Jazz Concert Program: Fall 2023

THE AWARD-WINNING

WHITWORTH JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Jared Hall, director

WITH INTERNATIONAL JAZZ STAR & GRAMMY-NOMINATED SAXOPHONIST

MELISSA ALDANA Supported in part by the SAHLIN MUSIC ENDOWMENT AND WHITWORTH SPEAKERS & ARTISTS

35th Annual Whitworth University Guest Artist Jazz Concert featuring

MELISSA ALDANA with the

WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE I JARED HALL, DIRECTOR

Saturday, Nov. 4 | 7:30 p.m.

Cowles Auditorium

SET ONE Heat’s On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sammy Nestico Black Butterfly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duke Ellington Roll ’Em. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Lou Williams Sing a Song of Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kenny Garrett, arr. Dan Keberle Concerto for Cootie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duke Ellington, adapted by Paul Plowman Count Bubba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gordon Goodwin INTERMISSION

SET TWO Visions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Aldana, arr. Jim McNeely Acceptance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Aldana, arr. Jim McNeel Hometown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jared Hall Falling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Aldana, arr. Denin Koch Los Ojos De Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melissa Aldana, arr. Jim McNeely

SPECIAL THANKS The Sahlin Music Endowment Whitworth Speakers & Artists

WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE I Jared Hall, director

SAXOPHONES Alto 1 Max Cannon Saxophone Performance & Music Education

Mead High School

Alto 2 Ricky Gagliardi

Jazz Performance

Mead High School

Math & Secondary Education

Mead High School

Tenor 1 Nick Kar Tenor 2 Will Peterson

Music Education

Mt. Spokane High School

Baritone Melissa Jones Saxophone Performance & Music Education Hanford High School TRUMPETS Josh Weigelt

Jazz Performance

Gonzaga Prep

Julia Maher

Music Education

South Whidbey High School

Ellie Brueggemeier

Elementary Education

Ferris High School

Anthony Cao

Music

Mead High School

Mia Stone

Music Education

Richland High School

TROMBONES Will Strauch

Music Performance

Mead High School

Dave Stultz (Guest) Makenna Falkenstein-Barker Michael Perry

Elementary Education

Music Performance

Lewiston High School Hanford High School

RHYTHM Guitar Tyler Van Gordon

English Literature

Ferris High School

Piano Silas Farley

Business Management

Mead High School

Bass Nate Moody

Music Composition

Medical Lake High School

Drums Nolan Carthum

Elementary Education

White River High School

Drums Max Bartron

Jazz Performance

Drums Ryland Gabriel

Psychology

GUEST Clarinet Robert Weener

Applied Mathematics

Edmonds-Woodway High School Mead High School

Sherwood High School

ABOUT MELISSA ALDANA Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana joined the Blue Note Records family with the release of 12 Stars, her debut album as a leader for the legendary jazz label. The Brooklyn-based tenor player from Santiago, Chile, has garnered international recognition for her visionary work as a band leader, as well as her deeply meditative interpretation of language and vocabulary.

Aldana was born in Santiago and grew up in a musical family. Both her father and grandfather were saxophonists, and she took up the instrument at age 6 under her father Marcos’ tutelage. Aldana began on alto, influenced by artists such as Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley, but switched to tenor upon first hearing the music of Sonny Rollins, who would become a hero and mentor.

She performed in Santiago jazz clubs in her early teens and was invited by pianist Danilo Pérez to play at the Panama Jazz Festival in 2005.

Aldana moved to the U.S. to attend the Berklee College of Music, and the year after graduating she released her first album, Free Fall, on Greg Osby’s Inner Circle label in 2010, followed by Second Cycle in 2012. In 2013, at 24, she became the first female instrumentalist and the first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, in which her father had been a semifinalist in 1991. After her win, she released her third album, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord). Aldana is also an in-demand clinician and educator and was recently appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department.

Aldana was one of the founding members of ARTEMIS, the all-star collective that released their self-titled debut on Blue Note in 2020. The album featured Aldana’s simmering composition “Frida,” which was dedicated to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, who inspired the musician through “her own process of finding self-identity through art.”

Kahlo was also the subject of Aldana’s celebrated 2019 album Visions (Motéma), which earned the saxophonist her first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, an acknowledgment of her impressive tenor solo on her composition “Elsewhere.” In naming Visions among the best albums of 2019 for NPR Music, critic Nate Chinen wrote that Aldana “has the elusive ability to balance technical achievement against a rich emotional palette.”

THE WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND JAZZ PROGRAM The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble is one component of the jazz studies program at Whitworth University. Established in 1988 under the direction of Professor Dan Keberle, D.M.A., the group is one of the finest college jazz bands in the country. It was the winning university jazz band at numerous Lionel Hampton Jazz Festivals, was one of the top five university jazz bands to be honored at the 46th and 50th annual Elmhurst (Chicago) collegiate jazz festivals, and has been honored by being selected to perform at Washington All-State and All-Northwest Music Educator Conventions. It has also been listed in JazzTimes magazine one of the top jazz education programs in the U.S. Touring annually each year both around the U.S. and internationally, the music ensembles at Whitworth University value students’ cultural experiences and interactions with all people in our globalized world. This coming spring, both the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble and Whitworth Wind Symphony will have multiple performances in a tour of Thailand. The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble has experienced a dozen international performance tours to Italy, Brazil, Germany, Australia and Cuba, with national tours to Hawaii, New York, New Orleans and Chicago. The ensemble also performs regular concerts on campus and at public schools, civic events and jazz festivals.

