Hi: Our friends in the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium made this easy for me. Here is their November newsletter which includes a write-up of our concert a week from today featuring Howard Alden & Andy Brown and the schedule of Riverwalk broadcasts in November. Ive taken the liberty of increasing the font size and making it Italic so you wont miss them but be sure to read all of this very interesting information. Linda Marty Schmitz President Madison Jazz Society (608) 850-5400 FAX (608) 850-5401 Dear Jazz Community Members – November is traditionally the busiest month on the Fall season’s jazz calendar, and this year is no exception. Fueled in part by the explosion of jazz ensembles at the UW-Madison School of Music, but also with a plethora of great touring musicians coming to town, there’s no shortage of opportunities coming up for fans of live jazz. And just yesterday came word that saxophonist Tia Fuller is returning to Madison as part of the highly-anticipated Isthmus Jazz Series concert by Terri Lyne Carrington’s Mosaic Project band. As usual, all events listed below have an admission charge unless otherwise noted, and those presented by the Jazz Consortium and our partner organizations are highlighted in pink font. Best wishes for a happy and healthy dash to Thanksgiving. Howard Landsman, Editor Greater Madison Jazz Consortium E-Newsletter October 31, 2014 SPECIAL JAZZ EVENTS IN NOVEMBER (AND EARLY DECEMBER) 11/2: MADISON JAZZ JAM. The Jerome Kern standard “Yesterdays” has been much loved by jazz musicians through the ages, and it’s the featured tune for the session’s first set, with trombonist Darren Sterud serving as the educator. The session’s house band includes pianist Doug White, bassist John Mesoloras, and drummer Rick Flowers. 4:00-7:00 PM, The Fountain, 122 State Street. Free admission, but donations will be gratefully accepted. madisonjazzjam.org/ 11/3: UW JAZZ ORCHESTRA. Under the direction of Jazz Studies Professor Johannes Wallmann, the UW School of Music’s student big band performs its first concert of the 2014-15 school year, with music ranging from the classic big band repertoire to contemporary and cutting-edge concert music by today’s leading jazz composers. 7:30 PM, Old Music Hall. Free admission. 11/5: UW CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND BLUE NOTE ENSEMBLE. Under the direction of UW Jazz Studies Professor Johannes Wallmann, two of the School of Music’s jazz combos perform. The Blue Note Ensemble focuses on music of the post-bop period of the 1950s and 1960s, especially works by musicians who recorded for the Blue Note label. The Contemporary Jazz Ensemble performs mainstream jazz repertoire from the last two decades as well as student compositions. 7:30 PM, Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building. Free admission. music.wisc.edu/student-ensembles/jazz-ensembles/. cid:[email protected] 11/5: VOCALIST JOHN LUDY PULEO & THE RODRIGO VILLANUEVA JAZZ TRIO. Monona Terrace’s “Tunes on the Terrace” series turns to jazz, as the venerable drummer and Northern Illinois University Professor Rodrigo Villanueava brings Lake Geneva-based vocalist Puleo to town for a program of jazz and pop standards. Rodrigo’s powerhouse trio for the evening includes pianist Mark Davis from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee and one of Madison’s go-to bassists, Nick Moran. 5:30 PM, Monona Terrace Exhibition Hall (lake level). Free admission. johnludypuleo/videos/. 11/6: “RENT EVENT” FUNDRAISER WITH HARMONIOUS WAIL. Harmonious Wail’s brand of gypsy swing jazz highlights this 13th annual benefit for Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center, safeharborhelpskids.org, a local nonprofit that works to reduce the trauma to children who are victims of abuse or neglect or witness to crimes. The event also includes light dining, dancing, a silent auction, and more. 5:30 PM, Edgewater Hotel Ballroom. safeharborhelpskids.org/p/rent-party.html. cid:[email protected] Trumpeter Clark Terry and piano prodigy Justin Kauflin are at the heart of Keep on Keepin On. 11/7: KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON. It may be a stretch to include Mineral Point in Greater Madison, but this Tribeca Audience Award-wining documentary film at the Driftless Film Festival looks too good to ignore. It’s the story of what happens when 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin (who suffers terrible stage fright) befriends 89-year-old trumpet legend Clark Terry. Over the course of filming, Mr. Terry begins to lose his sight, and an unlikely bond begins to take hold. View the trailer at youtube/watch?v=QrHA4axGXZo. 