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NUVO Dance Convention, Minneapolis, MN: RESULTs
High Scores by Age:
NUbie Solo
1st: Aria Telander-’Diamonds’
1st: Mila Simunic-’Never Enough’
2nd: Neala Murphy-’Go Gently’
3rd: Zoey Brooks-’Boyfriend’s Back’
3rd: Violet Cruz-Blanco-’Eyes of A Child’
4th: Savannah Jackson-’His Eye is on The Sparrow’
4th: Ruby Kramer-’Transcience’
5th: Brooke Krawska-’Fawn’
6th: Maylin Munos-’Twilight’
7th: Clara McArdle-’Music Box’
8th: Mollie Darling-’Miracles’
9th: Lexie Shelton-’Hallelujiah’
10th: Evie Umbreit-’Bop’
Mini Solo
1st: Lilly Anderson-’Faun’
1st: Kelsie Jacobson-’I Dreamed A Dream’
2nd: Skylar Wong-’Elephants’
2nd: Carrigan Paylor-’It Is Time’
2nd: Finley Ashfield-’My Girl’
3rd: Harper Anderson-’Things Left Behind’
4th: Leighton Curry-’La Petit Fleur’
4th: Ingrid Wirtz-’Shining’
5th: Olivia Chiu-’Acceptance’
5th: Brittany Johnson-’Bird Land’
5th: Daphnie Braun-’Solace’
5th: Isabella Charnstrom-’The Brink’
6th: Annabel Schoolmeesters-’Lost Orbit’
6th: Lucy Mae Dunn-’Time For Mercy’
7th: Kate Baldwin-’Zimmer’
8th: Eden Hardy-’Cool Waves’
8th: Stella Kate Ziemke-’Edge’
8th: Natalie Cerepak-’Smoldering’
9th: Ava McCraine-’Femme Fatale’
9th: Ana Santos-’Je Suis Vivant’
9th: Ava Otto-’Light Sorrounds Me’
9th: Lauren Chiu-’Only Hope’
9th: Lainey Christeson-’You Are The Reason’
10th: Tova Thompson-’Arctic’
10th: Brooklyn Mohs-’La Vie En Rose’
Junior Solo
1st: Gracyn French-’A Character of Quiet’
2nd: Aaliyah Dixon-’Vintage Laser’
3rd: Carley Jensen-’April In Paris’
4th: Angelina Elliot-’The Mind’
5th: Sophia Anderson-’Emerald Mist’
5th: Josie Lutz-’It Is Time’
5th: Phoenix Jonat-’The Last Rose’
6th: Brynn Kostka-’Answer’
6th: Amelia Cherepanov-’Burgundy’
6th: Preslie Lopez-’Listen’
7th: Kylie Carter-’A Conscious Dispute’
7th: Olivia Shelton-’Ahead’
7th: Audrey Proulx-’Exist for Love’
7th: Klaire Simek-’Spine’
8th: Kylie Freeman-’Encompassed’
8th: MaKenna Allison-’Hate Me’
8th: Kira Reissner-’Shadow Journal’
9th: Siena Paradeau-’Cradle’
9th: Teagan Murphy-’Devoted’
9th: Brooklyn Alstead-’He’s A Dream’
9th: Claire Monge-’Inertia
9th: Ava Munos-’The Final Goodbye’
10th: Skylar Okerlund-’Echo’
10th: Braylin Uselding-’Light Leak’
10th: Zoe Zielinski-’Z’
Teen Solo
1st: Ava Wagner-’Change Is Everything’
1st: Isabella Jarvis-’Moonlight Serenade’
2nd: Cami Redpath-’Confined’
2nd: Harlow Ganz-’End of Love’
2nd: Payton Riss-’Twisting and Untangling’
2nd: Sydney Ishaug-’Wave’
3rd: Lydia Werschay-’A Deal With Chaos’
3rd: Mini Preston-’Rosas’
3rd: Keira Redpath-’Send in the Clowns’
3rd: Lynlie Ferrin-’Visnaga’
4th: Ayla Pilrain-’Commit’
4th: Caleb Abea-’Slide’
4th: Livia Wambach-’Wild is the Wind’
5th: Faith Cichocki-’Analysis’
5th: Kylie Vandeest-’Recognition’
5th: Mercedes Lorentz-’Reminiscence’
6th: Peyton Anderson-’Anata’
6th: Ema Cable-’Come Back To Us’
6th: Ivan Beetoe-’Giving Up’
6th: Alexa Leonard-’Hit & Run’
6th: Madeline Raverty-’Reveal’
7th: Reese Noha-’Another Love’
7th: Bella Saferstein-’I Am The Earth’
7th: Noelle Bjork-’Underground’
7th: Audrey Healy-’Waves’
7th: Vanessa Barnes-’Yesterday’
7th: Grace Kimmel-’Your Day Will Come’
8th: Hannah Olstad-’Lonely’
8th: Grace Wolk-’Under Your Breath’
9th: Madden Zook-’After Rain’
9th: Caleigh Proulx-’Hold On’
9th: Julissa Ortiz-’Never Knock’
9th: Mallorie Byard-’The Chain’
9th: Lexi Cairney-’Voyage’
10th: Brooklyn Bengtson-’All I Want’
10th: Falyn Jones-’Darkness Before the Dawn’
10th: Peyton Kratochwill-’Lotus Bud’
10th: Katelyn Franta-’Turning Tables’
Senior Solo
1st: Bennet EspindaBanick-’In Vessel’
2nd: Elisabeth Pabich-’The Art of Dealing With Pain’
3rd: Sara Gutz-’2,3,4′
3rd: Kate Happe-’Ne Me Quitte Pas’
3rd: Adam Truesdell-’Vanishing Act’
4th: Haley Klemesrud-’10,000 Miles’
4th: Evelina Galimova-’Belly of the Beast’
4th: Halie Hauer-’Grieving’
5th: Minda Li-’Efforts to Reignite’
5th: Amanda Fitzgerald-’Millions of Eels’
5th: Miranda Shaugnessy-’Shift’
6th: Kelly Blahauvietz-’Blackbird’
6th: Lauren Sklar-’Night and Day’
7th: Olivia Johnson-’Days Gone Quiet’
7th: Lexi Heath-’Visions of Gideon’
8th: Sophie Cowgill-’Bird Gherl’
8th: Joshua Ukura-’Serendipity March’
9th: Joy Lyn Erlandson-’Quiver’
9th: Ally Nelson-’Snowing’
9th: Emma Sranske-’While We Are Young’
10th: Bella Cundiff-’I Will Love You’
Open Solo
1st: Thomas Nguyen-’Falling’
NUbie Duo/Trio
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Horizon’
2nd: Dance Vision-’Timber’
3rd: Ballaraena Dance Studio-’Dark Side’
Mini Duo/Trio
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Something’s Gotta Change’
2nd: The Dance Complex-’Crumbling’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Peel’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Birthday’
