TKA USA Touring Catalog 2013-2014

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Table Of Contents SPECIAL PROJECTS

2 Pat Metheny Group 3 The Blue Room: Madeleine Peyroux 4 60th Anniversary Jazz At Massey Hall with Phil Woods, Jon Faddis & the Bill Charlap Trio

5 Jazz At Lincoln Center Presents Singers Over Manhattan 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

featuring the John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jane Monheit and Wess Anderson The Enchantment: Chick Corea & Bela Fleck Béla Fleck & Marcus Roberts Trio Abyssinian Mass: Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Dee Dee Bridgewater sings The Blues The Shape Of Jazz To Come: Ravi Coltrane Quartet / Terence Blanchard Quintet The Soul Of Jazz: Ramsey Lewis & Dee Dee Bridgewater Straighten Up & Fly Right featuring Ramsey Lewis / John Pizzarelli American Legacies: Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Del McCoury Band A Night In Treme (The Musical Majesty Of New Orleans) Del McCoury sings Woody Guthrie Masters Of Bluegrass: Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Jerry McCoury Ann Hampton Callaway presents the Streisand Songbook POEMJAZZ Robert Pinsky & Laurence Hobgood Stanley Clarke & the Harlem String Quartet Olé Coltrane featuring Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band with special guest James Carter Fred Hersch: Leaves of Grass, My Coma Dreams, Duets with Julian Lage Gary Burton 70th Birthday Tour The New Orleans Bingo! Show Rudresh Mahanthappa Gamak ARTISTS

Jon Anderson / Terence Blanchard Rory Block / Dee Dee Bridgewater Gary Burton / Ann Hampton Callaway James Carter Chick Corea Bill Charlap / Stanley Clarke Tinsley Ellis / Tigran Hamasyan Ravi Coltrane Roy Haynes / Fred Hersch Stacey Kent / Ramsey Lewis Rudresh Mahanthappa / Delfeayo Marsalis Ellis Marsalis / Wynton Marsalis Del McCoury Band / John McLaughlin Cécile McLorin Salvant / Pat Metheny Danilo Pérez / Madeleine Peyroux Christian McBride Preservation Hall Jazz Band / Poncho Sanchez John Pizzarelli Red Baraat Quetzal / Maria Schneider Orchestra Sonny Rollins Soul Rebels TKA Roster

Pat Metheny Group

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“Metheny’s sinuous liquid guitar and Mr. May’s hushed romantic keyboards help to blend a pop-jazz that has a special atmospheric intensity.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“Metheny is one of the few jazz musicians who can speak the language of Ornette Coleman while also filling large venues.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE The PAT METHENY GROUP, founded in 1977, may well be Metheny’s most popular band project. The core members of the group are guitarist and bandleader Pat Metheny, composer, keyboardist and pianist, Lyle Mays (who was part of the group’s inception in 1977), bassist and producer Steve Rodby and composer and drummer Antonio Sanchez. The group has seven CDs with accompanying Grammy Awards. PMG will be going for their eighth with their next release in 2013.

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The Blue Room: Madeleine Peyroux “If you weren’t at Madeleine Peyroux’s performance at the Wyly last night, I’m really sorry. You’ve probably missed one of the best shows to come to Dallas this year.”

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“If her ability to reimagine classics and sing rings around songs wasn’t enough, it turns out she’s a pretty good jazz/ blues guitarist too. ” THE SCOTSMAN When Ray Charles layered the Nashville sound with his deep-set blues, R&B, and gospel out of Georgia and channeled it through his core group of Los Angelinos musicians and singers, he created the wildly successful, crossover hit, “Modern Sounds In Country & Western Music.”

Ray had more than a few heart-felt renditions of country songs on his albums, and many critics have long wondered what the album would sound like after shaking off all of that Hollywood dross. Who better to investigate Ray’s album and bring it into the post-modern world? Who better to get right to the heartache of Country than MADELEINE PEYROUX? Produced by Larry Klein, the music of Ray Charles and a handful of Peyroux’s “hit” songs are arranged for Orchestra.

60th Anniversary Jazz at Massey Hall with Phil Woods, Jon Faddis and the Bill Charlap Trio “When the jazz pianist Bill Charlap played at the Jazz Standard in Manhattan in April, the audience was still, breathing as one. Regardless of the rhythm, he played with an intensity that mesmerized.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“The trio’s versatility is on full display here, and they tear through Rodgers and Hart’s “The Lady Is A Tramp” at a breakneck pace with plenty of humor, then caress the hell out of Harold Arlen’s “It’s Only A Paper Moon.”

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Charlie Parker! Dizzy Gillespie! Bud Powell! Max Roach! Charlie Mingus! Having already carved out their historic place in the pantheon of jazz, those towering legends convened on Massey Hall in Toronto in 1953 for one concert of totally improvised, in the pocket, bebop.

They had never played together before, or since. Over the years, this concert has achieved mythic proportions and later lauded as “The greatest jazz concert EVER.” Mingus and Roach had recorded the concert, which was both a good thing for history as well as the artists, as they were never fully paid for the gig…due to poor attendance! BILL CHARLAP has connected PHIL WOODS and JON FADDIS with his BILL CHARLAP TRIO for the 60th Silver Anniversary celebration of the concert at Massey Hall. Charlap brings his innate sense of time, place and melody to revisit this historic meeting of jazz brothers, swinging that bebop again in tribute to that night when they created jazz that was incredible, inventive, remarkable, and, as one reviewer wrote, “occasionally raucous.”

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Singers Over Manhattan featuring the John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jane Monheit and special guest Wess Anderson “In his alto style, there’s no chasm between the chivalrous croon of Johnny Hodges and the roguish charisma of Charlie Parker; sophisticated yet easily accessible.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“With Monheit, you get a beautiful, theatrically supple voice — masterful and effortless in every jaw-dropping delivery; with Pizzarelli, you get a terrific jazz guitarist armed with incredible improv skills and a smile-inducing rapport with the audience that’s part stand-up comic routine, part headboppin’ fun.”

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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENTS takes one of their most popular programs on the road! The 2013-2014 “Singers Over Manhattan” tour will feature one of Manhattan’s prominent vocalists, JOHN PIZZARELLI and his Quartet with guest vocalist JANE MONHEIT. Sitting in with the band is Jazz at Lincoln Center’s own WESS ANDERSON on saxophone.

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Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: The Enchantment

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“Pianist Chick Corea and banjoist Béla Fleck may not seem like a natural pairing… Supernatural is more like it.”

WASHINGTON POST

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“Any jazz fan who doubts a piano/banjo duet can make beautiful music will experience an attitude adjustment while listening to this stellar disc.”

BILLBOARD Every so often a project seems to come out of nowhere, that’s unexpected, captivating, and utterly original. “The Enchantment” is truly one of those collaborations. The first-ever studio album from CHICK COREA and BÉLA FLECK captured the astonishing interplay that happens between these two master musicians whenever they happen to share the stage. As a duo, Corea and Fleck solo together with intricate precision and verve, swerving through remarkable and breathtaking excursions of parallel lines, then each musician going their own way, following their own muse, but weaving back again in perfect sync. Truly an “ongoing odyssey of genius,” as Amazon noted.

Béla Fleck & Marcus Roberts Trio “...truly staggering, awe-inspiring... what really gave me the chills were those moments when piano and banjo converged over simple melodies to create a richly textured yet free-floating sound.”

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“‘Across The Imaginary Divide’ produces unexpected pleasures.

