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Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling | 5

Biographies | 6

Upward Spiral | 8

Zakir Hussain, tabla, with Niladri Kumar, sitar | 11

Biographies | 12

At A Glance | 18

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B R A N F O RD MARS A L I S QU A R T E TWITH SPECIAL GUEST KURT ELLING

Branford Marsalis – SaxophonesKurt Elling – Voice

Joey Calderazzo – PianoEric Revis – Bass

Justin Faulkner – Drums

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BRANFORD MARSALIS has stayed the course. From his early acclaim as a saxophonist bringing new energy and new audiences to the jazz art, he has refined and expanded his talents and his horizons as a musician, composer, bandleader and educator – a 21st Century mainstay of artistic excellence.

Growing up in the rich environment of New Orleans as the oldest son of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis, Branford was drawn to music along with siblings Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. His first instrument, the clarinet, gave way to the alto and then the tenor and soprano saxophones when the teenage Branford began working in local bands. A growing fascination with jazz as he entered college gave him the basic tools to obtain his first major jobs, with trumpet legend Clark Terry and alongside Wynton in Art Blakey’s legendary Jazz Messengers. When the brothers left to form the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, the world of uncompromising acoustic jazz was invigorated. Branford formed his own quartet in 1986 and, with a few minor interruptions in the early years, has sustained the unit as his primary means of expression. Known for the telepathic communication among its uncommonly consistent personnel, its deep book of original music replete with expressive melodies and provocative forms, and an unrivaled spirit in both live and recorded performances, the Branford Marsalis Quartet has long been recognized as the standard to which other ensembles of its kind must be measured.

Branford has not confined his music to the quartet context. In addition to guest turns with a legion of giants including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, he has excelled in duets with several major pianists, including his boyhood friend Harry Connick, Jr. and the longtime pianist in his quartet, Joey Calderazzo. Branford’s first solo concert, at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, is documented on his latest recording, In My Solitude.

Classical music inhabits a growing portion of Branford’s musical universe. With a repertoire including works by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos and Sally

Beamish (who reconceived a work in progress, “Under the Wing of the Rock,” to feature Branford’s saxophone after hearing him perform one of her earlier pieces), Branford is frequently heard with leading symphony orchestras including those in Chicago, Detroit, Dusseldorf and North Carolina as well as the New York Philharmonic. He also served as Creative Director for the Cincinnati Symphony’s Ascent series in 2012-13.

Broadway has also welcomed Branford’s contributions. His initial effort, original music for a revival of August Wilson’s Fences, garnered a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play and a Tony nomination for Best Original Score Written for the Theater. Branford also provided music for The Mountaintop, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, and served as musical curator for the 2014 revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Branford’s screen credits include the original music for Mo’ Better Blues and acting roles in School Daze and Throw Momma from the Train.

Branford formed the Marsalis Music label in 2002, and under his direction it has documented his own music, talented new stars such as Miguel Zenón, and un-heralded older masters including one of Branford’s teachers, the late Alvin Batiste. Branford has also shared his knowledge as an educator, forming extended teaching relationships at Michigan State, San Francisco State and North Carolina Central Universities and conducting workshops at sites throughout the United States and the world.

As for other public stages, Branford spent a period touring with Sting, collaborated with the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby, served as Musical Director of The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno and hosted National Public Radio’s widely syndicated Jazz Set. The range and quality of these diverse activities established Branford as a familiar presence beyond the worlds of jazz and classical music, while his efforts to help heal and rebuild New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina mark him as an artist with an uncommonly effective social vision. Together with Harry Connick, Jr. and New Orleans Habitat for Humanity, Branford conceived and helped to realize The Musicians’ Village, a community in the Upper Ninth Ward

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that provides homes to the displaced families of musicians and other local residents. At the heart of The Musicians’ Village stands the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, a community center dedicated to preserving the rich New Orleans musical legacy containing state-of-the art spaces for performance, instruction and recording.

Some might gauge Branford Marsalis’s success by his numerous awards, including three Grammys and (together with his father and brothers) his citation as a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. To Branford, however, these are only way stations along what continues to be one of the most fascinating and rewarding journeys in the world of music.

GRAMMY® winner KURT ELLING is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He won the DownBeat Critics Poll for fourteen consecutive years and was named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association eight times in that same span. Every one of Elling’s ten albums has been nominated for a GRAMMY®.

Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word and poetry.

The New York Times declared, “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” The Washington Post added, “Since the mid-1990s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.”

Elling was the Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He has also written multi-disciplinary works for The Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago. The Obama Administration’s first state dinner featured Elling in a command performance.

Elling is a renowned artist of vocalese–the writing and performing of words over recorded improvised jazz solos. The natural heir to jazz pioneers Eddie Jefferson, King Pleasure and Jon Hendricks, Elling has set his own lyrics to the improvised solos of Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny. He often incorporates images and references from writers such as Rilke, Rumi, Neruda and Proust into his work. The late poet and Bollingen Prize winner Robert Creeley wrote, “Kurt Elling takes us into a world of sacred particulars. His words are informed by a powerful poetic spirit.” Said Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States, “In Kurt Elling’s art, the voice of jazz gives a new spiritual presence to the ancient, sweet and powerful bond between poetry and music.”

Kurt Elling has toured vigorously throughout his career, thrilling audiences throughout the world. In that time he has led his own ensemble and has collaborated with many of the world’s finest orchestras.

Passion World, Kurt Elling’s latest project, culminates nearly five years of collecting, honing – and in some cases writing anew – songs of love and heartbreak from three continents. With special guests that include Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, French accordionist Richard Galliano, German trumpeter Til l Brönner, and Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith, Elling and his road-tested quintet present material from countries as farflung as Brazil and Ireland, Iceland and France. Throughout his travels, Elling has observed how our identical human passions are shaped in myriad ways by each unique culture, and has used that insight to create an album vibrant with diversity and variety – the most ambitious project yet from the preeminent male vocalist in jazz. Passion World will be the main focus of Elling’s touring schedule in 2015-16.

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It is no secret that the Branford Marsalis Quartet can be as freewheeling off the bandstand as in performance. Saxophonist Marsalis, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner are each bold personalities with strong opinions, equally intense in both musical and verbal exchanges. “The band talks about all kinds of things, many of which are unprintable,” Marsalis admits. “But we have serious musical debates as well.” One of these conversations led to Upward Spiral, the new album with special guest Kurt Elling that Marsalis Music is released via OKeh Records on June 10, 2016.

“One topic we got into was picking the best singer to work with our band,” Marsalis recalls. “My candidate was Kurt Elling, because he has the most flexible voice around, is always in tune and is a true jazz musician. When I met Kurt two years ago at a Thelonious Monk Institute competition, we had a conversation at the bar about doing a record together.”

“I had bumped into Branford on the road a handful of times, and we always had significant conversations,” Elling adds. “So when he mentioned making a record, I said ‘any time.’” What has emerged, after an intense week of performance and recording in New Orleans, is a collection that blends Songbook staples, jazz standards, and standards-to-be from a diverse array of composers.

The goal from the outset was to create a true partnership. “I usually reject the word ‘collaboration,’” Marsalis admits, “because it implies a third thing from that which each collaborator does well. I don’t need a collaborator to do what I normally do, and Kurt doesn’t, either. But this time, none of us were going to do what we normally do. The goal here, even though he sings lyrics, was to highlight Kurt’s voice as an instrument.”

Elling was more than prepared for the challenge. “I love singing with a hard-hitting band,” he confirms, “and I’ve spent so much time trying to be with excellent tenor players. From when I started in Chicago, working with Von Freeman, Eddie Johnson and Ed Petersen up to more recent gigs with Ernie Watts, Joel Frahm and Houston Person, I’ve made it a point to be comfortable around a great tenor sound. I

didn’t want Branford’s band to feel that it had to hold back because a singer was there. To be welcomed into the Quartet’s circle, which is all about new challenges and hard blowing, was very important to me. When I asked Branford what to bring about a week before the date, he said ‘Don’t worry, you’ve got the thing.’ So I brought ‘the thing.’”