Junior Duo/Trio
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Dark’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Soldier’
3rd: Madill Performing Arts Center-’Vanishing’
Teen Duo/Trio
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Touch’
2nd: The Dance Complex-’Desired Constellations’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’She Moves’
Senior Duo/Trio
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Impermanence’
2nd: Dance, etc!-’Particles’
3rd: Dance, etc!-’New Skin’
Open Duo/Trio
1st: Acting in Motion-’End of Love’
NUbie Group
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’These Boots’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’The Waiting Room’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’As Long As You Love Me’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’I Will Wait’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Lullaby’
Mini Group
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’What Have You Done For Me Lately’
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’This Bitter Earth’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Jailhouse Rock’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Hallelujah’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Soon You’ll Get Better’
Junior Group
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Between These Hands’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Wolves’
Teen Group
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Paranoia’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Case of You’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’The Wolves’
Senior Group
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Fragment’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’What Is The Noise’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Dreams’
Mini Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Short Skirt, Long Jacket’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’This Way’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Imagine’
Junior Line
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Whole Lotta Woman’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’It Wasn’t Always Like This’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Naive to the Bone’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Bathers’
Teen Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’You’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Rewind’
3rd: Dance, etc!-’Thistle and Weeds’
Senior Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Rapid City’
2nd: Dance, etc!-’Begin the Beguine’
NUbie Extended Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Glamorous’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Barbie and Ken’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Broadway Banana’
Mini Extended Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Of What Is’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Feeling Gorgeous’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Yankee Doodle Dandee’
3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Trouble’
Teen Extended Line
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Do You?’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Everybody Loves You’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Well Played’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’So Much Betta’
Senior Extended Line
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Yes & No’
2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Adrenaline’
3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Affair of Honor’
Junior Production
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Tiger Rag’
Teen Production
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Red Handed’
2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Digital Motion’
High Scores by Performance Division:
NUbie Jazz
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’These Boots’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Glamorous’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Barbie and Ken’
NUbie Tap
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Broadway Banana’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Funky Y2C’
NUbie Contemporary
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’The Waiting Room’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’I Will Wait’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’As Long As You Love Me’
NUbie Lyrical
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Lullaby’ 2nd: Dance Vision-’Tightrope’ 3rd: Balleraena Dance Studio-’Battlefield’
NUbie Musical Theatre
Balleraena Dance Studio-’Unwritten Rules’