The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble features yearly guest artist performances with renowned jazz musicians such as Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Arturo Sandoval, Kenny Garrett, Bob Mintzer, Branford Marsalis, Maria Schneider, Ellis Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Tierney Sutton, Nicholas Payton, Steve Turre, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Phil Woods, Chris Potter and many others. Master classes are held regularly with these phenomenal artists, as well as with touring world-class jazz musicians, to create unique opportunities for our students to learn about and experience this art form. The Whitworth music program offers numerous jazz scholarships of significant amounts, which when combined with the university’s large academic scholarships, provide an opportunity for students to pay no more than they would at a state university.

In 2022, the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble released its 12th album titled Moon Mist featuring the music of Maria Schneider under the direction of Dan Keberle. It is available from the Whitworth Music Department Office. In fall 2022, Jared Hall, D.M.A., became the new director of jazz studies and director of the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble. Since Hall’s arrival, the ensemble has performed with vocalist Tierney Sutton and trumpeter Brian Lynch and at the Leavenworth Jazz Festival, in addition to performances at numerous local high schools.

THE DIRECTOR Trumpeter, composer and educator Jared Hall hails from Spokane. He studied at Whitworth University, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he received the degree doctor of musical arts in 2015. His primary teachers include Terence Blanchard, Joey Tartell, Dan Keberle, Whit Sidener, David Baker and Brian Lynch, under whom he pursued his doctoral studies. Hall is the winner of the 2013 National Trumpet Competition – Jazz Division, and has performed and recorded with Paquito D’Rivera, Bob Hurst, John Daversa, Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, Vincent Herring, Peter Erskine, Dave Liebman, Alan Pasqua, Brian Lynch, Ira Sullivan, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Terence Blanchard, Rick Margitza, Wycliffe Gordon, David Binney, Johnny Mathis, George Benson, Gloria Estefan, Fred Hersch, Shelly Berg, the South Florida Jazz Orchestra and the Frost Concert Jazz Band.

Hall’s recording credits include his albums Seen on the Scene (Origin Records, 2021) and Hallways (Hollistic MusicWorks, 2017). Other recordings include Inventions (OA2 Records, 2021), Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza (Summit, 2020), North By Freaking Northwest (Skymuse, 2019), Jazz & The Philharmonic (OKeh, 2014), With Love (Jeremy Fox, 2014) and Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (George Benson, 2013).

Hall performed in Seattle from 2015-22 with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Symphony Tacoma, the 5th Avenue Theatre, and many of the region’s outstanding ensembles. His quintet performed regularly at Tula’s Jazz Club and at the 2018 Gene Harris Jazz Festival, 2019 Puget Sound Jazz Combo Festival, 2021 Bellevue Jazz Festival and 2023 Leavenworth Jazz Festival. As a clinician, Hall has served many universities, high school programs and jazz festivals throughout the Pacific Northwest. He has presented lectures at the National Association of Music Educators (NAfME) Northwest Division Conference 2019, Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) Conference 2022, and the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference 2017. The Piano Grip System: An Approach to Learning Jazz Harmony, a book copublished by Hall and Whit Sidener in June 2020, has been welcomed as an essential guide to learning jazz harmony and theory for non-pianists.

In fall 2022, Hall returned to his hometown of Spokane and alma mater Whitworth University as director of jazz studies. He previously served on the faculty at Northwest University, Pacific Lutheran University and the Jazz Night School, as well as a teaching assistant at University of Miami and Indiana University.

WHITWORTH JAZZ FACULTY Jared Hall: Jazz Ensemble I Director, Trumpet Brent Edstrom: Piano Josh Skinner: Bass Christopher Parkin: Jazz Ensemble II Director, Saxophone Tom Shook: Piano Rick Westrick: Percussion

MUSIC AT WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY The Whitworth University Music Department, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, provides superb training in music as well as a thorough introduction to this essential element of the liberal arts. Whitworth music majors have gone on to prestigious graduate schools, fulfilling performance careers and successful teaching positions. Also, many non-music majors participate in the university’s renowned touring ensembles and enroll in private lessons through the music department. Whitworth University offers bachelor of arts degrees in music ministry, composition, instrumental performance, jazz performance, piano performance, piano pedagogy, vocal performance and music education. Music scholarships are available to both music majors and non-majors.

For more information about the music program or scholarship auditions, please contact us: Music Department Whitworth University Spokane, WA 99251 509.777.3280 whitworth.edu/music

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WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY Since 1890, Whitworth has held fast to its founding mission to provide “an education of mind and heart” through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated Christian scholars. Recognized as one of the top regional colleges and universities in the West, Whitworth University has an enrollment of about 2,500 students and offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

Whitworth University’s 200-acre campus of red-brick buildings and tall pines offers a beautiful, inviting and secure learning environment. More than $140 million in campus improvements have been made in recent years, including an expanded dining hall, a rec center, a science hall, a center for the visual arts, three residence halls and an intramural sports field.

In all of its endeavors, Whitworth seeks to advance its founder’s mission of equipping students to “honor God, follow Christ and serve humanity.”

For application information: Office of Admissions Whitworth University 300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251 509.777.3212 | admissions@whitworth.edu whitworth.edu/admissions