Choosing songs, which were tested over a weekend’s engagement at New Orleans’ Snug Harbor before three days in the studios of the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, became a process in which all five musicians had input. “Everyone in the band is always listening to all kinds of music,” Marsalis emphasizes, “so it’s not as if we had to go out and do research on vocal records.

“For example, I had been listening to the Oscar Brown song ‘Long as You’re Living’ for two years before the date. The first time I heard Sting’s ‘Practical Arrangement,’ I called him and asked for a lead sheet, because I wanted to play that song with the quartet even before the idea of recording with Kurt came up. I also chose ‘So Tinha de Ser Com Voce,’ a Jobim song that has not been done to death. I told everyone to study Elis Regina’s version, because I wanted us to sound authentic rather than generic. Doing ‘Blue Gardenia’ was my idea, while Eric originally suggested Chris Whitley’s ‘From One Island’ when we were talking about more recent songs.

“At one point Kurt said that there was too much melancholy, so I came up with ‘There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon’ because I love Shirley Horn’s version. But so much of the beauty is in the melancholic material, and I’m confident that my audience is ready for real life.”

Elling also brought ideas and several songs to the partnership. “I had been working on some difficult classical music at the time and was content not to have one of my songs on the record,” Marsalis admits, “but Joey showed Kurt ‘Cassandra’ at Snug Harbor and Kurt wanted to write a lyric and record it.” Calderazzo wrote the music for “The Return (Upward Spiral)” and sent it to Elling, who added a lyric prior to the session. The singer also suggested “Doxy,” the Sonny Rollins classic with lyrics that Mark Murphy introduced; “West Virginia Rose,” with music and lyrics by pianist Fred Hersch; and

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“Momma Said,” with the quartet responding spontaneously in the studio to the Calvin Forbes poem.

Two classic ballad performances complete the collection. “Kurt had wanted to do ‘Blue Velvet,’ using Bobby Vinton’s hit version as a starting point,” Marsalis recalls. “I said that I’d write it out, but Kurt said, ‘No, I want us to sound like ghosts, with just enough technique to get the message across.’ He also wanted to do a voice/tenor duet, which I was originally against, but we tried ‘I’m a Fool to Want You’ and he was right. When you have a singer who can inhabit the emotional space, it works.”

Every track on Upward Spiral confirms the beyond-category strengths of both the Quartet and Elling. “No one in the band had to make adjustments, because good musicians can play many styles of music,” Marsalis notes. “We’re fully engaged with one another when we’re playing, so it was easy to engage with Kurt. The only adjustment was not to play long solos, but

if making the music sound good means playing less, you play less.”

Elling adds that “My thing is always about tailoring what I do to the vision and personality of the band, and Branford’s quartet is a real working band, which is both an incredible luxury and incredibly important for the music. They provided everything on a silver platter.”

For Marsalis, Upward Spiral is consistent with all of his previous music. “My philosophy of jazz is that it should be about strong melodies and a great beat, and every song here has a melody that you can hold in your mind, that you can sing. This is not jazz as a personal think tank, where people are only concerned with impressing everyone already inside of the tank with deconstruction and reharmonization. This is the kind of music that should expand our base to include people who would like jazz if it were friendlier. From the minute Kurt started performing with us, it was all good.”

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The photography or sound recording of this concert is prohibited.Biographies provided by production company.

This concert will present an exploration of Indian music, both ancient and cutting-edge, combining a traditional classical offering with a collaborative exploration of the raga and tala systems. The concert will begin with a rendition of a classical raga performed on sitar by Niladri Kumar and accompanied on tabla by Zakir Hussain. This piece will commence with a full alaap by Niladri Kumar in the Hindustani classical tradition, presenting and expounding on the raga. The concert will also include a tabla solo piece by Zakir Hussain, and will conclude with a contemporary style performance based on the folk melodies of India.

Z A K I R H U S S A I N , TA B L AW I T H

N I L A D R I K U M A R , S I TA R

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The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, ZAKIR HUSSAIN is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A national treasure in his native India, he is one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre- defying collaborations.

Widely considered a chief architect of the contemporary world music movement, Zakir’s contribution has been unique, with many historic and groundbreaking collaborations, including Shakti, Remember Shakti, Masters of Percussion, the Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Tabla Beat Science, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, in trio with Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer and, most recently, with Herbie Hancock. The foremost disciple of his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Zakir was a child prodigy who began his professional career at the age of twelve, touring internationally with great success by the age of eighteen.

As a composer, he has scored music for numerous feature films, major events and productions. He has composed two concertos, and his third, Peshkar - Concerto for Tabla and Orchestra, was premiered in India in September, 2015, premiered in Europe and the UK in 2016, and will be performed in the USA in April, 2017, by the National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center. A Grammy award winner, he is the recipient of countless awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan, National Heritage Fellowship and Officier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted “Best Percussionist” by both the Downbeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll.

As an educator, he conducts many workshops and lectures each year, has been in residence at Princeton University and Stanford University, and, in 2015, was appointed Regents Lecturer at U.C. Berkeley. He is the founder and president of Moment Records, an independent record label presenting rare live concert recordings of Indian classical music and world music. Zakir was resident artistic director at SFJazz from 2013 until 2016.

A Maverick Musician. A Serious exponent of Indian Classical Music. The Game Changer. Mastermind Behind the Classical ‘Zing’. A Path Bender. Innovator. Culturally Rooted.

A global icon to reckon with, world renowned & 5th generation sitar player, NILADRI KUMAR is an unconventional rare instrumentalist, honing a unique repertoire and profound in-depth understanding of traditional and classical styles on the sitar to innovative, electrifying renditions on his own instrumental innovation the ‘zitar’.

Carving his niche, he emerged as a one-of-a-kind musician and successfully managed to further transform the face of an indian instrument – the Sitar – by making it more widespread, accessible and intriguing.

Being ‘sympathetic to pick up’ new trends, Niladri decided to push the boundaries and go beyond his comfort zone to invent his own instrument – an electric sitar that he coined as the ‘Zitar’.

Hailed as one of the serious exponents of Indian classical music on one hand and reinventing the contemporary modern space on the other, the Zitar culturally

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redefined the way audiences viewed Indian classical music.

Sound has waves, but his Zitar created ripples. Each endeavor he undertook was molded towards infusing interest and respect for the traditional art forms in the hearts and minds of the younger generation. The Zitar allowed him to express to a much more widespread audience, bridging the ‘age un-gap’ as he calls it – where individuals from all walks of life can tune in and find a place in his music that they can call their own.

By amalgamating an equipoise between essence and trance sense, going beyond just the string, and striking the right chords of harmony between the golden scientific tradition and ever changing modern music, Niladri emerged as one of the finest and undisputed Sitar and Zitar Masters.

Headlining this music metamorphosis and igniting a new route in the musical scene, he

gained admiration for being able to stay true to his roots along with being able to create awareness and make his Indian heritage connect with many at a global scale.

Niladri’s vision and message is summarized through his brand – “Stay UPRooted”

His music is inviting, explosive and yet introspective.

Having been featured in over twenty international and national albums, bagging numerous & prestigious awards, along with unparalleled performances across the globe, and an immense musical contribution to the Indian film industry, Niladri is one of the generation’s brightest stars, with an illustrious and inspiring path for many.

Extracting the essence, Relishing the purity & Transforming with a zing, is what the panache performer has achieved and is much celebrated for.