Mini Jazz
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Short Skirt, Long Jacket’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’What Have You Done For Me Lately’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Feeling Gorgeous’
Mini Ballet
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’This Way’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Rosamunde’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Cats’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Whistle a Happy Tune’
Mini Hip-Hop
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Don’t Slack’ 2nd: Dance, etc!-’The Girls’
Mini Tap
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Yankee Doodle Dandee’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Choo Choo’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Swing In The Mood’
Mini Contemporary
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Of What Is’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’This Bitter Earth’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Imagine’
Mini Lyrical
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Dream In Color’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Soon You’ll Get Better’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Hallelujah’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’The Lord’s Prayer’
Mini Musical Theatre
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’I’ve Got Rhythm’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’All That Jazz’ 3rd: Balleraena Dance Studio-’Someone In The Crowd’
Junior Jazz
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Whole Lotta Woman’ 1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels’ 2nd: Dance, etc!-’Bassline’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Time’
Junior Ballet
1st: Woodbury Dance Center-’Combust’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Bathers’
Junior Hip-Hop
Dance, etc!-’Comin In’
Junior Tap
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Tiger Rag’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Valerie’
Junior Contemporary
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Between These Hands’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Naive to the Bone’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’It Wasn’t Always Like This’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Wolves’
Junior Lyrical
1st: Dance, etc!-’Half Light’ 2nd: Misty’s Dance Unlimited-’Head and Heart’
Teen Jazz
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’So Much Betta’ 2nd: Dance Express-’Bassline’ 3rd: Madill Performing Arts Center-’Move’
Teen Hip-Hop
Dance, etc!-’When I Move’
Teen Tap
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’25 Miles’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Things I Regret’ 3rd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Work Me Down’
Teen Contemporary
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Red Handed’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’You’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Paranoia’
Teen Lyrical
1st: Dance, etc!-’People Help the People’ 2nd: Madill Performing Arts Center-’Found’
Teen Specialty
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Digital Motion’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Do You?’ 3rd: Madill Performing Arts Center-’Nine Two Five’
Senior Jazz
1st: Northland School of Dance-’London Bridge’ 2nd: Dance, etc!-’Begin the Beguine’ 3rd: Misty’s Dance Unlimited-’Another One Bites The Dust’
Senior Hip-Hop
1st: Dance, etc!-’Ani’ 2nd: Dynamic Dance Company-’Welcome To The Party’
Senior Contemporary
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Rapid City’ 2nd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Fragment’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’Affair of Honor’
Senior Lyrical
1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’A Beautiful Reminder’ 2nd: Dynamic Dance Company-’Leave A Light On’ 3rd: Misty’s Dance Unlimited-’Conformed’
Senior Specialty
1st: Larkin Dance Studio-’Yes & No’ 2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Adrenaline’ 3rd: Larkin Dance Studio-’What Is The Noise’
Best NU Groups:
NUbie
Larkin Dance Studio-’These Boots’
Summit Dance Shoppe-’Lullaby’
Dance Vision-’Barbie Girl’
Mini
Larkin Dance Studio-’Short Skirt, Long Jacket’
Dance, etc!-’Le Freak’
Dance Vision-’Slip Away’
Summit Dance Shoppe-’What Have You Done For Me Lately’
Junior
Larkin Dance Studio-’Between These Hands’
Summit Dance Shoppe-’Whole Lotta Woman’
Woodbury Dance Center-’Combust’
Teen
Dance Vision-’Modern Loneliness’
Madill Performing Arts Center-’Nine Two Five’
Summit Dance Shoppe-’Do You?’
