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SUMMARY:Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 40th Season Opener and CD Release Par
 ty
DESCRIPTION:Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: 40th Season Opener and CD Release
  Party, with vocalists Jerry Edwards and Grace Hughes. Wednesday, Octo
 ber 3, 2012, at 8:00 pm. Admission: $20 Praised for \"exuberance, imag
 ination and sheer brio\" (Jazz Review UK), the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
  kicks off its historic 40th season at Scullers with an exhilarating s
 how spanning the Aardvark spectrum, from originals by director Mark Ha
 rvey to music from the Basie, Ellington, and Woody Herman bands.   The
  show will celebrate the release of Aardvark's 11th CD, \"Evocations\"
 , on Leo Records (UK), one of the world's leading adventurous music la
 bels.  The band will perform selections from the new disc, including 
 an evocative modernistic treatment of the New Orleans staple \"Just a 
 Closer Walk with Thee,\" and Mark Harvey's \"Rascals and Scoundrels.\"
   Aardvark vocalists Jerry Edwards and Grace Hughes will be spotlight
 ed in Basie's \"Every Day I Have the Blues\" and Ellington’s \"Tell 
 Me It's the Truth.\"  Also on tap:  Harvey's \"Cantata Tubulidentata
 \" (The Song of the Aardvarks, honoring the band's 40-year mark) and t
 he lush \"Early Autumn\" by Newton native Ralph Burns, a late-1940s hi
 t for Woody Herman and the breakthrough recording for Stan Getz.  Jazz
 Times wrote, \"Aardvark suggests the best and the brashest of Charles 
 Mingus, Gil Evans, George Russell, and even Frank Zappa.\"  With glob
 al distribution of 11 CDs and wide-ranging performances in festivals, 
 clubs, concert halls, colleges and universities, Aardvark has been a m
 ajor force in the international jazz scene for 40 years. Winner of the
  2000 Independent Music Awards, the band has premiered more than 130 w
 orks for jazz orchestra. Guest artists who have appeared with Aardvark
  include jazz luminaries Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Jimmy Giuffre, Ger
 i Allen, Lewis Porter, Vinny Golia, Dominique Eade, Jay Clayton, Paul 
 Lovens, Rajesh Mehta, Matt Savage and Walter Thompson.  Music director
  Mark Harvey has performed as trumpeter in the U.S., Mexico and Europe
 ; has recorded with George Russell (Blue Note) and Baird Hersey (Arist
 a/Novus); and performed with Gil Evans, Claudio Roditi, Howard McGhee,
  Sam Rivers, Joe Carroll, Kenny Dorham and others.  An internationall
 y acclaimed composer, he has received awards and commissions from ASCA
 P, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the 15th Annual John Col
 trane Memorial Concert, the MIT Wind Ensemble and Meet-the-Composer-Li
 la Wallace/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program, among others.  Co
 mmissions have featured such notables as Joe Lovano, Steve Turre, Herb
  Pomeroy and Ran Blake. Dr. Harvey teaches jazz studies at MIT.  Aardv
 ark is: Arni Cheatham, Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Chris Rakowski, Dan Z
 upan/saxes & woodwinds; K.C. Dunbar, Jeanne Snodgrass/trumpets; Bob Pi
 lkington, Jay Keyser/trombones; Jeff Marsanskis, Bill Lowe/bass trombo
 nes, tuba; Richard Nelson/guitar; John Funkhouser/string bass; Harry W
 ellott/drums; Jerry Edwards & Grace Hughes, vocalists; Mark Harvey/tru
 mpet, music director. www.aardvarkjazz.com\n\nFor more information vis
 it http://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/aardvark-jazz-orchestra-40t
 h-season-opener-and-cd-release-party
DTSTART:20121004T000000Z
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CATEGORIES:jazz, concert, music, contemporary, modern
LOCATION:Scullers Jazz Club
WEBSITE:http://www.scullersjazz.com
URL:http://www.scullersjazz.com
CONTACT:617-562-4111
ORGANIZER:Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
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