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| Jazz Band Classic will play with Gary Smuylan Jazz Band Classic will play with the guest soloist Gary Smuylan in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall at Symphony Space on Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Led by trombonist Ryan Keberle, this 16-member ensemble specializes in swing band music of the post-war era. The program, titled “Mulligan Stew, ” will feature such classic songs as Miles Davis' “Jeru, ” Gene Krupa's “Disc Jockey Jump, ” and Stan Kenton's “All the Things You Are” . Gary Smuylan is recognized as the major voice on the baritone saxophone today. He has performed with such artists as Diana Ross, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, and Herbie Hancock. Mr. Smuylan has recorded numerous CDs, four of which have won Grammy Awards, and he currently performs with the Vanguard Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Alumni, and the Dave Holland Octet. Ryan Keberle has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, and Joe Lovano, among others. He was a semifinalist for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trombone Competition, and he has performed on NBC television with the band of Saturday Night Live. Mr. Keberle graduated from the Juilliard School and is a visiting professor at CUNY's Hunter College. Jazz Band Classic, modeled on the big bands of the 1930's and 40's, re-invigorates the vanishing big band arrangements of the great exponents of jazz. Jazz Band Classic showcases New York City's best young jazz talent in performances of traditional big band music along with the stylizations of the current jazz idiom. Jazz Band Classic's final concert of the season will showcase tenor sax great Benny Golson, as well as the premire of Joy Soup by Dan Cavanagh, in the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. Jazz Band Classic is a program of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony, an independent program nurturing the tri-state area's best young musicians with programs in orchestra, chamber music, composition, and conducting in addition to jazz. Among its alumni are Marin Alsop, Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin, Shlomo Mintz, Gerard Schwarz, Ransom Wilson, and members of the Juilliard, Emerson, and Mendelssohn String Quartets, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Past conductors include Leonard Slatkin, Myung-Whun Chung, David Alan Miller, Samuel Wong, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Mischa Santora. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |