[Dixielandjazz] Wycliffe Gordon is coming to town, Sacramento Area.

[Robert Ringwald]

Festival of the Arts Jazz Ensembles Concert
Featuring
The Sacramento State Jazz Ensemble and The Sacramento Jazz Orchestra
With guest trombonist, Wycliffe Gordon
Thursday, March 18
Music Recital Hall
8:00 pm
($10 gen admission, $8 student/senior)
Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer,
arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon
tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging
from heads of state to elementary school students. Gordon received the Jazz Journalists
Association 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002 and 2001 Award for Trombonist of the Year, and
the Jazz Journalists Association 2000 Critics' Choice Award for Best Trombone.
In addition to a thriving solo career, he tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon
Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues throughout the world. Gordon is a former
veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has
been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor's "Jazz at the Kennedy Center" Series.
Gordon's extensive performance experience includes work with many of the most renowned
jazz performers of the past and present.
Gordon's musical prowess has been captured on numerous recordings, including thirteen
solo CDs and seven co-leader CDs. His latest recordings, "Boss Bones" and "You and
I" were released in June 2008. Gordon is featured on numerous recordings with the
Wynton Marsalis Septet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and many others as evidenced
in his extensive discography.
Wycliffe Gordon is also a gifted composer and arranger. He was commissioned to compose
a vibrant new score for the 1925 classic silent film "Body and Soul" (notable as
the screen debut of Paul Robeson), which was premiered at the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra's 2000-01 season opening night performance at Avery Fisher Hall, and was
released on DVD in 2008. Gordon's "I Saw the Light," a musical tribute to Muhammad
Ali, was commissioned and premiered by the Brass Band of Battle Creek in March 2004,
and is scheduled for release on DVD in 2009.
Gordon's compositions have been performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the
Wynton Marsalis Septet, the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, the Brass Band of Battle Creek
and numerous other ensembles, and performed in programs throughout the U.S. and abroad
including concert halls in New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Germany, London, Finland and Switzerland. Two of Gordon's arrangements are
also featured as a part of the PBS series "Marsalis on Music." Recent concert seasons
have included premieres of compositions by Gordon for a variety of ensembles both
in the Unites States and internationally. The first in a series of print editions
of his big band, small ensemble and choir compositions will be available by the fall
of 2009.
Gordon's television appearances have included the Grammy Awards, the PBS special
documentary "Swingin' with the Duke," and two Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts
with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - "Uptown Blues, Ellington at 100" (a collaboration
with the New York Philharmonic) and "Big Train." Gordon also appeared in Ken Burns'
documentary "Jazz." Other television appearances include "A Carnegie Hall Christmas
Concert" and "Live from Lincoln Center: The Juilliard School at 100 Years." Gordon
is featured in BET's 13-part series "Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center" and was
guest artist and commentator in NPR affiliate WVIA's special program on Tommy Dorsey
(along with the late Skitch Henderson, just days before Henderson's death). Gordon
also appeared with the Wynton Marsalis Septet in the feature film "Tune In Tomorrow"
starring Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves and Barbara Hershey.
Gordon is rapidly becoming one of America's most persuasive and committed music educators,
and currently serves on the faculty of the Jazz Arts Program at Manhattan School
of Music. His work with young musicians and audiences from elementary schools to
universities all over the world is extensive, and includes master classes, clinics,
workshops, children's concerts and lectures - powerful evidence of his unique ability
to relate musically to people of all ages. Gordon is currently working on a collection
of trombone quartets, trios and duos to be entitled "Trombone Majesty," with expected
publication in the fall of 2009. In addition, his first method book "Basic Training,
Exercises and Suggested Studies by Wycliffe Gordon," a compilation of the materials,
exercises and approaches he uses in his teaching and in his own practice regimen,
will be released in September of 2009.
Gordon teamed with trombonist Joseph Alessi of the New York Philharmonic and students
in both of their studios at Juilliard in creating and presenting the master class
"Two Sides of the Slide" for Jazz at Lincoln Center. The master class is available
in its entirety as part of a streaming video series offered by the Education Department
of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Gordon is the youngest member of the U.S. Statesmen of
Jazz, and in many tour performances has served and continues to serve as a musical
ambassador for the U.S. State Department.
Born in Waynesboro, Georgia, Gordon was first introduced to music by his late father,
Lucius Gordon, a classical pianist and teacher. His interest in the trombone was
sparked at age twelve by his elder brother who played the instrument in his junior
high school band. Egged on by sibling rivalry, Gordon's relentless pleading of his
parents led to his first trombone. A year later, an aunt bequeathed the Gordon Family
her jazz record collection, and so began his passion for jazz music.
Wycliffe Gordon endorses Greg Black mouthpieces and Yamaha trombones.
www.wycliffegordon.com
For Tickets, Parking, and Driving Directions:
http://www.csus.edu/music/tickets.htm


--Bob Ringwald K6YBV
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