Larkin Dance Studio-’Red Handed’
Senior
Summit Dance Shoppe-’Adrenaline’
Larkin Dance Studio-’Rapid City’
Northland School of Dance-’London Bridge’
Studio Pick:
Summit Dance Shoppe-’Adrenaline’
Dance Vision-’Modern Loneliness’
Larkin Dance Studio-’Rapid City’
Dance, etc!-’Thistle and Weeds’
Balleraena Dance Studio-’Unworthy’
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USA: Steve McQuarry's Mandala Nonet & Orchestra to Perform the Music of Gil Evans at SFJAZZ Center, Sat. March 4
Steve McQuarry's
Mandala Nonet & Orchestra
To Perform the Music of Gil Evans Saturday, March 4 At the SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium
McQuarry to Use Evans Scores From 1947 through 1973, Some Not Discovered Until Recently
January 9, 2017
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry has long been in love with the unique music of Gil Evans, the late, largely-self-taught Toronto-born composer, arranger, and keyboardist best remembered for his numerous collaborations with Miles Davis.
"The whole way he thought about orchestrating using instruments and also pushing those instruments in different ranges is really fascinating," McQuarry says of Evans. "I remember talking with Maria Schneider about this. She said he would write the trombone parts really high and things like that, which academically trained arrangers are told not to do, and how that changed a lot of textures and tone quality in the sound."
For a program of a dozen Evans arrangements drawn from his early days with the Claude Thornhill big band through his later work with Davis, Kenny Burrell, and his own ensembles, McQuarry has expanded his 19-member Mandala Orchestra to 25 pieces to accommodate instruments Evans sometimes used to enrich his voicings, including French horn, English horn, oboe, bassoon, and cello, as well as downsized it to nine to play three pieces from Davis's legendary 1949-1950 "Birth of the Cool" sessions.
McQuarry's Evans concert will take place on Saturday, March 4, at the SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium, the scene of his highly successful tribute to Carla Bley in June of last year.
No transcriptions from recordings will be performed. The musicians will instead play from original Evans scores -- some written in pencil by the composer himself -- supplied by composer Ryan Truesdell. An associate of Maria Schneider, Truesdell had gathered arrangements from Evans's family, musicians who had worked with him, and from the archives of bandleaders for whom he had worked, among other sources, and recorded 10 of them for his critically acclaimed 2012 CD Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans.
The earliest Evans composition on the program is "The Troubadour," first recorded by the Thornhill orchestra in 1947. Another Evans composition in the set is "Dancing on a Great Big Rainbow," written for Thornhill in 1950 by not recorded until 2012 by Truesdell. The Mandala Orchestra will also perform "Blues for Pablo" and "The Maids of Cadiz" (both from Davis's 1957 album Miles Ahead) and "Greensleeves" (from the 1964 Kenny Burrell album Guitar Forms), as well as "St. Louis Blues," "La Nevada Blues," "Punjab," and "Eleven," all from various albums made by Evans's own bands. And the Nonet will play "Budo," "Israel," and "Boplicity" from Birth of the Cool.
