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THIS WEEKEND - Lakeland Jazz Festival featuring Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars, Ernie Krivda and Big Band Matinee

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Hi Folks.

Don't miss this weekend's Lakeland Jazz Festival atLakeland Community College, featuring some of themost exciting concerts that we've ever presented. TheSaturday night headlining concert in dedication to themusic of Dizzy Gillespie, features four alumni from hisband, as well as major international jazz artists that youprobably already know: John Lee - bass; ClaudioRoditi - trumpet; Cyrus Chestnut - piano, EricAlexander - tenor sax; and Tommy Campbell -drums. One of the biggest combinations of jazz superstars we've ever presented.

Our opening night on Friday with Ernie Krivda and hisAll Star Quartet, always delivers an exciting and kickin'performance.

On Sunday, the Big Band Matinee features twooutstanding big bands - the Lakeland Civic JazzOrchestra and the Kent State Jazz Orchestra.

And join us throughout the day on Friday and Saturdayfor performances from over two dozen Ohio high schoolswho will perform and be adjudicated by the top jazzprofessors from northern Ohio colleges. Full list andtimes below.

All in all, a great festival. We hope you can join us.

Jim WadsworthJim Wadsworth Productions

The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars The Ernie Krivda All Star Quartet

Big Band MatineeMiddle and High School Performances for Adjudication

March 17-19, 2017Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing Arts Center (Building D)

Campus DirectionsCampus Map (pdf)

Jazz Festival Web SiteLakeland Community College Music Department

Arts at Lakeland

Click here for tickets or call 440-525-7134

Friday, March 17

8:30 a.m. - 4:30p.m. Middle and High School Performances & AdjudicationClick here for a list of performing schoolsAdjudicators: Steve Enos - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)

Steve Enos - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)Rock Wehrmann University of Akron and Cleveland State UniversityBobby Selvaggio - Kent State UniversityBob Ferrazza - Oberlin Conservatory of MusicJeff Halsey - Bowling Green State University

8 p.m. Concert: The Ernie Krivda All Star Quartet $15 general public; $7 studentsWine, Beer, soft drinks, and snacks available for purchase

A concert of Ernie Krivda originals and standards featuring music from Krivda's two recentcritically acclaimed recordings on Capri Records. Featuring Ernie Krivda - saxophone, LafayetteCarthon - piano, Jeff Halsey - bass and Renell Gonsalves drums

Ernie Krivda - tenor saxThe journey in music that began under his musicianfather Lou’s influence from almost birth to histutelage at age six has taken him from polka bands inhis early teens, classesat The Cleveland Institute of Music, the bands ofCleveland greats Eddie Baccus and Bill DeArango inthe jazz clubs of Cleveland, to a life in music thatincludes the mentorshipof Cannonball Adderley, tours with Quincy Jones,performances with musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald,Phil Woods, Sarah Vaughn, Buddy DeFranco, GrooveHolmes, Terry Gibbs, John Faddis, The Dizzy GillespieOrchestra, David Sanborn, Jackie Wilson, 30 albumsunder 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 anopportunity to hear “the sound that sets him apart” (Applegate Music Review), and the musician that thevenerable Jazz Journal (of the UK) calls “both classic and brand new” …The Legend Continues…!

Lafayette Carthon - pianoLafayette Carthon is a producer and award-winning keyboardist who has done music for numerous GrammyAward Winning Artists, including Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Marvin Winans, Mary J. Blige, R-Kelly, DonnieMcClurkin, and many others.

Renell Gonsalves - drumsRenell Gonsalves was born in Detroit, raised in Chicago and began playing drums in 1963. After spending timeat Tennessee State University and playing in the marching band, he moved to New York and mostly listened toall of his idols including Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Candy Finch, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey andmany others. Renell is the son of the great Duke Ellington tenor saxophone soloist, Paul Gonsalves.

Jeff Halsey - bassProfessor at Bowling Green State University, Jeff Halsey has toured Europe and the United States performingwith such artists as Tommy Flanagan, Jimmie Forrest, Clark Terry, Jay McShann, J.C. Heard, Dizzy Gillespie,Arturo Sandoval and Stanley Cowell; has recordings on the Azica, Cadence, Cimp, Hiroko, Steeplechase andTimeless labels with artists such as Jack Schantz, Chip Stephens, Ernie Krivda, J.C. Heard, Stanley Cowell andthe Cadence Jazz All Stars; member of the Faculty Jazz Quartet at BGSU.

Ernie Krivda website

Saturday, March 18

8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Middle and High School & Performances & AdjudicationClick here for a list of performing schoolsAdjudicators: Steve Enos - Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)Rock Wehrmann University of Akron and Cleveland State UniversityBobby Selvaggio - Kent State UniversityBob Ferrazza - Oberlin Conservatory of MusicJeff Halsey - Bowling Green State University

4-5 p.m. Clinic with The Dizzy Gillespie All StarsThe full Dizzy Gillespie All Star band will hold a free clinic to share their knowledge and expertise of jazz fordeveloping and professional musicians and the general public. Free and open to the public.

8 p.m. Headline Concert: The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars $30 general public; $15 students Wine, Beer, soft drinks, and snacks available for purchase

Wine, Beer, soft drinks, and snacks available for purchase

Celebrate Dizzy Gillespie's centennial birthday.

Featuring an All-Star Line-Up with John Lee - bass; Claudio Roditi -trumpet; Cyrus Chestnut - piano, Eric Alexander - tenor sax; TommyCampbell - drums.

The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars perform as a quintet, andthe program material is based on Dizzy's music of the40s and 50s. The concert includes tunes such as “ANight In Tunisia,” “Anthropology,” “BeBop,” “BirksWorks,” “Blue ‘N’ Boogie,” “Con Alma,” “DizzyAtmosphere,” “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 stellarbody of musicians who used to work with Dizzy, plussome of the best and brightest of the next generationof jazz. All of the artists are international recordingand touring artists in their own right and are wellknown throughout the world.

The All Stars have a firm fan in Aretha Franklin; theyperformed at her 2014 and 2015 birthday parties andalso opened for her recently at Radio City Music Hall

and the Montreal Jazz Festival.

John LeeBassist, composer, educator and producer, John enrolled at thePhiladelphia Musical Academy in 1970. During this period hebegan appearing in New York City, working with the bands ofCarlos 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 lastuntil 1974. During this period, he worked and recorded withGary Bartz, Philip Catherine, Joe Henderson, Chris Hinze, JasperVan'T Hof, Joachim Kuhn, Charlie Mariano and TootsThielemans.

In 1982, John joined the McCoy Tyner Quintet, where he worked until joining The Dizzy Gillespie Group in1984. John was a member of Dizzy's various bands including the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, the 70thAnniversary 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 Bandand Afro Cubans, Sonny Rollins, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi, Gregory Hines, and the FantasyBand, a group formed with Chuck Loeb, Marion Meadows and Dave Samuels.

Claudio Roditi

Born in 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Roditi began his musicalstudies when he was just 6 years old. By the time he wastwelve, he had already become a serious jazz listener. In 1966,he was named a finalist at the International Jazz Competition inVienna, Austria. In Vienna, Roditi met Art Farmer, who was oneof his idols, and the friendship inspired the younger trumpeter tofollow a career in jazz.

A determined Roditi relocated to Boston in 1970 to study atBerklee College of Music. Arriving in New York in 1976, Roditiperformed and/or recorded with Charlie Rouse, Herbie Mann,

Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Henderson, Horace Silver, Tito Puente, and McCoy Tyner, among others. Beginning in1989, 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 afeatured performer in a wide variety of musical settings—from tours with the Roditi-Ignatzek-RassinfosseTrio to appearances with The Jobim Project.

With over 20 critically acclaimed albums to his credit, Claudio Roditi continually develops his playing andcompositions through new recording projects. BRAZILLIANCE x 4 (HCD 2002) earned Roditi a Grammynomination in 2009, in the “best Latin jazz album” category.

Roditi’s extensive performing, composing and recording experience, combined with his innate love ofmusic and working with musicians, gives him a special gift to transmit his knowledge and experience inhis teaching career. Whether teaching a master class at the Lionel Hampton School of Music or performingwith a student ensemble at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam, Holland, Claudio brings hisenthusiasm 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 ongoingsearch for personal expression and musical perfection. As Neil Tesser of the Chicago Reader wrote, “. . . Ican think of only a handful of modern trumpeters who combine brain and soul, technique and wisdom in away that matches Roditi’s.”

Cyrus Chestnut

Born in 1963, Chestnut started his musical career at the age ofthree, playing piano at the Mount Calvary Star Baptist Church atthe age of five in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. In thefall of 1981, Cyrus began jazz education in Boston,Massachusetts at the Berklee College of Music, where he earneda degree in jazz composition and arranging.

After Berklee, Cyrus began further honing his craft as a sidemanwith some of the legendary and leading musicians in thebusiness. Some of these great people include; Jon Hendricks,Michael Carvin, Donald Harrison, Terence Blanchard, WyntonMarsalis, 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 toname a few. Even the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, asked him to join her on one of her ChristmasConcerts in 2013. His association with Betty Carter, which began in 1991, significantly affected his outlookand 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 andplaying live around the world. There’s a Brighter Day Coming was his first self-released album, followedby The Nutman Speaks (1992), The Nutman Speaks Again (1992), Another Direction (1993). The recordsreceived the prestigious Gold Disk award from Japan’s leading jazz publication, Swing Journal. In the fall of2014, 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 LennyWhite on drums and recorded a beautiful collection of classic trio material. ‘Natural Essence’ (HighnoteRecords) was released in May 2016 and was followed by an extended European tour.

Eric Alexander

Eric Alexander started piano lessons at the age of six. He tookup the clarinet at nine and switched to alto sax three yearslater. The tenor sax became his obsession at IndianaUniversity Bloomington (1986-87). After transferring toWilliam Paterson College in New Jersey, he studied withHarold Mabern, Joe Lovano, Rufus Reid, and others.

“The people I listened to in college are still the cats who areinfluencing me today,” Eric says. “The legacy left by Bird andall the bebop pioneers, that language and that feel—that's thebread and butter of everything I do." George Coleman is a biginfluence 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 late60s 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 JazzSaxophone Competition. Placing second, this launched him into the whirlwind life of a professional jazzmusician. He played with organ trios on Chicago’s South Side, made his recording debut with CharlesEarland (Muse Records, 1991), and cut his first album as a leader, “Straight Up” (Delmark, 1991). Morerecordings followed for numerous labels, including Milestone. In 1997 he put out “Man with a Horn.” Thefollowing 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 ofhow many albums feature his playing; he guesses 60 or 70. He has earned praise from critics and, evenmore important, established his own voice within the bebop tradition.

Tommy Campbell

Tommy Campbell grew up outside of Philadelphia steeped ina musical environment, permeated with the notes of his

a musical environment, permeated with the notes of hisfather, an organist and singer, and his uncle, Jimmy Smith, therenowned Hammond B-3 virtuoso.

“I was surrounded by music from the time I was two yearsold. My father and drummer Mickey Roker would rehearse atthe house a lot. Whenever Uncle Jimmy had a new record hewas releasing, he’d come over with a prerelease copy. Wewould listen to it together as a family. I used to play alongwith those records for hours.”

Tommy attended the Berklee College of Music, the international center for education in professional musicrenowned for its acclaimed Jazz faculty, where he majored in instrumental performance (1979) andreceived the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.

Campbell’s long tenure with Dizzy began in the late 70s, and continued through the 80s and 90s, andconcluded with a personal jam session with the renowned master several months before Gillespie’spassing in January 1993.

“Dizzy taught me to be as relaxed and loose about the music. He knew how to have fun while beingserious at the same time. It was a balance, like the music. He attracted entertainers, lesser-knownmusicians, 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 lategreats Art Blakey and Tony Williams. Mr. Campbell has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of Jazz’sleading talents. He has performed as a regular member with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, JohnMcLaughlin, The Manhattan Transfer, Kevin Eubanks, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Jordan, Tania Maria, GaryBurton, and a host of other Jazz greats. Tommy’s intelligent, exciting and stylistically authentic drumminghas established him as a leading member of a new generation of Jazz Masters.

Sunday, March 19

4 p.m. Big Band MatineeTickets $10, $7 students

Featuring the Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Dave Sterner and the KentState Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Bobby Selvaggio.

The Lakeland Civic Jazz Orchestra is under thedirection of Dave Sterner and will featuremusic by Bill Holman, Quincy Jones, andCharles Mingus.

They will also perform a commissioned pieceby Len Orcino in tribute to Chuck Frank, thefounder of the Lakeland Jazz Festival.

The Kent State Jazz Orchestra, under thedirection of Bobby Selvaggio, will featuremusic from Thad Jones, Gil Evans, BobbySelvaggio, and Bill Dobbins

Click here for tickets or call 440-525-7134

Dr. Wayne L. Rodehorst Performing ArtsCenter (Building D)

Lakeland Community CollegeCampus DirectionsCampus Map (pdf)

Jazz Festival Web SiteLakeland Community College Music Department

Arts at Lakeland

Acknowledgments

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AcknowledgmentsDr. Morris Beverage Jr., President, LakelandCommunity College

Dr. Steve Oluic, Dean, Arts and Sciences Division

Dr. Constance Edwards, Associate Dean, Arts andSciences Division

Dr. Matthew Saunders, Department Chair, Music Jeri Lynn Pilarczyk, Senior Secretary, Arts andSciences Division

About the Lakeland Jazz Festival

Festival Coordinators - Dave Sterner and Stephen Stanziano, Ph.D.

The 45th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival, is a presentation of the Arts and Sciences Division. The Lakeland JazzFestival was founded by retired professor and music department Chair Charles M. Frank. Lakeland's JazzFestival has remained true to its original mission of instilling the excitement and magic of jazz education tothe younger generation of musicians. Over 30,000 middle and high school musicians from throughout the statehave participated in the festival in celebration of this uniquely American art form, jazz.

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