MULTI-GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ TRUMPETER & COMPOSER
BRIAN LYNCH
WITH THE AWARD-WINNING WHITWORTH JAZZ
ENSEMBLE
Jared Hall, director
Supported in part by the SAHLIN MUSIC ENDOWMENT
34th Annual Whitworth University
Guest Artist Jazz Concert featuring BRIAN LYNCH with the
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE I JARED HALL, DIRECTOR
Saturday, April 15 | 8 p.m. Bing Crosby Theater
SET ONE
It’s Oh, So Nice Sammy Nestico
Joy Spring Clifford Brown, arr. Charles Argersinger
Whisper Not Benny Golson
A Child Is Born Thad Jones
Clark’s Perdido Line Clark Terry/Juan Tizol, arr. Jared Hall
INTERMISSION
SET TWO
Tribute to Blue Brian Lynch
Blue Moon Rogers/Hart, arr. Brian Lynch
One for Mogie Brian Lynch
Affective Affinities Brian Lynch
Struggle Is in Your Name Brian Lynch
BRIAN LYNCH
Multiple Grammy-Award-winning trumpeter, composer and bandleader Brian Lynch brings to his music an unparalleled depth and breadth of experience. An honored graduate of two of the jazz world’s most distinguished academies, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet, he received wide acclaim during his long tenures with Latin Jazz legend Eddie Palmieri and straight ahead master Phil Woods. He has been a valued collaborator with jazz artists such as Benny Golson, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Charles McPherson; Latin music icons as diverse as Hector LaVoe and Lila Downs; and pop luminaries such as Prince. As a bandleader and recording artist he has released over 20 critically acclaimed CDs featuring his distinctive composing and arranging, and has toured the world at the helm of various ensembles reflecting the wide sweep of his music.
Voted Trumpeter Of The Year and recipient of the Record Of The Year Award by the Jazz Journalists Association, Lynch’s talents have been also recognized by top placing in the DownBeat Critics and Readers Polls (#3 Trumpet Critics Poll); as well as feature stories and highly rated reviews for his work in The New York Times, JazzTimes and DownBeat. He has received multiple Grammy Award nominations and garnered Grammy wins in 2020 for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album and in 2007 for Best Latin Jazz Album. He is also the recipient of grants from The Knight Foundation (2020 New Works Award Recipient), The National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America and Meet the Composer.
Professor of jazz and studio music at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Lynch has conducted clinics, workshops and residencies the world over, including at the Stanford Jazz Workshop, Harvard University, Dartmouth University, Michigan State University, Senzoku University (Japan), Yamaha Artist Services Taipei and Moscow, and the Rotterdam Codarts University. He is artist in residence for the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music’s Jazz Institute (2010-present) and artistic director of Ensamble Tonica, Guadalajara, Mexico. Before joining the faculty at the Frost School, Lynch was on the faculty of New York University from 2003 to 2011. He has also taught at the Prinz Claus Conservatorium (Netherlands) as visiting professor (2002-07), Long Island University and The New School.
Born in 1956 in Urbana, Ill., Lynch grew up in Milwaukee, Wis., where he apprenticed on a high level with such local residents as pianist Buddy Montgomery; while located in San Diego in 1980-81, he gained further valuable experience in the group of alto master Charles McPherson. Toward the end of 1981, Lynch moved to New York and soon linked up with the Horace Silver Quintet (1982-85) and the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra (1982-88). Simultaneously, he played and recorded on the Latin scene with
salsa bandleader Angel Canales (1982-83) and the legendary cantante Hector LaVoe (1983-87). He began his association with Eddie Palmieri in 1987, and at the end of 1988 joined what turned out to be the final edition of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He began his tenure with The Phil Woods Quintet in 1992, which continued until Woods’ death in September 2015.
Lynch’s artist owned and operated record label Hollistic MusicWorks has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings under his name since its inception in 2010, including the Grammy-Award-winning Omni-American Book Club (2019), the Grammy-Award-nominated Madera Latino (2016), Questioned Answer (2014), and the Unsung Heroes series of recordings (2011-13), awarded a 5-star “masterpiece” rating by DownBeat magazine. Lynch also has released 17 albums as a leader between 1987 and 2010 on the Criss Cross, Ken, Sharp Nine, Cellar Live, Nagel Heyer, EWE, Zoo’t Jazz, Artist Share and Venus recording labels. Notable albums from this series include his first album as a leader, Peer Pressure, for Criss Cross; the 1997 Spheres of Influence (Sharp Nine), which earned a 4-1/2-star DownBeat rating and was Lynch’s first project to reflect the panoramic range of interests that influenced his working life as a musician; and the 2006 Simpático in collaboration with Eddie Palmieri for ArtistShare, a Grammy-Award-winning document of the deep musical and personal friendship between Lynch and Palmieri as well as the first completely self-produced effort by Lynch, leading to the establishment of the Hollistic MusicWorks label.
Lynch’s discography as a featured artist and sideman runs to over 200 recordings, including nine albums with Eddie Palmieri, 13 albums as part of the Phil Woods Quintet, and three albums with Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, all featuring his contributions as arranger, composer and featured soloist. Other notable recordings include albums with Prince, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Issac Delgado, Donald Harrison, George Russell, Tito Puente and many other artists representing diverse genres of jazz, Latin and popular music. Lynch has also arranged and produced for numerous artists, including Lila Downs, Conrad Herwig (the Latin Side series of albums), Mondo Grosso and Yerba Buena. Lynch now devotes the majority of his performing and creative time to his own musical endeavors, centering around his own groups and recording label Hollistic MusicWorks.
Brian Lynch is a Yamaha Artist and endorses Austin Custom Brass mouthpieces and the Lefreque Sound Bridge.
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE I
Jared Hall, director
SAXOPHONES
Max Cannon - alto 1
Johnny Molenda - alto 2 (guest)
Ricky Gagliardi - tenor 1
Will Peterson - tenor 2
Melissa Jones - baritone
TRUMPETS
Julia Maher
Joshua Weigelt
Anthony Cao
Ellie Brueggemeier
Mia Stone
TROMBONES
Will Strauch (guest)
Caeden Harrison
Makenna Falkenstein-Barker
Dakota Schaal - bass trombone (guest)
RHYTHM
Brenden Archer - vibraphone
Tyler Van Gordon - guitar
Silas Farley - piano
Isaac Massey - bass
Tony Manoguerra - drums, violin
Nolan Carthum - drums
Jacob Simonsen - drums
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 numerous Washington All State and All Northwest Music Educator Conventions. It has also been listed in JazzTimes magazine as 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 people throughout our globalized world. The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble has experienced a dozen international performance tours, including to Italy, Brazil, Germany, Australia and Cuba, and 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 special occasions for our students to learn about and experience this art form. The Whitworth Music Department 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.
The Whitworth Jazz Ensemble has recently 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.
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 and 2021 Bellevue 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 co-published 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 has also 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
Eugene Jablonsky: 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
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Scan to learn about Whitworth’s music program.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. In recent years, Whitworth has enjoyed record levels of student enrollment and retention, the strongest financial position in the university’s history, and increased external visibility.
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
whitworth.edu/music