Although born in Canada, on May 13, 1912, Gil Evans resided in the United States from the time he was a boy. He became enamored of the music of Louis Armstrong and other early jazz greats while living in Berkeley in the mid-1920s and formed a nine-piece swing band in Stockton a few years later. He spent most of the 1940s as a staff arranger for the Thornhill band, whose distinctive style greatly influenced that of the Miles Davis Nonet that made the sessions that became known as Birth of the Cool. He recorded in subsequent years with various vocalists and instrumentalists and with bands of his own, but it is the four classic Columbia albums he made with Davis -- Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959), Sketches of Spain (1960), and Quiet Nights (1963) -- that Evans's reputation most strongly sits in the minds of many. He died on March 20, 1988.
Steve McQuarry, who was born in Denver on August 17, 1959, took his first arranging class at age 17 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, with
Oakland-born composer-arranger Russell Garcia, renowned for his work Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, and many others. McQuarry also studied at the University of Colorado at Denver, Berklee College of Music, UC San Diego, and Alexander University. An Oakland resident for the past decade, he has performed as a pianist at Yoshi's San Francisco with his own trio and with flutist Gerald Beckett's quartet and has broadcast with his chamber octet Resonance over KPFA in Berkeley and KKUP in Cupertino. He currently records for his own label, Mandala Records, with his piano jazz trio and the jazz ensembles Resonance, Steve McQuarry Organ Trio, Art-Jazz-Rock group, Echelon; Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz band, Tribu the electronica group Synsor; and the new age group Agharta.
"I named my record label, the octet, and the orchestra Mandala after meeting the Dalai Lama and some Tibetan monks drawing mandalas on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley some years ago," he says.
The Mandala Orchestra members are pianists Steve McQuarry and Laura Klein; trumpeters Justin Smith, John Worley, Niel Levonius, and Henry Hung; trombonists Keith Yee, Tim Phelan, Joshua Sankara, and Christian Manzana; French hornist Winston Macaraeg; tuba player Portia Njoku; flutist Gerald Beckett; saxophonists Ruben Salcido, Amelia Catalano, Corey Wright, Georgianna Krieger, and Hermann Lara; oboe and English horn player Glenda Bates; bassoonist Wendell Hanna; cellist Nancy Bien; guitarist Mason Razavi; double bassist Ted Burik; drummer Greg German: and tabla player Jim Santi Owens.
Steve McQuarry Presents Gil Evans Tribute, March 4
Steve McQuarry Presents Mandala Nonet & Orchestra Performing the Music of Gil Evans Saturday, March 4, 8:00 p.m.
SFJAZZ Center, Miner Auditorium
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco
Tickets: $25
RSVP to mcquarry.org
Photography: Irene Young
Web Site: mcquarry.org
Follow:
Like:
Media Contact:
Terri Hinte [email protected] 510/234-8781 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2iSTuvH
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USA: Steve McQuarry's Mandala Nonet & Orchestra to Perform the Music of Gil Evans at SFJAZZ Center, Sat. March 4
Steve McQuarry's
Mandala Nonet & Orchestra
To Perform the Music of Gil Evans Saturday, March 4 At the SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium
McQuarry to Use Evans Scores From 1947 through 1973, Some Not Discovered Until Recently
January 9, 2017
Oakland-based keyboardist-composer Steve McQuarry has long been in love with the unique music of Gil Evans, the late, largely-self-taught Toronto-born composer, arranger, and keyboardist best remembered for his numerous collaborations with Miles Davis.
"The whole way he thought about orchestrating using instruments and also pushing those instruments in different ranges is really fascinating," McQuarry says of Evans. "I remember talking with Maria Schneider about this. She said he would write the trombone parts really high and things like that, which academically trained arrangers are told not to do, and how that changed a lot of textures and tone quality in the sound."
For a program of a dozen Evans arrangements drawn from his early days with the Claude Thornhill big band through his later work with Davis, Kenny Burrell, and his own ensembles, McQuarry has expanded his 19-member Mandala Orchestra to 25 pieces to accommodate instruments Evans sometimes used to enrich his voicings, including French horn, English horn, oboe, bassoon, and cello, as well as downsized it to nine to play three pieces from Davis's legendary 1949-1950 "Birth of the Cool" sessions.
McQuarry's Evans concert will take place on Saturday, March 4, at the SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium, the scene of his highly successful tribute to Carla Bley in June of last year.
No transcriptions from recordings will be performed. The musicians will instead play from original Evans scores -- some written in pencil by the composer himself -- supplied by composer Ryan Truesdell. An associate of Maria Schneider, Truesdell had gathered arrangements from Evans's family, musicians who had worked with him, and from the archives of bandleaders for whom he had worked, among other sources, and recorded 10 of them for his critically acclaimed 2012 CD Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans.
The earliest Evans composition on the program is "The Troubadour," first recorded by the Thornhill orchestra in 1947. Another Evans composition in the set is "Dancing on a Great Big Rainbow," written for Thornhill in 1950 by not recorded until 2012 by Truesdell. The Mandala Orchestra will also perform "Blues for Pablo" and "The Maids of Cadiz" (both from Davis's 1957 album Miles Ahead) and "Greensleeves" (from the 1964 Kenny Burrell album Guitar Forms), as well as "St. Louis Blues," "La Nevada Blues," "Punjab," and "Eleven," all from various albums made by Evans's own bands. And the Nonet will play "Budo," "Israel," and "Boplicity" from Birth of the Cool.
Although born in Canada, on May 13, 1912, Gil Evans resided in the United States from the time he was a boy. He became enamored of the music of Louis Armstrong and other early jazz greats while living in Berkeley in the mid-1920s and formed a nine-piece swing band in Stockton a few years later. He spent most of the 1940s as a staff arranger for the Thornhill band, whose distinctive style greatly influenced that of the Miles Davis Nonet that made the sessions that became known as Birth of the Cool. He recorded in subsequent years with various vocalists and instrumentalists and with bands of his own, but it is the four classic Columbia albums he made with Davis -- Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1959), Sketches of Spain (1960), and Quiet Nights (1963) -- that Evans's reputation most strongly sits in the minds of many. He died on March 20, 1988.
Steve McQuarry, who was born in Denver on August 17, 1959, took his first arranging class at age 17 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, with
Oakland-born composer-arranger Russell Garcia, renowned for his work Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, and many others. McQuarry also studied at the University of Colorado at Denver, Berklee College of Music, UC San Diego, and Alexander University. An Oakland resident for the past decade, he has performed as a pianist at Yoshi's San Francisco with his own trio and with flutist Gerald Beckett's quartet and has broadcast with his chamber octet Resonance over KPFA in Berkeley and KKUP in Cupertino. He currently records for his own label, Mandala Records, with his piano jazz trio and the jazz ensembles Resonance, Steve McQuarry Organ Trio, Art-Jazz-Rock group, Echelon; Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz band, Tribu the electronica group Synsor; and the new age group Agharta.
"I named my record label, the octet, and the orchestra Mandala after meeting the Dalai Lama and some Tibetan monks drawing mandalas on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley some years ago," he says.
The Mandala Orchestra members are pianists Steve McQuarry and Laura Klein; trumpeters Justin Smith, John Worley, Niel Levonius, and Henry Hung; trombonists Keith Yee, Tim Phelan, Joshua Sankara, and Christian Manzana; French hornist Winston Macaraeg; tuba player Portia Njoku; flutist Gerald Beckett; saxophonists Ruben Salcido, Amelia Catalano, Corey Wright, Georgianna Krieger, and Hermann Lara; oboe and English horn player Glenda Bates; bassoonist Wendell Hanna; cellist Nancy Bien; guitarist Mason Razavi; double bassist Ted Burik; drummer Greg German: and tabla player Jim Santi Owens.
Steve McQuarry Presents Gil Evans Tribute, March 4
Steve McQuarry Presents Mandala Nonet & Orchestra Performing the Music of Gil Evans Saturday, March 4, 8:00 p.m.
SFJAZZ Center, Miner Auditorium
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco
Tickets: $25
RSVP to mcquarry.org
Photography: Irene Young
Web Site: mcquarry.org
Follow:
Like:
Media Contact:
Terri Hinte [email protected] 510/234-8781 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2iSTuvH
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