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The Jazz Heritage Series, 2010 Radio Broadcasts
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Since 1990, the Airmen of Note has presented The Jazz Heritage Series to music lovers in the nation's capital.
Starting in 2007 we added the dimension of radio broadcast, allowing listeners across the United States and Canada to enjoy the programs that previously could only be appreciated by live audiences in Washington, D.C.
This year's series is guest hosted by Dick Golden and features performances by New York Voices, Joey DeFrancesco and Gary Smulyan.
Be sure to check your local radio listings to find our program. If your station does not carry the show, please let them know about it. Jazz Heritage Series radio broadcasts are provided free of charge to broadcasters as a public service of the United States Air Force.
Previous Programs
2007 Broadcasts with Slide Hampton, Junior Mance and Phil Woods.
2008 Broadcasts with Karrin Allison, Paquito D'Rivera and Butch Miles.
2009 Broadcasts with Kurt Elling, Allen Vizzutti and Rufus Reid.
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| New York Voices |
Program 1 with New York Voices
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Celebrating their 22nd Anniversary this year, New York Voices is the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. Like the great groups that have come before, such as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Singers Unlimited, and Manhattan Transfer, they have learned from the best and taken the art form to new levels. Their interests are rooted in jazz, but often Brazilian, R&B, classical, and pop influences are infused with equal creativity and authenticity.
NYV has traveled the globe with their elegant music, amazing audiences the world over with their impeccable voices and stunning arrangements. They have appeared on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Blue Note (Japan, NYC), The Austria Opera House, The Zurich Opera House, and the list goes on. They have been seen at the many jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival, The Montreal Jazz Festival, and the New Orleans Jazz and Blues Heritage Festival.
Along with their extensive concert performances and recording dates, NYV also works in the field of education, giving workshops and clinics to high school and college music students. Individually, the four members are involved in a variety of projects including solo performances and recordings, teaching, writing and arranging.
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| Joey DeFrancesco |
Program 2 with Joey DeFrancesco
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The music of Joey DeFrancesco -- an important force in the revival of the Hammond B-3 organ as a jazz instrument -- runs the gamut from soul-jazz and bluesy grooves à la Jimmy Smith to hard bop to the more advanced modal style of Coltrane disciple Larry Young. Born in Springfield, PA (near Philadelphia), on April 10, 1971, DeFrancesco was the son of another Philly-area jazz organist, Papa John DeFrancesco, and the grandson of multi-instrumentalist Joe DeFrancesco, who worked with the Dorsey Brothers. He began playing piano at age four and quickly switched to his father's instrument, preferring the sound of the Hammond B-3 over the modern synthesizers that had become the dominant alternative to piano. He began sitting in at his father's club gigs around age six; by age ten, he was performing paying gigs on the weekends and sitting in with artists like Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes.
DeFrancesco continued to study through high school, drawing from Philadelphia's rich jazz organ heritage and the numerous veteran players who still found work on the city's club scene. At 16, he was the first recipient of the Philadelphia Jazz Society's McCoy Tyner Scholarship, and was also a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. He met Miles Davis on a local television show and impressed the trumpeter enough that DeFrancesco was invited on tour following his high-school graduation in 1988.
Today, DeFrancesco is regarded by organ aficionados as the baddest B-3 burner in the business (a claim supported by his six consecutive DownBeat Critics Poll awards for 2002-2007).
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| Gary Smulyan |
Program 3 with Gary Smulyan
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Baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan was born April 4, 1956, in Bethpage, New York. The gifted multi-instrumentalist started his music career by first learning alto saxophone during his teenage years on Long Island. Today he is critically acclaimed across-the-board and recognized as a major voice on the baritone saxophone. His playing is marked by an aggressive rhythmic sense, an intelligent and creative harmonic approach and perhaps most importantly - a strong and incisive wit.
After graduating high school he attended SUNY-Potsdam and Hofstra University before he joined Woody Herman's Young Thundering Herd in 1978. In 1980, Smulyan moved to New York City where he became part of the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. The baritone saxophonist, who is capable of doubling and tripling on other reed and wind instruments, is a four-time winner of the Down Beat Readers Poll and a multiple winner of numerous other official polls including the Jazz Journalists Award for Baritone Saxophonist of the Year. He is a five-time GRAMMY® award winner for his work with B.B. King, Joe Lovano, Dave Holland and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
These days Smulyan, the Long-Island native, lives in Amherst, Mass. He is a faculty member at William Paterson University and serves as artistic director at Berkshire Hills Music Academy in South Hadley, Mass.
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Information for Broadcasters -- see one-sheet
Jazz Heritage Series programs are provided free of charge to broadcasters in the United States and Canada. If you are a radio station program director and wish to air these programs, please contact our Marketing and Outreach office or call Senior Master Sgt. Joe Jackson at (202) 767-1756.
Additional Radio Promotion Provided By:
Dr. Jazz Operations
(800) 955-4375
drjazz@drjazz.com
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