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Friday Evening, December 19, 2014, at 7:00
Saturday Evening, December 20, 2014, at 9:30
Wynton Marsalis, Managing & Artistic Director
Greg Scholl, Executive Director
New Jazz Standards
JONATHAN RAGONESE, Saxophone
ANTHONY WILSON, Guitar
AMINA FIGAROVA, Piano
BEN WOLFE, Bass
CLARENCE PENN, Drums
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Notes on the Program
By Ted Panken
Rare is the jazz musician or devotee unfamiliar with lingua franca 20th-century repertoire
like “I Got Rhythm,” “Body and Soul,” “All
The Things You Are,” “Round Midnight,”
and “Footprints,” each the epitome of a
work—as bassist Reid Anderson remarked
in the program notes for last year’s inaugural
New Jazz Standards concert—“that people
have consistently played and had opinions
about over a long period.”
The second installment of New Jazz
Standards mirrors the first in presenting a
never-before-convened quintet of individualistic instrumentalist-composer team players—
pianist Amina Figarova, drummer Clarence
Penn, saxophonist Jonathan Ragonese, guitarist Anthony Wilson, and bassist Ben Wolfe.
None can predict whether their respective
creations will, as Wilson puts it, “create a
strong enough world, in themselves, to justify
the repetition.” But related first principles
emerge in their remarks on what they consider a standard to be, and the first principles
that will animate them as they compose.
Melody is one. “For me, it all comes down to
songs,” Wilson says. “In many ways, jazz is
a cult of the soloist. Jazz musicians often play
songs that are nothing more than vehicles for
improvisation and soloing, and, if they are
good, you don’t bother yourself about the
song. I’ve heard and witnessed a ton of
impressive playing over the last 25 years, but
not that many songs I’d care to hear again.”
“I’d like things to be the other way
around,” Wilson adds, before introducing
the notion of musical narrative to the mix.
“My goal is for each song I write to be an
end in itself, to tell a story and convey emotion. I want to inspire the improvisers to tell
good stories in their solos so that the performance enhances the song’s nature.”
In Wolfe’s view, storytelling in notes and
tones embraces interplay within real-time
flow. “I’m ensemble-oriented,” he says.
“I’m very much interested in the conversations feeling the same on and off the bandstand.” As Wolfe has played previously
with only two of this evening’s cohorts, he
can’t “predict how it will feel for us to play
together.” So his challenge—“one that I
like”—is to “prepare music that considers
the musicians I have some history with and
those that I don’t.”
“The rhythms of popular music used to have
much more in common with the rhythms of
jazz,” Wolfe adds, suggesting another point
of divergence between “old” and “new”
standards. “That being said, I don’t reject or
run from the inevitable influence of growing
up when I did.” Nor does Figarova, who
points to Herbie Hancock’s 1996 recording,
The New Standard, as a lodestar.
“‘New standards’ are written every day by
musicians from different genres,” she
says. “It’s not only a strong melody or
sophisticated harmony, but the piece’s
strong personality and flexibility that makes
it wonderful to play and arrange over and
over. What counts is writing from the bottom of your heart and being yourself.”
Ragonese, the band’s youngest member,
also sees “standard” as an “alive, evolving” term, generated “from taking what
was understood in the public’s consciousness and extrapolating freely on common
ground.” From this perspective, Ragonese
positions this evening’s concert and his
role within it:
“The sheer volume of information that
passes through public consciousness today
makes finding common ground more attainable and exponentially more difficult and severed. So I look for freedom of choice in defining ‘standard’ to include any organization of
the raw materials of music, dealt with in an
improvisatory manner—improvisation is
now. My goal will be to write in a way that
creates the opportunity for each person to
feel at once comfortable and slightly uneasy,
so as to find that common ground.”
