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UI Jazz Faculty Showcase with Guest Artist Derrick Gardner
Nov 2, 2019
07:30 PM
Voxman Music Building, Recital Hall
93 East Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
Derrick Gardner, trumpet
Damani Phillips, saxophone
Masayoshi Ishikawa, piano
Steve Grismore, guitar
Will Yager, bass
James Dreier, drums
UI Jazz Faculty Recital featuring Derrick Gardner, trumpet
Please join the UI Jazz faculty as they join forces with our esteemed fall semester jazz artist in residence Derrick Gardner (trumpet). Performing a variety of infrequently heard music from the lineage of jazz and original compositions penned by the performers, this promises to be a fun night of musical interactions that should not be missed. The show is appropriate for all ages, and as always, 100% free to the public. Original music from D. Gardner, M. Ishikawa and D. Phillips. Mark your calendars folks - this one will get ugly (in the best ways imaginable)!
Derrick Gardner
Jazz trumpeter, Derrick Gardner, inspired by the finest hard-blowing funky bop bands of the 1960?s, is working to extend that great tradition as a composer, arranger, performer, leader and educator.
With extraordinary, creative natural talent, Derrick quickly made his mark upon arriving on the New York jazz scene in 1991. There he began a top-flight career that has taken him around the world performing internationally with the Count Basie Orchestra, (1991-present), Frank Foster?s Loud Minority Band, Harry Connick Jr.?s Big Band, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and Swiss tenor player Roman Schwaller?s European Sextet. Among his performance locales are Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, South Africa and Thailand as well as many premiere venues in the United States. Over the last 18 years Derrick has worked with a tremendous litany of artists that include late Dizzy Gillespie, George Benson, Frank Foster, Jon Faddis, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Rufus Reid and Clark Terry just to name a few.
PROGRAM
Songs to be announced from the stage and selected from the following:
Mo’ Better Blues — William J. Edwards Lee III (b. 1928)
One for C.P. — Damani Phillips (b. 1974)
Hey, Open Up — George Garzone (b. 1950) / arr. James Dreier
Impermanence — Masayoshi Ishikawa (b. 1980)
Chick’s Tune — Chick Corea (b. 1941)
Escapade — Kenny Dorham (1924–1972)
Lazara — Derrick Gardner (b. 1965)
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