Juilliard Jazz Presents "Billie Holiday: Swing Song Tradition"

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Juilliard Jazz Presents "Billie Holiday: Swing Song Tradition"

Juilliard Jazz presents “Billie Holiday: Swing Song Tradition” featuring Juilliard Jazz Ensembles with guest vocalist Carla Cook on Tuesday, December 4, 2018, at 7:30pm in Paul Hall. The guest coach is Marion Felder; resident coaches are Roxy Coss and Doug Wamble.
The Max Roach Ensemble featuring JarienJames Jamanila (alto saxophone), Noah Halpern (trumpet), Jacob Melsha (trombone), Joseph Block (piano), Felix Moseholm (bass), and Cameron MacIntosh (drums) will perform "The Man I Love, " "God Bless the Child, " "Lover Man, " "I Loves You Porgy, " "Easy Living, " "Miss Brown to You, " and "Our Love Is Here to Stay."
The Jelly Roll Morton Ensemble featuring Zoe Obadia (alto saxophone), Abdias Armenteros (tenor saxophone), Jeffery Miller (trombone), Aayushi Karnik (guitar), Sean Mason (piano), Micah Thomas (piano), Sebastian Rios (bass), and Petros Anagnostakos (drums) will perform "What a Little Moonlight Can Do, " "Billie’s Blues, " "All of Me, " "I'm a Fool to Want You, " "Summertime, " "Strange Fruit, " "This Year’s Kisses, " "He Ain't Got Rhythm, " "Good Morning Heartache, " "When You're Smiling, " "If You Were Mine, " and "Gloomy Sunday."
Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.
Carla Cook, along with Kurt Elling, Hilary Gardner, Lenora Helm, Carmen Lundy, Dianne Reeves, and Charenée Wade are on Juilliard Jazz’s advisory committee for its new voice master’s degree program. These artists will be involved in the program through master classes, guest coaching, or through other roles. For more information, please contact musicadmissions@juilliard.edu.
About Carla Cook
Everything Carla Cook sings swings. There’s a reason for that: Cook has been influenced by the jazz vocal masters, but equally influenced by instrumentalists, like Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery and the Crusaders. The Detroit native also finds inspiration in Motown, European Classical, Gospel, R & B, pop and country. Her remarkable voice has earned Cook a Grammy nomination for her debut album, It’s All About Love, and widespread critical acclaim for her two subsequent recordings, Dem Bones, and Simply Natural which solidified her reputation as a songwriter as well as a singer.
In an extraordinary career, Cook has performed or recorded as a guest artist with such luminaries as the Count Basie Orchestra and Lionel Hampton’s Big Band and was the last of a long line of esteemed vocalists to regularly perform with him before his death.
In addition to her performing career, Cook is proud of her work as an educator and adjudicator. She has taught jazz voice and master classes at numerous universities and jazz camps in Australia and the U.S. for teens and adults. Since 2007, she has taught jazz voice and ensemble at Temple University in Philadelphia.
During her formative years, Cook studied privately, voice, piano and string bass, the latter of which she played in the orchestra at Detroit’s esteemed Cass Technical High School. Cook attended Northeastern University and earned a degree in speech communication. While in Boston, she formed the first of several jazz ensembles. She moved to New York in 1990, where she began performing regularly on the jazz scene; in the ensuing years, in a career spanning more than two decades, she has performed in concert halls, theaters, nightclubs and jazz festivals throughout the world.
About Marion Felder
Juilliard Jazz alumnus and drummer Marion Felder (BM ’06, MM ’08), a native of Detroit, has been a member of the Wycliffe Gordon Quintet and the Count Basie Orchestra. Currently he is touring and recording with Michael Bublé. Felder has toured, recorded, and performed with various artists including The Gully Low Jazz Band, Victor Goines, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Belgrave, Carmen Bradford, Delfeayo Marsalis, Ben Wolfe, Shayna Steele, Catherine Russell, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, and Hank Jones.
About Juilliard Jazz
Juilliard Jazz offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees and the Artist Diploma. The curriculum combines classroom, private studio, and performance ensemble courses with substantial interactions with jazz masters and multiple performance opportunities in diverse venues around the city and the world. The repertoire studied covers the entire jazz continuum, highlights its American vernacular roots, and emphasizes the social and cultural vitality of the music. The program engages students in the global jazz scene, and they have recently performed at festivals in Amsterdam, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, and the Cayman Islands, and in clubs in China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Switzerland.
Recent alumni of the program include saxophonists Sharel Cassity, Jon Irabagon, Paul Nedzela, Peter Reardon-Anderson, and Erica von Kleist; trumpeters Etienne Charles, Dominick Farinacci, Brandon Lee, and Jumaane Smith; trombonists Chris Crenshaw, Michael Dease, Marshall Gilkes, and Ryan Keberle; pianists Jon Batiste, Adam Birnbaum, Kris Bowers, and Aaron Diehl; bassists Joshua Crumbly, Yasushi Nakamura, Luke Sellick, and Ben Williams; and drummers McClenty Hunter, Jerome Jennings, Ulysses Owens Jr., and Joe Saylor.
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