Roberts’ Trio–a well-honed ensemble that can shift meter and tempo instantaneously, and to dramatic effect–gives this thoroughly engaging recording its ballast, while Fleck’s silvery solos dance buoyantly around the backbeats.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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BÉLA FLECK, the world’s preeminent banjo player with 14 Grammy wins has garnered a reputation for genre-bending exemplified by his collaborations with a tabla player, an African thumb pianist, and a traditional bluegrass band. THE MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO, led by Roberts on piano, JASON MARSALIS on drums and RODNEY JORDAN on bass, are keen torch-holders of the classic jazz tradition. The mix of these four—Roberts, Fleck, Jordan, Marsalis—create a new direction forward in jazz on the album, “Across The Imaginary Divide.”

The music is deeply rooted in the form, while pulling from the extensive backgrounds and musical journeys of all the members, creating stellar performances that are exuberant, fresh, soaring, bold, and of course, eclectic.

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Abyssinian Mass: Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with with Wynton Wynton Marsalis Marsalis The work is an ambitious, inspired program traversing jazz history, from spirituals to hard-bop, first performed to celebrate the bi-centenary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York.

This large-scale work brings together the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a mass choir performing modernist variants of New Orleans dirges and struts, the modal excursions of hard-bop and the Ellington big-band legacies of brassy interplay and sumptuously harmonised ballads. from the concert notes: “You seek glory from any pew, not just the last. So you build your own house and you worship with dignity. You lead without fear. You give hope, throwing your healing arms around the darker third of Manhattan and sending souls swirling to the heavens like Dizzy Gillespie solos. Raise your voice and sing as ABYSSINIAN CHOIR and the JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA embark on an historic, hand-clappin’, tambourineslappin’ celebration of the 200th anniversary of The Abyssinian Baptist Church with a new Marsalis commission for Jazz Orchestra and Choir.”

9 “What a joyful noise [the Abyssinian Choir] made, as soloists and en masse, giving this exceedingly long and picaresque suite some of the energy you hear in churches and halls where God is praised with freespirited, non-stop singing and hollering…[their] ecstatic reading of the Mass elevated Marsalis’s riffs to the high heavens.”

THE GUARDIAN [UK]

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“Here were the throaty reeds, percussive trumpet blasts and visceral sense of swing that have made the LCJO the greatest large jazz ensemble working today.” CHICAGO TRIBUNE “It was a reminder of what a magnificent instrument Marsalis has created over the years. Does there exist anywhere in the world a band so finely balanced across every section, so virtuoso in all its individual parts, and with an invigorating blend of discipline and joy?”

DAILY TELEGRAPH [UK]

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“[JLCO] is one of the strongest, swingin-est bands in the land.”

ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH “Led with fierce determination by trumpeter and former ‘Young Lion’ Wynton, Marsalis, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra is sort of a roving, 15-headed family of finely tuned ambassadors dedicated to advancing the cause of jazz around the world.”

LOS ANGELES TIMES

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Dee Dee Bridgewater sings The Blues “With her rangy chameleonic voice, Ms. Bridgewater can venture anywhere she pleases. Fearlessly flexing her instrument, she released uninhibited streams of consciousness that prodded her musicians to follow her into wide-open spaces where they seemed happy to go.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“Dee Dee Bridgewater has a technique and musicality that bests most performers of her generation, and her understanding of the ‘great American songbook’ makes pretenders pale in comparison. ” THE GUARDIAN [UK]

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DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER, internationally renowned triple-Grammy award winning artist, continues her musical odyssey. Bridgewater, who traced her personal and musical roots to Mali with Grammy-nominated “Red Earth” and then garnered a Grammy award for her “Eleanora Fagan” tribute to Billie Holiday, now embarks on a discovery of her US roots. Born in Memphis, TN and raised in Flint, MI, Bridgewater was steeped in those vernacular sounds. Her newest explorations meld all these influences with her international flair.

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The Shape Of Jazz To Come: Ravi Coltrane Quartet Terence Blanchard Quintet “This is performance at it’s most astonishing and enjoyable.

Improvised passages evolve into complex soundscapes, always returning to seamless musical unity, often when least expected.”

ARTSHUB [Australia]

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“For someone who has so often been haunted by the past, Coltrane sounds unafraid to raise old spirits and affectionately dispel them.”

JAZZTIMES Ornette Coleman’s 1959 release, The Shape of Jazz to Come, was a watershed event in the history of jazz, profoundly affecting the course of the genre for decades to come. In much the same way, TERENCE BLANCHARD and RAVI COLTRANE are pushing jazz forward with their uniquely written songs performed by their hand-picked band mates. Ravi Coltrane is fresh off a critically acclaimed Blue Note Records debut, and Terence Blanchard is preparing for his own Blue Note release in 2013. This co-bill concert will surely take today’s audiences on an adventure into the future.

The Soul Of Jazz: Ramsey Lewis Dee Dee Bridgewater

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“The music here is, as always with Lewis, infectious, telling, and powerful.”

SMOOTH JAZZ GUIDE

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“[Bridgewater’s] range of colours is wide...most compelling and distinctive, however, was her command of the basics: swing and vocal power. This is a big voice.”

THE AGE [Australia] When jazz was soul and soul was jazz, and radio played just about everything that was good, no matter what the genre, DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER and RAMSEY LEWIS made some of the finest sides of vinyl there was. Spend the night with some of their faves from back in the day, pumping your heart and soul into overdrive, then simmering it on down to a sensual smooth glow. Some of the selections: Stevie Wonder’s “I Can’t Help It;” Herbie Hancock’s “Stitched Up;” Aretha’s version of “River’s Invitation;” Bill Withers’ “Just the Two of Us;” Michael Franks’ “Night Moves;” “If You Believe” from ‘The Wiz’; “I Just Wanna Make Love to You”; and in memory of the late great Whitney Houston the tour-de-force, “I Will Always Love You.”

Straighten Up & Fly Right featuring Ramsey Lewis John Pizzarelli

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“Pizzarelli remains a master of Nat King Cole cool, swinging such standards as ‘Just In Time.’”

THE SEATTLE TIMES “It’s a mark of how much Lewis understands what people want from a piece of music that he remains one of jazz’s most broadly popular figures, yet still holds on to an unshakeable degree of respectability. ” BBC

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Nat King Cole broke the pop barrier with his smoky, smooth vocals, stringing along a huge number of solid hits right after his first “Straighten Up And Fly Right” soared up the charts in 1943. As a singer, he was called “the best friend a song ever had,” but he was essentially a jazz performer at heart. Even those later tracks crafted for the pop charts belie a piano technique, vocal phrasings, and on-the-mark orchestration that are indebted to his early roots in jazz.

RAMSEY LEWIS and JOHN PIZZARELLI have crafted a tribute to the titan of fifties vocal pop, from his hits along with those singular tracks of sophisticated cool jazz that have influenced their own careers.

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American Legacies: Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Del McCoury Band “Collaboration is what made America great. On ‘American Legacies,’ The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band come together in a brilliant collaboration of New Orleans Jazz and Bluegrass... [this] is authentic, well executed, interesting, and an absolute joy to listen to.”

NO DEPRESSION

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“…they’ve explicity made their traditions melt together.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES Together in concert, the PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND and the DEL MCCOURY BAND create a seamless blend of soul-lifting traditional harmonies in a place where the high and lonesome sound of the Appalachians meets the hot and lively jazz of New Orleans.

