FSU HONORS JAZZ COMBO
David Detweiler, Director
with special guest
Monday, October 14, 2024
Seven-thirty in the Evening
Opperman Music Hall
Etienne Charles, Trumpet
Fiesta Espanol
Skateboarding to Shul
PROGRAM
FSU Honors Jazz Combo
Cedar Walton arr. Harrison Rook
Asher Pereira
Phryzzinian man
Doin the thing
Laja Who
Coronation Rag
Douens
Love in the Cemetery
FSU Honors Jazz Combo with Etienne Charles
To be selected from
Wynton Marsalis arr. Etienne Charles
Etienne Charles
Etienne Charles
Winifred Atwell arr. Etienne Charles
Etienne Charles
Aldwyn Roberts arr. Etienne Charles
FSU Honors Jazz Combo Personnel
Tyler Pauletti, alto saxophone; Harrison Rook, tenor saxophone
Chris Goldwire, trumpet; Zach Urbine, trombone
Asher Pereira, piano; Kaleb Thompkins, bass; Nygel Anderson, drum set
Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting while performers are playing. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Please turn off cell phones and all other electronic devices. Please refrain from putting feet on seats and seat backs. Children who become disruptive should be taken out of the performance hall so they do not disturb the musicians and other audience members.
A superior post bop soloist, tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator David Detweiler has been influenced by early John Coltrane and Michael Brecker but has a sound and style of his own within the mainstream of modern jazz.
Detweiler received the DMA degree from the Eastman School of Music in 2015 and the MM degree from Florida State University in 2010. He also studied at both the University of North Texas and William Paterson University, receiving the BM degree from William Paterson. His teachers include: Ramon Ricker, Charles Pillow, Bill Kennedy, Gary Smulyan, and Steve Wilson.
Currently Associate Professor of Jazz Saxophone, Detweiler joined the faculty at Florida State University in 2016 after serving as Director of Jazz Studies at Nazareth College (Rochester, NY). He has performed at many of New York City’s premier live-music venues such as The Blue Note, Birdland, The Knitting Factory and The Iridium. His first record as a leader, New York Stories, featured Leon Anderson, Clarence Seay, Chris Pattishall, and Rick Lollar. His second record as a leader, The Dave Detweiler Trio, was released in August 2015. Celebrating Bird with bassist Fumi Tomita was released September 2020 and The Astoria Suite was released in 2021. There Used To Be Rain was released in 2023 on Centaur records.
Detweiler has performed and presented research at numerous conferences including the Jazz Education Network (JEN), the College Music Society (CMS), and the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA). Detweiler is a P Mauriat and Vandoren artist.
ABOUT THE FEATURED GUEST
Etienne Charles is a performer, composer and storyteller who is continuously searching for untold stories and sounds with which to tell them. His lush trumpet sound, varied compositional textures and pulsating percussive grooves enable him to invoke a trance, soothing and exciting listeners while referencing touchy and sometimes controversial subjects in his music. To research his compositions, he travels to the regions on which he is focused, meeting with musicians and cultural leaders then observing and participating in rituals to be fully immersed into the cultures that he is studying. As an Afro-descendant, his work is actively connecting the diaspora and drawing lines to the regions at the roots of migrations. Highlighting marginalized communities and engaging with them has
been his mission, evident with projects such as Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol. 1, San Jose Suite, Creole Soul, and Folklore. His concerts engage, enlighten, educate and enrich audiences with energized multidisciplinary performance utilizing original composition, thematic improvisation, dance, short films and spoken word to create a holistic experience. A firm believer in music and performance as a tool for provoking thought and dialogue, Charles’s themes speak to the status quo while drawing parallels to history. With his latest commissioned project, San Juan Hill, he goes a step further by exploring the storied New York neighborhood and bringing the culture of San Juan Hill to the main stage.
His concerts engage, enlighten, educate and enrich audiences with energized multidisciplinary performance utilizing original composition, thematic improvisation, dance, short films and spoken word to create a holistic experience.
In June 2012, he was written into the US Congressional Record for his musical contributions to Trinidad & Tobago and the World. In 2013, his album Creole Soul reached #1 for three weeks on the Jazzweek chart and was eventually named #3 Jazz Album of the year by Jazzweek. Also in 2013 he received the Caribbean Heritage Trailblazer award from the Institute of Caribbean Studies (Washington, DC). In 2016 he was the recipient of the Michigan State University Teacher Scholar Award, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Millennial Swing award and was a featured panelist and performer at the White House for a Caribbean Heritage Month Briefing. He made his debut as producer and songwriter on the album Petite Afrique by Somi (Sony/Okeh 2017) which won Outstanding Jazz Album at the 2018 NAACP Image Awards.
As a sideman Charles has performed with and/or arranged for Roberta Flack, Marcus Roberts, Marcus Miller, Count Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster’s Loud Minority Big Band, Monty Alexander, Gregory Porter, René Marie, Paulette McWilliams and many others. He has been commissioned as a composer and arranger by Lincoln Center (2018 & 2021), Savannah Music Festival (2017), Chamber Music America (2015 & 2021), the Charleston Jazz Orchestra (2012) and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble (2011).
Charles has been featured as a bandleader at the Newport Jazz Festival (RI), Monterey Jazz Festival (CA), Atlanta Jazz Festival (GA), Pittsburgh JazzLive international Festival (PA), San Jose Jazz Festival (CA), Java Jazz Festival (Indonesia), Ottawa Jazz Festival (Canada), St. Lucia Jazz Festival, Barbados Jazz Festival, Library of Congress (DC), Carnegie Hall (NY) and Koerner Hall (Canada).
As an educator and conductor he has done residencies at the Juilliard School, Stanford University, Columbia College Chicago, Oakland University, Kent State University, Walnut Hills High School, Cultural Academy for Excellence, and the US Military Academy.
His dedication to the preservation of artistic traditions in his homeland inspired him to form and lead the Carnival bands “We the People” (2017), “Street Party” (2018), “D’longtime Band” (2019) and “Euphoria” (2020), which featured a full live brass band
on a truck going through the streets of Woodbrook and Port of Spain playing vintage calypso and soca.
Understanding his role as artist-citizen, Charles sees live music as a way to uplift all peoples and is dedicated to bringing it to those who aren’t able to attend concerts. Specifically, in his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago, he has done performances and workshops at Princess Elizabeth Center, St. Dominic’s children’s home, St. Mary’s children’s home, St. Jude’s school for girls, St. Michael’s school for boys, St. Margaret’s school for boys, Youth Training Center and Maximum Security Prison.
Charles currently serves as Associate Professor of Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami, Patricia L. Frost School of Music.
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