7:00 PM, Mineral Point Opera House. driftlessfilmfest.org/. 11/8: PERCUSSION WORKSHOP WITH TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON. In this pre-concert program produced by Madison Music Collective, attendees will get to know Ms. Carrington and what it’s like to lead a band from the drums. She’ll speak about her experience coming up through the jazz ranks, how she was received on the scene as a young female drummer, and what it means to “set the groove,” in the process demonstrating some of her unique grooves, blends, and hybrids. She’ll also discuss her current projects, including the evolution of her Mosaic Project and why she chose the musicians she chose. Attendees will also have a chance to have their questions answered by Ms. Carrington. 3:00-4:30 PM, UW Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall (a.k.a. Wisconsin Union Theater). Free admission. cid:[email protected] 11/8: TIA FULLER ADDED TO TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON’S MOSAIC PROJECT CONCERT. Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, pianist Geri Allen, vocalists Lizz Wright and Gretchen Parlato, and just-added saxophonist Tia Fuller are all headliners in their own right, but they’ll be performing as a unit when Ms. Carrington’s Mosaic Project band takes the stage for the second concert in this year’s Isthmus Jazz Series in perhaps the most highly-anticipated jazz event of the season. Ms. Carrington is the first woman to win a Grammy in the Best Jazz Instrumental Album category, for her 2013 CD “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue,” and her Mosaic Project CD took the Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy in 2011. 8:00 PM, UW Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. Check out Steve Braunginn and Jane Reynolds’ special program of Ms. Carrington’s music, including a live interview with her, on today’s “Strictly Jazz Sounds,” on the WORT-FM website at wortfm.org/archives/, and view video clips at uniontheater.wisc.edu/season14-15/mosaic-project.html. cid:[email protected] 11/9: GUITARISTS HOWARD ALDEN AND ANDY BROWN. Madison Jazz Society’s Fall concert series continues with this celebrated guitar duo, performing a joyous brand of swing rhythms in a quartet setting with Chicago’s Joe Policastro (bass) and Bob Rummage (drums). They’ll be performing music from the American and Brazilian songbooks as well as some lesser-heard tunes from the archives of the great jazz guitarists. Owen Cordle wrote in Jazz Times that Mr. Alden “may be the best of his generation,” while Mr. Brown’s playing has been likened to the modesty of Ed Bickert and the warmth of Joe Pass. The Jazz Society will also be announcing its new round of School Grant winners during intermission. Free admission for age 18 and under. 1:00 PM, Coliseum Bar, 232 East Olin Avenue. madisonjazz/ cid:[email protected] 11/14: ALFONSO PONTICELLI & HIS SWING GITAN TRIO. After well-received performances at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest, Chicago-based guitarist Ponticelli brings the trio version of his Swing Gitan group back to town. This acoustic group plays the 1930s style music of legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt, a blend of the jubilant swing of early jazz with the feisty passion of gypsy music, plus a strong dose of guitar pyrotechnics and virtuosic improvisation. Sample their music at swinggitan/albums/sweet-home/. 6:00 PM, Brink Lounge. cid:[email protected] 11/16: VOCALIST CONNIE EVINGSON. Madison Music Collective wraps up its Fall “Jazz on a Sunday” series with one of the Twin Cities’ top jazz vocalists in an intimate performance with fellow Twin Citians Mary Lou Knutson on piano and Dave Karr on tenor saxophone. Ms. Evingson’s catalog of acclaimed CDs ranges from jazz and Broadway standards to the music of Peggy Lee, the Beatles, Django Reinhardt, Dave Frishberg, Norman Gimbel and more, reflecting her musically adventurous spirit. Nominated as JazzWeek Vocalist of the Year in 2005, Ms. Evingson has been featured on the Smithsonians Jazz Singers radio series and on NPRs Fresh Air and Weekend Edition, and she performs regularly at the famed Dakota club in Minneapolis. Sample her music at madisonmusiccollective.org/Events/Evingson.shtml. Concert at 3:00 PM, and free post-concert interactive workshop at 6:00 PM. thebrinklounge/music-events-schedule/action~agenda/page_offset~1/time_limit~1412982001/. 