Sat. May 4, 2019
Baaba
Maal with the
Town Hall Ensemble Steven Bernstein // Musical Director Nels Cline Lakecia Benjamin JT Lewis Marika Hughes Marc Cary Bria Skonberg Ricardo Rodriguez Scott Robinson Sara Jacovino Marcus Rojas Mauro Refosco Christina Courtin FEATURING
CHEIKH NDOYE ALIOU DIOUF MASSAMBA DIOP
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Tod Browning’s
with live accompaniment and original music by
with special guest musicians
Daniel Handler + Pinky Weitzman
Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields) performs original music for Tod Browning's film, The Unholy Three (1925), starring Lon Chaney. Stephin is joined by accordionist and novelist Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) and violist Pinky Weitzman.
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THE TOWN HALL PRESENTS
Baaba
Maal FEATURING CHEIKH NDOYE | Ngoni and bass ALIOU DIOUF | Drums MASSAMBA DIOP | Talking drum
with the
Town Hall Ensemble Steven Bernstein | Musical Director Lakecia Benjamin | Alto Sax
JT Lewis | Drums
Marc Cary | keys
Mauro Refosco | percussion
Nels Cline | Guitar
Scott Robinson | Reeds
Christina Courtin | Violin
Ricardo Rodriguez | Bass
Marika Hughes | Cello
Marcus Rojas | tuba
Sara Jacovino | violin
Bria Skonberg | Trumpet
Cover Photo: © Adrian Boot
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A L e t t e r f r o m t h e p r es i d e n t s
Welcome to The Town Hall. “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you are from, you are welcome here….” So said the League of Political Education when they opened Town Hall as a monument to women’s suffrage in 1921. The Hall was built to hold the League’s Town Meetings, those boisterous evenings they hosted to discuss all sides of important issues. They knew that opening minds through life-long learning was required not just with new voters, but for all voters. So everyone was welcomed. It was a young violinist from Spain, Juan Manen, who first brought music to the hall. Later that year, Richard Strauss came from Germany to play piano for a series of recitals. The acoustics McKim, Mead & White had designed for conversation worked equally well for music. Our inclusionary policy welcoming all is the same for music. From day one, Town Hall has welcomed visitors and performers from every walk of life from every corner of the world. And so this weekend we welcome to Town Hall two legendary global icons to the Town Hall stage. Baaba Maal is back in New York after a long absence. An international music ambassador, his music is celebrated throughout the world. Baaba is joined by the Town Hall Ensemble, under the direction of Steven Bernstein. The Ensemble features some of New York’s most renowned musicians who bring with them a broad spectrum of styles and voices, something The Town Hall has embraced for nearly a century. Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. Her dynamic and spiritual musicality has garnered several prestigious accolades including six Grammy® Award nominations. We are proud to say that Town Hall has a long history with Anoushka and her family. Her father, Ravi, first performed at Town Hall in 1956. So while this weekend is special, it is not out of the ordinary for Town Hall. From everyone at Town Hall - thank you for coming. Please enjoy the shows.
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Abo u t t h e p r o g r a m
The extraordinary Baaba Maal, singer, guitarist and a resonant voice for Africa, appears in concert at the Town Hall performing with the Town Hall Ensemble.
Photo: © Adrian Boot
While American audiences have heard him recently — his voice soaring in the Academy Award-winning soundtrack of Black Panther by Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson — this will be Maal’s first performance in New York City in 8 years. For the event, he will be accompanied by the Town Hall Ensemble directed by trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Steven Bernstein, augmented by members of Maal’s own band on African percussion and bass. “I am very excited to be performing with the Town Hall Ensemble,” said Maal, discussing the one-of-a-kind program. “I love the energy that comes with a large band such as this. The mix of different instruments and styles of playing gives me a lot of freedom to experiment. I won’t say anything else now because it’s going to be a surprise!” For Bernstein, whose ductility as a writer and player has led to collaborations with artists as disparate as Phish’s vocalist and guitarist Trey Anastasio, trombonist Roswell Rudd and The Band’s late drummer Levon Helm, collaborating with Maal “is an incredible opportunity.” He muses about translating the sound of the traditional kora, the delicate 21-string lute from West Africa, to horns; having a Brazilian percussionist as part of the ensemble, “giving a different flavor to the music,” or expanding on Maal’s horn section sound (“It has a lot of salsa feeling, ” notes Bernstein.) “I’ve been listening African music since I was in late high school,” he said.” This is going to be really exciting and it opens something brand new for me.” @TownHallNYC @TownHallNYC || 33
P ro gra m Ensemble, n o t es featuring some of the best musicians in New York City comprises The Town Hall Nels Cline, guitar; Lakecia Benjamin, sax; Marika Hughes, cello; Marc Cary, piano and keyboards; JT Lewis, drums; Bria Skonberg, trumpet; Ricardo Rodriguez, bass; Scott Robinson, sax; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Mauro Refosco, percussion; Sara Jacovino, violin; Christina Courtin, violin. The Town Hall Ensemble was created by Bernstein and artistic director M.A. Papper in 2017 to perform a series of concerts revisiting the sound and spirit of landmark moments in the venue’s history, setting the stage for Town Hall’s 100th anniversary in 2021. Built by a group of suffragists (The League for Political Education) fighting for women’s right to vote, the Town Hall opened on January 12, 1921 as a meeting space to debate the important issues of the day. Since then, many artists-activists have taken to its stage. Baaba Maal, who throughout his career has often embodied the notion of artistic excellence in service of social change, stands as a continuation of the Hall´s special mission. “From very early on he became such a warrior for social justice,” said Bernstein. “It’s so fitting we are doing this concert with him.” In the early 2000s, Maal was appointed as a youth emissary for the United Nations Development Program (2003), and global ambassador for Oxfam, focusing especially on women’s and children’s rights in Africa. He has stated that he intends “to be the voice for the people in Africa’s rural communities. I want to offer them a chance to be part of the future development of Africa.” His latest project, based in his native Senegal but with a broad African goal, is NAAN-K, an organization that focuses on farming, fishing, and raising livestock, framed in 21st century technology. Maal´s most recent album was The Traveller (2016), which was accompanied by a short film with the same title. The film focused on his annual Blues du Fleuve festival, which takes place in the northern Senegal region of Fouta. “I don’t regard myself as a politician,” Maal told The Guardian about his role as an artist. “But in our society, we use songs to express what the people are feeling. Musicians are closer to society in Africa - we use our voice to say what the people expect from their leaders.” Musically, Maal is a curious and adventurous cosmopolitan seemingly always open to genre-blurring collaborations. His music has been a continuously evolving mix of traditional Senegalese music, various strains of Western music and technology. His band, Daande Lenol (“The Voice of the People”) included Western as well as African instruments. The horn arrangements would hint at soul, R&B or the vigor and spice of the great Latin dance bands. He has collaborated with music makers as disparate as Brian Eno, Howie B., members of New York’s Brazilian Girls, The Very Best, Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin, and the British band Mumford and Sons. “I’m a nomad,” he told London’s New Statesman. “I like to write music with people from all backgrounds, Celtic, Brazilian, urban, electronic ... Me, I come from a traditional background, but I’m not afraid to go like a nomad into things like that. Traveling all over the world…talking to people, it’s really interesting to see how people are living, how they are thinking. Even the five minutes you spend with someone – just to say hello, to ask where they come from, it’s really inspiring. It opens your eyes and mind.” 4 | @TownHallNYC
THe Town Hall Ensemble
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The Town Hall Ensemble (THE) celebrates the diversity and ingenuity of New York City, this evening marking its third live performance. In its inaugural concert in October 2017, The Town Hall Ensemble paid tribute to Coretta Scott King’s Freedom Concerts, which she debuted at The Town Hall in 1964. In May 2018, the Ensemble celebrated Bob Dylan’s first major concert of New York City in 1963. Under the direction of trumpeter Steven Bernstein the Ensemble features New York musicians from a broad spectrum of styles. The group embodies the many voices of New York City, as The Town hall has done for nearly a century.
STEVEN BERNSTEIN | MUSICAL DIRECTOR An impactful presence on the New York scene over the past 30 years, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader Steven Bernstein has immersed himself in such a wide array of music with his bands Sexmob (his primary vehicle for exploring the slide trumpet, a rare instrument that he picked up in a Woodstock guitar shop back in 1977), Millennial Territory Orchestra, Diaspora Soul, Universal Melody Brass Band, Spanish Fly, Blue Campfire and the Butler-Bernstein Hot 9 that he defies easy categorization. A former member of the Lounge Lizards and Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble Band, Bernstein has also composed works for film, theater and dance in addition to doing arrangements for a diverse list of artists ranging from Lou Reed to Lee “Scratch” Perry, Allen Toussaint, Marianne Faithfull, Linda Ronstadt, Rufus Wainwright, Darlene Love, Mario Pavone, Bill Frisell, John Lurie and the Kansas City All-Stars. His lengthy list of sideman credits includes recent recordings by Laurie Anderson ( Heart of a Dog), Roswell Rudd ( Trombone for Lovers), Mostly Other People Do The Killing ( Loafer’s Hollow), Antony and the Johnsons ( Turning) and Nels Cline ( Lovers). He also continues to perform with Ray Anderson’s Pocket Brass Band, Omaha Diner and the Kamikaze Ground Crew. @TownHallNYC | 5
ABOUT THE ARTISTS Lakecia Benjamin | Trombone A streetwise New York City native born and raised in Washington Heights, Lakecia Benjamin has become one of the most highly sought-after players in soul and funk music. She first picked up the saxophone at Fiorello LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, after which she joined the renowned jazz program at New York’s New School University. By that time, she was already playing with renowned jazz figures like Clark Terry and Reggie Workman, which led to gigs and tours with a wide array of artists such as Rashied Ali, the David Murray Big Band, Vanessa Rubin and James “Blood” Ulmer. With her deep jazz roots, she was soon in demand as an arranger and horn section leader, landing stints with such acclaimed artists as Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Macy Gray, the Roots, and Anita Baker.
