Jazz Double Bill

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raVi CoLtrane quartet

friday, april 24, 2015 • 8 pm Spaulding Auditorium • Dartmouth College

Funded in part by the Class of 1961 Legacy: The American Tradition in Performance Fund, a gift of Sally and William H. Neukom ’64 P’90 P’91 P’97, the Bob Gatzert 1951 Jazz Series Fund for the Hopkins Center and the Tamagni Family Arts Endowment.

Spaulding Auditorium’s Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano was purchased with generous gifts from Members of the Hopkins Center and Members of the Hood Museum of Art; the class of 1942, in memory of Allan Dingwall ’42; and anonymous donors.

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post-performance Discussions You are invited to remain in the theater immediately following the performance for an informal discussion with the artists.

terenCe BLanCHarD featuring tHe e-CoLLeCtiVeTerence Blanchard trumpet Fabian Almazan keyboard, piano & synthsDonald Ramsey bass Oscar Seaton drums Charles Altura guitar

raVi CoLtrane quartet

ravi Coltrane saxophone is a critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated saxophonist, band-leader and composer. In the course of a twenty-plus-year career, Coltrane has worked as a sideman to many, recorded noteworthy albums for himself and others and founded a prominent indepen-dent record label, RKM.

Born in Long Island, Ravi was named after Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar. He was raised in Los Angeles, where his family moved after his father’s death in 1967. Coltrane has released six albums as a leader. His latest, Spirit Fiction, was released in June of 2012 for the Blue Note label. Additional credits include performances as well as record-ings with Elvin Jones, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Baron, Steve Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Jack DeJohnette, Matt Garrison, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Geri Allen, Joanne Brackeem, The Blue Note 7,

among others. He is a co-leader of the Saxophone Summit with Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman.

Coltrane lives in Brooklyn, NY, and maintains a fast-paced touring, recording, composing and performance schedule. He leads the effort to restore the John Coltrane Home in Dix Hills, Long Island (http://thecoltranehome.org) and presides over important reissues of his parent’s recordings. This is Coltrane’s first engagement at the Hopkins Center.

glenn Zaleski piano, originally from Boylston, MA, is a jazz pianist/composer in Brooklyn, NY. He maintains an active performance and teaching schedule nationally and abroad, working with such artists as Ravi Coltrane, Ari Hoenig, Lage Lund, Ben Van Gelder and Melissa Aldana. Stranahan/Zaleski/Rosato, a co-led trio featuring Rick Rosato on bass and Colin Stranahan on drums, released their second

Ravi Coltrane saxophone Glenn Zaleski pianoDezron Douglas bass Johnathan Blake drums

raVi CoLtrane quartet

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Tonight’s performance is presented with an intermission.The program will be announced from the stage.

album, Limitless, on Capri records in 2013. In 2011, he was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, as well as a finalist for the 2011 APA Cole Porter Fellowship in Jazz. He attended the Brubeck Institute Fellowship program in Stockton, CA, and graduated from The New School in 2009. From 2009-2011, while working towards his graduate degree at NYU, Zaleski was also on the NYU faculty, teaching a variety of classes and private students.

Dezron Douglas bass is one of the most in- demand young bassists in jazz today. Born and raised in Hartford, CT, he went to the Jackie McLean Institute of African American Music at the Hartt School of Music, where he worked with such notable jazz musicians as Nat Reeves, Steve Davis and Jackie McLean. Douglas is currently a member of Louis Hayes Jazz Communicators, Ravi Coltrane Quartet and Papo Vazquez Mighty Pirates, and a long-standing member of The Cyrus Chestnut Trio, among many other associa-tions within the music scene. He has recorded four albums as a leader.

Johnathan Blake drums attended William Paterson University, where he studied with Rufus Reid, John Riley, Steve Wilson and Horace Arnold. At this time Blake also began working professionally with the Oliver Lake Big Band, Roy Hargrove and David Sanchez. In 2006 he was recognized with an ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award, and in 2007 he earned his Masters from Rutgers University, focusing on composition. He studied with the likes of Ralph Bowen, Conrad Herwig and Stanley Cowell.

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terence Blanchard trumpet has established himself as one of the most influential jazz musicians and film score masters of his

generation, a member of a jazz legacy that has shaped the contours of modern jazz today. With more than thirty albums to his credit, Blanchard is a multi-Grammy award winner and nominee. For his latest Blue Note Records album, Breathless, Blanchard powerfully and playfully journeys into another jazz realm with his new quintet, The E-Collective—an exciting zone of grooved fusion teeming with funk, R&B and blues colors.

As a film composer, Blanchard has more than fifty scores to his credit, most recently, Kevin Costner’s Black or White. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Spike Lee’s 25th Hour. Other film music written by Blanchard includes Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou, Oprah Winfrey’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tim Story’s Barbershop and George Lucas’ Red Tails.Blanchard also contributed on Disney’s The Princess and the Frog as the musical voice of Louis the Alligator.

As a guest lecturer and artist in residence, Blanchard works with students in the areas of artistic development, arranging, composition and concert programming. He also participates in master classes around the world as well as local community outreach activities in his beloved hometown of New Orleans. Blanchard last performed at the Hopkins Center as part of the “Jazz Messengers Project” in 1998.

fabian almazan keyboard, piano & synths, a native of Cuba now residing in New York City, found his musical roots as a child in his home-land of Havana where he first became involved in the classical piano tradition. In 2009, he received his master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Jason Moran. Since 2012, this pianist and composer has toured extensively with Terence Blanchard. In 2014, Almazan’s second album Rhizome was released on Blue Note.

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oscar seaton drums got his first major break playing with Ramsey Lewis in 1996. Since then, Seaton has played, recorded and toured with artists such as Grover Washington Jr., David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Kirk Whalum, Phil Upchurch, Yolanda Adams, George Benson, Lionel Richie and Mike Post, to name a few. Seaton’s impeccable timing has earned him the name “Seatpocket.”

Donald ramsey bass and Terence Blanchard have known each other since attending St. Augus-tine High School together. Ramsey isknown to be

one of the best bass players in New Orleans, having performed and recorded with numerous musical acts, most recently on Dr. John’s Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (2014).

Charles altura guitar is an unusually gifted young guitarist with a sensitive approach on the guitar. The California native has toured with Chick Corea & the Vigil since 2012, and appears on Corea’s most recent album The Vigil. Altura can also be heard on Ambrose Akinmusire’s latest album, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint.

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ConneCting artists to tHe CoMMunitYWhile at Dartmouth, Ravi Coltrane gave a master class for student jazz musicians, and the two ensembles participate in a post-performance discussion. For more information on Hop Outreach & Arts Education, call 603.646.2010 or visit hop.dartmouth.edu/online/outreach.

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BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE 36TH ANNUAL SENIOR FEATURE CONCERT • DON GLASGO director

sat MAY 9 8 pm • SPAULDING AUDITORIUMCelebrate the extraordinary musical talents of eight graduating students with classics by Cab Calloway, Horace Silver and John Coltrane as well as new tunes by pop/R&B singer Bruno Mars and the jazz/funk/world music collective Snarky Puppy.

CHAMBERWORKS PAUL DESMOND: BEYOND BRUBECK

sun APR 26 1 pm • ROLLINS CHAPELDesmond was the lead soloist in the Dave Brubeck Quartet for 17 years. During an era that worshipped the frenetic, bebop style of Charlie Parker, he found his own sound, a tone that he claimed imitated a “dry martini.” It was a sound that made him a favorite with critics and fans alike. Fred Haas (alto saxophone), David Newsam (guitar), Dave Clark (bass) and Tim Gilmore (drums) perform works by this lyrical, innovative alto saxophonist.

FREE

Festival oF Contemporary ameriCan musiCCelebrating Dartmouth composers including Christian Wolff, Spencer Topel and Ashley Fure.

tue may 5 7 pm • spaulding auditorium The FLUX Quartet has performed to rave reviews across the United States. Join an evening of music performed by this renowned young string quartet. The concert features a newly commissioned work by alumnus Ryan McWilliams ‘14.

fri may 8 8 pm • Faulkner recital Hall String Noise, a duo comprised of classical avant-garde violinists Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim, has expanded the two-violin repertoire with more than 30 new works written for them since their debut at the Ostrava Days in 2011. This concert features a newly commissioned work by Nic Chuaqui ‘12, currently a doctoral student at Indiana University’s prestigious Jacob School of Music.

Free

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WorlD musiC perCussion ensemBle aFro/anDean FusionHaFiZ sHaBaZZ director

wed may 27 7 pm • spaulding auditorium

Join this musical trek combining the rhythms and melodies of West Africa and South America’s great mountain chain. Led by master drummer Shabazz, this engaging ensemble is joined, on pan pipes and vocals, by Chilean multi-instrumentalist Roberto Clavijo, a veteran of the internationally touring groups Guamary, Gypsy Real and Viva Quetzal; Venezuelan pianist Abe Sanchez, from Viva Quetzal and other Latin ensembles; and, on reeds, Jon Weeks, whose affiliations include Viva Quetzal, Orquestra Unidad and The Temptations.

DartmoutH ColleGe WinD ensemBle stravinsKy anD FrienDsmattHeW m. marsit conductor

sat may 2 8 pm • spaulding auditorium

In the early 20th century, Paris was the epicenter of tectonic activity that changed the way we hear music. This concert celebrates three composers who all worked within a “sound world” influenced greatly by Debussy’s and Wagner’s handling of harmonic color and orchestration. Those works are complemented by Arutiunian’s 1950 trumpet concerto, an energetic powerhouse of Eastern European lyricism and sound textures.

THIS SUMMER AT THE HOP

PILOBOLUS JUNE 30–JULY 1“Wildly creative and physically daring” (Newsday), world renowned dance-theater company Pilobolus returns to the Hop! Springing from a Dartmouth dance class in 1972, the company has developed a signature style—traditional dance combined with shape shifting, shadow play and other experimentations—that is accessible, exhilarating and challenges the way we think about dance.

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PINK MARTINI JULY 14The internationally celebrated, 12-piece “little orchestra” takes to the Spaulding stage with an expertly chilled mix of world music and tangy originals. With an intoxicating pop sound and multilingual repertoire, the Oregon-based Pink Martini transports audiences from a samba parade in Rio, to a 1930s French cabaret, to 1940s Hollywood and back again.

“�Classy,�charming,�sexy,�elegant,�sophisticated—take�your�pick�to�describe�the�globe-trotting�eclectic�mix�that�is�Pink�Martini.” The Sun

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Hopkins Center ManageMent staff

Jeffrey H. James ‘75a Howard Gilman Director

Hopkins Center BoarD of oVerseers austin M. Beutner ’82

kenneth L. Burns H’93 Barbara J. Couch

allan H. glick ’60, t’61, p’88 Barry grove ’73

Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, p’16 kelly fowler Hunter ’83, t’88, p’13, p’15

richard p. kiphart ’63

robert H. Manegold ’75, p’02, p’06Michael a. Marriott ’84, p’18nini MeyerHans C. Morris ’80, p’11, p’14 Chair of the Boardrobert s. Weil ’40, p’73 Honoraryfrederick B. Whittemore ’53, t’54, p’88, p’90, H’03Jennifer a. Williams ’85Diana L. taylor ’77 Trustee Representative

Marga rahmann ’78, p’12 Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement Jay Cary ’68, t’71 Business and Administrative Officer Bill pence Director of Hopkins Center Film Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua price kol ‘93 Director of Student Performance Programs

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MUSIC DEPARTMENT RESIDENCY ALVIN LUCIER WITHTHE CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORTthu APR 30 7 pm • ROLLINS CHAPELThe New England Conservatory-based Callithumpian Consort performs works by Lucier, whose pioneering mixing of acoustic sound and pure wave oscillators creates shimmering, ethereal soundscapes. The program includes the premiere of a work celebrating the founding role Lucier’s father, a 1918 Dartmouth graduate, played in the College’s first jazz ensemble; and Still Lives, in which a pianist duets with sine waves meditatively tracing the shapes of common household items.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE GOSPEL CHOIR WALT CUNNINGHAM director

sat MAY 23 2 pm • SPAULDING AUDITORIUMCelebrate spring with Dartmouth’s 100-member gospel choir, renowned for bringing crowds to their feet with traditional and cutting-edge spiritual music. With high-energy numbers, a punch-packing 20-piece band and soloists from within the choir and beyond, it’s great music, heartfelt community and an all-out good time.