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| Wynton Marsalis And Dave Douglas Featured in All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! Concert All That Jazz: Now That's Hip! Concert Featuring the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Dave Douglas Quintet And Dianne Reeves At Rose Theater, March 9 New York, NY (February 3, 2005) Two trumpet virtuosos and one of today's most distinct jazz vocalists will headline the All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! concert sponsored by HIP Health Plan of New York on March 9, 2005 at 8pm in Rose Theater. This special evening of jazz will feature the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Dave Douglas Quintet as each take the stage of Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Leading lady of jazz Dianne Reeves will lend her vocal stylings as she joins the Wynton Marsalis Quintet as a special guest. Tickets for this concert are priced at $25, $40, $65, $80 and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office, by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500, or via www.jalc.org. All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! is a one-of-a-kind event wherein Wynton Marsalis and Dave Douglas will present their two distinct trumpet approaches to jazz. For the first half of the night, Dave Douglas will perform his unconventional interpretations of traditional jazz that has earned him critics' acclaim and numerous awards. For the second half, Grammy-award winning Mr. Marsalis, backed by his septet and special guest vocalist Dianne Reeves, will demonstrate down-home swing and fine sense of classical style. Dave Douglas is widely recognized as one of the most important and original American musicians to emerge from the jazz and improvised music scene of the last few decades. His collaborations as a trumpeter include: John Zorn, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Steve Lacy, Fred Hersch, Anthony Braxton, Myra Melford, Andy Bey, Nick Didkovsky, Trisha Brown, Terry Winters, Jennifer Tipton, Louis Sclavis, Henry Grimes, Tim Berne, Tom Waits, Rabih Abou-Khalil, DJ Olive, Ikue Mori, Han Bennink, and many others. Since 1993, Mr. Douglas has recorded and released 21 albums of original music, and has appeared on over one hundred recordings. From 1991 ? 2003, Mr. Douglas led the Tiny Bell Trio, a pioneering group that melded jazz and Balkan music, and recorded four albums worth of new material. Since 1993 he has been a member of John Zorn's popular Masada quartet. In 2003, he composed a series of poetry settings for singer/pianist Andy Bey. Poems by Samuel Beckett, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Stanley Kunitz were included. Since 2003 Mr. Douglas has served as artistic director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, collaborating in performances and master classes with Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, George Lewis, Jason Moran, Mark Turner, Louis Sclavis, and many others. Wynton Marsalis is the 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 in 1979 when he was 17 years old, joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that same year. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 30 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music, for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new recordings in his unprecedented “Swinging into the 21st” series, and premiered several new compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a June 1999 collaboration with the New York City Ballet. That same year he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) and the Morgan State University Choir. Mr. Marsalis signed to Blue Note Records in 2003, and his debut CD, a quartet recording entitled “The Magic Hour”, was released March 9, 2004. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People(SM) concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Marsalis has also been featured in the video series Marsalis on Music and the radio series Making the Music. He has also written two books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart, and recently released Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life with Carl Vigeland. On March 20, 2001, Mr. Marsalis was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |