Featuring GARY BURTON
SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRApresents the music offeaturingGARY BURTONSconJazstrat ti s h N a ti oalz OrcheWayne Shorter
Gary Burton’s forty- ve years as atop-ranking jazz musician havebeen marked by several keyfeatures. Not the least of theseare the four-mallet virtuositywith which he makes the vibes sing and theeclecticism that has brought Brahms, AstorPiazzolla and Duke Ellington into his repertoire. There’s also his unfailing ability as a talent-spotter, Pat Metheny, John Sco eld anda certain Tommy Smith being among thosewho have enjoyed formative experience inBurton’s band.The features that these concerts with SNJOhighlight particularly, however, are Burton’sbrilliance as an interpretative player and improviser. From his earliest recordings Burtonshowed an ear for highly individual jazz composing talents - he was an early champion ofMichael Gibbs, with whose arranging workhe is reunited in this programme, and hasenjoyed a long and fruitful relationship withCarla Bley’s music – and jazz composers don’tget much more individual or talented thanWayne Shorter.Born and raised in Indiana, Burton taughthimself to play the vibraphone and madehis rst recording in Nashville with countryguitarists Hark Garland and Chet Atkins. Twoyears later, having made his rst album as aleader for RCA, he left his studies at BerkleeCollege of Music to tour with George Shearing. Then as a member of Stan Getz’s quartethe won Down Beat magazine’s Talent Deserving Wider Recognition award in 1965.By the time he left Getz two years later, Burton had already recorded three albums underhis own name for RCA and was beginning tochange the face of jazz by borrowing rhythmsand sonorities from rock music while maintaining jazz’s emphasis on improvisation andharmonic complexity.Albums such as Duster and Lofty Fake Anagram, featuring guitarist Larry Coryell andbassist Steve Swallow, established Burtonand his quartet as progenitors of the jazzfusion movement and won Burton personalrecognition including Down Beat magazine’sJazzman of the Year award.The youngest ever musician to receive thathonour, Burton moved on to record with KeithJarrett and Stephane Grappelli in the 1970sand in a long association with ECM Recordshe turned to the rarely heard duo format,recording with Chick Corea, Steve Swallowand Ralph Towner, as well as introducing PatMetheny to his band, his label and the worldat large.Also in the 1970s, Burton returned to his almamater, Berklee College of Music, where hebegan his music education career as a teacher of percussion and improvisation, going onto be named Dean of Curriculum in 1985. In1989, he received an honorary doctorate ofmusic from the college, and in 1996, he wasappointed Executive Vice President, responsible for overseeing the daily operation of thecollege.During this time he remained one of theworld’s top performing jazz musicians, working with frequent collaborators Chick Corea,Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, and Dave Hollandas well as leading his own band, which introduced another world class protégé in guitaristJulian Lage, and adding to a list of Grammynominations that now numbers fteen.Since his “retirement” from Berklee, Burton’screativity has continued unabated, with toursand recordings with Corea, long-time pianistMakoto Ozone, French accordionist RichardGalliano, Spanish pianist-composer Polo Ortiand the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. Hismost recent project, in collaboration withMetheny, Swallow and drummer AntonioSanchez, continues the Gary Burton Quartettradition with tours across the world and aspectacularly successful CD, Quartet Live,released earlier this year.
1st SetSPEAK NO EVIL - Pino JodiceNEFERTITI - Florian RossVIRGO RISING - Geoffrey KeezerTHIS IS FOR ALBERT - Christian JacobYES OR NO - Fred Sturm2nd SetWITCH HUNT - Issie BarrattEL GAUCHO - Joe LockeFOOTPRINTS - Manu PekarINFANT EYES - Michael AbeneESP - Mike GibbsArrangements commissioned by the SNJOwith subsidy from the Scottish Arts CouncilAll compositions byWAYNE SHORTER
P[ w w w . p i n o i o d i c e . c o m ]INO JODICE born in Naples in 1965, studied classical piano and received his classical piano diploma in 1987. All the time hewas studying classical music, however, he wasalso showing an interest in jazz. He joined summer workshops with leading Italian pianist FrancoD’Andrea, in Siena, and studied jazz arrangementat Berklee College of Music in Boston. He nowteaches at the St Cecilia Conservatory of Musicin Rome and at the Conservatory Martucci inSalerno. His many awards for composition andarrangement include rst prizes at Castel DelMondi and Barga and Positano jazz festivals andhe will already be familiar to Scottish NationalJazz Orchestra audiences through his grippingand panoramic fantasia based on John Coltrane’sSatellite, at SNJO’s Coltrane tribute concert atGlasgow Jazz Festival 2007, and for his compelling arrangements of animated lm favouritesfor SNJO’s Jazz Toons concert series in 2008.Aside from his teaching, composing and arranging commitments, Pino leads his own trio andquintet, which has recorded with special guests,saxophonists Dick Oatts and Tommy Smith, andco-leads the Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice ItalianTango Quartet. He’s also pianist, arranger andcomposer of the Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra of Rome.FLORIAN ROSS born in 1972, studiedpiano and composition with John Taylor,Bill Dobbins, Joachim Ullrich, Jim McNeelyand Don Friedman at the Hochschule für Musikund Tanz, Cologne, at the Guildhall School ofMusic & Drama, London and at New York University. Since 1998 he has released seven albumsfeaturing both small and large ensembles, andhas written approximately one hundred compositions and arrangements for large jazz ensembles.As well as various other prizes, he received theprestigious Thad Jones Composition Competition Award in 2000 and won the WDR JazzComposition prize in 2006. His commissionedworks include pieces for the German NDR andWDR big bands, the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra, the BBC Big Band, the Danish Radio JazzOrchestra, RTE Irish Radio Orchestra, and SydneyMothership Jazz Orchestra and artists includingDavid Liebman, John Sco eld, George Duke, andGary Burton. SNJO regulars will remember Ross’sA Day in the Life commission in 2002 and his brilliantly imaginative arrangements of Giant Steps,Crepuscule with Nelly and Humpty Dumpty forSNJO’s Coltrane, Monk and Corea tributes. Inaddition to writing and touring with his own trioand Nils Wogram’s Nostalgia, Ross teaches pianoand composition at the Hochschule für Musikund Tanz in Cologne.[ w w w . f l o r i a n r o s s . d e . c o m ]
G[ w w w. g e o f f r e y k e e z e r. c o m ]EOFFREY KEEZER born in Eau Claire,Wisconsin in 1970, grew up in a musicalfamily, with both parents music teachers,and began studying piano aged three. In 1989,after completing his rst year at Berklee Collegeof Music in Boston, he joined Art Blakey’s JazzMessengers. Since then, he has worked with virtually all of jazz’s living legends and has appearedon countless recordings both as a leader and asan accompanist. His career has spanned manyprojects and genres. He has had compositionscommissioned by the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band,Saint Joseph Ballet, Mainly Mozart Festival inSan Diego, and the Zeltsman Marimba Festivaland was a recipient of Chamber Music America’s2007 New Works grant. He has also played bassin a rock band and contributed artwork to DavidMack’s comic Kabuki. Keezer’s composition andarranging talents will be familiar to the ScottishNational Jazz Orchestra audience through hisSouth Alaska Suite, which was commissionedspecially by SNJO and premiered in February2005. He also contributed arrangements toSNJO’s John Coltrane and Chick Corea tributes.His latest project, Áurea, is a highly acclaimedadventure into South American folkloric music,featuring collaborators from Peru, Argentina andNew York.CHRISTIAN JACOB born in Lorraine,France, began classical piano studies atthe age of four and went on to study withPierre Sancan at the Paris Conservatory. Havingheard Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck whenhe was nine or ten, he played jazz as a hobbythroughout his Conservatory years but then,having become one of the youngest students tograduate from the Conservatory, he decided tochange allegiances. Without knowing a word ofEnglish he moved to the United States to studyjazz at Berklee College of Music, where he won anumber of awards, including the Oscar PetersonJazz Masters Award, the Great American JazzPiano Competition and Down Beat magazine’sdistinction as Top Collegiate Jazz Soloist. Hejoined the Berklee faculty as a piano tutor ongraduating in 1985, subsequently toured withGary Burton and as musical director with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop NouveauBand, and recorded the rst of his ve trio CDsfor Concord Records, with Peter Erskine andJohn Patitucci, in 1997. He has since worked withFlora Purim & Airto Moreira, Phil Woods and BillHolman and has composed and arranged for bigbands and orchestras, including the BangkokSymphony.[ w w w. c h r i s t i a n j a c o b . c o m ]
F[ w w w . f r e d s t u r m . c o m ]ISSIE BARRATT is an internationally activecomposer, conductor, arranger, baritone saxplayer and educator, who has performedat many of Britain’s leading concert halls, jazzclubs and festivals. Known for her commitmentto composing works that forge creative relationships between musicians from the orchestral andjazz worlds – her in uences include Stravinsky,Mahler, Mingus and Soft Machine - Barratt hasbeen awarded commissions by the Philharmonia Orchestra, 4thDimension String Quartet,Delta Saxophone Quartet, and more recently,Sweden’s Bohuslan Big Band and the Voice of theNorth big band. Featured as one of the JerwoodFoundation’s Rising Stars in the Cheltenham JazzFestival of 2001, Barratt has gone on to performinternationally with musicians including AndersBergcrantz, Tim Garland, Joe Locke, and AnnieWhitehead. In 2007, she formed a quartet withSwiss composer, organist and pianist Carl Rütti and long time collaborators, autist RowlandSutherland and clarinettist and saxophonist MickFoster and she also directs her own ensembleArrange of Space, which comprises twenty of Europe’s leading jazz musicians and which releasedits debut album, Astral Pleasures, to considerableacclaim in 2008. She is Chief Executive of the National Youth Jazz Collective, Jazz Fellow at TCMand Director of Fuzzy Moon Records and Music.RED STURM is a proli c composer andarranger who combines his position as Director of Jazz and Improvisational Music atthe Lawrence University Conservatory of Music inAppleton, Wisconsin with guest conducting rolesin Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, and Norwayand various directorships, composer-in-residencies and educational commitments throughoutthe United States. Regular SNJO concertgoerswill know Fred’s work through the orchestra’sSteely Dan and Astor Piazzolla projects. But thisis just scratching the surface of his industry. Bornjust outside Chicago to musical parents – hisfather played cello with the Chicago SymphonyOrchestra and his mother was a professionalsinger – Fred abandoned piano, cello and violinlessons in short order before settling on trumpetaged fteen. He then became hooked on bigbands, especially the Herman, Rich and Kentonmodels, and before entering jazz education, hespent four years on the road as a professionalmusician. His compositions and arrangementshave been performed by jazz, orchestral, wind,choral, and chamber ensembles worldwide andhave featured Wynton Marsalis, Bob Brookmeyer,Clark Terry and Phil Woods. Fred’s recent work includes a two-hour suite for singer Bobby McFerrin featuring indigenous music from twenty-onecountries and a ‘nine-inning’ baseball symphony,Forever Spring.[ w w w . i s s i e b a r r a t t . c o m ]
J[ w w w . j o e l o c k e . c o m ]OE LOCKE initially known in Scotland andinternationally as a amboyant and excitingvibes player, has become recognised alsoas a supremely talented composer and arranger.Born in Palto Alto, California, Locke was playingwith such jazz luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams and Mongo Santamaria while still athigh school and since moving to New York in1981, he has released more than thirty albumsunder his own name and appeared on morethan 120 recordings as a guest artist. He hasappeared with musicians ranging from KennyBarron and the Mingus Big Band to Rod Stewartand The Beastie Boys and has toured extensivelyacross the world both with his own projects andas featured soloist. He rst visited Scotland inthe mid 1980s, playing alongside SNJO director Tommy Smith, and has returned often, playing at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee jazzfestivals. Twice awarded the US Jazz JournalistsAssociation’s Mallet Player of the Year prizeand revered by fellow vibes players includingBobby Hutcherson and Mike Mainieri, Locke hasshown his outstanding ability as an arranger bycontributing a haunting Naima for SNJO’s JohnColtrane tribute and high energy re-imaginingsof Evidence and Inner Space for SNJO’s Monkand Corea projects.MANU PEKAR born in Paris in 1955, grewup listening to his parents’ record collection. His mother, a classically trainedviolinist, liked New Orleans and swing, especiallyDjango Reinhardt, and his father favoured MilesDavis, Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In his teens, inspired by groups includingPink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Santana, Pekar tookup guitar. He played with rock bands and studiedwith the great French guitarist Frederic Sylvestreand after gaining a masters degree in Physics andMathematics, he decided to pursue music as acareer. He studied at Berklee College of Musicfrom 1984-1987 and soon afterwards recorded his rst album for CBS/Sony, featuring special guest,saxophonist Dave Liebman. He has since workedwith saxophonists Larry Schneider and RickyFord, among many other musicians, and has written music for a variety of ensembles, includingwoodwind trio, jazz big band and string sextet.Pekar has also written music for stage plays and lm soundtracks, including Paulo Antunes’ GuNian, and contributed distinctive arrangementsof Tones for Joan’s Bones and Acknowledgement to SNJO’s Chick Corea and John Coltranetributes. He is currently director of the Jazz andImprovisational Music department at the National Conservatory of Music in Reims, France.[ w w w . m a n u p e k a r . f r e e . f r ]
MICHAEL ABENE currently musicaldirector and principal arranger for theWDR Big Band in Cologne, has had aneventful career since joining Maynard Ferguson’sband as a teenager in 1961. While with Fergusonhe wrote many arrangements, including OnGreen Dolphin St, Whisper Not and Airegin,before going on to work with, among many othermusicians, Bill Evans, Gary Burton, Jon Faddis,James Moody, Take 6, Mike Stern, Maceo Parkerand Paquito D’Rivera. In 1986, Abene began anaf liation with GRP Records, producing manyof the company’s most successful recordings,including the Grammy-winning Digital Duke andthe three GRP All-Star Big Band albums whichwere all Grammy nominated and for each ofwhich he received personal nominations as arranger. He enjoyed further Grammy success withthe WDR Big Band for producing and arrangingPatti Austin’s 2007 album, Avant Gershwin, andwas again nominated in the arranger categoryin 2009 for Joe Lovano’s Symphonnica album,which featured the WDR Big Band and the WDRRundfunk Orchestra. He has also written for andconducted the Metropole Jazz Orchestra and theCarnegie Hall Jazz Band and continues to teachjazz composition at Manhattan School of Musicand to selected students in the Cologne area.MIKE GIBBS composer, arranger andtrombonist has worked with many music luminaries, including Pat Metheny,John McLaughlin, John Sco eld, Narada MichaelWalden, Michael Mantler, Gary Burton, WhitneyHouston, Peter Gabriel and Bill Frisell. Bornin Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare,Zimbabwe), he grew up playing trombone andpiano and was awarded scholarships to attendLenox School of Jazz and Tanglewood SummerSchool, where he studied with Gunther Schuller,George Russell, J.J. Johnson, Lukas Foss, andIannis Xenakis. Having graduated from BerkleeCollege of Music with a diploma in arrangementand composition in 1962, he moved to the UK,played trombone for Tubby Hayes, Graham Collier, John Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and by thelate 1960s was generally recognised as one of theleading young composer-arrangers in jazz. Hisalbums, including Michael Gibbs and In the Public Interest, won him numerous awards and afternine years as composer-in-residence at Berklee,during which time he orchestrated Joni Mitchell’sDon Juan’s Reckless Daughter album amongmany others, he returned to the UK in 1985. Hehas since written extensively for lms and television and worked with the NDR and WDR bands inGermany, and in 2004 received an Honorary Fellowship from Birmingham Conservatoire.p h o t o : [ w w w. s t e v e n h a b e r l a n d . c o m ]
