Correction to last post
This is a notice for those that read the original post below to please read it again. You can still play "Things Ain't..." at the next jam. The key is F. Also, please note that the tune for November 4th has been changed from "I Love You" to "There Will Never Be Another You."
Dave Cooper and our next tune: Route 66
This post has been altered from the original. See the comments for more.
We are committed to keeping the jam consistently on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month even when there are conflicts with other events or finding available educators or band members is a challenge. As it turns out Dan can't make the jam until later in November.
Anders Svanoe did a great job last week and Dave Cooper will be our horn player/educator the next three jams. I'm especially looking forward to these session's just to hear Dave's lyrical trumpet and flugelhorn again. Dave is one of the midwest's most talented jazz and classical trumpeters and I always enjoyed hearing him during his long association with the New Breed Quintet. In addition to his extensive experience in jam settings Dave is a tenured Professor of trumpet and jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville. He wrote and teaches a jazz improvisation course at UWP in which students focus on a "tune of the week." He is ideally suited to be our horn player and educator.
The other news is our song selection for the next jam on October 7th. We will still do "Things Ain't ....," and have added "Route 66" as an another option. Both are blues in F.
We had a little mix-up when discussing the key for "Things Ain't..." and confused it with another song. In the process "Route 66" was picked to replace it. When we realized the mix-up we decided to play both on October 7th. It's always good to know another blues and "Route 66" has universal appeal; it has been recorded by both jazz and RnB artists and is popular with all ages.
I think Dave is going to post some comments about "Things Ain't..." so stay tuned for those. In the meantime here's Nat King Cole's famous version of "Route 66." He does it in E but we'll do it in the original key of F (Real Book 2). We may have a singer for this one and if she wants to do it in a different key we may end up doing it twice. I'm hoping we'll be able to give you advance notice about the key in case you want to join her.
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Tia Fuller - Amazing fresh voice for jazz education.
IMW does not have it's usual format program in October but we are working hard to bring this new fresh international voice for jazz.
Together with Madison Music Collective and the Union Theater we are offering excellent jazz education for October with the residency of Tia Fuller - incredible saxophonist and musician.
Saxophonist Tia Fuller’s Madison Residency
October 10-13, 2012
Fresh from her summer European tour with world-class jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves,
and in the midst of her global tour as assistant music director and soloist with
Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding’s new band (Radio Music Society),
Beyoncé saxophonist Tia Fuller will be conducting a four-day residency in Madison.
Free Concert by the Tia Fuller Jazz Quartet
Friday, October 12, 2012, 8:00 PM
The Sett at UW Union South
Tia Fuller, saxophone
Shamie Royston, piano
Mimi Jones, bass
Otis Brown III, drums
Tia Fuller’s Public Outreach Programs
“Introduction to Jazz” Workshop and Mini-Concert
Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 4:00 PM
Boys and Girls Club’s Allied Family Center
4619 Jenewein Road, Madison
Free admission
“Mind, Body and Spirit of the Saxophone and Jazz Improvisation”
Workshop and Performance
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7:00 PM
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
2019 Fisher Street, Madison
Free admission
“Women in Jazz” Brunch Program
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 10:00 AM
Sheraton Hotel, 706 John Nolen Drive, Madison
A talk with live music, video and a brunch meal
Individual tickets @ $25 (adults) and $15 (age 14 & under) or table of 6 @ $150,
available at www.madisonmusiccollective.org
ABOUT TIA FULLER
Perhaps best known for her years as saxophonist in pop diva Beyoncé’s all-female band, Tia Fuller is one of the most active players on today’s jazz scene. Though in steady contact with the biggest stars in R&B, pop, and hip-hop, Ms. Fuller told Jazz Times magazine that “… when I first moved out (to the New York City area), I promised myself I would really focus on jazz and establish myself as a jazz artist.” And that she has.
Last year, the music world shook when the dynamic young jazz bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy as Best New Artist over someone named Justin Bieber. On the heels of that award, Spalding hired Ms. Fuller as assistant music director and saxophone soloist for her new band, Radio Music Society (RMS), and Fuller has been on a super-fast-paced global tour with RMS ever since. In between her RMS gigs, Ms. Fuller toured Europe this past summer with world-class jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves and the great drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. Around all these gigs, Fuller manages to maintain an active touring and recording schedule for her own quartet.
Ms. Fuller’s terrific jazz chops have been on display in many high-profile settings, including the storied Monterey Jazz Festival, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in New York City, the Detroit and Kansas City jazz Festivals, and the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center, to name just a few. She has recorded with many of the brightest stars in jazz, like the Duke Ellington Orchestra, vocalist Nancy Wilson, reedmen Jimmy Heath and Don Byron, trombonists Wycliffe Gordon and Steve Turré, pianist Joanne Brackeen, and trumpeter Jon Faddis. Ms. Fuller’s recordings as a leader include Pillar of Strength (2005), Healing Space (2007), Decisive Steps (2010), and the just-released Angelic Warrior (2012).
Ms. Fuller was born to musician parents 36 years ago in Aurora, Colorado, and grew up listening to John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Charlie Parker. She started playing classical piano at age three, flute at age nine, and saxophone in middle school. She did her undergraduate work at Spelman College, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Colorado with a Masters in Music, Jazz Pedagogy and Performance. A gifted educator, Fuller has conducted countless residencies, clinics and master classes at the middle, high school, and college levels. Her teaching skills will be on full display in the outreach programs she will conduct during her Madison visit.
