 9:30pm Anton Schwartz Quintet March 10 with Scott Wendholt, Danny Grissett, Ugonna Okegwo, and Lorca Hart 7:30pm & 9:30pm The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn with Lesedi Ntsame, Victor Gould, Eric Wheeler, Kush Abadey, Alexandrea Johnson, and Phantom Knoet March 11 7:30pm & 9:30pm Gregory Generet The Storytellers: Hartman, Coltrane & Williams with Orrin Evans, Willie Jones III, and Gerald Cannon March 12 7:30pm & 9:30pm Jacky Terrasson Quintet Take This Album Release Party March 13–15 7:30pm and 9:30pm In deference to the artists, patrons of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola are encouraged to keep conversations to a whisper during the performance. Artists and schedule subject to change. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Time Warner Center, 5th floor New York. Reservations: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys; Group Reservations: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys-reservations Nightly Artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Late Night Session sets Tuesday through Saturday. Doors open at 11:15pm Cover Charge: $20–45. Special rates for students with valid student ID. Full dinner available at each artist set. Rose Theater and The Appel Room concert attendees, present your ticket stub to get 50% off the late-night cover charge at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Fridays and Saturdays. Jazz at Lincoln Center merchandise is now available at the concession stands during performances in Rose Theater and The Appel Room. Items also available in Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola during evening operating hours. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola gift cards now available. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. jazz at lincoln center february family concert: who is billie holiday? FEB 7 • 1PM, 3PM • JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE SERIES With Aaron Diehl and Charenee Wade dianne reeves FEB 13–14 • 8PM Vocalist Dianne Reeves returns for Valentine’s Day. Join us for a special pre-concert Valentine’s Day dinner (2/14 only). sherman irby’s journey through swing FEB 20 • 7PM | FEB 21 • 9:30PM Sherman Irby and friends explore the music of Charlie Parker, Freddie Hubbard, and more elio villafranca’s music of the caribbean FEB 20 • 9:30PM | FEB 21 • 7PM With Elio Villafranca, Jon Faddis, Leyla McCalla, and the Jass Syncopators new orleans songbook FEB 20–21 • 8PM Cyrille Aimée, Milton Suggs, Aaron Diehl, and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra with Irvin Mayfield jazz across the americas FEB 27–28 • 8PM Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Frederick P. Rose Hall Broadway at 60th Street Box Office: Ground Floor CenterCharge: 212-721-6500 jazz.org Lead Corporate Supporter of Jazz Across the Americas The Jazz for Young People Family Concert is funded through the generosity of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun. jazz at lincoln center march salute to betty carter MAR 6–7 • 7PM, 9:30PM • THE APPEL ROOM Drummer and music director Alvester Garnett, vocalist Charenee Wade, saxophonist Craig Handy, pianists Jacky Terrasson and Stephen Scott, bassists Michael Bowie and Curtis Lundy, drummer Winard Harper, and tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman webop family jazz party: webop goes marching in MAR 7 • 1PM, 3PM • VARIS LEICHTMAN STUDIO Come marching into spring with the WeBop Family Band as they march and parade along to the funky beat of New Orleans in this interactive performance for families paquito d’rivera: around the americas MAR 27–28 • 8PM • ROSE THEATER Clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera tours the music of South America with pianist Alex Brown, bassist Oscar Stegnaro, drummer Mark Walker, trombonist and trumpeter Diego Urcola, percussionist Pernell Saturnino, and string ensemble Quinteto Cimarron Frederick P. Rose Hall Broadway at 60th Street Box Office: Ground Floor CenterCharge: 212-721-6500 jazz.org Lead Corporate Supporter of Salute to Betty Carter
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