S C O T T I S HN A T I O N A LThe great saxophonist Joe Henderson used tosay that a jazz orchestra should have all the colour and power of a big band and yet be as mobile as a quartet. While regularly paying heed toHenderson’s wishes since playing its rst concertsin 1995, the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra hasadded another quality by being as malleable asPlasticine.Smith’s vision, energy and musical knowledge andan appetite for unseen hard work that borders onthe heroic have given, in SNJO and its feederband, the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra, themusicians who followed his generation a platformon which to demonstrate their abilities and have,in many cases, provided a launching pad for theircareers. Some have already moved on - bassistAidan O’Donnell and drummer John Blease, nowNew York and London-based respectively, springreadily to mind. Yet the high standard of performances has been consistently maintained.Under the sure direction of Tommy Smith, SNJOhas moulded and remoulded itself into theshape and character of the classic big bands ofEllington, Basie, Kenton and Herman and movedforward to interpret Monk, Mingus and Coltranein the spirit of these idiosyncratic giants. It hastaken further leaps into the Latin American androck infused compositions of Chick Corea andPat Metheny and proved its astonishing versatility by commissioning and performing brave newworks by the English maverick Keith Tippett, theGil Evans of our times, Maria Schneider, andmembers of the orchestra themselves.The many top line musicians and composerswith whom SNJO has worked will attest to this.Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, topAmerican saxophonists Joe Lovano, David Liebman and Bobby Watson, and guest directorsincluding German composer Florian Ross andAmerican pianist Geoffrey Keezer as well as theaforementioned Tippett and Schneider have allbeen unstinting in their praise of the orchestra.In charting some eighty years of jazz progress- and admittedly indulging in the not quite soenvironmentally friendly use of an awful lot ofmanuscript paper - SNJO has also own the agfor Scotland at home and further a eld at a timeof tremendous growth in the quality and quantityof the country’s young jazz musicians.Anyone who has followed SNJO’s progress, as ithas metamorphosed from being the vehicle forOliver Nelson’s sophisticated creations to playinga robust Ray Charles Orchestra to Tam White’sBrother Ray to sparking mischief and mayhem incelebrating Scottish locations and football managers, will not be short of highlights.Scotland has produced world class jazz musiciansthroughout jazz’s history. Trombonist GeorgeChisholm recorded with Fats Waller in the 1930s.Trumpeter Jimmy Deuchar’s playing, composingand arranging abilities were appreciated on bothsides of the Atlantic from the 1950s onwards.Bobby Wellins, a genuinely original jazz voice ontenor saxophone, recorded one of the landmarkjazz albums of the 1960s and continues to be aninspiration. And his fellow Glaswegian Jim Mullen used to bemuse New Yorkers who praised hisguitar playing with the groovy, downtown Manhattan version of Morrissey-Mullen by thankingthem in an accent far removed from the Bronx,Chicago or Memphis in ections they were expecting.Among some of the most memorable is surelythe trumpet section doing a terri c job as ferociously mewling alley cats during a tribute toCharles Mingus that captured all the brawling,bawling magni cence and gospel- red blues ofthis twentieth century genius. There was also thesheer spectacle of seeing Alyn Cosker, who wastwo months old when Stan Kenton died, steering the band with total awareness of the music’severy ne detail as if he’d been the master’s lastdrummer. More recently, in 2007 there was aneloquent illustration of Tommy Smith’s point thatcommissioning arrangements of familiar musiccan be tantamount to creating new compositionsas SNJO marked the fortieth anniversary of JohnColtrane’s death.Since the mid 1980s and his teenage years withGary Burton’s band Tommy Smith has been aprominent Scot on the world jazz stage, althoughhe’d be the rst to mention that he hasn’t beenalone in a generation that also produced BrianKellock, Colin Steele, John Rae, Kevin Mackenzieand the Bancroft twins - all of whom have madean international impact.2008 saw further evidence of the Plasticine-likepliability alluded to above as, rst, SNJO broughtthe music from animated lms such as JungleBook, The Flintstones and Beauty and the Beastto almost pictorial life with the help of Italian arranger Pino Jodice and guest singer MaureenMacMullan.
J A Z ZThe orchestra then triumphed as the Steely DanBig Band, with guitarist Graeme Scott and bassguitarist Kevin Glasgow joining SNJO’s team ofoutstanding soloists in celebrating one of thegreat rock music repertoires with great jazz application, before giving a convincing performance ofLatin American music by Argentinean new tangomaster Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian bassist-composerMario Caribe and Venezuelan pianist Leo Blanco.This year has already seen further triumphs,including more evidence of drummer AlynCosker’s ability to ll big shoes in Traps the DrumWonder, a celebration of Buddy Rich, and theorchestra’s enthusiastically acclaimed secondalbum release, Rhapsody in Blue Live, which wasfollowed by SNJO winning the Best Big Bandcategory of the inaugural Scottish Jazz Awards.O R C H E S T R AIt has been a busy time on the recordingfront for SNJO members, too, as Coskerand saxophonist Paul Towndrow have followed trumpeter Ryan Quigley in releasing albums that con rm Scotland’s status asa producer of jazz of international quality.In continuing to play their parts with dedicationand improvise with passion, heart andimagination, however, all the members ofSNJO, individually and collectively, can standproudly as Scotland’s leading jazz ambassadors.ROB ADAMS
TOMMY SMITH[ w w w . t o m m y s m i t h . c o . u k ](27.4.67) Edinburgh. Won best soloist and bestgroup award, Edinburgh International Jazz Festival, aged 14; recorded his rst albums as a leader,aged 15; signed to Blue Note Records, 1989;won British Jazz Award, 1989; hosted Jazz Types,BBC TV; began recording for Linn Records, 1993;founded the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra,1995; won BT British Jazz Award for Best Ensemble, Scotrail Award for most outstanding groupperformance, Arts Foundation/Barclays Bankjazz composition fellowship prize, 1996; madeyoungest-ever Doctor of the University, HeriotWatt University, 1999; has premiered 4 originalsaxophone concertos; Sound of Love albumreached No. 20 in American Gavin Jazz Chart;started own record company, 2000; Honorary Fellow, Royal Incorporation of Architects of Scotlandand Creative Scotland Award, 2000: Founder,The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra, since2002; Hamlet British Jazz Award for best tenorsaxophonist, 2002; received second doctoratefrom Glasgow Caledonian University, won BBC‘Heart of Jazz’ Award, 2008; won Scottish JazzAward and received Scottish Jazz Expo Award2009; 23 solo albums; currently, touring Europewith Arild Andersen; appointed head of jazz atScotland’s rst full-time jazz course at the RoyalScottish Academy of Music & Drama.STEVE HAMILTONBorn in Aberdeen in 1973 and grew up in a musical family with professional guitarist father Lauriea constant source of inspiration and invaluablemusical information. After encouragement andtuition from Tommy Smith, Steve applied for andwon a full scholarship to study Jazz Performanceat Berklee College of Music in Boston. Stevegraduated in 1995 and spent the next ve years inLondon, playing with such notable musicians asFreddie Hubbard and Pee Wee Ellis and becoming a long standing member of legendary drummer Bill Bruford’s internationally acclaimed jazzquartet, Earthworks. Since returning to Scotlandin 2001, Steve has continued to enhance his reputation as one of the UK’s top pianists - his CV alsoincludes dates with Martin Taylor, Gary Burtonand Tommy Smith’s current quartet - and behindthat quiet demeanour is quite a poker player.[ w w w . s t e v e h a m i l t o n . c o m ]
RYAN QUIGLEY[ w w w. m y s p a c e . c o m / r y a n q u i g l e y t r u m p e t ]RICHARD ILESA hugely experienced musician and is currentlybased in Manchester. As a member of the Creative Jazz Orchestra he has toured with JohnTaylor, Bill Frisell, Peter Erskine, Anthony Braxton,Vince Mendoza, Marty Erlich, Kenny Wheeler andEvan Parker, among others. He has recorded withtop composer-arranger Mike Gibbs, pianist RoyPowell and saxophonist Tim Garland’s NorthernUnderground Orchestra. He is also a talentedcomposer, with commissions for Northern Artsand Manchester Jazz Festival, and performed hisambitious Culture Shock for jazz orchestra andthree African bands as part of Manchester’s Commonwealth Games celebrations. He has releasedhis own album, From Here to There, and leads hisown bands - a quintet and Richard Iles’ MiniatureBrass Emporium.Born in Derry, County Londonderry in 1977, Ryanstarted playing trumpet at the age of 11 andwas brought up on a diet of Miles Davis, CliffordBrown, John Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson.He has performed, toured and recorded with Allan Bergman, The Bad Plus, Jimmy Greene, TimGarland, Bob Geldof, Curtis Stigers, Del Amitri,Sharleen Spiteri and Salsa Celtica, among manyothers, and has recorded dozens of jingles, TVthemes and independent movie soundtracks. Hereleased his rst CD, Laphroaig-ian Slip, in June2008 to great acclaim and he has since won theJazz Services Promoters’ Choice Award and theParliamentary Jazz Award 2009 for Best Jazz Ensemble, and he collected the Brass prize at theinaugural Scottish Jazz Awards in 2009. When notleading his own sextet and his recently launchedbig band, Ryan plays with the innovative quartetBrass Jaw.[myspace.com/richardilesmusic]KONRAD WISZNIEWSKI[ w w w . k o n r a d w . c o . u k ]Born in Glasgow in 1980 and took up tenor saxophone at the age of 13. He toured and recordedwith the European Youth Jazz Orchestra beforereleasing his rst CD, Konrad Wiszniewski, in2005. He has also featured on Paul Towndrow’sSix By Six, Haftor Medboe’s New Happy andalbums by Deacon Blue and Scottish traditionalband Skerrivore. Touring experience includesthe Pascal Schumacher Quartet, singer JacquiDankworth’s band, the Colin Steele Quintet, folkorchestra the Unusual Suspects and the BrassJaw quartet. Konrad was voted Best Soloist inthe Boosey and Hawkes Big Band Final 2003 andenjoys jogging and yoga.
PHIL O‘MALLEYBorn in Edinburgh in 1982 and began playing thebaritone horn at the age of 7 before moving totrombone three years later. He has toured withFat Sam’s Band and Salsa Celtica and currentlyworks with Ken Mathieson’s Classic Jazz Orchestra, where he enjoys playing in many differentstyles from the rst examples of recorded jazzthrough to Oliver Nelson’s progressive compositions of the 1960s. Phil has recently formed a newband with pianist David Patrick and saxophonistAndy Mears, Bop School, which takes the unconventional approach of playing without a drummerand whose guest participants have included London-based trumpeter Steve Fishwick and NewYork bassist Micah Brashear. When not playingmusic, Phil likes to get away from it all and is adedicated traveller.[www.myspace.com/cameronccjay]CAMERON JAYBorn in Irvine in 1975, he started playing trumpetat the age of 11 and progressed through schoolorchestras, local brass bands and the rst NYOSjazz courses to Leeds College of Music. Aftercollege Cameron started a varied musical careerincluding time spent with the Blackpool Towercircus, Eric Delaney, and a four and a half yearstint with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, workingwith many internationally regarded musiciansincluding Jim Trimble (lead trombone and roadmanager) of the Buddy Rich Orchestra and TonyTillman (The Rat Pack is Back - Las Vegas). Whennot involved with the SNJO Cameron works withDumfries Youth Jazz Group and is working on aJazz Sextet project with fellow SNJO musicianMichael Owers. Other bands include: the TimBarella Big Band, the Andy Mears Jazz Orchestraand Counselled Out.TOM MACNIVENBorn in Glasgow in 1974 and began playingmusic with the 118th Glasgow company of theBoys’ Brigade. The winner of the Scottish nalof the Royal Sun Alliance Young Jazz Musicianof the Year title in 1997, Tom recorded his GuessWhat? album with saxophonist Bobby Wellins asspecial guest the same year. Tom has featured onPaul Towndrow’s Six by Six, and as a much in-demand session player has recorded with a varietyof other musicians including The Pastels, SiliconeSoul, Figure 5, Sharleen Spiteri, The Pearl Fishersand The Fred Quimby Quartet. He has touredwith Hue & Cry, Tam White, Boz Burrell and PaulTowndrow’s sextet and when not playing trumpetenjoys playing guitar and lap steel guitar.[www.myspace.com/tommacniven]
MARTIN KERSHAWBorn in York in 1973, began playing at 15 andbecame seriously involved in jazz while studyingEnglish at Edinburgh University. He then studiedat Berklee S
recording with Chick Corea, Steve Swallow and Ralph Towner, as well as introducing Pat Metheny to his band, his label and the world at large. Also in the 1970s, Burton returned to his alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where he began his music education career as a teach-er of percussion and improvisation, going on
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The purpose of this study is to gain a insight into the realm of solo jazz vibraphone performance through the transcription and analysis of Gary Burton's improvised solo on "Blue Monk" by Thelonious Monk, recorded on the Album Face to Face with pianist Makoto Ozone. Gary Burton is the inventor of the "Burton grip," a four-mallet grip used for
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