JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Selections to be announced from the stage.

The concert includes one intermissionand will end at approximately 10:00 p.m.

Friday evening, August 28, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.severance hall — cleveland, ohio

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Jazz at Lincoln Center The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich, and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. With the world‐renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orches-tra and guest artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center pro-duces thousands of performance, educa-tion, and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City and around the world, for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Robert J. Appel (Chairman), Wynton Marsalis (Managing and Artistic Director), and Greg Scholl (Ex-ecutive Director). For more information, please visit us at www.jazz.org. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orches-tra (JLCO) is comprised of 15 of the fi nest jazz soloists and ensemble players today and has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads education events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe — in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and public parks, and with symphony orchestras, bal-let troupes, local students, and an ever‐expanding roster of guest artists. With Wynton Marsalis as music director, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a third of the year on tour. The big band performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center‐commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Hender-son, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles

Mingus, Chick Corea,and many others. Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission. Its educational activities are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. These programs, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center Or-chestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Young People™ family concert se-ries, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the Jazz for Young People™ Curriculum, and educa-tion residencies, workshops, and concerts for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center education programs di-rectly reach over 110,000 students, teach-ers, and general audience members each year. Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music, and WBGO have partnered to help create the next generation of jazz programming in public radio under the title Jazz Night in America. The series showcases today’s vi-tal jazz scene while also underscoring the genre’s storied history. Hosted by bassist Christian McBride, the program features hand‐picked performances from across the country, woven with the colorful sto-ries of the artists behind them. Jazz Night in America and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ra-dio archive can be found at jazz.org/radio. In recent years, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed collabo-rations with many leading symphony orchestras around the world, including those of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orches-tra, and Brazil’s Orquesta Esperimentale in São Paolo. In 2006, JLCO collaborated

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestrawith Wynton MarsalisWynton Marsalis, Music Director, trumpetRyan Kisor, trumpetKenny Rampton, trumpetMarcus Printup, trumpetVincent Gardner, tromboneChris Crenshaw, tromboneElliot Mason, tromboneSherman Irby, alto and soprano saxophones, fl ute, clarinetTed Nash, alto and soprano saxophones, fl ute, clarinetVictor Goines, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinetWalter Blanding, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinetJoe Temperley,* baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinetPaul Nedzela,* baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinetDan Nimmer, pianoCarlos Henriquez, bassAli Jackson, drums

Artists subject to change. *Joe Temperley does not appear on this tour; Paul Nedzela is performing on baritone and soprano saxophones, and bass clarinet.

Brooks Brothers is the offi cial clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

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with Ghanaian drum collective Odadaa! led by Yacub Addy, to perform “Congo Square,” a composition cowritten by Marsalis and Addy. JLCO has also been featured in several education and perfor-mance partnerships, including residencies in France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Ger-many, Japan, and the Czech Republic. Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lin-coln Center programs have helpedbroaden the awareness of its unique ef-forts, with telecasts aired from North and South America to Europe and Asia. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on sev-eral XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live From Lincoln Center broad-casts carried by PBS stations in the United States, including a program on October 18, 2004, during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Fred-erick P. Rose Hall in New York. A 2005 broadcast was designated as Jazz at Lin-coln Center’s Higher Ground Benefi t Concert, raising funds to benefi t musicians, music industry‐related enterprises, and other individuals and entities in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. JLCO was also featured in a Thir-teen/WNET production of Great Perfor-mances titled Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and in a BET network series called Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring per-formances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from around the world. To date, fourteen albums featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been released and distributed internationally.

Wynton MarsalisWynton Marsalis serves as managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Mr. Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in local bands of diverse genres. He entered the Juilliard School at age 17 and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Mr. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than sev-enty jazz and classical albums, garnering him a total of nine Grammy Awards to date. In 1983, he became the fi rst and only artist to win both classi-cal and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984. As a composer, Mr. Marsalis’s rich body of works includes Sweet Release, Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements, Jump Start and Jazz, Citi Movement/Griot New York, At the Octoroon Balls, In This House On This Morning, and Big Train. In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the fi rst jazz artist to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he re-leased eight new recordings in his un-precedented Swinging into the 21st series, and premiered several new compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a col-

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laboration with the New York City Ballet. That same year, he premiered the monu-mental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Or-chestra and the Morgan State University Choir. Sony Classical released All Rise in 2002, as recorded on September 14 and 15, 2001, in Los Angeles in the tense days following 9/11, and featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Mor-gan State University Choir, Paul Smith Singers, and the Northridge Singers. In 2004, he released The Magic Hour, his fi rst of six albums on Blue Note records. He followed this with Unforgivable Black-ness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the companion soundtrack recording to Ken Burns’s PBS documentary of the great Af-rican‐American boxer. Additional albums have followed, including Wynton Marsalis: Live at The House Of Tribes (2005), From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007), Two Men with the Blues, featuring Willie Nel-son (2008), He and She (2009), Here We Go Again (2011), and Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues (2011). To mark the 200th Anniversary of Harlem’s historical Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2008, Mr. Marsalis composed a full mass for choir and jazz orchestra. The piece premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center and followed with performances at the celebrated church. Mr. Marsalis’s second symphony, Blues Symphony, was pre-miered in 2009 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, his third symphony, Swing Symphony, was premiered

in Berlin. Mr. Marsalis is an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honor-ary doctorates from dozens of universi-ties and colleges throughout the United States. He conducts education programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People™ concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Marsalis has also written and is the host of the video series Marsalis onMusic and the radio series Making the Mu-sic. He has also written six books. In 2001, Mr. Marsalis was appointed Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, secretary‐general of the United Nations. He has also been designated a cultural ambassador for the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their CultureCon-nect program. In 2009, Mr. Marsalis was awarded France’s Legion of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the French government. Mr. Marsalis has been named to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economi-cally, and uniquely for every citizen. Mr. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which raised over $3 million for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Earlier, he led the eff ort to con-struct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home — Frederick P. Rose Hall — the fi rst education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.

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H A I L E D A S O N E of the world’s most beau-tiful concert halls, Severance Hall has been home to Th e Cleveland Orchestra since its opening on February 5, 1931. Aft er that fi rst concert, a Cleveland newspaper edito-rial stated: “We believe that Mr. Severance intended to build a temple to music, and not a temple to wealth; and we believe it is his intention that all music lovers should be welcome there.” John Long Severance (president of the Musical Arts Associa-tion, 1921-1936) and his wife, Elisabeth, donated the funds necessary to erect this magnifi cent building. Designed by Walker & Weeks, its elegant Georgian exterior was constructed to harmonize with the classi-cal architecture of other prominent build-ings in the University Circle area. Th e interior of the building refl ects a combina-tion of design styles, including Art Deco, Egyptian Revival, Classicism, and Mod-ernism. An extensive renovation, restoration, and expansion of the facility was completed in January 2000.

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LATE SEATINGAs a courtesy to the audience members and musicians in the hall, late-arriving patrons are asked to wait quietly until the rst convenient break in the program, when ushers will help you to your seats. These seating breaks are at the discretion of the House Manager in consultation with the performing artists.

PAGERS, CELL PHONES, AND WRISTWATCH ALARMSPlease silence any alarms or ringers on pagers, cellular telephones, or wristwatches prior to the start of the concert.

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY, AND RECORDINGAudio recording, photography, and videography are prohibited during performances at Severance Hall. Photographs of the hall and sel es can be taken when the performance is not in progress. As a courtesy to others, please turn off any phone/device that makes noise or emits light.

IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCYContact an usher or a member of house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building. Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency.

HEARING AIDS AND OTHER HEALTH-ASSISTIVE DEVICESFor the comfort of those around you, please reduce the volume on hearing aids and other devices that may produce a noise that would detract from the program. Infrared Assistive-Listening Devices are available. Please see the House Manager or Head Usher for more details.

AGE RESTRICTIONSRegardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat throughout the performance. Classical season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under the age of 8. However, there are several age-appropriate series designed speci cally for children and youth, including: Musical Rainbows (recommended for children 3 to 6 years old) and Family Concerts (for ages 7 and older).