Pacific Jazz Ensemble
Wednesday I April 5, 2023 I 7:30 pm
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Pacific Jazz Ensemble
Patrick Langham, conductor
Glenn Zaleski, piano
Selections may be chosen from the following:
Chunka Lunka (1959; 1968)
The Song Is You (1932; 1991)
Young and Foolish (1954; 1987)
La fiesta (1972; 2010)
Four on Six (1960; 2017)
The Question (2019; 2023)
The Prez (2001)
Patrick Langham is an experienced educator and performer with a twenty-year career at the University of the Pacific. As professor and director of jazz studies, Langham has developed Pacific’s jazz studies degree programs from scratch. Langham is a cofounder of the Take Five Jazz Club in Stockton, and he regularly performs at the club and throughout the region. During his time at Pacific, Langham has traveled to Spain as a guest jazz conductor, overseen student performances in Paraguay, and directed groups at the Monterey Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival, and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. In 2023 Langham will direct the Pacific Jazz Ambassadors at two international jazz festival performances including Jazz in Marciac (France) and Jazzaldia (San Sebastian, Spain).
In 2017 Langham was awarded the California Music Educators Association Jazz Educator Award honoring excellence in jazz education and performance, and he is the past president of the California Alliance for Jazz. The University of the Pacific honored him with the Champion of Diversity Award in 2018. Langham holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees, both with a concentration in jazz studies, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a saxophonist, he has performed with many distinguished jazz artists including Lewis Nash, Bob Hurst, Donald Brown, Tom Harrell, Essiet Essiet, Terell Stafford, and Louis Hayes.
Glenn Zaleski is one of the most in-demand pianists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Boston, Maassachusetts, Glenn has made a name for himself playing with the likes of Ravi Coltrane, Cécile McLorin Salvant, the Vanguard Big Band, Yotam Silberstein, Ken Peplowski, Lage Lund, Ari Hoenig, and many more. His latest album is Solo Vol. 2, a solo album of standards recorded during the pandemic and his second from his own label, Stark Terrace Music. In 2011 Glenn was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, as well as a finalist for the 2011 American Pianists Association Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz. He attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program in Stockton, California, from 2005 to 2007, and then he finished his undergraduate studies at the New School in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, while working toward his graduate degree from New York University (NYU), Glenn was also on the faculty there teaching a variety of classes and private students.
The Pacific Jazz Ensemble is an award-winning big band in the tradition of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. The ensemble performs classic big band literature and embraces the music of contemporary composers and arrangers. They have an impressive list of credentials having been invited to perform at jazz festivals around the West Coast.
Violin
Gianna Pedregon
Saxophones
Mateo Ruiz
Alex Reyes
Garrett Mandujan
Kyle Saelee
Trumpets
Alex Maldonado
Kylie Ward
Parker Deems
Ben Taylor
Trombones
Daniel Siragusa
Jamie Dubberly
Victor Alcaraz
Jayden Laumeister
Rhythm Section
Fabian Beltran, piano
Bergen Finley, guitar
Marwan Ghonima, bass
Samson Hulett, drums
Reyna Machado, drums
PACIFIC FACULTY COACHES
Patrick Langham: Program Director, Saxophone
Jamie Dubberly: Brass
Barry Finnerty: Jazz Guitar
Melissa Fulkerson: Vocal Jazz
Aaron Garner: Jazz Piano
Brian Kendrick: Percussion
Joseph Mazzaferro, Associate Director, Trumpet
Gerry Pineda: Bass
Alexander Reyes: Saxophone
Jonathan Latta: Ensembles Program Director
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UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS
Apr. 6 | 7:30 pm
Guest Artist Series
Mariné Ter-Kazaryan, soprano
Recital Hall
Apr. 7 | 1:00 am
Music Business Forum
Leslie Ann Jones
Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Apr. 7 | 7:30 pm
Student Recital
Reese Romero, horn
Recital Hall
Apr. 8 |12:00 pm
Student Recital
Jonathan Herbers, percussion
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