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The Program
MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS Boplicity
arranged by Gil Evans
GEORGE SHEARING Conception
arranged by Marcus Roberts
TRADITIONAL Dear Old Stockholm
arranged by Marcus Printup
MILES DAVIS Deception
arranged by Gerry Mulligan
CHARLIE PARKER Donna Lee
arranged by Sherman Irby
WAYNE SHORTER E. S. P.
arranged by Ali Jackson
MILES DAVIS & RON CARTER Eighty-One
arranged by Marcus Printup
MILES DAVIS Fran Dance
arranged by Ali Jackson
DUBOSE HEYWARD, GEORGE GERSHWIN & IRA GERSHWIN Gone
arranged by Gil Evans
re-orchestrated by Chris Crenshaw
RICHARD RODGERS My Funny Valentine
arranged by Marcus Printup
MILES DAVIS Selim
arranged by Ali Jackson
MILES DAVIS & VICTOR FELDMAN Seven Steps to Heaven
arranged by Ted Nash
FRANK CHURCHILL Someday My Prince Will Come
MARCUS MILLER Tutu
arranged by Marcus Printup
JOE MARTINEZ
Marcus Printup
JOE MARTINEZ
Ali Jackson
Ali Jackson (Music Director, Drums ) developed his talent on drums at an early age. In
1993 he graduated from Cass Tech High
JOE MARTINEZ
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet) is the managing
and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center
and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in
1961, Marsalis began his classical training
on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard
School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey
and the Jazz Messengers. He made his
recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has
since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine
Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the
first and only artist to win both classical and
jazz Grammys in the same year and
repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also
an internationally respected teacher and
spokesman for music education, and has
received honorary doctorates from dozens
of U.S. universities and colleges. He has
written six books; his most recent are
Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp!
Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and
published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and
Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can
Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward,
published by Random House in 2008. In
1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to
be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in
music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields,
which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln
Center. In 2001 he was appointed
Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations,
and he has also been designated cultural
ambassador to the United States of America
by the U.S. State Department through their
CultureConnect program. Marsalis was
instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane
Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln
Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to
benefit the musicians, music industry-
Chris Crenshaw
Chris Crenshaw (Trombone) was born in
Thomson, Georgia on December 20, 1982.
Since birth, he has been driven by and surrounded by music. When he started playing
piano at age three, his teachers and fellow
students noticed his aptitude for the instrument. This love for piano led to his first gig
with Echoes of Joy, his father Caspers
group. He picked up the trombone at age 11
and hasnt put it down since. He graduated
from Thomson High School in 2001 and
received his bachelors degree with honors
in jazz performance from Valdosta State
University in 2005. He was awarded Most
Outstanding Student in the VSU music
department and College of Arts. In 2007
Crenshaw received his masters degree in
jazz studies from The Juilliard School where
his teachers included Dr. Douglas Farwell
and Wycliffe Gordon. He has worked with
Gerard Wilson, Jiggs Whigham, Carl Allen,
Marc Cary, Wessell Anderson, Cassandra
Wilson, Eric Reed, and many more. In 2006
Crenshaw joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra and in 2012 he composed Gods
Trombones, a spiritually focused work
which was premiered by the orchestra at
Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Vincent Gardner
Vincent Gardner (Trombone) was born in
Chicago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton,
Virginia. After singing and playing piano,
violin, saxophone, and French horn at an
early age, he decided on the trombone at
age 12. He attended Florida A&M University
and the University of North Florida. He soon
caught the ear of Mercer Ellington, who
hired Gardner for his first professional job.
Victor Goines
Victor Goines (Tenor Saxophone) is a native
of New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been a
member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet
since 1993, touring throughout the world
and recording more than 20 albums. As a
leader, Goines has recorded seven albums
including his most recent release Twilight
(2012) on Rosemary Joseph Records. A
gifted composer, Goines has more than 50
original works to his credit, including
2014s Crescent City, premiered by the
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. He has
recorded and/or performed with noted jazz
and popular artists including Ahmad Jamal,
Ruth Brown, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray
Charles, Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Lenny
Kravitz, Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis,
Dianne Reeves, Willie Nelson, Marcus
Roberts, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and a
host of others. Currently, he is the director of
jazz studies and professor of music at Northwestern University. He received a bachelor
of music degree from Loyola University in
Carlos Henriquez
Carlos Henriquez (Bass) was born in 1979
in the Bronx, New York. He studied music
at a young age, played guitar through junior
high school and took up the bass while
enrolled in The Juilliard Schools Music
Advancement Program. He entered
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music
& Art and Performing Arts and was
involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz
Ensemble which went on to win first place
in Jazz at Lincoln Centers Essentially
Ellington High School Jazz Band
Competition and Festival in 1996. In 1998,
swiftly after high school, Henriquez joined
the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra, touring the world
and recording on more than 25 albums.
