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| Aardvark Jazz Orchestra to Open 41st Season Oct 9, Scullers Jazz Club Boston The internationally acclaimed Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, one of the longest running large jazz ensembles in the world, will open its 41st season at Scullers Jazz Club on October 9, 2013, with a show called Blues and Other Hues. The legendary band, with vocalists Jerry Edwards and Grace Hughes, will explore the many shades of blues in a variety of jazz styles, from Duke Ellington's classic blues Such Sweet Thunder to a Mark Harvey original called Boston Boy (inspired by Boston-born jazz maven Nat Hentoff), plus Billy Strayhorn's lush ballad Daydream, and other music spanning the Aardvark spectrum ("expansive harmony, brilliant music... discipline, openness, and freedom" - CultureJazz.Fr, France). Other events in Aardvark's Fall Season include Bluesology (the blues as social and political commentary) at MIT's Killian Hall on November 2 at 8:00 pm; a show of All Blues at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic on November 11 at 7:00 pm; and Aardvark's 41st Annual Christmas Concert at Emmanuel Church Boston on December 21 at 8:00 pm. Also, on October 18 at 8:00 pm, members of Aardvark perform in FiLmprov, improvising music to Kate Matson's film The Yorick Follies at Boston's Church of the Advent Library Concert Series. Founded in 1973, Aardvark has been a force in the international jazz scene for 40 years. The band has premiered more than 150 works for jazz orchestra and has released 11 CDs, including 6 discs on Leo Records, one of the world's leading adventurous music labels. Aardvark's latest CD, Evocations, was named by The New York City Jazz Record as one of the magazine's picks for Best of 2012. Guest artists who have appeared with Aardvark include jazz luminaries Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Jimmy Giuffre, Geri Allen, Lewis Porter, Vinny Golia, Dominique Eade, Jay Clayton, Paul Lovens, Rajesh Mehta, Matt Savage and Walter Thompson. Aardvark founder and music director has performed as trumpeter in the U.S., Mexico and Europe; has recorded with George Russell (Blue Note) and Baird Hersey (Arista/Novus); and performed with Gil Evans, Claudio Roditi, Howard McGhee, Sam Rivers, Joe Carroll, Kenny Dorham and others. He has received awards and commissions from ASCAP, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Meet-the-Composer-Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program, among others. Commissions have featured such notables as Joe Lovano, Steve Turre, Herb Pomeroy and Ran Blake. Dr. Harvey teaches jazz studies and composition at MIT. Aardvark is: Arni Cheatham, Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Chris Rakowski, Dan Zupan/saxes & woodwinds; K.C. Dunbar, Jeanne Snodgrass/trumpets; Bob Pilkington, Jay Keyser/trombones; Jeff Marsanskis, Bill Lowe/bass trombones, tuba; Richard Nelson/guitar; John Funkhouser/string bass; Harry Wellott/drums; Jerry Edwards & Grace Hughes, vocalists; Mark Harvey/trumpet, music director. The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra is managed exclusively by Americas Musicworks, telephone 888 887 7169. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |