TONIGHT’S PROGRAM Ramblin’ Down Thru The World Bob Dylan’s Dream Talkin’ New York Ballad Of Hollis Brown Walls Of Red Wing All Over You Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues Boots Of Spanish Leather Hero Blues Blowin’ In The Wind John Brown Tomorrow Is A Long Time A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Dusty Old Fairgrounds Who Killed Davey Moore? Seven Curses Highway 51 Pretty Peggy-O Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right Hiding Too Long With God On Our Side Masters Of War Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
PHOTO: Bob Dylan on the Town Hall Stage, 1963 © Don Huntstein
97 Years!
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T H U R S D A Y, M A Y 2 4 2 0 1 8 • 8 pm
THE TOWN HALL PRESENTS
Featuring THE
TOWN HALL ENSEMBLE Steven Bernstein (musical director) LAKECIA BENJAMIN (Saxophone) Ron Blake (Saxophone) ZACH BROCK (Violin) MARC CARY (Piano) NELS CLINE (Guitar) NATALIE CRESSMAN (Trombone)
MARIKA HUGHES (Cello) JT LEWIS (Drums) PEDRITO MARTINEZ (Percussion) BRIA SKONBERG (Trumpet) RICARDO RODRIGUEZ (Bass) Marcus Rojas (Tuba)
AND SPECIAL GUESTS
MARK KOZELEK TEDDY THOMPSON Terry Adams GEOFF MULDAUR LAURIE ANDERSON Triumph the Insult Comic Dog BILL MURRAY Steve Buscemi Anne Waldman BOB NEUWIRTH LISA FISCHER JOAN WASSER GREG TATE Gina Gershon EMILY HAINES PETER WOLF THE MILK CARTON KIDS Produced by
HAL WILLNER AND THE TOWN HALL M.A. PAPPER, CO-PRODUCER RACHEL FOX, ASSOCIATE PRODUCER CARL ACAMPORA, PRODUCTION MANAGER CHRISTINE VAINDIRLIS, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT PAMELA ESTERSON, PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Joshua Young, Production Assistant
SPECIAL THANKS TO LARRY “RATSO” SLOMAN
ABOUT THE PROGRAM On April 12, 1963, Bob Dylan played his first major concert at The Town Hall in New York City. It wasn’t sold out, but those who were there witnessed history: a snapshot of an artist at the moment he’s finding his voice. “No one had heard anything like this before.
No one had heard anything like this before.” - Bob Neuwirth On May 24, 2018, Bob Dylan’s 77th birthday, The Town Hall presents Tomorrow is a Long Time: Songs from Bob Dylan’s 1963 Town Hall Concert, a musical celebration of that momentous performance. Produced by Hal Willner and The Town Hall, Tomorrow is a Long Time reimagines the concert, with bold interpretations by a diverse cast of musicians and artists, backed by the Town Hall Ensemble. The Town Hall, with its history of community activism, was an ideal venue for Dylan’s early, socially focussed work. The concert captured him as he both mastered the protest song and began to leave it behind, all in one fell swoop. ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ and ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ moved beyond the didactic toward a more nuanced, poetic sensibility. They became folk standards - almost instantly - the apotheosis of a form he was nearly through with. Performing just a month before the release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dyla n, his second album, Dylan played solo, accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica. With this record he made the leap from singer to singer-songwriter. Great artists master their genre; geniuses invent their genre. In the years that followed, it was as if he was making up the 20th century as it went along. In 1963 both Folk and Rock were seen as antagonists of Tin Pan Alley. Yet we know now that Dylan was anything but a rejection of The Great American Songbook - he was an astonishing new chapter. On the surface, he represented a Beat / Folk rebellion, yet the real paradigm shift was creative: the interpreter and the creator had merged: “Around that time… what struck me was that he
was at one or he became identical with his breath… where his total physical and mental focus was this single breath coming out of his body.
He had found a way to, in public, to be almost like a shaman, with all of his intelligence and consciousness focussed on his breath.” - Allen Ginsberg
ABOUT THE PROGRAM For producer Hal Willner - whose earlier projects often featured the Beats, including Allen Ginsberg, Dylan’s body of work is a logical next step. Yet one can find parallels in more subtle ways. Willner’s Nino Rota tribute captured a quintessentially Italian composer as he veered into the circus-like surrealism of Fellini. This isn’t far from Dylan’s quintessentially American music, and it’s carvinalesque quality, what Greil Marcus dubbed ‘The Old Weird America.’ Willner is a reliably unpredictable artist. His unorthodox approach to the material is ultimately the most reverent approach one can take, true in spirit to the Beat-like spontaneity at the heart of these songs. “We are not going to recreate the original concert but re-imagine it,” said Steven Bernstein. “We’re going to take Dylan’s music, music that was performed by one guy with a guitar and harmonica, and translate it into this New York band language and incorporate all the rhythms of New York, from jazz and mambo to hip-hop. We have all that with this ensemble.” Dylan was seen as Woody Guthrie gone Rock & Roll, but that ignores the influence of the pop standards of his youth. For every Dave Van Ronk there was a Hoagy Carmichael. These two threads can be heard in Dylan’s musical legacy in Woodstock. The Band’s rootsy Rock & Roll was supplemented by local jazz legends, horn players from the Gil Evans Orchestra. This organic meshing of forms lives on in the sound of Steve Bernstein, tonight’s band leader. As a student at Woodstock’s Creative Music School he learned from the area’s jazz masters, leading to his role as music director of Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble, and now as music director and arranger of the Town Hall Ensemble.
Tomorrow is a Long Time is the second performance of the Ensemble, which revisits the history of this landmark venue in the build-up to its centennial celebration in 2021. 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. Tonight’s all-star ensemble features: Lakecia Benjamin (sax), Ron Blake (sax), Zach Brock (violin), Marc Cary (piano/keys), Nels Cline (guitar), Natalie Cressman (trombone), Marika Hughes (cello), JT Lewis (drums), Pedrito Martinez (percussion), Ricardo Rodriguez (bass), Marcus Rojas (tuba) , Bria Skonberg (trumpet). Featured special guests include composer/pianist Terry Adams; multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist Laurie Anderson; actor/director Steve Buscemi; R&B/soul singer Lisa Fischer; actor/musician Gina Gershon; singer/songwriter Emily Haines (Metric, Broken Social Scene); singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon); singer/songwriter Geoff Muldaur; Dylan collaborator, singer/songwriter and visual artist Bob Neuwirth; writer/ musician/producer Greg Tate; alt-folk duo The Milk Carton Kids; singer/songwriter Teddy Thompson; activist/public intellectual Triumph the Insult Comic Dog; poet Anne Waldman; multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman); rock/soul singer Peter Wolf; and surprise guests. —David Brendel
SPECIAL GUESTS
Terry Adams Since starting NRBQ more than five decades ago, Terry Adams has been the driving force behind their artistic and critical success. Adams’ consummate musicianship, distinctive rocking jazz piano, and innovative use of Clavinet, as well as his irreverent sense of humour, have delighted and dazzled audiences around the world.He’s also performed with the Sun Ra Arkestra (under the direction of Marshall Allen), Carla Bley, John Sebastian, Link Wray and Roswell Rudd, among others. As a producer, he’s introduced music fans worldwide to The Shaggs, Boozoo Chavis and Captain Lou Albano. Recent releases include : Happy Talk (NRBQ), Love Letter to Andromeda, Ten By Two (with Marshall Allen) and Talk Thelonious.
LAURIE ANDERSON An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an “experimental marvel” by The Los Angeles Times). Anderson moves seamlessly between the music world and the fine-art world while maintaining her stronghold in both. A true polymath, her interest in new media made her an early pioneer of harnessing technology for artistic purposes long before the technology boom of the last ten years. Regardless of the medium, however, it is exploration of language (and how it seeps into the image) and storytelling that is her métier. As John Leland recently noted in The New York Times, “After 40 years, still, no one tells stories like Laurie Anderson.”
THE MILK CARTON KIDS Founded in 2011, The Milk Carton Kids swiftly emerged as a major force in the continuing American folk tradition, blending ethereal, oscillating harmonies and intricate, inventive musicianship with a uniquely powerful brand of contemporary songcraft. 2013’s ANTI- debut, THE ASH & CLAY, proved their national breakthrough, earning The Milk Carton Kids their first GRAMMY® Award nomination, for “Best Folk Album.” A second GRAMMY® nomination for “Best American Roots Performance” followed in 2015, honoring “The City of Our Lady,” from The Milk Carton Kids’ acclaimed third studio album, MONTEREY. The Americana Music Association Award-winners for “Best Duo/Group,” The Milk Carton Kids have spent much of the past decade on tour, as international headliners, worldwide festival favorites, and special guests to such like-minded artists as Old Crow Medicine Show, Punch Brothers, Sarah Jarosz, The Lumineers, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Josh Ritter, and The Avett Brothers. Ryan and Pattengale have also made numerous high profile media appearances, including TBS’ Conan , CBS This Morning , and NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
SPECIAL GUESTS
LISA FISCHER “Lisa Fischer in concert is addictive. Every performance is so enriching, so exciting, so transcendent that you want more. With remarkable vocal range and vocabulary, Fischer can sing soul, jazz, rock, gospel, pop, folk and classical with equal facility and authority. She often mixes styles in the same song, sometimes in the same vocal line. Her approach tends to be intimate, artful and almost meditative, accompanied by her interpretive dancing, but she also can cut loose and funk with fierceness and rock with abandon.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune , July 2016) Ms. Lisa Fischer and her band Grand Baton first set out on tour in 2014, with no product to sell, no recordings or video to help book or promote shows, no t-shirts. Despite all that, based on Lisa’s reputation alone, they were invited to play in clubs, at the Newport and Monterey Jazz Festivals, and at concert halls all over the globe, winning accolades from critics, devotion from fans, and — always – invitations to return, soon.
Gina Gershon Gina Gershon has been working as an actress, singer, writer and jewsharp player for many years. She was the first solo jewsharp player to play Carnegie Hall with Sting for his Rainforest Fund benefit last year . She’s played with Christian McBride, Herbie Hancock, the Scissor Sisters, and Paul Simon to name a few. Her album In Search of Cleo was also made into a book - How I Found My Pussy and Lost My Mind . She’s done many movies. A few she likes include The Insider, Bound , Face Off, Showgirls , Killer Joe , The Player, Prey for Rock and Roll, and will be performing at the Cafe Carlyle June 5th - 16th.
EMILY HAINES Emily Haines is best known as the dynamic lead singer and front woman of the Canadian rock band Metric. She is a member of the critically acclaimed band Broken Social Scene and also performs solo projects under the moniker Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton. In fall 2017, Haines released her first Soft Skeleton album in 10 years and third overall, Choir of the Mind . NPR Music’s First Listen described the LP as “an ambitious collection that expands Haines’ solo palette in every way,” and the New York Times explained the LP as “a nuanced meditation on loss and injustice, and a stunning showcase for Ms. Haines’s vocal harmonies.” Haines performed to sold out crowds in select cities across the U.S. Also in 2017, she performed on the new Broken Social Scene album Hug of Thunder and toured the world with the band.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
SPECIAL GUESTS
MARK KOZELEK On May 11, 2018, Mark Kozelek released his self-titled album, Mark Kozelek , on Caldo Verde/Rough Trade. The 88-minute, double CD was recorded in San Francisco hotels and studios between May 2017 and January 2018. Mark has also completed work on a new Sun Kil Moon album to be released this November. Mark recently acted in the independent film Passing Through , written and directed by Jason Massot. Mark will be touring throughout 2018, both solo and with Sun Kil Moon, in South America, Europe, USA and Canada. Mark is currently at work on a collaboration with Donny McCaslin and Jim White, to be released in 2019.
GEOFF MULDAUR Geoff Muldaur is one of the great voices and musical forces to emerge from the folk, blues and folk-rock scenes centered in Cambridge, MA and Woodstock, NY. During the 1960’s and ‘70’s, Geoff made a series of highly influential recordings as a founding member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and the Paul Butterfield’s Better Days group, as well as collaborations with then-wife Maria and other notables (Bonnie Raitt, Eric Von Schmidt, Jerry Garcia, etc.) He left the stage and recording world in the mid-1980’s for a working sabbatical but continued, however, to hone his craft, albeit ‘flying beneath radar’. He composed scores for film and television, garnering an Emmy in the process, and produced off-beat albums for the likes of Lenny Pickett and the Borneo Horns and the Richard Greene String Quartet. And his definitive recording of “Brazil” provided the seed for - and was featured in - Terry Gilliam’s film of the same title. With his magical voice and singular approach to American music intact, Geoff is once again touring the world. Recent performances have included The Lincoln Center in New York City, The Getty Art Center in Los Angeles, Royal Festival Hall in London. Geoff may be heard regularly as a guest on Live From Here (formerly A Prairie Home Companion) and has been featured on a variety of National Public Radio shows, including Weekend Edition and All Things Considered .
BILL MURRAY If you don’t know who Bill Murray is, what are you even doing here? A cosmic clown, a humorist, and one of the great caddies of our time. No one’s done it better for longer.
SPECIAL GUESTS
BOB NEUWIRTH Bob Neuwirth is a songwriter and painter who currently lives on the West Coast.
GREG TATE Writer, musician, cultural provocateur, Greg Tate lives in Harlem. His most recent book is Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader. Since 1999, he has also led the conducted improv ensemble, Burnt Sugar, the Arkestra Chamber.
Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi has built a career portraying some of the most unique and unforgettable characters in recent cinema. Buscemi, a multiple award-winning actor, starred in the HBO hit drama, Boardwalk Empire , which garnered him a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Emmy nominations. Buscemi has also won an Independent Spirit Award, The New York Film Critics Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role in MGM’s Ghost World , He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Tony Blundetto in the The Sopranos , plus received additional Emmy nominations for his appearances on NBC’s 30 Rock and IFC’s Portlandia In addition to his talents as an accomplished actor, Buscemi has proven to be a respected writer and director. He marked his full-length feature film directorial debut with Trees Lounge which he also wrote and starred in. Buscemi also has many TV directing credits, including Homocide: Life on the Street (DGA Award nomination); The Sopranos (Emmy and DGA Awards for Season 3’s “Pine Barrens” episode); 30 Rock , Nurse Jackie , and Portlandia . In 2008 Buscemi started Olive Productions with Stanley Tucci and Wren Arthur, a NY based company which produces his Emmywinning AOL series Park Bench with Steven Buscemi and various other projects including the documentary A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY for HBO. In 2016, Steve co-starred in the critically acclaimed web series Horace and Pete as well as in Joseph Cedar’s film Norman . He was most recently seen in Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Death of Stalin , and in the feature film Lean on Pete from director Andrew Haigh. He’ll appear opposite Andrea Riseborough in the feature film Nancy written and directed by Christina Choe. He also appears in Channel 4 (UK) and Amazon Prime’s anthology series Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams . He will reprise his role as the voice of “Wayne” in Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation set for release July 13, 2018. He will co-star opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the upcoming TBS’ anthology comedy series Miracle Workers , executive produced by Lorne Michaels.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
SPECIAL GUESTS TEDDY THOMPSON Teddy Thompson is an acclaimed singer-songwriter with a career that has consistently garnered critical praise. NPR proclaims that he’s “the musical equivalent of an arrow to the heart,” while The New York Times calls his work “beautifully finessed.” Teddy released his first, self titled album in 2000. Thompson also toured as part of Rosanne Cash’s band before signing with Verve. Soon after, Thompson released his much lauded 2006 sophomore album Separate Ways , which demonstrated how much his songwriting, performing and record-making skills had evolved since his debut. It was followed in 2007 by Up Front & Down Low, a collection of personally charged readings of classic American country songs that demonstrated Thompson’s increased assurance as a performer and interpreter. In 2008, Thompson released the upbeat and highly acclaimed, A Piece of What You Need , which was declared “one of this year’s best” by The Guardian and debuted at #9 in the UK’s pop charts. A fifth studio effort, Bella , was released February 2011 to much acclaim and led to touring the world with Elton John among other things. In 2014 Thompson gathered his musical clan to release Family, one of the folk records of the year which garnered a multi page, in depth piece from The New York Times magazine. In 2016 Teddy released Little Windows , a record of original duets with singer Kelly Jones. The album was recorded live to tape and features an all star band of backing musicians. Teddy also produced Dori Freeman’s debut album which was hailed by The New York Times as one of the year’s best. 2017 sees the release of the long awaited Shelby Lynn & Allsion Moorer duets record produced by Thompson. Not Dark Yet released last August.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is a puppet character puppeteered and voiced by Robert Smigel, best known for mocking celebrities in an Eastern European accent. As his name indicates, Triumph’s comedic style is almost exclusively insult comedy. A Yugoslavian Mountain Hound, Triumph often puffs a cigar, which usually falls out of his mouth when he starts talking. He debuted in 1997 on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien and also appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien from time to time, as well as the short-lived TV Funhouse, TBS’s Conan, and Adult Swim’s The Jack and Triumph Show. Smigel and Triumph have been ejected from several events for Triumph’s antics, including Westminster (three times), the Honolulu line for auditions for American Idol, and the 2004 Democratic National Convention (while shooting an aborted movie project).
Anne Waldman Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
SPECIAL GUESTS JOAN WASSER Joan as Police Woman (Joan Wasser) is a world-renowned recording artist, songwriter, performer, producer and multi-talented instrumentalist. Her 2018 album Damned Devotion (PIAS) was released in February to universal acclaim. Wasser has collaborated and toured with artists including Lou Reed, John Cale, Toshi Reagon, Reggie Watts, Antony & The Johnsons, and Rufus Wainwright, several of whom have featured on her own records. “Soulful adventurism – a voice so wondrous and moving it makes everyone else’s seem ordinary and mundane” - The Guardian “Ravishing and lovelorn” - Mojo | “The coolest woman in pop” - The Times
PETER WOLF Wolf’s encyclopedic musical knowledge came in handy when he and some like-minded Boston players formed the J. Geils Band, much of whose early repertoire was drawn from Wolf’s vast record collection. The band soon became a local favorite injecting a much-needed jolt of raw, uninhibited rock ‘n’ roll into the ‘70s scene and was soon signed by Jerry Wexler for Atlantic Records. Between 1970 and 1983, the J. Geils Band released 13 influential albums, topped the pop single charts with 1981’s “Freeze Frame,” “Love Stinks,” “Centerfold,” and earned a reputation as one of rock’s most exciting live acts, thanks in large part to Wolf’s flamboyant, hyperactive stage presence. After going solo with 1984’s Lights Out, Wolf continued to stake out new musical territory with the subsequent releases Lights Out, Come As You Are , Up to No Good , Long Line , Fool’s Parade , Sleepless and Midnight Souvenirs , and A Cure For Loneliness . His solo work has seen him collaborate with the likes of Aretha Franklin, Merle Haggard, John Lee Hooker, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Little Milton, Wilson Pickett, Shelby Lynne and Neko Case. Wolf temporarily reunited with his J. Geils Band cohorts for live shows on several occasions between 1999 and 2015, but his solo career has remained his creative focus, as A Cure for Loneliness makes clear.
HAL WILLNER Hal Willner is a music producer working in recording, film, television, theater & live events. He is best known for his multi-artist concept albums, beginning with Amarcord Nino Rota: Various Interpretations from the Films of Federico Fellini (1981) and for providing Sketch Music Adaptations for Saturday Night Live almost since its inception. Willner produced Bill Frisell’s Grammy-winning album Unspeakable , as well as albums for Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Macy Gray, Terry Southern, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as definitive box sets covering the recorded history of Lenny Bruce and Allen Ginsberg. Films on which Willner has served as a supervising music producer include Robert Altman’s Shortcuts and Kansas City, Wim Wenders’ Million Dollar Hotel , Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York , Julian Schnabel’s Berlin, Adam McKay’s Talladega Nights and, most recently, Joseph Cedar’s Norman and Oren Moverman’s The Dinner.
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THE TOWN HALL ENSEMBLE The Town Hall Ensemble (THE) celebrates the cultural and musical history of New York City and spotlights landmark events in the Hall’s history--from social justice movements that made their voice heard at The Town Hall, to historic musical performances. 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. “We wanted to put together a collective that celebrated the diversity and ingenuity of New York City,” said M.A. Papper, Artistic Director of the Town Hall. “This venue has always been open to everyone. That’s why Town Hall has been the home and birthplace to so many landmark social, cultural and musical movements—because Town Hall’s founders believed in equality and inclusiveness.” 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. “The original intention was to have a speaking hall to engage citizens, but its principles and its perfect acoustics also created a music hall to engage audiences for new ideas,” noted Papper. “Marian Anderson performed here twenty years before she was allowed to sing on most of the major opera stages. So many activist artists, from Pete Seeger to Paul Robeson to Judy Collins, and pioneers and experimenters—Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone, Meredith Monk…” Musically, “when we are talking about the history of The Town Hall, we are basically talking about the entire history of New York music,” says Steven Bernstein, a New Yorker who’s a prominent member of the downtown jazz scene. Bernstein also notes epochal concerts at the Hall such as the first Dixieland Revival, breakthrough performances by Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass and Bob Dylan. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie held the very first bebop concert at the Hall. That said, “the idea is not to recreate music that has been presented at The Town Hall, but to pay tribute to it and use it as repertoire,” says Bernstein. “What we want is to sound like The Town Hall Ensemble playing this music today.”
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 AllStars. 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.
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE 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.
RON BLAKE | Saxophone Virgin Islands native Ron Blake currently resides in New York City. He has released four recordings as a leader; in addition, his discography numbers over 60 recordings as a guest and sideman. He is a member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live Band (2005) and is on faculty at the Juilliard School (2007). Blake took up the saxophone at age 10 in St. Thomas public schools. In addition to his contemporaries, he’s worked with many masters including Art Farmer and Roy Haynes. Blake’s debut recording Up Front and Personal with special guest Johnny Griffin was released came in 2000. He completed a Masters degree at NYU in 2010. His releases on Mack Avenue include Lest We Forget, SONIC TONIC , and Shayari, and he won a Grammy as a member of Christian McBride’s Big Band in 2011 for their release, The Good Feeling . In addition he has two Grammy nominations with Gerald Wilson Orchestra, New York, New Sound in 2011 & Yerba Buena, President Alien in 2005. Most recently, Blake won his 2nd Grammy in 2017, again with the Christian McBride Big Band (Bringin’ It) and received an Emmy (2016-17) for his contributions to Saturday Night Live as a member of the SNL Band. In January 2014, Blake received recognition from the U.S. Congress and the Virgin Islands Legislature for his commitment to education and his music accomplishments.
Zach Brock | Violinist Heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an violinist and composer whose music draws on the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music. Zach received his first Grammy Award in 2017 for his work on Snarky Puppy’s album Culcha Vulcha and Downbeat Magazine named him the ‘Rising star Violinist’ of 2013. His acclaim as a bandleader has grown through appearances at venues such as Carnegie Hall and festivals like “Tudo é Jazz” in Brazil, while his reputation as a sideman has spread through his work with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, contemporary instrumental super-group Snarky Puppy, and jazz masters Phil Markowitz and Dave Liebman. Zach has made ten recordings as a leader or co-leader and is the first violinist to record for the venerable Dutch jazz label Criss Cross. Zach has also represented the U.S. Department of State as a Musical Ambassador in the Solomon Islands, has performed as a featured soloist for two Sundance Festival feature film scores, and is currently an “Artist In Residence” at Temple University in Philadelphia.
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE 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
Natalie Cressman | Trombone A sublimely talented young trombonist and vocalist versed in jazz, Brazilian music and the Afro-Cuban tradition, Bay Area-born Natalie Cressman gained fame as a member of Phish leader Trey Anastasio’s solo project and work with Nicholas Payton and Wycliffe Gordon. Still in her early 20s, Cressman’s musical pedigree is impeccable, growing up as the daughter of vocalist Sandy Cressman and Santana trombonist Jeff Cressman. When her dream of being a ballet dancer was derailed by an injury, she committed to music completely, and hasn’t looked back. A virtuosic instrumentalist and gifted singer, she has made good on her prodigious beginnings, working with a diverse range of artists including salsa icon Pete Escovedo’s Latin Jazz Orchestra, world music giant Jai Uttal and the Pagan Love Orchestra, and iconoclastic multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum. Her latest release , The Traces EP, is a stunning session that demonstrates Cressman’s farreaching interests, combining jazz, pop, R&B, and world music into an intoxicating hybrid.
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE Marika Hughes | Cello Marika is a cellist, singer, composer, song-writer 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.
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. Heis currently co-leader of the Avant Metal Jazz band “HARRIET TUBMAN”, featuring Melvin Gibbs (Bass) and Brandon Ross (Guitars)
Pedrito Martinez | Bass Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba. He settled in New York City in the fall of 1998 and, by 2000, he had been awarded the Thelonius Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion and was featured in the documentary film, Calle 54. Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Paquito D’Rivera, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums. Mr. Martinez was also a founding member of the highly successful, Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, with which he recorded two albums and toured the world. Pedrito’s career as a leader began in 2005 with the formation in NYC of The Pedrito Martinez Group. The group’s Grammy-nominated first album was released October, 2013 and was chosen among NPR’s Favorite Albums of 2013 and The Boston Globe Critics Top Ten Albums of 2013. Habana Dreams , PMG’s second album,was released in June 2016. Guests include, Ruben Blades, Isaac Delgado, Wynton Marsalis, Descemer Bueno, Roman Diaz, Angelique Kidjo, and Telmary Diaz. Accolades for Habana Dreams include #1 Latin Jazz Album in NPR’s Jazz Critics Top Jazz Albums for 2016 and being named among Boston Globe World Music Albums for 2016.
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE 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.
Marcus ROjas | TUBA Phenomenal tubist Marcus Rojas (Whitney Balliet, The New Yorker) is a native of New York City. Considered one of “the best all around tuba players in the world” (Harvey Pekar, Jazziz); among the diverse groups 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, the New York Pops, EOS, Radio City Music Hall, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis, ensembles led by Gil Evans, George Russell, Jim Hall, Lionel Hampton, Dave Douglas, Wayne Shorter, David Byrne and P.D.Q. Bach. He has also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman , The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Today Show, Saturday Night Live and The Grammys 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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TOUR THE HISTORIC TOWN HALL Town Hall has played an integral part in the electrifying cultural fabric of New York City for more than 90 years. A group of Suffragists’ fight for the 19th Amendment led them to build a meeting space to educate people on the important issues of the day. During its construction, the 19th Amendment was passed, and on January 12, 1921 The Town Hall opened its doors and took on a double meaning: as a symbol of the victory sought by its founders, and as a spark for a new, more optimistic climate. In 1921, German composer Richard Strauss performed a series of concerts that cemented the Hall’s reputation as an ideal venue for musical performances. Since, Town Hall has been home to countless musical milestones: The US debuts of Strauss, and Isaac Stern; Marian Anderson’s first New York recital; in 1945, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker introduced bebop to the world; Bob Dylan’s first major concert in ‘63; and much much more. Learn more. Visit thetownhall.org/tours
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