Fresh off a fruitful recording collaboration, as well as a joint performance at Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday celebration in Madison Square Garden, these American Musical Legacies took their show on the road. This gathering of these two legendary groups of musicians from two distinctly American musical lineages is, as No Depression noted; “smoking-hot and one hell of a barn-burning good time.”

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A Night In Treme (The Musical Majesty Of New Orleans)

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“...[the concert] retained a transportive drive that went further than the show.”

LA TIMES

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“[They] won over the audience with the force of their exuberant personalities during individual showcases and collective romps.”

WASHINGTON POST The Treme neighborhood of New Orleans has been a source of African-American music and culture for as long as cooks in the Crescent City have been serving red beans and rice on Monday nights. Birthplace of the great New Orleans brass band tradition and one of the first black neighborhoods in America, Treme (pronounced truh-MAY) is the heartbeat of New Orleans and the home to Congo Square. Ted Kurland Associates and Absolutely Live Entertainment, in association with Wendell Pierce (who plays the smooth-talking trombonist Antoine Batiste on Treme), have an exclusive agreement with HBO to present A NIGHT IN TREME (THE MUSICAL MAJESTY OF NEW ORLEANS). Each performance showcases prominent New Orleans musicians featured in the television show.

Del McCoury sings Woody Guthrie “My father’s earliest musical influences were the string bands of North Texas in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s. If he were making music today, it would sound like the Del McCoury Band.”

NORA GUTHRIE

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“…they’ve explicity made their traditions melt together.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES A cache of Woody Guthrie’s unsung lyrics were bestowed to the DEL McCOURY BAND in order to build a program of new songs that hewed to the classic Guthrie tradition. Dubbed the “Dust Bowl Troubadour,” Woody crafted his works out of the rent and torn fabric of the Great Depression and his personal experiences as a migrant worker traveling from the Okies to California. Guthrie’s notebooks hold lyric upon lyric that his restless spirit wrote, but never found the time to put into song. With the backing of the Guthrie family here is an evening of unheard lyrics from WOODY GUTHRIE, America’s folk poet, with music composed by the most awarded artist in the history of bluegrass, DEL McCOURY.

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Masters of Bluegrass: Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J. D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Jerry McCoury “The true legends of bluegrass music — like those of blues and jazz, and even the first and second generation of rock ’n’ roll — aren’t going to be around forever. So, if you get a chance to see them, don’t pass it up. Here’s one the Del McCoury Band.”

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE

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“Another exciting development is the formation of a super all-star special project band, billing as Masters of Bluegrass.”

BLUEGRASS TODAY One of Bluegrass Music’s greatest strengths is that we still have a direct connection to its pioneers. The members of the MASTERS OF BLUEGRASS, a venerated Dream Team, have toted up more than two centuries experience playing music and have all served directly under the founders of this All-American genre. When these five men get together on one stage and celebrated the history of Bluegrass, you can be sure of two things. One, is that you will have a kick-ass concert true to the roots of Bluegrass and, two, they know better than anyone to show everyone a grand old time, so...anything can happen.

Ann Hampton Callaway presents the Streisand Songbook

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“[Ann] lifted these songs to expressive heights rarely attained by any singer.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“[Callaway] brought her incomparable vocals, sparkling wit, easy humor, and unique interpretations to each and every number she performed.”

CABARET CHRONICLES Platinum Award-winning singer-songwriter ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY celebrates the music of one of America’s most powerful and enduring musical artists, singing timeless classics from five decades of Barbra Streisand’s multi-faceted career. The Tony-nominated actress puts her unique pop/jazz spin on unforgettable songs from Barbra’s Broadway years, “Funny Girl,” to her film work, “A Star Is Born,” from her early pop albums, “People,” to her later concept albums like “Higher Ground,” which debuted at number 1 on Billboard and featured Ann’s original peace anthem “At The Same Time.” In a night of soaring songs and stories, Callaway promises us a performance that not only celebrates the extraordinary career of Barbra Streisand, but also reminds us of “the way we were.”

POEMJAZZ Robert Pinsky & Laurence Hobgood

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“The sympathetic reverberations between the music of poetry and the poetry of music have rarely been so fully amplified as they are on this recording. I wish we could all hear new work like this all the time.”

KURT ELLING

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“The poet’s performances are rich with spontaneous touches—repeating phrases, doubling back on words, inserting freshly elucidating text—worthy of Ella, Anita O’Day or, most accurately, Mark Murphy and Elling.”

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POEMJAZZ treats a voice speaking poetry like that of a horn: speech with its own poetic melody and rhythm in conversation with what the music is doing; a vibrant conversation between the sounds of poetry and music. ROBERT PINSKY, the only three-term United States Poet Laureate, brings an innovative energy to all he does. In 2010, his libretto for Tod Machover’s opera, “Death and the Powers: A Robot Pageant,” premiered in Monaco before coming to Boston’s ART. His adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s “Wallenstein” will be presented next season by the Shakespeare Theater of Washington, D.C. LAURENCE HOBGOOD is a multiple Grammy nominee and 2010 Grammy winner, best known for his collaboration with vocalist Kurt Elling. He’s played on, composed, arranged and co-produced all of Elling’s CDs, each Grammy nominated. by special arrangement with the steven barclay agency

Stanley Clarke & the Harlem String Quartet “[Harlem String Quartet] are bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.

They radiated their joy of playing in every note.” Cincinnati Enquirer” CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

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“Clarke is at the top of his game... Clarke sounds invigorated as he steps away from the electric excursions that made him the gold standard for awe-struck admirers, going unplugged for a joyous return to acoustic bass.”

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Cutting-edge classical with virtuoso jazz. STANLEY CLARKE once again expands the realm of his music with the award-winning HARLEM STRING QUARTET. Their debut together at the 2012 Montreal Jazz Festival blew away the crowd and the critics. Here is what DownBeat had to say: “Friday night at the Montreal Jazz Festival, acoustic/electric bassist Stanley Clarke teamed up with the Harlem String Quartet, a cutting-edge modern classical group that not only proved itself capable of nailing Clarke’s complex charts but also demonstrated great capacity for content-rich improvisation. This wasn’t the kind of string section that pads and sweetens; [they] collaborated with Clarke as an artistic entity that displayed top-notch chops, sensitive ears and surprising guts.”

Olé Coltrane featuring Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Jazz Band w/ special guest James Carter

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“{James Carter is] The complete musician, a technician with no apparent limits and a poet of deep sensibility.”

DETROIT NEWS “Once the Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band took the stage, the emotional temperature shot up, with nine extraordinarily well-disciplined instrumentalists igniting arrangements that proved texturally complex yet utterly danceable, harmonically sophisticated yet easily accessible.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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OLÉ is like a lost John Coltrane album. Recorded for Atlantic­—in between his Africa/Brass album sessions­—the album was overlooked by critics when Impulse heralded Trane’s debut album for their label. Coltrane had taken to his OLÉ sessions with the same creativity that informed his later albums. The original, expansive, and now “essential,” OLÉ presents a perfect setting for PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND with JAMES CARTER to interpret the wider realm of Coltrane’s music. Sanchez is respected as one of the top American percussionists of our time and his body of work within the unique juncture between Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz has been duly Grammy-awarded. Sanchez has created the OLÉ COLTRANE program to exhibit the spiritual heat, passion, and earthy sensuality he finds in Trane’s work, ultimately the performances should send audiences deep into their Coltrane, to discover for themselves Trane’s emotional virtousity he first set down in 1961.

