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45th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival
The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
The Ernie Krivda All Star Quartet
Big Band Matinee
Middle and High School Performances for Adjudication
March 17-19, 2017
Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center (Building D)
Lakeland Community College
Campus Directions
Campus Map (pdf)
Jazz Festival Web Site
Lakeland Community College Music Department
Arts at Lakeland
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The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars will perform at the 45th Annual Lakeland Community College Jazz Festival this March. The group features legendary members of Dizzy Gillespie's band and will feature music he performed from the 40s and 50s. The opening night concert will feature NE Ohio fan favorite and international recording artist Ernie Krivda with an all-star group. The festival will also feature a Big Band Matinee with two big bands - the Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra and the Kent State Jazz Orchestra. The weekend is also a highlight for the jazz education community in Northeast Ohio and features performances and adjudication with middle and high school jazz ensembles from around Ohio.
This year the festival will be honoring Chuck Frank, who started the Lakeland Jazz Festival 45 years ago.
All performances are held in the Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center (in Building D), Lakeland Community College, 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland. For tickets and information, click here or call 440-525-7134
Publicity / Contacts
Jessica Novak
Office of Marketing and Communications
jnovak@lakelandcc.edu 440-525-7278
Festival Co-Coordinators
Dave Sterner (440) 463-2282 cell davesterner@sbcglobal.net
Steve Stanziano Ph.D. 440-525-7193 cell sstanziano@lakelandcc.edu
Dr. Constance Edwards, Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences Division
440.525.7091 CEdwards22@lakelandcc.edu
Friday, March 17
8:30 a.m. - 4:30p.m. Middle and High School Performances & Adjudication
Click here for a list of performing schools
Adjudicators:
Steve Enos - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Rock Wehrmann University of Akron and Cleveland State University
Bobby Selvaggio - Kent State University
Bob Ferrazza - Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Jeff Halsey - Bowling Green State University
8 p.m. Concert: The Ernie Krivda All Star Quartet
featuring Ernie Krivda - saxophone, Lafayette Carthon - piano, Jeff Halsey - bass and
Renell Gonsalves drums
$15 general public; $7 students
Wine, Beer, soft drinks, and snacks will be available for sale
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concert of Ernie Krivda originals and standards featuring music from
Krivda's two recent critically acclaimed recordings on Capri Records.Ernie Krivda
The journey in music that began under his musician father Lou’s influence from almost birth to his tutelage at age six has taken him from polka bands in his early teens, classes
at The Cleveland Institute of Music, the bands of Cleveland greats Eddie Baccus and Bill DeArango in the jazz clubs of Cleveland, to a life in music that includes the mentorship
of Cannonball Adderley, tours with Quincy Jones, performances with musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Phil Woods, Sarah Vaughn, Buddy DeFranco, Groove Holmes, Terry Gibbs, John Faddis, The Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, David Sanborn, Jackie Wilson, 30 albums under his name and concerts, festivals, and jazz clubs with his own groups all over the world.
The musical journey goes on with this new recording on Capri Records and touring that will give audiences an opportunity to hear “the sound that sets him apart” (Applegate Music Review), and the musician that the venerable Jazz Journal (of the UK) calls “both classic and brand new” …The Legend Continues…!
Full Bios for The Ernie Krivda All Star Quartet
| Ernie Krivda PR Materials Ernie Krivda Hi-Res Picture 1 Ernie Krivda Hi-Res Picture 2 Ernie Krivda website |
Saturday, March 18
8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Middle and High School & Performances & Adjudication
Click here for a list of performing schools
Adjudicators:
Steve Enos - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Rock Wehrmann University of Akron and Cleveland State University
Bobby Selvaggio - Kent State University
Bob Ferrazza - Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Jeff Halsey - Bowling Green State University
4-5 p.m. Clinic with The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
The full Dizzy Gillespie All Star band will hold a free clinic to share their knowledge and expertise of jazz for developing and professional musicians and the general public. Free and open to the public.
8 p.m. Headline Concert: The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
Featuring an All-Star Line-Up with John Lee - bass; Claudio Roditi - trumpet; Cyrus Chestnut - piano, Eric Alexander - tenor sax; Tommy Campbell - drums.
$30 general public; $15 students
Wine, Beer, soft drinks, and snacks will be available for sale
The
Dizzy Gillespie All Stars perform as a quintet, and the program
material is based on Dizzy's music of the 40s and 50s. The concert
includes tunes such as “A Night In Tunisia,” “Anthropology,”
“BeBop,” “Birks Works,” “Blue ‘N’ Boogie,” “Con Alma,” “Dizzy
Atmosphere,” “Groovin’ High,” “Hot House,” “Oop-Pop-Sh’-Bam,” “Ow,” “Salt
Peanuts” and many others.The band is led by John Lee, Dizzy’s long time bassist, with the rest of the line-up drawn from the stellar body of musicians who used to work with Dizzy, plus some of the best and brightest of the next generation of jazz. All of the artists are international recording and touring artists in their own right and are well known throughout the world.
The All Stars have a firm fan in Aretha Franklin; they performed at her 2014 and 2015 birthday parties and also opened for her recently at Radio City Music Hall and the Montreal Jazz Festival.
This concert is also in celebration of Dizzy Gillespie's centennial birthday.
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John Lee Bassist, composer, educator and producer, John enrolled at the Philadelphia Musical Academy in 1970. During this period he began appearing in New York City, working with the bands of Carlos Garnett, Joe Henderson and Pharoah Sanders. In 1972, John was hired as bassist for the Max Roach Quartet. Later that year he moved to Europe for a stay that would last until 1974. During this period, he worked and recorded with Gary Bartz, Philip Catherine, Joe Henderson, Chris Hinze, Jasper Van'T Hof, Joachim Kuhn, Charlie Mariano and Toots Thielemans. In 1982, John joined the McCoy Tyner Quintet, where he worked until joining The Dizzy Gillespie Group in 1984. John was a member of Dizzy's various bands including the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, the 70th Anniversary Big Band and the United Nations Orchestra until 1992 when Dizzy became ill. These days John is producing and writing as well as working with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, Big Band and Afro Cubans, Sonny Rollins, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, Gregory Hines, and the Fantasy Band, a group formed with Chuck Loeb, Marion Meadows and Dave Samuels. |
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Claudio Roditi Born in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Roditi began his musical studies when he was just 6 years old. By the time he was twelve, he had already become a serious jazz listener. In 1966, he was named a finalist at the International Jazz Competition in Vienna, Austria. In Vienna, Roditi met Art Farmer, who was one of his idols, and the friendship inspired the younger trumpeter to follow a career in jazz. A determined Roditi relocated to Boston in 1970 to study at Berklee College of Music. Arriving in New York in 1976, Roditi performed and/or recorded with Charlie Rouse, Herbie Mann, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Tito Puente, and McCoy Tyner, among others. Beginning in 1989, Roditi traveled for five years as a member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra. Currently, he performs with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars. He also leads his own bands and tours worldwide as a featured performer in a wide variety of musical settings—from tours with the Roditi-Ignatzek-Rassinfosse Trio to appearances with The Jobim Project. With over 20 critically acclaimed albums to his credit, Claudio Roditi continually develops his playing and compositions through new recording projects. BRAZILLIANCE x 4 (HCD 2002) earned Roditi a Grammy nomination in 2009, in the “best Latin jazz album” category. Roditi’s extensive performing, composing and recording experience, combined with his innate love of music and working with musicians, gives him a special gift to transmit his knowledge and experience in his teaching career. Whether teaching a master class at the Lionel Hampton School of Music or performing with a student ensemble at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam, Holland, Claudio brings his enthusiasm for the trumpet, jazz and Brazilian music directly into the classroom and concert hall. A lifelong passion for the trumpet gives Claudio Roditi an open spirit for music. This fuels an ongoing search for personal expression and musical perfection. As Neil Tesser of the Chicago Reader wrote, “. . . I can think of only a handful of modern trumpeters who combine brain and soul, technique and wisdom in a way that matches Roditi’s.” |
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Cyrus Chestnut Born in 1963, Chestnut started his musical career at the age of three, playing piano at the Mount Calvary Star Baptist Church at the age of five in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. In the fall of 1981, Cyrus began jazz education in Boston, Massachusetts at the Berklee College of Music, where he earned a degree in jazz composition and arranging. After Berklee, Cyrus began further honing his craft as a sideman with some of the legendary and leading musicians in the business. Some of these great people include; Jon Hendricks, Michael Carvin, Donald Harrison, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Regina Cater, Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Joe Williams, Isaac Hayes, Kathleen Battle, Betty Carter and, Dizzy Gillespie just to name a few. Even the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, asked him to join her on one of her Christmas Concerts in 2013. His association with Betty Carter, which began in 1991, significantly affected his outlook and approach to music, confirming his already iconoclastic instincts. Carter advised him to “take chances” and play things I’ve never heard,” Chestnut says. As Cyrus was absorbing experiences as a sideman, he was also developing as a leader, recording and playing live around the world. There’s a Brighter Day Coming was his first self-released album, followed by The Nutman Speaks (1992), The Nutman Speaks Again (1992), Another Direction (1993). The records received the prestigious Gold Disk award from Japan’s leading jazz publication, Swing Journal. In the fall of 2014, Cyrus was appointed professor of Jazz Piano and Improvisation at Howard University in Washington, DC. In 2015, he was added to the Yamaha Artist Roster. In November 2015 Cyrus got together with two other giants of jazz, Buster Williams on bass and Lenny White on drums and recorded a beautiful collection of classic trio material. ‘Natural Essence’ (Highnote Records) was released in May 2016 and was followed by an extended European tour. |
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Eric Alexander Eric Alexander started piano lessons at the age of six. He took up the clarinet at nine and switched to alto sax three years later. The tenor sax became his obsession at Indiana University Bloomington (1986-87). After transferring to William Paterson College in New Jersey, he studied with Harold Mabern, Joe Lovano, Rufus Reid, and others. “The people I listened to in college are still the cats who are influencing me today,” Eric says. “The legacy left by Bird and all the bebop pioneers, that language and that feel—that's the bread and butter of everything I do." George Coleman is a big influence because of his very hip harmonic approach. And I'm still listening all the time to Coltrane because I feel that—even in the wildest moments of his mid to late 60s solos—I can find these little kernels of melodic information and employ them in my own playing.” In 1991 Eric competed against Joshua Redman and Chris Potter in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. Placing second, this launched him into the whirlwind life of a professional jazz musician. He played with organ trios on Chicago’s South Side, made his recording debut with Charles Earland (Muse Records, 1991), and cut his first album as a leader, “Straight Up” (Delmark, 1991). More recordings followed for numerous labels, including Milestone. In 1997 he put out “Man with a Horn.” The following year saw the release of “Solid!”—a collaborative quartet session with George Mraz, John Hicks, and Idris Muhammad—as well as the first recording by his sextet One for All. Eric has appeared on record as a leader, sideman, producer, and composer. By now, he has lost count of how many albums feature his playing; he guesses 60 or 70. He has earned praise from critics and, even more important, established his own voice within the bebop tradition. |
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Tommy Campbell Tommy Campbell grew up outside of Philadelphia steeped in a musical environment, permeated with the notes of his father, an organist and singer, and his uncle, Jimmy Smith, the renowned Hammond B-3 virtuoso. “I was surrounded by music from the time I was two years old. My father and drummer Mickey Roker would rehearse at the house a lot. Whenever Uncle Jimmy had a new record he was releasing, he’d come over with a prerelease copy. We would listen to it together as a family. I used to play along with those records for hours.” Tommy attended the Berklee College of Music, the international center for education in professional music renowned for its acclaimed Jazz faculty, where he majored in instrumental performance (1979) and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. Campbell’s long tenure with Dizzy began in the late 70s, and continued through the 80s and 90s, and concluded with a personal jam session with the renowned master several months before Gillespie’s passing in January 1993. “Dizzy taught me to be as relaxed and loose about the music. He knew how to have fun while being serious at the same time. It was a balance, like the music. He attracted entertainers, lesser-known musicians, and fans into jazz music. He was a real people person, and a real professional.” He has been inspired by legendary drummers such as Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham, Max Roach, the late greats Art Blakey and Tony Williams. Mr. Campbell has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of Jazz’s leading talents. He has performed as a regular member with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, John McLaughlin, The Manhattan Transfer, Kevin Eubanks, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Jordan, Tania Maria, Gary Burton, and a host of other Jazz greats. Tommy’s intelligent, exciting and stylistically authentic drumming has established him as a leading member of a new generation of Jazz Masters. |
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| Dizzy Gillespie PR Materials Interviews: Steve Frumkin / Jim Wadsworth Productions steve@jwpagency.com 330-405-9075 cell Dizzy Gillespie Centennial Logo Bios Photos John Lee Claudio Roditi Cyrus Chestnut Eric Alexander Tommy Campbell |
Sunday, March 19
4 p.m. Big Band Matinee
Featuring the Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Dave Sterner and the Kent State Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bobby Selvaggio.
Tickets $10, $7 students
The Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra is under the direction of Dave Sterner and will feature music by Bill Holman, Quincy Jones, and Charles Mingus.
They will also perform a commissioned piece by Len Orcino in tribute to Chuck Frank, the founder of the Lakeland Jazz Festival.
The Kent State Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Bobby Selvaggio, will feature music from Thad Jones, Gil Evans, Bobby Selvaggio, and Bill Dobbins
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here for tickets or call 440-525-7134
Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center (Building D)
Lakeland Community College
Campus Directions
Campus Map (pdf)
Jazz Festival Web Site
Lakeland Community College Music Department
Arts at Lakeland
Acknowledgments
Dr. Morris Beverage Jr., President, Lakeland Community College
Dr. Steve Oluic, Dean, Arts and Sciences Division
Dr. Constance Edwards, Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences Division
Dr. Matthew Saunders, Department Chair, Music
Jeri Lynn Pilarczyk, Senior Secretary, Arts and Sciences Division
Dr. Morris Beverage Jr., President, Lakeland Community College
Dr. Steve Oluic, Dean, Arts and Sciences Division
Dr. Constance Edwards, Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences Division
Dr. Matthew Saunders, Department Chair, Music
Jeri Lynn Pilarczyk, Senior Secretary, Arts and Sciences Division
Festival Coordinators
Dave Sterner (440) 463-2282 cell davesterner@sbcglobal.net
Stephen Stanziano, Ph.D. 440-525-7193 cell sstanziano@lakelandcc.edu
The 45th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival, is a presentation of the Arts and Sciences Division. The Lakeland Jazz Festival was founded by retired professor and music department Chair Charles M. Frank. Lakeland's Jazz Festival has remained true to its original mission of instilling the excitement and magic of jazz education to the younger generation of musicians. Over 30,000 middle and high school musicians from throughout the state have participated in the festival in celebration of this uniquely American art form, jazz.
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