Henriquez has performed with artists,
including Chucho Valds, Paco De Lucia,
Tito Puente, the Marsalis Family, Willie
Nelson, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Lenny
Kravitz, Marc Anthony, and many others.
He has been a member of the music faculty at Northwestern University School of
Music since 2008, and was music director
of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestras
cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute
of Music with Chucho Valds in 2010. His
debut album as a bandleader, The Bronx
Pyramid, comes out September 18 on Jazz
at Lincoln Centers Blue Engine Records.
Sherman Irby
Sherman Irby (Alto Saxophone) was born
and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He found
his musical calling at age 12 and in high
school he played and recorded with gospel
immortal James Cleveland. He graduated
from Clark Atlanta University with a B.A. in
music education. In 1991 he joined Johnny
ONeals Atlanta-based quintet. In 1994 he
moved to New York City and recorded his
first two albums, Full Circle (1996) and Big
Julian Lee
Julian Lees (Tenor Saxophone) versatility
as an alto, tenor, and baritone saxophonist,
as well as a clarinetist and flautist, has
enabled him to play in some of the worlds
finest bands, including Jon Batiste and Stay
Human, the Christian McBride Big Band,
the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, and
the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Since
beginning his studies at The Juilliard School
in 2013, Lee has performed at multiple
New York City venues as a leader and sideman, including Dizzys Club Coca-Cola, the
Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, Smoke
Jazz Club, the Blue Note, and at major festivals including the Newport Jazz Festival
and the Charlie Parker Festival. He recently
returned from the Bern Jazz Festival in
Switzerland. He will appear at the Marciac
Jazz Festival with Wynton Marsalis in
August, 2016. Currently in his third year at
The Juilliard School, Lee studies with legendary saxophonist Joe Temperley of the
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Elliot Mason
Ryan Kisor
Ryan Kisor (Trumpet ) was born on April 12,
1973. in Sioux City, Iowa, and began
playing trumpet at age four. In 1990 he
won first prize at the Thelonious Monk
Institutes first annual Louis Armstrong
Trumpet Competition. Kisor enrolled in
Manhattan School of Music in 1991 where
he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff. He
has performed and/or recorded with the
Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra,
Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie
Hadens Liberation Music Orchestra, the
Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris
Jazz All-Stars, and others. In addition to
being an active sideman, Kisor has
recorded several albums as a leader,
Ted Nash
Ted Nash (Alto Saxophone) was born into a
musical family in Los Angeles. His father,
Dick Nash, and uncle, the late Ted Nash,
were both well-known jazz and studio musicians. The younger Nash exploded onto the
jazz scene at 18, moved to New York and
released his first album, Conception
(Concord Jazz). He is co-leader of the Jazz
Composers Collective and is constantly
pushing the envelope in the world of traditional jazz. His group Odeon has often
been cited as a creative focus of jazz. Many
of Nashs recordings have received critical
acclaim, and have appeared on the bestof lists in the New York Times, New
Yorker, Village Voice, Boston Globe, and
Newsday. His recordings, The Mancini
Project (Palmetto Records) and Sidewalk
Meeting (Arabesque Recordings), have
been placed on several best-of-decade
lists. His album Portrait in Seven Shades
was recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra and was released in 2010. The
album is the first composition released by
the JLCO featuring original music by a band
member other than bandleader Wynton
Marsalis. Chakra, Nashs most recent big
band recording, came out in late 2013.
Paul Nedzela
Paul Nedzela (Baritone Saxophone) was
born in New York City in 1984 and has
quickly become one of the top baritone saxophone players around. After graduating
Dan Nimmer
Dan Nimmer (Piano) was born in 1982 in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With prodigious
technique and an innate sense of swing,
his playing often recalls that of his own
heroes Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly,
Erroll Garner, and Art Tatum. Nimmer studied classical piano and eventually became
interested in jazz. He began playing gigs
with renowned saxophonist and mentor
Berkley Fudge. Nimmer studied music at
Northern Illinois University and became
one of Chicagos busiest piano players. A
year after moving to New York City, he
became a member of the Jazz at Lincoln
Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis
Quintet. Nimmer has worked with Norah
Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves,
George Benson, Frank Wess, Clark Terry,
Tom Jones, Benny Golson, Lewis Nash,
Peter Washington, Ed Thigpen, Wess
Warmdaddy Anderson, Fareed Haque,
and many more. He has appeared on The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late
Show with David Letterman, The View,
The Kennedy Center Honors, Live from
Abbey Road, and PBS Live From Lincoln
Center, among other broadcasts. He has
released four of his own albums on the
Venus label (Japan).
Kenny Rampton
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Jazz at Lincoln Centers
Frederick P. Rose Hall
May 2016
ROSE THEATER
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.
Except where noted, all venues are located in Jazz at Lincoln Centers Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Time Warner Center, 5th floor.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
May 2016
Sammy Miller and the Congregation Big
Band
May 12
10pm
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