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METROPOLITAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Swingin’ with the Met Celebrating the Music of the Big Band Era with Special Guests Darden Purcell, Voice Victor Provost, Pan Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 8 p.m.

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There will be no intermission.

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OUR ORCHESTRA Saxophones Charlie Young Mary Nau Luis Hernandez Lyle Link Xavier Perez Dustin Mollick Trombones Jim McFalls Aaron Eckert Dave Perkel Jeff Cortazzo

Trumpets Thomas Eby Tom Williams Kenny Rittenhouse Graham Breedlove

Rhythm Section Wade Beach, Piano Regan Brough, Bass Steve Fidyk, Drums Shawn Purcell, Guitar

Voice Darden Purcell

Student Assistant Ronald Lee Jr.

Pan Victor Provost

HELLO FROM JIM CARROLL, FOUNDER, MASON JAZZ Dear Friends, I believe it is more important than ever that we learn as much as possible about America’s great contribution to the arts: JAZZ. Jazz is America’s diary and has been designated as a “rare and valuable national treasure”

by Congress in House Resolution 57. As an educator I feel a strong sense of purpose to pass on to my students their rightful cultural inheritance.

Its value is beyond priceless. As a human being I feel a deep sense of gratitude to those who came before and sacrificed so much so that we may have such a rich and abundant heritage.

Excerpt from friend Wynton Marsalis, The Road Ahead: “Jazz People come from all walks of life. The music is easily played in every environment from the subway to the park to a corner dive [and to our own Center for the Arts!]. It comes from salt of the earth people who created it to be down home and hospitable, humble, and rough and tumble. Jazz music was built in the cacophonous turbulence of 1890s New Orleans with the hardy constitution to lift us beyond troubled times. It is filled with a transformative positivity, if only because of the thought that

a whole band could play all night without music, and each member could improvise new melodies on the harmonies of songs while organizing themselves as they made it up together.

“If you consider the opposition to what they were playing at the time (it was called the devil’s music, nonsense, ignorant, racket… and treated to all levels of racial insult from the sophomoric to the sophisticated), these musicians must have possessed an irrepressible spirit that inspired them and still inhabits this music, and can lift us as we grapple with our everyday struggles.”

From mentor and jazz educator extraordinaire David Baker: “As the decade of the forties opened and the big band swing movement went into a drastic decline, Duke Ellington publicly and vigorously stated his belief that jazz was badly in need of something new, that it needed some sort of musical blood transfusion to restore its waning vigor.

At the time, Duke’s charge was held treasonable by those of his fellow titans who were smugly content with their music or too deaf to hear the anemic note that had crept into it. Yet anyone who cared to listen objectively could tell that jazz had fallen into a rut.” (Esquire’s World of Jazz, New York, Esquire, 1962) In The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967), Harold Cruse is really speaking to every American: “Without a cultural identity that adequately defines itself, the American (paraphrase) cannot even identify with the nation as a whole. He is left in the limbo of social marginality, alienated and directionless on the landscape of America–in a variegated nation not yet decided on its own identity. The fact of the matter is that Americans, as a whole, are in doubt about their nationality–as well as their cultural identity.”

America has produced some of the world’s greatest artists and musicians, many of whom are unknown to our citizens. I believe at this time, as we search for our national identity, is it more important than ever that we have the courage recognize these artists and to say THANK YOU where thanks is due.

– Jim Carroll, 2021

OUR SPECIAL GUEST VOCALIST Darden Purcell is a Washington, D.C.-based jazz vocalist featured with symphony orchestras, big bands, and small ensembles, and a Jazz educator. She has shared the stage with such jazz artists as Eric Alexander, Terell Stafford, Jim Pugh, Chip McNeill, Alan Baylock, Byron Stripling, Bobby Floyd, Jim Carroll, The Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, the U.S. Navy Band Commodores, the U.S.A.F. Airmen of Note, the U.S. Army Blues, and the American Festival Pops Orchestra. She has performed nationally and internationally in such venues as Blues Alley, Club Bonafide (New York City), Pops for Champagne, The Jazz Kitchen, Blue Wisp, The Bop Stop, JazzB (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the Sandler Center, the Meyerhoff Center, Wolf Trap, and the Kennedy Center (back-up vocals for Mr. George Benson, Caroline Shaw, Ben Folds, and Sara Bareilles). Ms. Purcell is the Director of Jazz Studies, Jazz Voice Instructor, and Director of the Mason Jazz Vocal Ensemble at George Mason University.

She is a former Washington, D.C. Air Force Band vocalist, performing in Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. She has performed back-up vocals for Chaka Khan, BeBe Winans, Bryan White, Lari White, Janie Frickie, Freda Payne, Sherrie Payne, Gloria Loring, Melba Moore, and Rita Coolidge, and for Darlene Love on The Late Show with David Letterman.

Ms. Purcell is an active jazz vocal educator and clinician. Her groups have performed at the New York Voices Jazz Festival, Western Michigan’s Gold Company Jazz Vocal Invitational, the 2012, 2017, 2018 Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conferences, Kansas City Jazz Summit (awarded “Outstanding Ensemble”), and ACCENT Vocal Festival. They have also shared the stage with The New York Voices, ACCENT, and The Manhattan Transfer. She has served as faculty for Illinois Summer Youth Music, Mason Summer Jazz Workshop, and the National Jazz Workshop.

She has been a guest artist/clinician/presenter at the University of Illinois, Texas Tech University, Virginia Tech, Southern Nazarene University, Illinois Wesleyan, Tiffin University, Capital University, Virginia Music Educators Association, the “Jazz Voices” Conference in Graz, Austria, and Projeto GURI in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her students have been awarded finalist spots in vocal competitions, “Outstanding Soloist” and “Outstanding Musicianship” awards at collegiate festivals, and Downbeat Student Music Awards.

Ms. Purcell received her Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Jazz Performance at Virginia Tech, and a Master of Music and a Ph.D. in Musical Arts in Jazz Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visit Darden at dardenpurcell.com.

OUR SPECIAL GUEST PANNIST Victor Provost’s performances transcend the expectations of instrument and genre. With appearances at major venues throughout the world (including Shanghai Concert Hall, Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, the Umbria Jazz Festival, and the Kennedy Center), he has been meticulously solidifying his reputation as a master of the Steel Pan and crafting an improvisational voice and style to be reckoned with. His ability to extemporaneously weave through complex jazz harmony with accuracy and conviction, while being thoughtful and creative, often elicits the statement “I didn’t know a steel pan could do that.” He is one of a handful of pan players in the world who have incorporated the foundation of bebop into his playing and, arguably, the only one who has expounded on that vocabulary with a modern sensibility and style.

Born and raised on the island of St. John, Provost was first exposed to the steel pan at age 11 through Steel Unlimited II Youth Steel Orchestra, under the leadership of pan pioneer Rudy Wells. It was with this group of extraordinary young musicians that Provost first cut his teeth on the world stage, traveling throughout the U.S., France, Switzerland, Denmark, and Germany. The Orchestra eventually disbanded, but the experience planted the seed that prepared him to continue learning through several sessions with Wells and, in 2007, an intense year-long study with legendary Jazz Guru Charlie Banacos.

In 1998, Provost became the first steel pan soloist to be featured at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. The experience boosted both his confidence in the craft and his musical concept. Since his move to the United States in 1999, Provost has had recorded, toured, and performed with several award-winning groups (including the GRAMMY Awardwinning Afro Bop Alliance) and renowned artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Samuels, Hugh Masakela, Nicolas Payton, Allison Hinds, Andy Narell, Terell Stafford, and Ron Blake, to name a few.

Along with a demanding performance schedule, Provost teaches private lessons, directs the George Mason University Steel Ensemble, and works with the Cultural Academy for Excellence, one of the premier steel pan music education programs in the eastern U.S.

OUR DIRECTOR Jim Carroll has a versatile background ranging from tours with Michael Jackson to Woody Herman and The Thundering Herd. He received both his undergraduate and graduate training from Indiana University under the tutelage of David Baker and Eugene Rousseau.

His travels have taken him to major venues in each of the fifty states, Europe, and the Far East. He has performed at the Aurex, Nice, Bern, Concord, Montreux, Kool, Monterey, Newport, North Sea, Perugia, and Pori jazz festivals. Active as an educator, he has taught at Butler University, Capital University, and the Jamey Aebersold Summer Workshops.

Mr. Carroll is the founder of Mason’s Jazz Studies program, the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, and the Jazz Connection. He is the recipient of Mason’s 2018 Teaching Excellence award with special recognition in teaching General Education, and the recipient of the 2021 Jack Wood Town and Gown award for his work with Jazz4Justice™. He is passionate about spreading the word of the power of the arts to bring people together, change lives, and do good in the world. Jim resides in Manassas, Virginia with his wife, Janette.

H.CON.RES 57 Passed by the 100th Congress of the United States of America Introduced by the Honorable John Conyers Jr. Whereas, jazz has achieved preeminence throughout the world as an indigenous American music and art form, bringing to this country and the world a uniquely American musical synthesis and culture through the African-American experience and 1. makes evident to the world an outstanding artistic model of individual expression and democratic cooperation within the creative process, thus fulfilling the highest ideals and aspirations of our republic, 2. is a unifying force, bridging cultural, religious, ethnic and age differences in our diverse society, 3. is a true music of the people, finding its inspiration in the cultures and most personal experiences of the diverse peoples that constitute our Nation, 4. has evolved into a multifaceted art form which continues to birth and nurture new stylistic idioms and cultural fusions, 5. has had an historic, pervasive and continuing influence on other genres of music both here and abroad, and 6. has become a true international language adopted by musicians around the world as a music best able to express contemporary realities from a personal perspective; Whereas, this great American musical art form has not yet been properly recognized nor accorded the institutional status commensurate with its value and importance; Whereas, it is important for the youth of America to recognize and understand jazz as a significant part of their cultural and intellectual heritage; Whereas, in as much as there exists no effective national infrastructure to support and preserve jazz;

Whereas, documentation and archival support required by such a great art form has yet to be systematically applied to the jazz field; and Whereas, it is now in the best interest of the national welfare and all of our citizens to preserve and celebrate this unique art form; Now, therefore be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), that it is the sense of the Congress that jazz is hereby designated as a rare and valuable national American treasure to which we should devote our attention, support and resources to make certain it is preserved, understood and promulgated.

Passed by the House of Representatives September 23, 1987 Passed by the Senate December 4, 1987

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