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Friday and Saturday Evening, May 1314, 2016, at 7:00 and 9:30
Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director
Greg Scholl, Executive Director
Joe Lovano
Grammy Awardwinning saxophonist and
composer Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone)
stands alone at the vanguard of large and
small group jazz. From his Grammy Award
nominated symphonic work to his role as
Gary Burton Chair of Jazz Performance at
Berklee College of Music, the Cleveland
native fearlessly challenges and pushes his
conceptual and thematic ventures in a quest
for new modes of artistic expression and
new ways to define the jazz idiom. In 2014
Lovano won awards for Multi-reeds Player
and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year from the
Jazz Journalists Association and Tenor
Saxophonist of the Year from DownBeat
magazine. He has released 23 celebrated
albums on the Blue Note label, three featuring his quintet Us Five. All three Us Five
records have received unanimous acclaim;
Folk Art earned best-of-class honors from
both DownBeat and the Jazz Journalists
Association, which also honored 2011s
Grammy Awardnominated Bird Songs as
Record of the Year. The acclaimed Wayne
Shorterinfluenced Joe Lovano and Dave
Douglas Quintet Sound Prints also released
an album in 2015. For 201617, three major
ensembles are on display. In Joe Lovanos
Classic Quartet, Lovano will explore the rich
history of mainstream jazz through soulful
swing and bebop. An active proponent of
straight-ahead jazz, notably collaborating
with Hank Jones ten years ago, Lovano drives the edges while honoring the structures.
Two artists who exemplify the standards for
creativity and exploration at the venerable
Blue Note Records will come together for
the first time in the Chucho Valds Joe
JIMMY KATZ
Ravi Coltrane
Ravi Coltrane (Saxophone) is a critically
acclaimed Grammy Awardnominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. In the
course of a 20-plus year career, he has
worked as a sideman to many, recorded
noteworthy albums for himself and others,
and founded a prominent independent
record label, RKM. Born in Long Island, the
second son of John Coltrane and Alice
Coltrane, Ravi was named after Indian sitar
legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los
Angeles, where his family moved after his
fathers death in 1967. His mother, Alice
Coltrane, was a significant influence on Ravi,
and it was he who encouraged Alice to
return to performance and the recording studio after a long absence. Subsequently, Ravi
produced and played on Alice Coltranes
powerful Translinear Light, which was
released in 2004. He has released six
albums as a leader. His latest, Spirit Fiction,
was released in June 2012 for Blue Note
Records. Additional credits include performances and recordings with Elvin Jones,
Terence Blanchard, Kenny Barron, Steve
Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette,
Matt Garrison, Jeff Tain Watts, Geri Allen,
Joanne Brackeen, and The Blue Note 7,
among others. He is a co-leader of the
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell (Trumpet) is one of the most
creative and dynamic instrumentalists and
composers of our time. A master of the
jazz idiom, he also constantly seeks new
challenges and influences, remaining fresh
for a career spanning more than four
decades and over 260 recordings. Harrells
warm, burnished sound and unparalleled
harmonic and rhythmic sophistication have
made him a frequent winner in DownBeat
and JazzTimes Critics and Readers Polls.
After a string of albums with his quintet of
almost ten years, featuring Wayne
Escoffery, Danny Grissett, Ugonna
Okegwo, and Johnathan Blake, Harrell has
begun to develop new projects. His most
recent album, First Impressions, is a chamber ensemble recording of Harrells
arrangements of (mostly) chansons by
Debussy and Ravel. The ensemble was
featured on PBS Soundtracks and toured
extensively. TRIP, a piano-less quartet
formed by Dave Douglas, commissioned
Harrell to compose for the Festival of New
Trumpet Music. A 2014 album release was
followed by tours in 2015. With Colors of a
Dream, Harrell extended the piano-less
concept, using two acoustic basses in a
sextet with three horns and drums. The
album was released in 2013, and the group
toured in 2014. Carlos Santana, Cold Blood,
Azteca, Vince Guaraldi, Hank Jones, Kenny
Barron, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra,
Danish Radio Big Band, WDR Big Band,
Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Metropole
Orchestra, and Arturo OFarrill & the AfroLatin Jazz Orchestra are among those who
have recorded or performed Harrells work.
Steve Kuhn
Steve Kuhn (Piano, 5/13 only) is one of the
most lyrical, affecting, and swinging pianists
in jazz. His latest in a series of recordings for
ECM is 2012s Wisteria, featuring longtime
partners Steve Swallow and Joey Baron.
The albums title number, written by Art
Farmer, references Kuhns early-1960s
period in Farmers band. Kuhn, who has perfect pitch and a photographic memory, was
born in Brooklyn in 1938 to Hungarian immigrants. After moving to Boston he began
studying with Margaret Chaloff, whom he
credits for much about his classically formed
technique. While attending Harvard
University, he played six nights per week in
a trio with Arnold Wise and Chuck Israels as
well as with visiting musicians like Coleman
Hawkins and Chet Baker. During a threeweek session at the Lenox School of Music,
Kuhn met Kenny Dorham, who drafted him
for a yearlong sting in his band. In 1960, at
age 21, he left Dorhams group to join a
quartet with John Coltrane, leading to an
eight-week run at the old Jazz Gallery in
New York. Kuhn then joined saxophonist
Stan Getz for two years before forming a trio
Geri Allen
Geri Allen (Piano, 5/14 only) is a pianist,
composer, educator, Guggenheim Fellow,
and director of jazz studies at the University
of Pittsburgh. In 2016 she was nominated
for a Best Historical Album Grammy Award
for her co-production of Erroll Garners The
Complete Concert by the Sea. The album,
and her work, is also nominated by for the
Outstanding Jazz Album of the Year
NAACP Image Award. She received the first
Lady of Soul Award for jazz and was also the
first woman and youngest person to receive
the Danish Jazz Par Prize. Her work is
Reggie Workman
The legendary Reggie Workman (Bass) is
highly regarded as a bass players bass
player. Workmans playing styles cover
the range of modern music, from bop to
post-bop to futuristic, incorporating a
contemporary approach to jazz improvisation and composition. He has an uncanny
ability to equally understand and share
musical ideas with such diverse musicians
as Art Blakey on one side and Cecil Taylor
on the other. As a result, Workman has
invented his own language of sound and
Andrew Cyrille
Andrew Cyrille (Drums) was born in
Brooklyn, New York, and he studied at the
Juilliard and Hartnett schools of music.
Cyrille has performed with jazz artists
including Coleman Hawkins, Illinois
Jacquet, Mary Lou Williams, Kenny
Dorham, Munai Richard Abrams, Horace
Tapscott, John Carter, Mal Waldron, and
David Murray. In 1964 he began an 11-year
association with pianist Cecil Taylor. Cyrille
played drums for many notable dancers and
choreographers in the mid- to late-1960s.
He was artist in residence and teacher at
Brian Blade
As a child, Brian Blade (Drums) played violin before following in the footsteps of his
brother, who played the drums in the Zion
church. In high school, Blade and his
brother Brady, Jr. were students of Dorsey
Summerfield, Jr. and performed as part of
Mica and
Ahmet
Ertegun
for their gift of the Atrium, for their
extraordinary generosity to Jazz at
Lincoln Center, and for their indelible
impact on the world of jazz.
The Erteguns advocacy for jazz and their tireless support for Jazz
at Lincoln Center have advanced the art form, and sustained the
master musicians who perform it.
Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, brought the world
the legendary work of luminaries such as John Coltrane and Ray
Charles. His leadership as a founding member of Jazz at Lincoln
Center and its Board of Directors and his strong support of
maintaining a house orchestra were vital to the organizations
early development, and to the creation of the Nesuhi Ertegun
Jazz Hall of Fame, named for his brother.
Mica Ertegun joined Jazz at Lincoln Centers Board of Directors in
2006. Her continued stewardship as a valued leader is carrying
her husbands vision forward.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Jazz at Lincoln Centers
Frederick P. Rose Hall
May 2016
THE APPEL ROOM
Body and Soul:
Americas Unforgettable Crooners
May 2021 at 7pm & 9:30pm
Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Mel Torm are
three great masters of the canon known as The
Great American Songbook. Their velvety voices
and mastery of sentimental serenades made
them the quintessential crooners of the 20th century, but their respective landmark achievements
across the mediums of radio, television, film, and
recording made them legends. Music director
Bryan Carter and his stellar ensemble, featuring
vocalists Denzal Sinclaire, Benny Benack III, and
Charles Turner, pay tribute to these geniuses of
song. The show features new arrangements by
Carter and a 22-piece ensemble that reflects both
a hard-hitting big band sound and lush strings.
ROSE THEATER
The Ray Charles Songbook
May 2021 at 8pm
At age 21, trumpeter and music director Kenny
Rampton (of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra)
launched his touring career with a nine-month stint
in Ray Charles band. Tonight, Rampton honors his
former bandleader by presenting the most authentic Ray Charles experience possible. The band is
full of Ray Charles alumni, the set lists are faithful
recreations of actual Ray Charles sets, and the
charts are transcribed from the original tour music.
In addition to heart-stopping vocals by The
RaelettesCharles historic group of female
singersthe rhythm section is composed almost
entirely of distinguished vocalists who will sing
both together and individually, including blues guitar legend Bill Sims, 2012 Thelonious Monk
International Jazz Drums Competition winner
Jamison Ross, and two-time Grammy Award
winning pianist Diane Schuur, who shared a personal kinship with Charles.
Free pre-concert discussion nightly at 7pm.
June 2016
THE APPEL ROOM
Michael Feinstein: Sing Me a Swing Song
June 8 at 7pm / June 9 at 7pm & 9pm
Popular music was never the same after artists
like Frank Sinatra regularly started to swing
American standards, asserts Jazz & Popular
Song series director Michael Feinstein. For our
final installment of the season, Sing, Sing, Sing,
Mack the Knife, and Satin Doll celebrate
what he describes as the enduring influence of
swing on popular music and song interpretation.
Joining Feinstein will be the Tedd Firth Big Band;
Allyson Briggs a multilingual and multi-talented
vocalist who captures a long lineage of swing tradition; and Catherine Russell a vocalist extraordinaire who headlined four Appel Room concerts
in April 2016.
ROSE THEATER
Lush Life: Celebrating Billy Strayhorn
June 1011 at 8pm
In this centenary year of Billy Strayhorns birth, its
fitting that the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis concludes our 201516
season by celebrating his life and career with
additional music direction by JLCO pianist Dan
Nimmer. As Duke Ellingtons key collaborator
and in his own rightStrayhorn is one of jazz
musics seminal yet often under-recognized composers, author of bellwethers like Take the A
Train. For this celebratory tribute, the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
will be joined by renowned pianist (and vocalist)
Johnny ONeal, who fulfills a long-held desire to
perform with the group.
Free pre-concert discussion nightly at 7pm.
Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Centers Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Time Warner Center, 5th floor.
Tickets starting at $10.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
May 2016
Miles & Trane Festival
The Iconic Miles Davis
Curated by Keyon Harrold
with Derrick Hodge, Chris Dave, Shedrick
Mitchell, Gary Bartz (5/13 only), David Liebman
(5/14 only), Taku Hirano, and Quincy Troupe
May 1315
7:30pm
Miles & Trane Festival
The Timeless John Coltrane:
Village Vanguard 1961
Patrick Bartley Ensemble
with Xavier Del Castillo, Micah Thomas,
Alexander Claffy, and
Kyle Poole
May 1315
9:30pm
Membership: 212-258-9973
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