11/16: MADISON JAZZ JAM. The featured tune for the session’s first set is Miles Davis’ classic composition “Solar.” UW-Platteville Music Professor and trumpeter Dave Cooper holds down the educator chair, and the house band includes pianist Johannes Wallmann, bassist Paul Muench, bassist John Christensen, and Northern Illinois University Professor Rodrigo Villanueva on drums. 4:00-7:00 PM, The Fountain, 122 State Street. Free admission, but donations will be gratefully accepted. madisonjazzjam.org/ 11/21: UW BLUE NOTE AND LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLES. This final program in the inaugural Tandem Press Fall Friday Jazz Series features the premiere public performance of one of UW-Madison’s two new student ensembles – the Latin Jazz Ensemble, directed by Eric Siereveld – along with the UW Blue Note Ensemble directed by Johannes Wallmann. Free admission, refreshments, and parking. The LJE is a small ensemble that specializes in the music of the Latin America jazz diaspora, with an emphasis on the rhythmic traditions of Cuba. 5:00 PM, 1743 Commercial Avenue, just east of North Sherman Avenue (around the corner from the Manna Café and Noah’s Ark Pet Shop). Free admission. cid:[email protected] 11/22: SCHOLARSHIP AND COMMUNITY RECOGNITION JAZZ BRUNCH FUNDRAISER FOR THE LINKS. The Bellhops, a UW student ensemble born last year out of the cutting-edge First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Community, headlines this benefit for one of the bedrock service organizations in our local African American community, the Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc. Through this annual event, the chapter raises money to provide college scholarships to African American students. Check out The Bellhops in performance at https://youtube/watch?v=FOa-tr6NUqg. 11:00 AM, Sheraton Hotel, 702 John Nolen Drive. madisonlinks.wordpress/purchase-tickets/. cid:[email protected] 11/25: TOM GULLION CD RELEASE CELEBRATION. For this concert, saxophonist Gullion brings pianist Tim Whalen back to town from Washington DC, brings in bassist Mark Urness and percussionist Dane Richeson from Lawrence University and drummer Ernie Adams from Chicago, and is also joined by our local trumpet master Dave Cooper to celebrate release of his new CD. “Time It Is.” 7:30 PM, Brink Lounge. 12/1: UW JAZZ STANDARDS AND LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLES. They’re reproducing like rabbits at the UW Jazz Studies Program. Yet another new UW student ensemble – the Jazz Standards Ensemble, directed by bassist and Professor John Schaffer – gives its premiere public performance, along with the new Latin Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 PM, Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building. Free admission. 12/2: UW JAZZ COMPOSERS SEPTET AND BLUE NOTE ENSEMBLE. In their final concerts of the semester, the Jazz Composers Septet directed by saxophonist and Professor Les Thimmig and the Blue Note Ensemble directed by pianist and Professor Johannes Wallmann perform. 7:30 PM, Morphy Recital Hall in the UW Humanities Building. Free admission. JAZZ COMMUNITY NEWS cid:[email protected] cid:[email protected] cid:[email protected] NEW GRANTS AWARDED FOR JAZZ CONSORTIUM PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AND WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA. Thanks to new grants from Madison Community Foundation ($15,000), American Girl’s Fund for Children ($5,000), and Dane Arts ($3,510), the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium and its partners will be able to launch a new music education program for middle and high school kids (ages 12-14) at the Boys & Girls Club’s Taft Street (South Madison) and Allied Drive centers. The program will start up in early 2015, and the Consortium will be hiring a team of teaching musicians to work alongside their peers from the Chamber Orchestra. Watch for program updates later this Fall and early Winter. COMMUNITY INPUT SESSIONS ON K-8 ARTS EDUCATION. To ensure equitable access to arts education in all its forms for all elementary and middle school students, one of the goals of Madison’s “Any Given Child” initiative is to see that every school is/becomes an “arts-rich school.” The first step to that goal is to define what our community means by that term and, to that end, the Madison school district is hosting a series of community input sessions for artists, arts organizations, and others who are concerned about arts education. You can register for any of these sessions at anygivenchildmadison.org/arts-rich-schools/. 