ABOUT SHAMIE ROYSTON
Denver-born Shamie Royston is an up-and-coming pianist in New York City’s jazz scene, where she has been a steady member of her younger sister Tia Fuller’s quartet. Her performance credits include work with the bands of trumpeter Sean Jones, bassists Christian McBride, Lonnie Plaxico, and John Patitucci, and drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Ralph Peterson. Ms. Royston is also an acclaimed composer whose works can be found on Ms. Fuller’s CDs as well as on her debut CD, Portraits (2012). This coming April, she will be guest conductor Metropolitan State College Jazz Ensemble in Denver CO in a performance of her compositions. Also an active jazz educator, Ms. Royston has adjudicated high school and college jazz festivals and has been a clinician for many top ensembles.
ABOUT MIMI JONES
Born and raised in New York City and Manhattan School of Music Conservatory graduate, Mimi Jones (a.k.a. Miriam Sullivan) plays acoustic bass, baby bass, electric bass in musical genres including jazz, funk, hip hop, Cuban, free, folk, and pop. She has performed with the legendary Lionel Hampton, trumpeters Roy Hargrove, Ingrid Jensen and Ambrose Akinmisure, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and pianist Joanne Brackeen, and is featured frequently at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. She co-founded the group “Jazz Sabroson” with drummer Antonio De Vivo and took it on State Department-sponsored cultural exchange programs throughout South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. She is also founder and leader of the Mimi Jones Band, featuring herself on bass and voice. That band released its first CD, New Day, in 2009 and has performed at top venues in New York including Jazz at Lincoln Center.
ABOUT OTIS BROWN III
Born to musical parents just outside New York City, Otis Brown III is one of the most in-demand drummers in jazz. A graduate of the prestigious New School University, Mr. Brown studied under luminaries like Carl Allen, Lewis Nash, and Donald Byrd. It was Mr. Byrd who convinced Brown, a music education major at the time, to pursue a career as a working musician. Featured in the 8/7/12 issue of DownBeat, Mr. Brown is currently on tour with the Thelonious Monk Institute’s “Jazz in America” initiative, Joe Lovano (trio, quartet and nonet), Steve Wilson’s quartet, the Bob Stewart tuba project, and the Oliver Lake Big Band. His 2011 debut CD as a leader, “Thought of You,” includes generational peers like pianist Robert Glasper, saxophonist John Ellis, and bassist-vocalist Esperanza Spalding. His considerable performance credits include Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling, Christian McBride, and Roy Hargrove.
Ms. Fuller’s Madison residency is co-produced by Madison Music Collective and the Wisconsin Union Theater and a partnership team with members representing the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, Urban League of Greater Madison, The Links, Inc., the alumnae chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and the Madison school district’s Fine Arts Office. The jazz brunch program is a co-production of Madison Music Collective and the Madison Jazz Society.
Ms. Fuller’s Madison residency is made possible by grants from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission (with additional funds from the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation), the Madison Arts Commission (with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board), the Mary Lou Williams Centennial Committee, the Arts Midwest Touring Fund (with support from the National Endowment for the Arts), The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the MGE Foundation, and the Madison Jazz Society, with additional support from the Wisconsin Union Theater Endowment Fund, Presenting Sponsors Ward-Brodt Music and Liliana’s Restaurant, Tri-Unity Wellife, Janus Galleries, the Cardinal Bar, the Sheraton Madison Hotel, Drums ‘n’ Moore, Heid Music, the UPS Store-Fitchburg, and promotional support from Isthmus, WORT-89.9 FM, UMOJA magazine, and the Capital City Hues.
Off to a flying start!
Today was a terrific start to what we expect will be a long association with The Fountain. Everything about the jam was so good I had a hard time controlling the urge to go nuts with exclamation points. I've done my best; it's just that it was a great jam!
First of all, the house band was smoking! Anders on sax, Nick on bass, Michael on drums.... and then Johannes Wallman on piano. Are you kidding me? I hope Madison gets to hear a whole lot more of Johannes because he is the real deal. A national caliber player now living right here in our backyard.
And the big surprise was hearing Johannes on a real piano. Not only did the Fountain invest in a Hammond B3 but a real (nicely tuned) upright piano, too. They are serious about becoming Madison's next great jazz club.
The room sound was also a surprise: lively while retaining warmth, just right for acoustic instruments. Several people, including members of the house band, told me how much they liked the room.
What else? Well, what about the food? I saw an awful lot of tasty looking meals being served up. I didn't ask anyone how their food was, but the chicken salad Mary ordered was huge and delicious.
I could go on and on: the nice turnout (around fifty altogether); two songs from surprise visitors Patrick Breiner and his trio, Sons of Daughters; seeing all the familiar faces and meeting new ones (including UW Professor of Music, Les Thimmig, and Cambridge High School Band and Jazz Band Director Nathan Gerlach) and..... well you get the picture, it was a great jam!
When's the next jam? That's easy, now it is always on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month so it's October 7th. Check the schedule page for more information. We'll post more information about upcoming tunes soon.