PROGRAM

HENRY CREAMER AND TURNER LAYTON/arr. Jeff Tyzik After You’ve Gone

IRVING BERLIN/arr. Jeff Tyzik Alexander’s Ragtime Band

TRADITIONAL/orch. Larry Cook Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

WILLIE DIXON [rhythm section only] Hoochie Coochie Man

TRADITIONAL/arr. Jeff Tyzik Down by the Riverside

WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY/arr. Chad Eby/orch. Jeff Tyzik

GERTRUDE “MA” RAINEY/arr. Larry Cook Prove It on Me Blues

BENJAMIN ANZELEVITZ, KENNETH CASEY, AND MACEO PINKARD/arr. Dennis Mackrel Sweet Georgia Brown

INTERMISSION

FERDINAND “JELLY ROLL MORTON” LAMOTHE/arr. Jeff Tyzik Black Bottom Stomp

LEW BROWN, GEORGE “BUDDY” DESYLVA, AND RAY HENDERSON/arr. George Rhodes/ orch. Mort Stevens/ed. Rob DuBoff and Jeffrey Sultanoff Birth of the Blues

JULIA WARD HOWE/arr. Manny Albam Battle Hymn of the Republic

LOUIS ALTER AND EDDIE DELANGE [rhythm section only] Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans

WESLEY WILSON/arr. Jeff Tyzik Gimme a Pigfoot

BESSIE SMITH/arr. Jeff Tyzik Backwater Blues

TRADITIONAL/arr. Vaughn Wiester/orch. Larry Cook When the Saints Go Marching In

This weekend’s media sponsor is WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours. All programs are subject to change

Guest Artist Biographies

BOBBY FLOYD

Bobby Floyd has toured and performed extensively with Ray Charles, Rusty Bryant, Jeff Tyzik, Chris Howes, Byron Stripling, Sarah Morrow, and his own trio. His current touring schedule includes performances as featured soloist with orchestras throughout the U.S.A. and Canada, including the Rochester Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Detroit Symphony, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, and many others. Floyd is also a frequent soloist with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, where his soulful sound has backed artists such as Chuck Mangione, Houston Person, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Mavis Staples, Gerald Wilson, Wycliffe Gordon, John Clayton, and countless others. His recent performances in Europe and Japan have garnered high praise and he continues to accompany the top jazz, blues, and gospel artists in the country.

Floyd has completed three recordings: Interpretations, Setting the Standards, and Floyd’s Finest Gift. His next project, soon to be released, is a live performance recorded in Spain. Other accomplishments include recording and composing on several of Vince Andrews’s and Chris Howes’s projects. He has also recorded with Gerald Levert (Groove On) and Faye Robinson (Remembering Marian Anderson). Additionally, he is featured on a Rusty Bryant album, Rusty Rides Again, which received five stars in Downbeat magazine.

Floyd has taught at The Ohio State University, his own private studio, and the world-famous Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops. His critically acclaimed CDs Interpretations, Setting the Standards, Floyd’s Finest Gift, and Notes to and from My Friends demonstrate his ability to electrify audiences and have received the highest praise from critics and musicians alike.

CRYSTAL MONEE HALL

Crystal Monee Hall is a singer/songwriter, composer/lyricist, and vocal arranger based in NYC.

Credits include Sesame Street, Ayodele Casel (Chasing Magic), Walker (CW network), A Beautiful Noise (Gospel Arrangement, Biden/Harris Campaign), Kristen Chenoweth, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Brandon Victor Dixon, Ben Platt, PBS Kids (Donkey Hodie, Nature Cat, Alma’s Way), Fearless (Mandy Gonzalez), Black Ink Crew (VH1), Broadway Inspirational Voices, HBO’s High Maintenance, Broadway’s Rent, Craig David, Cynthia Erivo, After the Storm (Ahrens and Flaherty), Thomas Rhett, John Legend, Patti Austin, Oleta Adams, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Kesha, Roy Ayers, Jason Mraz, Ledisi, Kanye West, and The Last Internationale. crystalmoneehall.com, @crystalmonee.

JIM RUPP

Jim Rupp is currently the drummer in the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. He has toured extensively with the bands of Woody Herman (where he played on three recordings, one of which was nominated for a Grammy Award), Maynard Ferguson, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. He also spent eight years with Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Diane Schuur and has toured and performed with Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Joe Lovano, Henry Mancini, Vince Mendoza, John Fedchock, John Faddis, Byron Stripling, Maria Schneider, Clark Terry, Joe Williams, Cab Calloway, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole, Hank Marr, Rusty Bryant, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, and the Smithsonian Masterworks Jazz Orchestra. Rupp has also played as a Pops drum set player in orchestras around the country including the orchestras of Boston, Dallas, Nashville, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Columbus, St. Louis, Dayton, and Cincinnati, among others.

These touring credits, plus his educational background, have prepared him well for clinics and performances at colleges and high schools around the country. He has given workshops at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Educators National Conference, OMEA, and numerous colleges and high schools around the country.

As an educator, Rupp has taught at Indiana University and the University of Michigan, as well as his current appointment at The Ohio State University. In 2021, he was given the outstanding alumni award from the School of Music at Ohio State. He is also the co-author of an acclaimed drum set method book, Baby Steps to Giant Steps. Rupp is a past chair of the drum set committee for the Percussive Arts Society, a past board member of NAMM (the International Music Products Association), and the president of Columbus Pro Percussion Inc., one of largest and most respected percussion specialty shops in the country. Rupp plays and endorses Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, Noble and Cooley drums, and Pro Mark drumsticks.