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IAN GITTLER
FRANK NICOLAI
Meet the Artists
Jonathan
Ragonese
Jonathan Ragonese (Saxophone), composer-arranger-saxophonist, is a native of
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. He has
lived in New York City for six years, and he
completed his undergraduate degree at the
Manhattan School of Music, studying with
Bob Mintzer, Steve Wilson, and Garry Dial,
and his Masters in Composition, studying
with Michael Patterson, Jim McNeely,
David Noon, and Nils Vigeland. As a saxophonist he has performed and recorded
with local and international performers
Terell Stafford, David Liebman, Jon Faddis,
Tim Warfield, JD Walter, The Harrisburg
Symphony & Stuart Malina, Steve Rudolph,
Steve Wilson, Jimmy Heath, and James
Moody. As a composer, Ragonese’s works
have been premiered by saxophonist Steve
Wilson, the Vermont Mozart Festival
Orchestra, The RighteousGIRLS, the
Harrisburg Symphony, the Solar Winds
Quintet, and the Manhattan School of
Music Jazz Orchestra. Jonathan has served
on the faculty of the West Chester
University Summer Jazz Institute & The
Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz Camp;
in 2013 he created and conducted a fourweek music-focused summer program for
pre-school aged students at The Children’s
Learning Center in New York City; his educational endeavors continue to broaden
with lectures and writings. His debut
release, Ardent Marigolds, a duo album
with pianist Steve Rudolph, was released
in November 2013 on R&L Records.
Anthony Wilson
Guitarist, composer, and arranger Anthony
Wilson (Guitar) is one of the leading musicians of his generation and has recorded ten
solo albums since his Grammy Award–
nominated debut album was released in
1997. Wilson’s fourth album with his
acclaimed nonet, 2006’s Power of Nine,
was included in The New Yorker’s top ten
jazz albums of the year, and 2009’s Jack of
Hearts featured a classic guitar-organ-drums
format with Larry Goldings and Jim Keltner.
In 2011 Wilson released two celebrated
albums: Campo Belo, a collection of original
songs recorded in São Paulo, pairs him with
three of Brazil’s most extraordinary young
musicians; and Seasons: Live at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (a CD/DVD set)
features music composed by Wilson for a
group that includes guitarists Julian Lage,
Chico Pinheiro, and Steve Cardenas playing
instruments built by luthier John
Monteleone. Seasons was Stereophile
Magazine’s Recording of the Month in April
2012. DownBeat magazine gave it a rave
“Editor’s Pick” review.
A gifted accompanist as well as a formidable soloist, Wilson has been a member of
Diana Krall’s quartet since 2001, when he
joined for a series of performances at Paris’
Olympia Theater (collected on the Grammy
Award–winning Live In Paris). Recordings
and performances during the past decade
have included musicians Paul McCartney,
Leon Russell, Willie Nelson, Mose Allison,
Bobby Hutcherson, Barbra Streisand,
Madeleine Peyroux, and Aaron Neville.
Producers Tommy LiPuma, Joe Henry, and
Jesse Harris frequently call on Wilson to
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Conservatory and the Berklee College of
Music. She made her recording debut with
Attraction in 1994 and was accepted into
the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz
Colony in Aspen, Colorado in 1998.
Figarova mainly composes and arranges for
her sextet. She plays compelling, artful,
and heartfelt changes on the urbane,
bluesy lyricism originally developed by the
likes of Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Bill
Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne
Shorter. Though the recipient of rigorous
Russian musical education in the classics,
Figarova has come to identify her sound
with these master mainstream-progressives of recent jazz decades, after having
explored aspects of the avant garde (in
September Suite, her shocked and sad
response to terrorists attacks on American
soil) and multi-keyboard fusion-oriented
funk (on Another Me).
Figarova has collaborated with musicians
residing in both the United States and
Europe, and built a circuit of welcoming
one gig at a time. The Amina Figarova
Sextet has triumphed at the main stage of
the Newport Jazz Festival, been invited
repeatedly to the New Orleans Jazz and
Heritage Festival, won critical and audience
acclaim in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam, and, of course, New York. In 2010
she decided to make the big move to the
United States, and having arrived, she
could not be happier.
Amina Figarova
Composer and pianist Amina Figarova’s
(Piano) 12th album, titled Twelve, celebrates jazz as an international music and New
York City as a locale where jazz gypsies
may feel most at home. A suite of songs
for sextet that Figarova wrote after moving
to New York in 2011 from her longtime
European base, Twelve is suffused with the
heightened expectations, sense of adventure, and fresh perceptions that voluntary
emigrés enjoy, as well as the confidence,
creative energies, and nuanced fulfillment
that artists gain from being in the right place
at the right time.
Figarova started playing piano and composing at a very early age. She studied classical concert piano at the Baku Conservatory
and jazz performance at the Rotterdam
FRANK STEWART
ROBERT BECK
contribute to their projects; and Bennie
Wallace, Larry Goldings, the late Harold
Land, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra,
and Anthony’s father, Gerald Wilson, are a
few of the revered artists with whom
Wilson has forged lasting partnerships.
Wilson is regularly at the top levels of
DownBeat magazine’s International Critics’
poll as a guitarist, a composer, and an
arranger. Wilson won the Thelonious Monk
Institute International Composers’ Competition in 1995, and has since received
numerous commissions for small- and largescale original works. His orchestral composition Virgo was commissioned by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Association and premiered at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008; and
in 2009 his orchestral arrangement of Ivan
Lins’ “Love Dance” was featured on
Barbra Streisand’s Love is the Answer.
Ben Wolfe
Bassist-composer Ben Wolfe (Bass) has
recently released his new CD, No Strangers
Here, on MAXJAZZ. As Wynton Marsalis
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in
Portland, Oregon, Wolfe has gained a large
following from his performances with
Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and
Diana Krall. Early on in his career, Wolfe
formed a duo with Harry Connick, Jr. and
went on to record over a dozen albums and
soundtracks. During his five years with
Connick, he performed on numerous world
tours as musical director. He then joined the
Wynton Marsalis Septet. Wolfe also
became an integral part of Diana Krall’s touring band and recordings, including the
Grammy Award–winning When I Look In
Your Eyes. As a former member of the Jazz
at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Ben has performed with Joe Henderson, Doc
Cheatham, Jon Hendricks, Harry “Sweets”
Edison, and Billy Higgins. Other artists with
whom he has recorded include Branford
Marsalis, James Moody, Eric Reed, Carl
Allen, and Benny Green. Wolfe’s previous
recordings include 13 Sketches (1996) and
Bagdad Theater (1997) on Mons Records;
the critically acclaimed Murray’s Cadillac
(2000) on Amosaya Music; and My Kinda
Beautiful (2004) on Planet Arts Records.
Wolfe is on the teaching faculty at The
Julliard School: Jazz Division.
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
said, “Ben Wolfe swings with authority.” As
heard from Wolfe’s compositions on this
CD, he also innovates and “scores” with
authority. In 2008 Wolfe composed From
Here I See for the Harlem in the Himalayas
series at the Rubin Museum. Like many of
Wolfe’s compositions, this 25-minute suite
fell into line with the jazz concept of a double quartet, a combination of the standard
jazz quartet with the standard string quartet.
Wolfe’s work is a true ensemble, expressed
in group sound instead of extended solo
compositions. Chamber Music America
awarded him the 2004 New Works:
Creation and Presentation Program Grant,
and as a result, Wolfe was able to compose
his extended composition Contradiction:
Music for Sextet. Wolfe also recently made
his mark as a film composer, working with
Matthew Modine on the film short, I Think I
Thought. At the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival,
The New York Sun reviewed Wolfe’s work
on this film as “a standout music score.”
Clarence Penn
Clarence Penn (Drums) is one of the busiest
jazz drummers in the world, a leader of multiple bands, a composer, a prolific producer,
and an educator. Since he arrived in New
York City in 1991, Penn has placed his
unique blend of chops, intellect, and heady
musicianship at the service of a staggering
array of artists; a chronological short-list
includes Ellis and Wynton Marsalis, Betty
Carter, Stanley Clarke, Steps Ahead, Makoto
Ozone, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas,
Maria Schneider, Luciana Souza, Richard
Galliano, and Fourplay. Penn’s impressive
discography includes several hundred studio
albums (including the Grammy Award–
winning recordings 34th and Lex by Randy
Brecker and Concert in the Garden and Sky
Blue by Maria Schneider), representing a
360-spectrum of jazz expression. Penn has
also toured extensively throughout the
United States, the Americas, Europe,
Japan, and Southeast Asia. He has composed music for films and commercials and
produced tracks for numerous singers in
the pop and alternative arenas. He earned a
Ten Best of 1997 accolade from The New
York Times for his first leader recording,
Penn’s Landing.
A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth
University, where he was a protégé of Ellis
Marsalis, Penn is active as an educator and
drum clinician. From 2004 to 2012 he
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taught on the faculty of the Banff International
Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. He has
also served on faculty at the Stanford Jazz
Workshop, the Saint Louis College of Music in
Rome, Italy, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Intensive Jazz Institute. Penn currently leads
several ensembles. His most recent recording
is 2014’s Monk: The Lost Files, arrangements
of the music of Thelonious Monk, released on
Origin and featuring Chad Leftkowitz-Brown,
Gerald Clayton, Donald Vega, and Yasushi
Nakamura. Near completion is a “world
music” studio project of songs and instrumentals that melds background voices—
including his own—with a world class band.