11/10/14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Memorial High School’s Wisconsin Neighborhood Center, 201 South Gammon Road 11/12/14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, East High School LMC (purple side), 2222 East Washington Avenue 11/13/14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, La Follette High School, Room C17, 702 Pflaum Road 12/4/14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, West High LMC, 30 Ash Street ARTS EDUCATION ROUNDTABLE ON 12/3/14. Another part of the “Any Given Child” initiative is the series of quarterly roundtable sessions for artists and arts organizations hosted by the Overture Center, and the next session will be held on 12/3/14 from 2:30 – 4:00 PM at Overture. The topic for this roundtable will be “Creating Arts-Rich Schools: What is the Role of Community Arts?” If you plan to attend, please RSVP by 11/25/14 to (608) 258-4151 or [email protected]. RIVERWALK PROGRAM SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER. Madison Jazz Society (MJS), one of the Consortium’s founding partners, sponsors public radio’s weekly program, “Riverwalk: Live From the Landing,” broadcast in our community on WERN, 88.7 FM, Friday nights at 9:00 PM. MJS President Linda Marty Schmitz sends along the following schedule for November’s programs. · 11/7 -- Class of 1930: Surviving on a Song. In 1930 money problems affected everyone. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and friends perform Depression-era music from movies, theater, and radio: tunes that kept Americans entertained while they made do with less. · 11/14 -- Sweet Thunder: Piano Virtuoso Shelly Berg and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. Favorites like “Jubilee Stomp” and “Just One of Those Things” are on tap as piano ace and Concord recording artist Shelly Berg teams up with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a no-holds-barred jam session of jazz standards. · 11/21 -- Goodman, Shaw and Dorsey: Big Band Leaders and Their Small Combos. Beginning in 1935, a handful of swing-era big bands formed smaller groups, e.g., the Benny Goodman Trio, Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five, and Tommy Dorsey & His Clambake Seven. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guests let loose with “Slipped Disc,” “Scuttlebutt,” “At the Codfish Ball,” and other popular tunes recorded by those combos. · 11/28 -- Sage Hen Strut with Frim Fram Sauce & Other Jazz Delicacies. Whether celebrating gustatory pleasures or racy double entendre, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and friends serve up a banquet of jazz tunes for this season of feasts. HERB ALPERT YOUNG JAZZ COMPOSER AWARDS COMPETITION NOW OPEN. Young jazz composers (i.e., those who won’t be turning age 30 until 2015 or later) are invited to compete for a share over $40,000 in ASCAP Foundation funds from this year’s Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards competition. A program of The ASCAP Foundation, awards are given to a select group of composers who submit an original work (arrangements are not eligible) that hasn’t previously earned an award or prize in a major national or international competition. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or enrolled students with student visas. Guidelines for the competition are posted at ascap/music-career/support/young-jazz-guidelines.aspx. Applications (including all required materials) must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2014. This e-newsletter is a production of the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium, a community-supported coalition of local nonprofit jazz presenters (Madison Jazz Society, Madison Music Collective, Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest, and Wisconsin Union Theater), educational institutions (UW School of Music and Madison Metropolitan School District Fine Arts Division), and supportive media (WORT-FM), with additional support from Isthmus, the Capital City Hues, and the Madison Times. The Jazz Consortium is supported by generous grants from the John and Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation, Madison Community Foundation, American Girl’s Fund for Children, the Madison Arts Commission (with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board), and the Evjue Foundation (charitable arm of the Capital Times).
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