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Fred Hersch: Leaves Of Grass, My Coma Dreams, Dreams Duets with Julian Lage “Fred Hersch brings verve to Whitman’s verse.”

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BOSTON GLOBE

“The enormous variety in his touch, and his sophisticated sense of musical narrative through arranging and improvising, render him special. Beyond that, he’s a composer in several idioms, a bandleader for groups of many sizes, and a setter of texts to music. A jazz pianist can’t do much better.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Proclaimed by The New York Times as “a pianist, composer and conceptualist of rare imaginative power,” FRED HERSCH balances his internationally recognized instrumental skills with significant achievements as a composer, while remaining an in-demand collaborator with other noted instrumentalists and vocalists. His “Leaves Of Grass” is a large-scale setting of Walt Whitman’s poetry for two voices and an instrumental octet. The work, released on CD

by Palmetto, was presented in a six-city US tour including Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. His ambitious 2011 production, “My Coma Dreams,” is a full-evening work for 11 instruments, actor/ singer and animation/multimedia. With this piece, Hersch has fully lived up to the approbation of the New York Times, which praised him as “singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz – a jazz for the 21st century.”

Also available are duets with the acclaimed guitarist, JULIAN LAGE; their duo CD is due out in 2013 on the Palmetto label.

Gary Burton 70th Birthday Tour

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“…a fabulous gig, which proved that the vibes’s sound can be as thrilling and expressive as any other instrument…It’s the sheer energy of Burton’s playing that strikes you, especially in a number like ‘Common Ground.’”

TELEGRAPH [UK]

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“The perfect ending to this 90-minute show was the encore.

The quartet fell easily into a joyous version of vibes legend Milt Jackson’s signature tune “Bags’ Groove.”

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Self-taught, GARY BURTON developed a remarkable four-mallet technique that brought the vibes into a new era, following the swinging contributions of such two-mallet pioneers as Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo and Milt Jackson. Though his own recording debut came in 1961, the stellar “New Vibe Man in Town,” Burton began distinguishing himself with several genredefying bands as a leader during the mid-1960s, finding new groups of creative musicians to help him push jazz into whole new arenas, including formative forays into rock. Throughout his illustrious career, the accomplished vibist-composer-bandleader has been nominated 15 times and won 6 Grammy Awards. He has collaborated with such artists as Eddie Daniels, Ahmad Jamal, Pat Metheny, Richard Stoltzman, Astor Piazzolla, Fred Hersch, Nancy Wilson, and, of course, those multiple Grammy-winning duet collaborations with Chick Corea. Joining Burton in celebration of his 70th Birthday is JULIAN LAGE on guitar, SCOTT COLLEY on bass and ANTONIO SANCHEZ on drums.

The New Orleans Bingo! Show “The three-ring psychodrama game show cabaret circus known as the New Orleans Bingo! Show makes occasional appearances here (One Eyed Jacks) . If they do, so should you…you surely won’t see anything else like it.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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“Their show is not to be missed when in town…The mandatory encore came after a 2-hour long show that never seems long enough.”

INVADE NOLA A curious spectacle, a thrilling phenomenon, and one of the very finest entertainments on the theatrical stage today, THE NEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW has “drive, and funk, and… youth” (The New York Times). Ringmaster Clint Maedgen, of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of his hometown New Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable chops; his songs swell with tenderness and crackle with sinister menace in equal parts. The band is a Brechtian cabaret funneled through New Orleans’ Ninth Ward via the noir surrealism of Twin Peaks, all within a multimedia stage show of original blackand-white silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games, slapstick comedy, and shady characters who are there to remind you that every stage door opens into a dark alley.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa Gamak “[His bandmates] chase the holy with their own joyful purpose, darting under and through Mahanthappa’s graceful impatience like daredevil pilots showing him the long, wild way to nirvana.” ROLLING STONE

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“If there’s such a thing as accessible avant-garde music, this is it.”

DENVER POST In all his projects, Guggenheim fellow and Downbeat International Critics Poll winner RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA has incorporated the culture of his Indian ancestry, fusing a myriad of influences to create a truly groundbreaking artistic vision. Gamak showcases the stunning electric guitar work of DAVID “FUZE” FIUCZYNSKI, Rudresh’s partner in crime in Jack DeJohnette’s current group.Fiuczynski’s unparalleled versatility and virtuosity elevate the possibilities of this ensemble.Combined with Mahanthappa’s frequent bandmates, the ever-inventive FRANÇOIS MOUTIN on bass and the expressive DAN WEISS on drums, Gamak is destined to reach great heights in presenting a contemporary American music that synthesizes Western and Non-Western musical forms and concepts.

JON ANDERSON

TERENCE BLANCHARD

Best known as the lead singer/songwriter of the legendary supergroup Yes, JON ANDERSON is also an accomplished solo artist and composer. His latest release, “Survival & Other Stories” is another positive and progressive transition in Anderson’s storied career; the songs are imbued with down to earth themes regarding love, life, understanding, healing, and survival. While Jon has also teamed up with other superstars, like Vangelis, Kitaro, Rick Wakeman, and Mike Oldfield, his innovative solo career has placed him prominently in center stage.

Jon’s solo show includes many classic songs from throughout the Yes songbook as well as his own eclectic solo work.

TERENCE BLANCHARD continues pushing boundaries with his fusion of jazz, hip-hop, r&b, and more, exploring new ideas, while redefining the shape of jazz.

Blanchard has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score masters of his generation. With more than 29 albums to his credit, Blanchard is a multi-Grammy Award winner, with his symphonic CD, “A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” garnering his latest.

He’s recently been commissioned by Opera St. Louis, wrote the soundtrack for “A Streetcar Named Desire” on Broadway, he is the Artistic Director of the Mancini Institute, and the Jazz Chair of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

PROJECTS: Best Of Yes: Jon Anderson with Orchestra orYouth Orchestra.

PROJECTS: Terence Blanchard Quintet; Terence Blanchard & Lula Washington Dance Theater; Jazz In Film (w/ Symphony), The Shape of Jazz To Come w/ Ravi Coltrane.

RORY BLOCK

DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

Heralded as “a living landmark” (Berkeley Express), “a national treasure” (Guitar Extra), and “one of the greatest living acoustic blues artists” (Blues Revue), RORY BLOCK has committed her life and her career to preserving the Delta blues tradition and bringing it to life for 21st century audiences around the world. A traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, she wields a fiery and haunting guitar and a vocal style that redefines the boundaries of acoustic blues and folk. After more than twenty highly acclaimed releases and five Blues Music Awards, Block is at the absolute height of her creative powers, bringing a world full of life lessons to bear on what she calls “a total celebration of my beloved instrument and best friend, the guitar.”

Over her multifaceted career, Grammy and Tony Award-winning jazz diva DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER has risen to the top tier of vocalists, putting her own unique spin on standards and taking intrepid leaps of faith in re-envisioning jazz classics while bridging musical genres. The legendary Thad Jones/ Mel Louis Big Band was her first professional gig and throughout the 1970s she performed with jazz notables the likes of Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, and Dizzy Gillespie. Nominated for seven Grammy’s, Bridgewater has won three, most recently, in 2011, for her Billie Holiday tribute album.

She is the first American inducted to the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie and received France’s prestigious Award of Arts and Letters. She won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her work in The Wiz.

PROJECTS: Tribute to Son House; Tribute to Mississippi Fred McDowell; Tribute to Reverend Gary Davis.