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PEACEKEEPERS

RON WHITEOCTOBER 6, 2016

ZAKIR HUSSAIN, TABLA, WITH NILADRI KUMAR, SITAR OCTOBER 10, 2016

AN EVENING WITH KEB’ MO’ BANDOCTOBER 13, 2016

JULIE FOWLIS: MUSIC OF THE SCOTTISH ISLESOCTOBER 21, 2016

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIMEOCTOBER 25-30, 2016

MASTERPIECES- MAJOR, MINOR, AND MODERN: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTNOVEMBER 3, 2016

AN EVENING WITH GLADYS KNIGHTNOVEMBER 10, 2016

EN GARDE ARTS: BASETRACK LIVENOVEMBER 15, 2016

EVANESCENCENOVEMBER 16, 2016

GOO GOO DOLLSNOVEMBER 23, 2016

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (ON SALE OCT. 7) NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 4, 2016

THE BOOK OF MORMONJANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 5, 2017

RENÉE FLEMING IN RECITALFEBRUARY 11, 2017

AT A GLANCEA LOOK AT OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

AN AMERICAN IN PARISCELTIC WOMAN

20162017

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL(ON SALE OCT. 14)FEBRUARY 21-26, 2017

AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BLOCKER: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTFEBRUARY 23, 2017

LANG LANGFEBRUARY 27, 2017

MILOŠ: BACH TO BEATLESMARCH 11, 2017

TAJ EXPRESS: THE BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL REVUEMARCH 12, 2017

CELTIC WOMAN MARCH 17, 2017

NUFONIA MUST FALL LIVEAPRIL 1, 2017

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYAPRIL 4, 2017

SOMETHING ROTTEN!(ON SALE NOV. 28)APRIL 11-16, 2017

BLACK GRACEAPRIL 18, 2017

DAVID SEDARISAPRIL 27, 2017

JEWELS FROM THE CITY OF LIGHT: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTMAY 11, 2017

DISNEY’S THE LION KING(ON SALE NOV. 11) MAY 31 - JUNE 25, 2017

FINDING NEVERLAND(ON SALE NOV. 28)JULY 25-30, 2017

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I(ON SALE NOV. 28)AUGUST 22-27, 2017

GLADYS KNIGHTBLACK GRACE

RON WHITEOCTOBER 6, 2016

ZAKIR HUSSAIN, TABLA, WITH NILADRI KUMAR, SITAR OCTOBER 10, 2016

AN EVENING WITH KEB’ MO’ BANDOCTOBER 13, 2016

JULIE FOWLIS: MUSIC OF THE SCOTTISH ISLESOCTOBER 21, 2016

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIMEOCTOBER 25-30, 2016

MASTERPIECES- MAJOR, MINOR, AND MODERN: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTNOVEMBER 3, 2016

AN EVENING WITH GLADYS KNIGHTNOVEMBER 10, 2016

EN GARDE ARTS: BASETRACK LIVENOVEMBER 15, 2016

EVANESCENCENOVEMBER 16, 2016

GOO GOO DOLLSNOVEMBER 23, 2016

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (ON SALE OCT. 7) NOVEMBER 29 - DECEMBER 4, 2016

THE BOOK OF MORMONJANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 5, 2017

RENÉE FLEMING IN RECITALFEBRUARY 11, 2017

AT A GLANCEA LOOK AT OUR UPCOMING EVENTS

AN AMERICAN IN PARISCELTIC WOMAN

20162017

BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL(ON SALE OCT. 14)FEBRUARY 21-26, 2017

AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BLOCKER: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTFEBRUARY 23, 2017

LANG LANGFEBRUARY 27, 2017

MILOŠ: BACH TO BEATLESMARCH 11, 2017

TAJ EXPRESS: THE BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL REVUEMARCH 12, 2017

CELTIC WOMAN MARCH 17, 2017

NUFONIA MUST FALL LIVEAPRIL 1, 2017

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYAPRIL 4, 2017

SOMETHING ROTTEN!(ON SALE NOV. 28)APRIL 11-16, 2017

BLACK GRACEAPRIL 18, 2017

DAVID SEDARISAPRIL 27, 2017

JEWELS FROM THE CITY OF LIGHT: A PEACE CHAMBER CONCERTMAY 11, 2017

DISNEY’S THE LION KING(ON SALE NOV. 11) MAY 31 - JUNE 25, 2017

FINDING NEVERLAND(ON SALE NOV. 28)JULY 25-30, 2017

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I(ON SALE NOV. 28)AUGUST 22-27, 2017

GLADYS KNIGHTBLACK GRACE

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