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| Joe Lovano and Judi Silvano to Celebrate Sinatra The Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Justin DiCioccio, will be celebrating Sinatra! on Tuesday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the School's Ades Performance Space. Joining the MSM Chamber Jazz Ensemble as guest artists will be the husband/wife team of saxophonist Joe Lovano and vocalist Judi Silvano. This concert will feature arrangements by Manny Albam of standards made famous by Frank Sinatra that were recorded by Lovano and Silvano on the 1996 recording, Celebrating Sinatra for Blue Note Records. On the program will be such tunes as "I'll Never Smile Again", "Someone to Watch Over Me", and "Fly Me To the Moon", among others (the complete program is included at the end of this press release). The instrumentation making up the MSM Chamber Jazz Ensemble will include musicians from the School's classical division - flute, clarinet, oboe/English horn, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello and harp - joining saxophonists and a rhythm section from the Jazz Arts Program. Celebrating Sinatra! is a free concert and tickets are not required. However, seating will be limited. For information contact the MSM Concert Office at 917 493 4428 or at www.msmnyc.edu. Manhattan School of Music is located on the northwest corner of Broadway at 122nd Street and is easily reached by public transportation. Biographies: Manny Albam, the renowned composer, arranger, writer, and teacher (former member of MSM's jazz faculty) with a career that spanned seven decades, was born of Lithuanian immigrants in 1924 in the Dominican Republic when his mother went into labor en route to the United States. He grew up in New York City becoming interested in jazz at age 16 when he first heard Bix Beiderbecke. He later joined a jazz group led by George Auld as the baritone saxophonist and later arranger. By 1950 he was working as an arranger known for his bebop-oriented style (flute-led reed sections became his trademark) and would work for bandleaders such as Charlie Barnet and Charlie Spivak, later collaborating with Count Basie, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Jones, Mel Lewis, Art Farmer, among others. His 1958 jazz version of Bernstein's West Side Story was nominated for a Grammy. Manny Albam passed away on October 2, 2001. Justin DiCioccio is internationally recognized as one of the foremost jazz educators of our time. He was inducted into the Jazz Education Hall of Fame in January 2001. His inventive approach has earned him the title "the musician's teacher, " and his many performances, conducting appearances, jazz and percussion clinics, and workshops are widely recognized in the professional and educational fields. In June 2002, Mr. DiCioccio was named assistant dean at Manhattan School of Music, where he has chaired the Jazz Arts Program since 1999 and has been a member of the faculty since 1984. He has served as program director and clinician for Carnegie Hall Jazz Education and acts as a consultant to Jazz at Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis. He developed and directed the LaGuardia High School of the Arts jazz program, the first fully accredited secondary jazz program in the United States. Mr. DiCioccio is active with the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Music for Youth Foundation, and the National Foundation for Jazz Education. He is a three-time recipient of the Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award in the jazz field by the U.S. Department of Education. Last March he was confirmed as the State Department Appointed Cultural Envoy Jazz Ambassador to Tbilisi, Georgia. Joe Lovano, the Grammy-winning saxophonist/composer, was born in Cleveland in 1952, and began playing saxophone as a child. His father, tenor saxophonist Tony "Big T" Lovano, schooled him and regularly exposed him to live performances by such jazz luminaries as Sonny Stitt, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Ammons and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Lovano is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and following graduation was a three-year tour with the Woody Herman Thundering Herd later locating to New York where he joined the Mel Lewis Orchestra. In 1981 he joined the Paul Motian band and has since worked and collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, Lee Konitz, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman and many more. His relationship with Blue Note Records began in 1991 and includes eight Grammy nominations with a win in the Best Large Ensemble category for 2000's 52nd Street Themes. He has been selected as Down Beat magazine's Jazz Artist/Musician of the Year, Tenor Saxophonist of the Year and Album of the Year. In recent years, Lovano has collaborated with fellow saxophonists Dave Liebman and the late Michael Brecker in the collective Saxophone Summit. Following the untimely passing of Michael Brecker, Lovano and Liebman were joined by Ravi Coltrane. He currently leads a quartet with Esperanza Spalding, James Weidman and Otis Brown. Judi Silvano, from Philadelphia, is a jazz singer and composer who studied with Sheila Jordan and Jeanne Lee. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from Temple University and before attending college studied flute, piano and dance. Her first Vocal Group "Voices of Juniper" was formed in 1990 and she began writing vocal arrangements of tunes by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Haden, Bill Evans, Tom Harrell as well as her original songs. She has collaborated with her husband, Joe Lovano, as well as Mal Waldron, Kenny Werner and Bill Frisell, among others. Program: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble * Justin DiCioccio, conductor Joe Lovano, saxophone and Judi Silvano, vocals Tuesday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. * Ades Performance Space CELEBRATING SINATRA ! * The Arrangements of Manny Albam I'll Never Smile Again All The Way I'm A Fool to Want You Someone to Watch Over Me I've Got the World on a String I've Got You Under My Skin Fly Me To the Moon One for My Baby write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Jazz News :: home page |