As both a leader and sideman, Penn brings to
the table unfailing versatility and professionalism and an ability to find creative ways to
interpret a global array of styles and idioms.
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Alfred and Harriet
Feinman Foundation
Christine Ferer
Christine and John
Fitzgibbons
Susan and Arthur
Fleischer, Jr.
Charlotte Moss and Barry
Friedberg
Erin A. Pond and Peter H.
Friedland
Susan and Fred Friedman
Fredrica and Stephen
Friedman
Ian Fuller
Roy L. Furman
Alice and Nathan
Gantcher
Henry Louise Gates, Jr.
Linda Gelfond
Stuart Gelfond
Michael Gellert
June and John Gibson
Gladstein Family
Foundation
Claudia Glasser
Charlene and Keith
Goggin
Linda Silberman and
Victor Goldberg
Arlene Goldman
Patricia and Bernard
Goldstein
Rob Goldstein/Alter
Trading
Robert S. Goldstein
Nancy and Gary
Goodenough
Barbara and Harry Gould
Terry and Michael Groll
Lori E. Gross
Rhoda and Edwin
Guinsburg
Agnes Gund
Sanjeanetta Harris
Laurie Hawkes
Anne Farley and Peter C.
Hein
Alexandra Herzan
Tania Higgin
Alan D. Holtz
Audrey Sokoloff and
Timothy Hosking
Margie and Edward Imo
Adam Inselbuch
Andrea Montalbano and
Diron Jebejian
Jeffrey Kallenberg
Marnee and Eric Kaltman
Clarence Kam
Katherine and Jerome
Kauff
Linda and William Kaye
Ginny and Richard Keim
Judy and Alfred Taubman
Barbara and Andy Taylor
Kendall Thomas
Maggie and Amor Towles
Barbara Walters
Jeanette and Paul
Wagner
Warburg Pincus
Diane and Geoffrey Ward
Larry Satterfield and
Michael S. Ward
Cindy and Kenneth West
Patricia and Alfred Zollar
Tara Kelleher and Roy J.
Zuckerberg
PATRONS
Risa Schifter and Edward
A. Kirtman
Karen and David Kline
Pat and John Klingenstein
Theresa Knight
Chikako and Tomo
Kodama
Ginger and David L.
Komar
Ronald and Isobel
Konecky Family
Foundation
Eric Korman
Diane Kranz
Lynn and Jules Kroll
Wendy and Jerry
Labowitz
Jill and Barry Lafer
Eric Lax
Geraldine Laybourne
Elizabeth and Gavin
Leckie
Laurie Zucker Lederman
and David Lederman
Nyssa and Christen Lee
Sandra Shahinian Leitner
Denise and David Levine
Karen Collias and
Geoffrey Levitt
Ira Levy
Loida Nicolas Lewis
Rita Fishman and
Leonard Lichter
Sharon Horn and Jeffrey
Lichtman
Lynn Staley and Marty
Linsky
Tina and Michael Lobel
Madeleine Long
Lynn Davidson and Jon
Lukomnik
Ninah and Michael Lynne
James Manges
Katina and Ken Manne
Justin Manus
Monty March
Susan and Morris Mark
Mark Family Foundation
Tracy Stein and Marco
Masotti
Joan Lee and Robert
Matloff
Joanne and Norman
Matthews
Lady Va and Sir Deryck
Maughan
Merridith and Robert
McCarthy
Rich McClure/Unigroup
Irene Weiss Miller and
Jeffrey D. Miller
Courtney Lee and Marcus
Mitchell
Kimberly and Nicholas
Moore
Susan and Alan Morris
Michelle and John Morris
Lisa Caputo and Rick
Morris
Kimberly and David
Morse
Richard Moylan
Gaya Vinay and Vinay Nair
Kishwer Nehal
Judith E. Neisser
Josiane and Thierry
Noufele
Nora Ann Wallace and
Jack Nusbaum
Harry O’Mealia
Jason Olaine
Lisbeth and Augustus
Oliver
Gideon Panter
Margot Bridger and
Joseph G. Paul
Michael Peffer
Albert Penick Fund
James Penrose
Joseph Perella
Paula and Dominic Petito
Caroline Wamsler and
DeWayne Phillips
Wayne Phillips
Joel Picket
Mark G. Prentiss
Dr. Robert Press
Cheryl and Louis Raspino
Caryl Ratner
Richard Reitknecht
Rodney Reid
Megan and William Ried
Barbara J. Riley
Nancy and Marc Roberts
Alicia and William
Robertson
Margaret Robson
Donna and Benjamin M.
Rosen
Carla and H. David
Rosenbloom
Lila Ross
Laura and James Ross
Steven and Daryl Roth
Ethel Rubinstein
Susan Cluff and Neil
Rudolph
Laura Sachar
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Monica Kirkland and
Carlos Sanchez
George H. Sands, MD
Phyllis W. Bertin and
Anthony M. Saytanides
Steven F. Schankman
Mark Scharfman
Amy Katz and Irving
Scher
Marcia and Irwin Schloss
Shari and Jay Schuster
Deborah and Phillip Scott
Kathy and Joel Segall
Lynn Povich and Stephen
Shepard
Robert B. Shepler
Gil Shiva
Stephanie and Alfred
Shuman
Randall Eron Shy
Angelia and George Siber
Ruth and Jerome Siegel
Nancy and Andrew
Simmons
Carra Sleight
Dana Anderson and
Aaron Smidt
Helena and Steve
Sokoloff
Yuriko and Leonard
Solondz
Jimmie E. Spears
Denise Spillane
Louise A. Springer
Deirdre Stanley
Barbara and Mitchell
Stein
Joan and Michael
Steinberg
Leonore and Walter Stern
James Stevens
Sabin C. Streeter
Joe Sullivan
Gloria and Phillip Talkow
Jay Tanenbaum
Lynne Tarnopol
Aulston Taylor
The Wilma S. and
Laurence A. Tisch
Foundation
Barbara and Donald Tober
Michael Tuch Foundation,
Inc.
Ann and Thomas
Unterberg
Cheryl Vollweiler
Margaret and George
Vranesh
George H. Walker, III
Ellen and Barry
Wagenberg
Jane L. Overman and
Paul Weltchek
Joan and Howard
Weinstein
Mildred Weissman
Robert C. Wesley, Jr.
Naida S. Wharton
Foundation
Katherine C. Wickham
Michael E. Wiles
Shelley and Robert
Willcox
Audrey Strauss and John
Wing
Richard M. Winn III
Benjamin Winter
The Craig E. Wishman
Foundation
Wolfensohn Family
Foundation
As of October 1, 2014
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Live in Cuba Exhibit
On View Now
Free and open to the public during scheduled performances
In celebration of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Across the Americas season, our
current exhibit—Live in Cuba—tells the story of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra’s week-long residency in Cuba in October, 2010. This historic tour
included five performances at the Teatro Mella in Havana, Cuba, in addition to
educational workshops throughout the country. The exhibit, located on the fifth floor
of Frederick P. Rose Hall, features the photography of Frank Stewart and Ayano
Hisa, plus rare video footage from the tour. In addition to an illustrious and
international career as a professional photographer, Frank Stewart serves as senior
staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Ayano Hisa, a 2013 fellow of the New
York Foundation for the Arts, is a freelance photographer whose clients include Jazz
at Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, and Savannah Music Festival. Please stop
by the free exhibit to learn more!
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jazz at lincoln center gratefully acknowledges
mica and
ahmet
ertegun
for their extraordinary generosity and
indelible impact on the world of jazz.
As founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun brought the legendary work
of luminaries such as John Coltrane and Ray Charles to a global audience.
His leadership on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Board of Directors was vital to the
organization’s early development, and the creation of the Nesuhi Ertegun
Jazz Hall of Fame, named for his brother and business partner.
Ahmet Ertegun was a vocal supporter of maintaining a big band for Jazz at Lincoln
Center. Evoking the memory of hearing orchestras with his brother when they
first came to America, he strongly believed that a house orchestra was crucial to
the integrity of the organization. Now, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is
the nation’s preeminent jazz ensemble. The redesign of the newly named Ertegun
Atrium transforms the public spaces of Frederick P. Rose Hall into a hub of jazz
and is an extension of Ahmet Ertegun’s vision for the organization.
After Ahmet Ertegun’s passing in 2006, his wife Mica Ertegun joined JALC’s Board
of Directors, and her continued stewardship as a valued leader has carried her
husband’s purpose forward. The Erteguns’ advocacy for jazz and their tireless
support for Jazz at Lincoln Center have forever advanced the art form, the master
musicians who perform it, and expanded audiences worldwide, who undeniably
love it. Jazz at Lincoln Center is deeply grateful for all they have made possible.
this program is funded through the
generosity of mica and ahmet ertegun.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Frederick P. Rose Hall
December 2014
Ring In The Swing:
A New Year’s Eve Dance Party
ROSE THEATER
December 31, doors open at 8:30pm
Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Lena Horne famously
posed the timeless question: “What Are You Doing New
Year’s Eve?” Jazz at Lincoln Center invites you in from
the cold and the crowd to ring in the New Year with
swing and style. Now in its third year, our New Year’s
Eve Dance Party is a not-to-be-missed event. Dance the
night away with live music from premier artists, Jazz at
Lincoln Center’s own Michael Mwenso and the Late
Night Session Big Band, and Lavay Smith and the Red
Hot Skillet Lickers. Also enjoy a Southern-style buffet
dinner, open bar, champagne toast, and party favors, all
while taking in the awe-inspiring view of Central Park
from the majestic Appel Room. There’s no city with
more allure on New Year’s Eve than New York, so
whether you’re having a romantic night out or celebrating with friends or family, Jazz at Lincoln Center is the
place to be for an unbeatable countdown to 2015.
Big Band Holidays
December 18–19 at 8pm,
December 20 at 2pm and 8pm
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis and special guest vocalist Cécile McLorin
Salvant celebrate “The Most Wonderful Time of the
Year” with Big Band Holidays, a jazzy celebration now
in its fourth year. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
will explore the canon of holiday standards with signature arrangements of Yuletide favorites, with Sherman
Irby’s clear sense of swing, Victor Goines’ New
Orleans-flavored nuances, Chris Crenshaw’s deeply
soulful and complex church-rooted grooves, and much
more. Augmenting this special event is 2010
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition
winner and Mack Avenue recording artist Cécile
McLorin Salvant, who is one of the most commanding
new voices in jazz. Big Band Holidays kicks off the season with messages of peace and good cheer.
THE APPEL ROOM
New Jazz Frontiers
December 19 at 9:30pm, December 20 at 7pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center brings together a new ensemble of five innovative virtuosos who will draw from
jazz, classical, and global frameworks to collaborate
and debut new works. Orlando “Maraca” Valle is the
youngest Cuban artist ever nominated for a Grammy
Award. Groundbreaking harpist Edmar Castañeda,
from Colombia, was named “one of the most original
musicians from the Big Apple” by Paquito D’Rivera.
Pianist Ed Simon, a Guggenheim Fellow, is known for
exploring the marriage between jazz and Venezuelan
music. Grammy Award winning bassist Luques
Curtis brings a jazz and Latin sensibility and leads his
own group, the Curtis Brothers. Drummer and percussionist Daniel Freedman was named “one of five
drummers changing jazz drumming” by The New
York Times. By utilizing their far-reaching global influences, this new collaboration – and these new compositions – will reveal entirely new frontiers in jazz.
January 2015
ROSE THEATER
Birth of the American Orchestra
January 9–10 at 8pm
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis delves into this American phenomenon
through the syncopated dance beats of New Orleans,
innovative ensemble virtuosity, and the monumentality of swing and the blues. They will also explore the
roles of orchestral instrumentation and the expansion
of harmonic prospects, the evolution of the rhythm
section, and the distinctiveness of the master composers and arrangers involved. At the forefront of this
celebration are Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Bill
Challis, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Eddie Durham,
Chico O’Farrill, and Gil Fuller.
Free pre-concert discussion nightly at 7pm.
IRENE DIAMOND EDUCATION CENTER
Swing University
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s jazz education program, Swing
University, offers students of all ages a chance to learn
about jazz from musicians and scholars. JALC curator
and WKCR personality Phil Schaap and friends share
insights, expertise, and stories as they lead classes
through jazz’s storied past and vibrant present. Winter
Term classes include Jazz 101, Jazz 201, Sidney Bechet,
Charlie Parker, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Please visit jazz.org/swingu, call 212-258-9922, or
email [email protected] for more information. Single
tickets are available. Starts January 5.
Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Time Warner Center, 5th floor
Tickets starting at $10
To purchase tickets call CenterCharge: 212-721-6500 or visit: jazz.org. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office
is located on Broadway at 60th Street, Ground Floor. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 12pm-6pm.
For groups of 15 or more: 212-258-9875 or jazz.org/groups.
For more information about our education programs, visit academy.jazz.org.
For Swing University and WeBop enrollment: 212-258-9922.
Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Frederick P. Rose Hall
December 2014
Chris Pattishall and Holiday Swing with Michael
Mwenso, Brianna Thomas, Charenee Wade
with Jamison Ross, Chris Smith, Riley Mulherkar,
Shareef Clayton, Coleman Hughes, Tivon Pennicott,
and Godwin Louis
December 18–21
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Dick Hyman Solo Piano:
Variations on the Great American Songbook:
Standards and Stride
December 22–23
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Nuevo Jazz Latino All-Stars
with Pedrito Martinez, Yosvany Terry, Mike
Rodriguez, Elio Villafranca, Carlos Henriquez, and
Dafnis Prieto
December 26–30
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Wynton Marsalis Quintet with special guests
Jared Grimes and Kate Davis
with Walter Blanding, Carlos Henriquez, Ali Jackson,
and Dan Nimmer
Special pricing applies
December 31
7:30pm & 11pm
January 2015
Peter Bernstein Quartet Featuring Brad Mehldau
Greg Hutchinson, and Christian McBride
January 2–4
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra
January 6
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Marcus Roberts’ Modern Jazz Generation
with Joey Alexander, solo piano, from 7-7:30pm
January 7–11
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Eli Yamin and Evan Christopher:
For Our Jazz Heroes
January 12
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Christian Sands Trio
with Matthew Rybicki and Ulysses Owens
January 13
7:30pm & 9:30pm
René Urtreger Trio/Opening: Jean-Michel Pilc
Co-presented by the French Quarter 2015
with Yves Torchinsky and Simon Goubert
January 14
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Clarice Assad/OFF THE CLIFF
Kieta Ogawa, João Luiz Rezende, Beat Kaesth, and
Shin Sakain
January 15
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Walter Blanding: Tick Tock
With Warren Wolf, Mark Whitfield, Sr., Bruce Harris,
Russell Hall, Dan Nimmer, and Ulysses Owens
January 16–18
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra
with conductor/performer Sean Jones
January 5
7:30pm & 9:30pm
In deference to the artists, patrons of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
are encouraged to keep conversations to a whisper during the performance.
Artists and schedule subject to change.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Time Warner Center, 5th floor New York.
Reservations: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys; Group Reservations: 212-258-9595 or jazz.org/dizzys-reservations
Nightly Artist sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm.
Late Night Session sets Tuesday through Saturday at 11:30 pm.
Cover Charge: $20–45. Special rates for students with valid student ID. Full dinner available at each artist set.
Rose Theater and The Appel Room concert attendees, present your ticket stub to get
50% off the late-night cover charge at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Fridays and Saturdays.
Jazz at Lincoln Center merchandise is now available at the concession stands during performances in Rose Theater
and The Appel Room. Items also available in Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola during evening operating hours.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola gift cards now available.
Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram.
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jazz at lincoln center
a new year’s eve dance party
with Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers and
Michael Mwenso and the Late Night Session Big Band
DECEMBER 31 • doors open at 8:30pm
includes open bar and Southern style buffet
frederick p. rose hall
5th floor
box office
ground floor
centercharge
212-721-6500
jazz.org
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jazz at lincoln center
2014–15
jazz for young people series
family concert:
who is tito puente?
NOV 22 • 1PM, 3PM
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis
family concert:
who is billie holiday?
FEB 7 • 1PM, 3PM
Aaron Diehl and Charenee Wade celebrate
the music of Lady Day
Tickets start at $10!
OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER
THE JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE CONCERT SERIES IS FUNDED
THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF MICA AND AHMET ERTEGUN
Venue Frederick P. Rose Hall
Box Office Broadway at 60th St., Ground Fl.
CenterCharge: 212-721-6500
jazz.org
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7:30pm & 9:30pm sets
late night session 11:30pm, tuesday–saturday
212-258-9595
jazz.org/dizzys
jazz at lincoln center broadway at 60th street, 5th floor
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