PROJECTS: SingsThe Blues

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Since his acclaimed “Generations” albums earlier this decade, GARY BURTON has focused his recording and performing efforts on collaborations with old friends and new, including Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Makoto Ozone, Spanish pianist/composer Polo Orti, and French accordionist Richard Galliano.

“The Armistad Suite” with Polo Orti and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra was released in spring 2007. “The New Crystal Silence,” a double-CD live concert recording with Chick Corea and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, resulted in another award at the 2009 Grammys. Over his career, Burton has been nominated 15 times, winning 6 Grammys in total. Gary and Chick recently recorded “Hot House” with the Harlem String Quartet, and have been touring this project the world over.

PROJECTS: New Gary Burton Quartet; Chick Corea & Gary Burton Duets.

GARY BURTON A leading champion of the great American Songbook, ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY has made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host, and producer. Her unique way of blending jazz and traditional pop makes her a mainstay in concert halls, theaters, and clubs, as well on television and in film. She was Tony nominated for her performance in the Broadway hit Swing! A Platinum Award winning songwriter, her songs grace six of Barbra Streisand’s recent CDs. She has also written songs with Carole King, Rolf Lovland, Barbara Carroll, and is the only composer to have collaborated with Cole Porter. Callaway has performed for President Clinton in Washington, D.C. and at President Gorbachev’s Youth Peace Summit in Moscow.

ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY

PROJECTS: ...starring in BOOM! (w/ Liz Callaway); Sibling Revelry; The Streisand Songbook, One Diva Two Broadways.

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James Carter

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“Carter’s ease with swing, bop and avant-garde styles also gave notice that a staggeringly inclusive figure—the apotheosis of the postmodern jazzman— was now among us.”

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“This is James Carter in the present tense, at the full height of his jawdropping powers, swooping through a new concerto he premiered in October with the Detroit Symphony.”

DETROIT NEWS JAMES CARTER, long intrigued by contrasts and hybrids, resists comfortable categorization.

Born and raised in Detroit, Carter grew up surrounded by music, soaking up everything from funk and fusion to rock, soul, and various strains of acoustic jazz. The late trumpeter Lester Bowie first brought Carter to New York to perform with his New York Organ Combo. His debut album was a quartet tour de force, announcing the arrival of a superlative new talent equally expressive on alto, tenor, and baritone sax (Carter’s since added other horns, most importantly soprano sax).

He’s reinvented the organ combo and his latest features the lithe and muscular keyboard work of Detroit’s rising B3 star Gerard Gibbs, with the propulsive drum support of veteran Motor City master Leonard King Jr. PROJECTS: Chasing the Gypsy; Gardenias For Lady Day; Caribbean Rhapsody: Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra; Olé Coltrane w/ Poncho Sanchez.

Chick Corea

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“His career is among the most kaleidoscopic in jazz.”

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A Down Beat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 17-time Grammy winner, and keyboard virtuoso, CHICK COREA has attained living legend status after four decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering. From straight ahead to avant-garde, bebop to fusion, children’s songs to chamber music, and far-reaching forays into symphonic works, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his illustrious career, while maintaining a an awe-inspiring standard of excellence. His latest duet album with Gary Burton, “Hot House,” explores their unique takes on “standards” while expanding their legendary chamber-jazz repertoire with the addition of the Harlem String Quartet. Next up, Chick writes a whole new body of exciting music for his hand-picked band, The Vigil.

PROJECTS: Chick Corea & The Vigil; Chick Corea & Gary Burton Duets; The Enchantment: Chick Corea & Béla Fleck Duets.

One of the world’s premier jazz pianists, BILL CHARLAP has performed and recorded with many leading artists of our time, ranging from jazz masters Phil Woods and Wynton Marsalis to singers Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand. Since 1997, he has led the Bill Charlap Trio, now recognized as one of the leading groups in jazz. Charlap is the artistic director of New York City’s Jazz in July Festival at the 92nd Street Y and he has produced concerts for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the JVC Jazz Festival, and the Hollywood Bowl. A two-time Grammy nominee, Charlap is married to renowned jazz pianist Renee Rosnes. Together they released “Double Portrait,” a gorgeous duo piano recording on the Blue Note label.

PROJECTS: Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes; Bill Charlap w/ Sandy Stewart; Bill Charlap Trio; 60th Anniversary, Jazz At Massey Hall.

BILL CHARLAP Recording artist, performer, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and film score composer, STANLEY CLARKE is one of the most celebrated bass players in the world. Known for his ferocious dexterity and consummate musicality, Clarke is a true musical pioneer and a true jazz icon. When Clarke, with Chick Corea, formed the seminal electric jazz/fusion band Return To Forever, he pushed the bass as a viable, melodic solo instrument positioned at the front of the stage rather than in the background. Solo, Clarke became the first bassist in history to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide, and craft albums that achieved gold status.

He was the first bassist in history to double on acoustic and electric bass with equal virtuosity, power, and fire.

PROJECTS: Stanley Clark & Harlem String Quartet; An Acoustic Evening with Stanley Clarke & Hiromi.

STANLEY CLARKE

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As Billboard wrote, Southern blues-rocker TINSLEY ELLIS sings and plays with the conviction of “...a man possessed,” and he easily ranks as one of today’s most electrifying blues-rock guitarists and vocalists. Ellis attacks his music with rock power and blues feeling in the same tradition as his Deep South musical heroes Duane Allman, Freddie King and his old friends Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes.

Atlanta Magazine declared Ellis as “the most significant blues artist to emerge from Atlanta since Blind Willie McTell.” Tinsley’s latest release, “Speak No Evil,” is the most guitar-driven album of his career. It features his fiercest, most brutally honest and hardhitting original songs to date. His expressive guitar playing is ferocious and relentless, but when the mood calls for it, can be soulful, gentle, and melodic.

TINSLEY ELLIS TIGRAN HAMASYAN is fired by passion and his music teems with personality. His atmospheric punk jazz improvisation fuses with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia, resulting in a fresh sound that shifts between acoustic and electric modes of expression. His last album of solo piano, “A Fable,” won a coveted French Grammy award for International Album With French Production. 2011 turned into a banner year with Tigran collaborating with several toptier musicians, including Trilok Gurtu, Dhafer, Youssef, and Hindi Zahra, among others, international performances including the Montreaux Jazz Festival, Vienne Jazz Festival, and North Sea Jazz Festival, and accolades from jazz piano legends Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. Tigran is recording an album with his band and guest artists and is slated for release by Universal Music in 2013.

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Ravi Coltrane “...a clear step forward... Coltrane, an unflappable tenor and soprano saxophonist who has made five previous albums over the last 15 years, succeeds handsomely here, delivering his most complete artistic statement, and one of his most selfpossessed.”

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“…a profound and welcome departure… the music is lively and intrepid… One of his best, no question.”

DOWN BEAT RAVI COLTRANE is at the forefront of the restless few carving up new paths in jazz. Down Beat previously labeled Coltrane “a modernist who has absorbed a wealth of jazz [and] those influences are couched so well, resulting in a unique sound, best described as ‘elusive beauty.’”

A shared creativity within Coltrane’s bands energizes both live performances and recordings, which earned a Grammy nomination for Coltrane’s last album, “In Flux.” As he pushes his own development, Coltrane knows better than anyone the importance of the music’s lineage even while avoiding an attempt to recreate the hallowed jazz past with “Spirit Fiction,” his Blue Note debut. Reflecting on the place of Ornette and Motian, and implicitly his father, in the story of his own career, Ravi concludes: “If it weren’t for those guys, we wouldn’t be here.”

PROJECTS: The Shape Of Jazz To Come w/ Terence Blanchard.

ROY HAYNES is true Jazz royalty. For over 50 years Roy Haynes has been a prime mover, shaker, and innovator, shaping some of the greatest recordings in jazz with his joyous drumming. With the true legends, Haynes altered the very fabric and direction of jazz improvisation. Louis Armstrong.

Lester Young. Charlie Parker. Thelonius Monk. Sarah Vaughn. Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Dizzy Gillespie. Bud Powell. Ella Fitzgerald. Stan Getz. Chick Corea. Pat Metheny. The Allman Brothers. The list goes on and on as does Roy’s unflagging energy and marvelous invention, for which he was given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. He and his FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH band have been together for nearly a decade and their communication with each other borders on the telepathic. And, as if that’s not enough, Smithsonian Magazine hailed him as “The World’s Greatest Drummer.”

ROY HAYNES “Award-winning, 5-time Grammy® nominee FRED HERSCH has been called “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so” by Vanity Fair. He is considered the most prolific and widely praised solo jazz pianist of his generation with nine solo albums to his credit. He became the first pianist in the 75-year history of New York’s legendary Village Vanguard to play an entire week of solo piano. His 2011 CD Alone at the Vanguard was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards; His longstanding piano trio “specializes in high lyricism and high danger” (The New Yorker), and they have a new 2-CD set due in September of 2012, recorded live at The Vanguard.

PROJECTS: Fred Hersch Trio; My Coma Dreams; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; Solo Piano; Duets with Julian Lage.

FRED HERSCH

A chance meeting in Paris, an unexpected twist of fate, vaulted ex-pat American linguistics student STACEY KENT from studying for a Masters degree in comparative literature into a music career where she now rides high as one of the world’s foremost jazz singers. Stacey, who joined the Blue Note (EMI) roster of recording artists, now boasts eight best-selling albums, including “Breakfast On The Morning Tram,” a Grammy nominated album awarded Platinum status in France. Attach to that career a slew of gold records, a string of awards, including the 2001 British Jazz Award, the 2002 BBC Jazz Award for ‘Best Vocalist,’ the 2004 Backstage Bistro Award for best live performance, the 2006 “Album of the Year” Award for her work on “The Lyric,” and France’s prestigious Chevalier Dans L’ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres in 2009. She is currently working on her new album due out in Spring of 2013.

STACEY KENT

RAMSEY LEWIS is still breaking new ground while expanding the reach of jazz forty years after rising to the top of the charts with the solid, cool jazz groove of “The In Crowd.” His acclaimed symphonic work, “Proclamation Of Hope,” was videotaped at its Kennedy Center debut and the subsequent show was broadcast on PBS. While he continues to revisit his classic urban radio hits, Ramsey also digs deep into his roots to bring some gospel energy and emotional songs to the fore. Ramsey has been awarded three Grammys, seven Gold albums and hosted several radio programs including the award winning radio show, Legends Of Jazz.

PROJECTS: Ramsey Lewis Trio; The Soul Of Jazz with Dee Dee Bridgewater; Straighten Up & Fly Right, a Nat King Cole Tribute; Ramsey Lewis and his Electric Band; Proclamation of Hope (w/ Symphony or small ensemble).

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RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA

DELFEAYO MARSALIS

Guggenheim fellow and DownBeat International Critics Poll winner RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA is one of the most innovative young musicians and composers in jazz today. Named “Alto Saxophonist of the Year” four consecutive times from 20092012 by the Jazz Journalists Association, Rudresh has incorporated the culture of his Indian ancestry, fusing a myriad of influences to create a truly groundbreaking artistic vision. Accolades aside, it’s what the New Yorker has called Rudresh’s “visceral tone and grab-you-by-the-collar attack” that’s driven new international audiences to his performances. NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the Boston Globe, JazzTimes and other publications have all praised the rhythmic dynamism and exuberant ensemble interaction sparked by his groups.

Placing him up with the masters of the trombone, critics have heralded DELFEAYO MARSALIS as the freshest modern voice on the instrument to arrive on the scene. A Grammy Award-winning Producer, Delfeayo has spent the better part of his career finetuning albums from the other Marsalis clan members, Wynton, Branford and father Ellis, as well as Marcus Roberts, Spike Lee, and Harry Connick Jr. Delfeayo has also played within the groups of artists Art Blakey, Abdullah Ibrahim, Elvin Jones, Slide Hampton, Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Max Roach. His Quintet truely smokes, and his latest acclaimed project, the UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA smoothly slides in one era and out the other while cooking up “a piquant gumbo of festive sounds”

PROJECTS: Samdhi; Gamak.

PROJECTS: Duke & Shak: Such Sweet Thunder; Uptown Jazz Orchestra with Delfeayo Marsalis.

ELLIS MARSALIS

WYNTON MARSALIS

At his core, ELLIS MARSALIS is a modern jazz musician. The term may seem dated now, but it carried particular weight when Ellis was coming of musical age in the ‘50s and ‘60s — especially in New Orleans, a city where tourism demanded jazz musicians be nothing more than traditionalists. Ellis was different; more attuned to jazz’s future, he developed a lean and commanding approach to the piano trio, helping to create a modern movement in New Orleans with his collective American Jazz Quintet and his own Quartet while also educating the next generation of jazz: Blanchard, Payton, Harry Connick Jr., and, of course, all those Marsalis Brothers.

Ellis’ latest project deftly handles holiday classics in a way that invites audiences to experience them anew with a fresh set of ears.

Internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture, WYNTON MARSALIS is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz, creating a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

His lecture, “Innovation And Jazz,” shares Wynton’s creative insights illuminated with music from select members of the JLCO.

PROJECTS: A New Orleans Christmas Carol.

PROJECTS: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis; Wynton Marsalis Septet; Innovation and Jazz—A Talk With Music.

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DEL McCOURY BAND

JOHN McLAUGHLIN

For over fifty years, the DEL MCCOURY BAND has defined authenticity for hardcore bluegrass fans—count Vince Gill among them—as well as a growing number of fans only vaguely familiar with the genre.

Another fan, Elvis Costello, noted: “To keep the purity that you need to do this kind of music, and the drive and the energy…takes a special kind of guy.” Del McCoury is something special: a living link to the days when bluegrass was made only in hillbilly honkytonks, schoolhouse shows and on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. Playing prime time and late night talk show TV as well as the key summer music festivals, Del McCoury Band’s brand of bluegrass is still revered as a “National Treasure.”

JOHN McLAUGHLIN has famously performed with Miles Davis, Tony Williams, and his own historic bands: The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti and The Guitar Trio. In fact, his work on Davis’ first gold record, “Bitches Brew,” pointed the way to new jazz possibilities. Through the almost four decades of his career, one constant has been Mr. McLaughlin’s artistry as a virtuoso guitarist and venturesome improviser.

McLaughlin has managed to not be eclipsed by his own history, though, forever moving forward with stellar outfits to interpret his latest musical direction, surrounding himself with musicians who are more than sidemen, but true collaborators. His latest group, Fourth Dimension, more than holds its own to make the case for the enduring and sublime power of rock-influenced jazz.

PROJECTS: American Legacies w/ Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe; Del McCoury sings Woody Guthrie; Masters Of Bluegrass.

PROJECTS: John McLaughlin & The Fourth Dimension; Remember Shakti.

CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT creates illusions in her singing by getting inside her song the way an actress gets inside a role.

Known for her own unique interpretation of standard jazz classics and blues, as well as rare jazz compositions, Cécile won 2010’s Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition. Ben Ratliff expounded in The New York Times: “…She was funny and dire and idiosyncratic, and never cutesy-flirty or mannered-hip…As she sang her less-thanobvious set choices… she stamped out the lines with authority and power and a bit of outrageousness, as if they were home truths, not history assignments...fresh, but also as if she had decided long ago that she was an artist.”

PAT METHENY It is one thing to attain popularity as a musician, but it is quite another to receive the kind of acclaim PAT METHENY has garnered from critics and peers alike. From the beginning, Metheny’s style was a way of playing and improvising modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues.

He has won countless polls as “Best Jazz Guitarist” and awards, including three gold records and 18 Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, and Best Instrumental Composition. The Pat Metheny Group has won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums.

Metheny has spent most of his life on tour, averaging between 120-240 shows a year since 1974.

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DANILO PÉREZ

Grammy-winning pianist and composer DANILO PÉREZ has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as leader of his own ensembles and as a member of the new Wayne Shorter Quartet. Notable for his insightful and innovative treatments of the standard jazz repertoire and as a leading exponent of Pan-American jazz music, Pérez has become a shining beacon among the current generation of jazz and Latin jazz musicians. Danilo’s abundant talents and joyous enthusiasm make his concerts both memorable and inspiring while putting a decidedly fresh imprint on contemporary music, guided, as always, by his deep love for jazz. He has earned three Grammy nominations, one Grammy award, numerous critic’s awards, and acclaim for his recorded works and passionate live performances.

Pérez also serves as the Artistic Director of Berklee College of Music’s Global Jazz Institute.

MADELEINE PEYROUX began as a teenage busker, honing her vocal and guitar skills on the famously quaint, acoustic streets of Europe, molding her style on the cornerstones of jazz: Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. As early as her first album, her husky voice, her way of telling the story of her life, of her failures, losses, while underscoring the precariousness of existence, endowed Peyroux with the aura of postmodern melancholy. In 2007, the BBC named her Best International Jazz Artist.

She’s since broadened her musical palette by embracing an organic, American roots sound, with a stunning band to boot, retaining that compelling ability to reinvent a lyric and give it soul-shaking meaning through her intricately nuanced vocal shadings.

PROJECTS: The Blue Room.

MADELEINE PEYROUX

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Christian McBride

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“Watching his sidemen respond to him, you’re almost tempted to pose a question: Why doesn’t every jazz combo seem to be having such a good time?”

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“[KIND OF BROWN] is a gregariously unpretentious blowing session that revisits familiar jazz territories, but with a vivacity that bathes them with new light.”

GUARDIAN [UK] CHRISTIAN McBRIDE is the premier bassist on today’s jazz and pop scene. He is simply without peer on his instrument and the first choice as a collaborator for everyone from Sting and Billy Joel to Sonny Rollins and Pat Metheny. With his latest ensemble, Inside Straight, McBride has created “Kind Of Brown,” a masterwork of upbeat, straight ahead jazz with a strong bebop feel and swing. The album is a tribute to the late, great, Ray Brown and his very significant musical legacy that is in danger of being forgotten. And because this busy man just can’t stand still, he can be found on the airwaves with his radio show, “Conversations with Christian” on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and leading his 2012 Grammy-winning Big Band.

PROJECTS: Inside Straight; Christian McBride Big Band; The Movement Revisited (w/ 17 piece Big Band, Gospel choir and narrators).

PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Dedicated to preserving and perpetuating traditional New Orleans jazz, the worldren ow ned , PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND derives its name from the venerable music venue founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Celebrating their 50th Golden Anniversary, the members of the PHJB continue to perform high-energy shows that bring audiences, the world over, to their feet, clapping, dancing and parading through the aisles whenever they play. Internationally recognized as cultural ambassadors, they have performed literally everywhere, from the streets of New Orleans to Carnegie Hall, from the White House to the Royal Palace of Thailand.

PROJECTS: American Legacies w/ Del McCoury Band; Creole Christmas; A Song For My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black & White; Ma Maison w/ Trey McIntyre Project; Benny Bean & His Preservation Hall Revue.

PONCHO SANCHEZ If you wanted to picture the music of percussionist PONCHO SANCHEZ, you’d be looking at a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the Mexi-Cali border. Sanchez’s musical consciousness, by his teen years, had already been solidified by the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Wilson Pickett, and James Brown. Whatever the genre, the mesmerizing array of sounds and colors from Poncho Sanchez’s youth have telegraphed across the decades, continuing to inform his creative sensibilities. His relationship with Concord Records is now in its second decade and has yielded two dozen recordings, a Grammy Award, and several Grammy nominations.

PROJECTS: Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band; Cubano Be! Cubano Bop! tribute to Dizzy Gillespie & Chano Pozo; Olé Coltrane w/ James Carter.

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John Pizzarelli

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“Pizzarelli does it [‘Double Exposure’] with such taste, each piece brings eager anticipation for the next.”

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“He blends James Taylor’s “Traffic Jam” and Joe Henderson’s hard bop number “The Kicker” right into each other, so that the parts become inseparable. Shockingly, it all works—quite well.”

BOSTON GLOBE JOHN PIZZARELLI, jazz guitarist, vocalist and bandleader, is known internationally for classic standards, late-night ballads, and the cool jazz flavor he brings to his performances and recordings. With greats like Ellington, Cole and Sinatra, and the songs of writers such as Rodgers, Gershwin and Jobim as touchstones, Pizzarelli is among the prime contemporary interpreters of the great American songbook. For “Double Exposure,” his latest CD, he gathered 13 songs from his own generation, all given surprising new and witty treatments, which the Guardian [UK] called “a delight.”

PROJECTS: John Pizzarelli Quartet; John Pizzarelli & the Swing 7; John Pizzarelli Big Band, Straighten Up & Fly Right, a Nat King Cole Tribute. Singers Over Manhattan w/ Jane Monheit.

PROGRAMS: Great American Songbook; Frank Sinatra; Nat King Cole; The Beatles; Rockin’ In Rhythm: A Tribute To Duke Ellington; Holiday Show,

Red Baraat

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“One of the best party bands around, Red Baraat plays rollicking funk music steeped in Northern India’s wedding celebrations, with a dash of D.C. go-go beats and hip-hop.”

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“…incredibly infectious celebratory dance music…a brassy, percussive party that doesn’t stop rocking till the final cut is over.”

ALL ABOUT JAZZ The pioneering Brooklyn “dhol ‘n’ brass” juggernaut RED BARAAT has made a name for itself as one of the best live bands playing anywhere in the world. Led by dhol drummer Sunny Jain, the ensemble melds the infectious North Indian Bhangra rhythms with a host of sounds; namely funk, go-go, latin, and jazz. Leading an audience as diverse and joyful as the band itself, Red Baraat has subsumed a plateful of global influence, fused it, and is now exporting it to the world “Brooklyn-style.” The group’s debut CD, “Chaal Baby,” was voted by several music critics as a top world and jazz release of 2010. The band has delivered blistering performances at globalFEST, Montreal Jazz Festival, Sunfest, Festival De Louisiane, Quebec City Summer Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), Molde Jazz Festival (Norway), CityFolk Festival, Chicago Folks & Roots Festival and most recently, Bonnaroo, and High Sierra Music Festival.