Marc Cary | keys Jazz pianist, keyboardist, producer and composer Marc Cary holds tight to his roots in Washington, D.C.’s go-go music scene, but they represent only one element among the myriad. Cary’s interests run from Indian classical to Malian music to hip-hop. He started his career working with Betty Carter, a legendary vocalist famous for drawing soul and sincerity out of her bands, and went on to work with Roy Hargrove, Dizzy Gillespie, Erykah Badu, Shirley Horn, Stefon Harris, Q-Tip, and Abbey Lincoln.
Nels Cline | Guitar Guitar explorer Nels Cline is best known these days as the lead guitarist in the band Wilco. His recording and performing career - spanning jazz, rock, punk and experimental - is well into its fourth decade, with over 200 recordings, including at least 30 for which he is leader. Cline has received many accolades including Rolling Stone anointing him as both one of 20 “new guitar gods” and one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. Cline’s most recent release, Lovers, out now on Blue Note Records, is a collection of “mood music” over 20 years in the making. Beyond Wilco, Cline performs in a duo project with jazz guitar prodigy Julian Lage in addition to a quartet The Nels Cline Four (that includes Lage plus bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey). Cline also performs in CUP, a duo with wife and musical collaborator Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and leads The Nels Cline Singers (featuring Scott Amendola, bassist Trevor Dunn and Cyro Baptista). @nelscline
Christina Courtin | Violin Christina Courtin is an American singer, violinist, and songwriter. A performer from an early age and a graduate of the Juilliard School, Christina Courtin released her first, self-titled, album in June 2009 on Nonesuch Records, of which Patrick McKiernan of website allgigs.co.uk stated, “It’s nothing short of immense how beautiful this girl’s debut album is.” She was featured on NPR’s World Cafe in 2009. She performs regularly with The Knights, an ensemble founded by fellow Juilliard graduates, brothers Colin and Eric Jacobsen.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Marika Hughes | Cello Marika is a cellist, singer, composer, songwriter and teacher. A native of NYC, Marika was exposed to a varied creative life from an early age. Her parents owned a jazz club on the Upper West Side and she was fortunate to enjoy an exciting classical music life as the granddaughter of the great cellist, Emanuel Feuermann. She was a regular on Sesame Street, was a member of New York Youth Symphony, spent summers at the chamber music camp, Greenwood, was a student at festivals in Europe and busked in NYC with her high-school string quartet. Marika received her B.A. from Barnard College in political science and cello performance at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ardyth Alton. Shortly after completing her studies, Marika left NYC and moved to San Francisco, CA. It is there that she began to explore a musical life outside of the western classical tradition of her childhood training. In addition to playing in the Berkeley and Santa Rosa Symphonies, she joined Quartet San Francisco and enjoyed performing and recording for a host of artists and films including Tom Waits, Mr. Bungle, Xiu Xiu, Santana and Finding Nemo.
Sara Jacovino | violin NYC based trombonist Sara Jacovino is an ambitious composer and arranger who has drawn the recognition of many of her peers nationwide. Hailed by the likes of David Baker as having a completely unique voice, she has been recognized with various awards from the BMI Foundation, DownBeat Magazine, the Airmen of Note, and The International Trombone Association. Throughout her time in NYC, Sara has performed along side many jazz and pop greats such as: Adele, Frank Ocean, Johnny Mandel, Michael Feinstein, Claudio Roditi, Steve Davis, Rufus Reid, Lou Marini, John Fedchock, Snarky Puppy, and Lee Konitz. Sara has established herself as an active musician in the Broadway scene and currently holds the tenor trombone chair in the musical King Kong at the Broadway Theater. Sara can be heard performing as a bandleader of her own quartet as well as member of several well respected NYC institutions including: The Birdland Big Band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra, David Berger and the Sultans of Swing, The Afro-Bop Alliance as well as countless other composers’ orchestras. Her writing and playing is often featured by the Birdland Big Band, The Diva Jazz Orchestra, and can be heard on numerous albums by the University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band amongst others.
JT Lewis | Drums JT Lewis has performed/recorded with over 200 artists from all genres from the Jazz greats such as Stanley Turrentine, Roy Ayers, Herbie Hancock, Lena Horne, and Dave Sanborn, to the Pop icons such as Tina Turner, Sting, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Elvis Costello, Whitney Houston, Debbie Harry, Garland Jeffreys, and Vanessa Williams, to the Jazz revolutionaries such as Don Pullen, David Murray, Henry Threadgill, Marc Ribot, Sonny Sharrock, Pete Cosey, Bill Laswell, Kip Hanrahan, and many more. JT has been holding down the drum chair for Vanessa Williams for 20 years and counting. He is currently co-leader of the Avant Metal Jazz band “HARRIET TUBMAN”, featuring Melvin Gibbs (Bass) and Brandon Ross (Guitars)
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Mauro Refosco | percussion Mauro Refosco is a professional percussionist and noisemaker who performs and records with artists such as David Byrne, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace. After beginning his touring career in 1994 as Byrne’s percussionist, he returned to NYC and joined cult creative ensemble The Lounge Lizards, playing experimental punk jazz and more with bandleader John Lurie. In between stints with Byrne and several other in demand projects he formed his band, Forro in the Dark, which has recorded four full-length albums and performed at major domestic and international festivals.
Scott Robinson | Reeds One of today’s most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton’s band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton’s quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D’Rivera’s clarinet quartet, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with a cross-section of jazz’s greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music, from Braff to Braxton. Primarily a tenor saxophonist, Scott once placed directly below the great Sonny Rollins in the DownBeat Readers Poll. Scott has been heard numerous times on film, radio and television, and his discography now includes more than 250 recordings. His releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, DownBeat Magazine and other respected sources worldwide, and have appeared in many “Best of the Year” lists. Scott’s collaborators on disc have included Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, and Bob Brookmeyer, and he has performed with the Grammy-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra for more than 25 years. A busy traveller, Scott has performed in some fifty-five nations, once completing tours on five continents in a three-month period. He has performed in such diverse and prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Village Vanguard, the Library of Congress and the Vienna Opera House. His performances for dignitaries worldwide have included a U.S. Presidential Inauguration and a command performance honoring the birthday of the king of Thailand. Scott’s group was selected to be the closing act at the Knitting Factory’s Sun Ra Festival in New York City. Scott has also written magazine articles and liner notes, and was an invited speaker at the Congressional Black Caucus Jazz Forum in Washington, D.C.
Ricardo Rodriguez | Bass Ricardo “Ricky” Rodriguez was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he also started his music studies. He received his Bachelor of Music in Classical Bass performance under the tutelage of professors Federico Silva and Jose García at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico in 2004. Having mastered classical music, Ricky moved to New York City to experiment and increase his musical development in different musical style: Jazz. He took private lessons with two of his bass heroes, Mr. Larry Grenadier and Mr. Scott Colley. Since then, Ricky has performed with some of the giants in Latin Jazz today. These included performances with legendary jazz icons such as: Ray Barretto, Endel Dueño, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry González, Chuchito Valdéz, Tony Lujan, Erik Figueroa trio, Mandy Visoso and his orchestra, as well as memorable performances with masters such as: Branford Marsalis, Danilo Pérez, David Sánchez, and Ignacio Berroa. 8 | @TownHallNYC
ABOUT THE ARTISTS Marcus Rojas | tuba A native of New York, tubist Marcus Rojas has been called “phenomenal” (Whitney Balliet, The New Yorker) and one of “the best all around tuba players in the world” (Harvey Pekar, Jazziz). Among the diverse ensembles in which he has played are the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, American Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Pops, Eos Orchestra, Radio City Music Hall, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. He has also performed in groups led by Gil Evans, George Russell, Jim Hall, Lionel Hampton, Dave Douglas, Wayne Shorter, David Byrne and P.D.Q. Bach. His TV appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Today Show, Saturday Night Live and the live broadcast of the Grammy Awards from New York City.
Bria Skonberg | Trumpet Canadian singer, trumpeter and songwriter Bria Skonberg has been described as one of the “most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation.” (Wall Street Journal). Recognized as one of 25 for the Future by DownBeat Magazine, Bria Skonberg has been a force in the new generation of jazz with her bold horn melodies and smoky vocals, and adventurous concoctions of classic and new. Bria is signed to Sony Music Masterworks’ OKeh Records and released her debut LP in September 2016, Bria, which won a Canadian JUNO award and made the Top 5 on Billboard jazz charts. She collaborated again with producer Matt Pierson, as well as multi-Grammy winner Gil Goldstein, for her second Sony album, With A Twist, released May 2017. Noted as a millennial “shaking up the jazz world,” (Vanity Fair), Bria Skonberg has played festivals and stages the world over, including New Orleans Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, and hundreds more.
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