QUETZAL An ensemble of highly talented musicians, QUETZAL united with the goal of creating music that tells the social, cultural, political, and musical stories of East L.A.’s Chicanas and Chicanos. This is activism you can dance to, with roots in the complex cultural currents of barrio life, infused with lyrics standing with social activism and feminism, with a bedrock of rock and roll. Quetzal is the latest in a line of barrio rockers like Lalo Guerrero, Ritchie Valens, Cannibal and The Headhunters, The Brat and, of course, Los Lobos. They are leading the revival of son jarocho, the traditional music of Veracruz, which, after Los Lobos transplanted it to California, became a potent expression of mexicanidad—Mexican roots. Quetzal’s own musical blend includes sounds and sentiments from the likes of the Beatles, Rubén Blades, Stevie Wonder, and more.

PROJECTS: Remembering The Dead.

MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA MARIA SCHNEIDER has composed music hailed by critics as “evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond categorization.” From their first recording, “Evanescence,” Schneider began to develop a personal way of writing for her 17-member collective, tailoring her compositions to distinctly highlight the unique voices of the group. In doing so, she created a distinguished body of work, garnering nine Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards. Subsequently, the Orchestra has performed at festivals and concert halls worldwide. Schneider herself has received numerous and varied commissions as well as guest conducting invites, working with 80 plus groups from more than 30 countries spanning Europe, Australia, Asia, North, and South America.

PROJECTS: Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories; The Thompson Fields.

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Sonny Rollins

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“…from the very first note it was clear that the force was still with him…

Quite irrespective of age, it was an astonishing performance.”

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“His is the fullest, most fluid sound of them all, his improvisations are the most effortless…Show me a tenor sax player who says he wasn’t influenced by Rollins and I’ll show you a liar.”

BOSTON GLOBE When SONNY ROLLINS picks up the tenor saxophone, the world listens. For over half a century, he has played music with the majesty of a Greek god, and today remains one of the few surviving icons from a golden era of jazz that will probably never be equaled. Rollins first recorded in 1949 and was immediately recognized as one of the most promising, spontaneous, and creative tenor players on the jazz scene, being sought after by Miles, Monk, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. As the most formidable of all jazz improvisers, Sonny remains a living inspiration to musicians and listeners worldwide, he has maintained a steady program of carefully chosen performances and recordings, each one illuminating why, as the Village Voice so aptly put it, Rollins is “the last jazz immortal.”

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Soul Rebels

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“...a full-on, joyous, positive album that makes you feel like celebrating – indeed, you may be hard pressed to hear a more vibrant, life-affirming record this year.”

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“The Soul Rebels take hits by Eurythmics and Stevie Wonder and transform them into ebullient, strutting party music. ” EAST BAY EXPRESS Imagine blending the sounds of Mardi Gras funk, rock, and reggae so seamlessly it defies category. Now distill that idea into an eight piece ensemble, add a hip hop sensibility plus a hundred years of New Orleans jazz tradition, and you’ll get the powerful band known as the SOUL REBELS. This shrewd crew of multi-instrumentalists create a high energy, groove-laden affair engineered to force audiences worldwide to party with their contagious sound. They are proud of their hometown’s rich cultural heritage and take every opportunity to spread it around the world. Averaging around 250 shows per year, the Soul Rebels have brought their party to stages far and wide, including: WOMAD, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Umbria Jazz Fest, Antibes Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Wanee Festival and, of course, NOLA’s Jazz and Heritage Festival.

ARTISTS

Jon Anderson (26) Terence Blanchard (11, 26) Rory Block (27) Dee Dee Bridgewater (10, 27) Gary Burton (23, 28) Ann Hampton Callaway (18, 28) James Carter (21, 29) Bill Charlap (4, 31) Stanley Clarke (20, 31) Ravi Coltrane (11, 33) Chick Corea (6, 30) Ronnie Earl Tinsley Ellis (32) Béla Fleck (6, 7) Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Tigran Hamasyan (32) Roy Haynes (34) Jimmy Heath Jimmy Herring Fred Hersch (22, 34) Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis (8) Stacey Kent (35) Julian Lage (22, 23) Ute Lemper

Ramsey Lewis (12, 13, 35) Rudresh Mahanthappa (25, 36) Delfeayo Marsalis (36) Ellis Marsalis (37) Jason Marsalis (7) Wynton Marsalis (8, 37) Christian McBride (41) Donny McCaslin Del McCoury Band* (14, 16, 17, 38) John McLaughlin** (38) Marian McPartland Cécile McLorin Salvant (39) Pat Metheny (2, 39) Danilo Pérez (40) Madeleine Peyroux (3, 40) John Pizzarelli (5, 13, 43) Preservation Hall Jazz Band (14, 42) Quetzal (45) Red Baraat (44) Sonny Rollins (46) Poncho Sanchez (21, 42) Maria Schneider (45) Pete Seeger Soul Rebels* (47) * Performing Arts Centers, Festivals only ** North America, Mexico, Caribbean only

HOLIDAY

Ann Hampton Callaway Ellis Marsalis John Pizzarelli Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Creole Christmas

SYMPHONY

Many of our artists have programs arranged for Symphony. Contact Marilyn Rosen for more information.*[ marilyn@tedkurland.com ]

Béla Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart

SPECIAL PROJECTS

60th Anniversary Jazz at Massey Hall with Phil Woods, John Faddis & the Bill Charlap Trio (4) A Night In Treme (The Musical Majesty of New Orleans) (15) Abyssinian Mass: Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (8) American Legacies: Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Del McCoury Band (14) Ann Hampton Callaway One Diva Two Broadways Ann Hampton Callaway presents the Streisand Songbook (18) Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio (7) Benny Bean (a silent film w/ live music): Preservation Hall Jazz Band BOOM! starring Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway Chick Corea & Gary Burton Duets Christian McBride Big Band Dee Dee Bridgewater sings The Blues (10) Del McCoury sings Woody Guthrie (16) Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra Fred Hersch & Julian Lage Duets (22) Gary Burton 70th Birthday Tour (23) Jazz At Lincoln Center presents Singers Over Manhattan featuring the John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jane Monheit and Wess Anderson (5) Leaves Of Grass [Walt Whitman / Fred Hersch] (22) Ma Maison: Preservation Hall Jazz Band featuring Trey McIntyre Project Masters Of Bluegrass: Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks, Jerry McCoury (17) My Coma Dreams: Fred Hersch (22) Old Memories, The Songs Of Bill Monroe: Del McCoury Band Olé Coltrane: Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band with James Carter (21) Pat Metheny Group (2) POEMJAZZ Robert Pinsky & Laurence Hobgood [By special arrangement with the Steven Barclay Agency] (19) Rudresh Mahanthappa Gamak (25) Song For My Fathers: Preservation Hall Jazz Band Stanley Clarke & Harlem String Quartet (20) Straighten Up & Fly Right featuring Ramsey Lewis, John Pizzarelli (13) Such Sweet Thunder, Duke & Shak: Delfeayo Marsalis The Blue Room: Madeleine Peyroux (3) The Enchantment: Chick Corea & Béla Fleck (6) The New Orleans Bingo! Show (24) The Shape Of Jazz To Come: Ravi Coltrane Quartet and the Terence Blanchard Quintet (11) The Soul Of Jazz: Ramsey Lewis & Dee Dee Bridgewater (12)

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