Jazz Double Bill
HoPKins CEntEr
presents
JaZZ DoUBLe BiLL
tHe ViJaY iYer trio
Vijay iyer piano
stephan Crump bass
Marcus gilmore drums
tHe Dafnis prieto seXtet
Dafnis prieto drums
peter apfelbaum saxophones, melodica
felipe Lamoglia saxophones
ralph alessi trumpet
Manuel Valera piano
Charles flores bass
post-performance Discussion
You are invited to remain in the theater immediately following the performance for an informal discussion
with the artists.
This performance is made possible in part by generous support from the Sidney Stoneman 1933 Fund,
the Bob Gatzert 1951 Jazz Series Fund for the Hopkins Center and the Nathan W. Pearson 1932 and Sons Fund.
Spaulding Auditorium’s Hamburg Steinway concert grand piano was purchased with generous gifts from
Members of the Hopkins Center and Members of the Hood Museum of Art; the class of 1942, in memory of Allan
Dingwall ’42; and anonymous donors.
Cosponsored by
thursday, January 29, 2009 • 7 pm
Spaulding Auditorium • Dartmouth College
aBoUt tHE artists
tHe ViJaY iYer trio plays original music in-
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and project
spired by the great tradition of classic jazz piano grants from the Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund,
trios. Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer and his colleagues, the New York State Council on the Arts, Chamber
Marcus Gilmore (drums) and Stephan Crump Music America, Creative Capital, American
(bass), have updated the acoustic piano trio, creat-
Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, Arts
ing a music that is firmly grounded in groove and International and The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
pulse, but also rhythmically intricate and highly Trust. He is a faculty member at New York
interactive; fluidly improvisational yet uncannily University, New School University, and the School
synchronized; emotionally compelling, as well as for Improvisational Music, and has published arti-
innovative in texture, style and musical form. Their cles in Music Perception, Journal of Consciousness
original music is influenced by jazz piano titans such Studies, Current Musicology, Uptown Conversation:
as Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Andrew Hill The New Jazz Studies and Sound Unbound.
and Cecil Taylor; the classical sonorities of compos-
ers such as Reich, Ligeti, Debussy and Bartók; a wide stepHan CrUMp is a Memphis-bred bassist/
range of rock, soul, funk, hip-hop, dub, electronica composer whose music can be heard on his three
and African music; and the rhythmic vitality and acclaimed albums and in numerous films and tele-
melodic nuance of the music of Iyer’s Indian heri-
vision shows. His latest CD, Rosetta, “an intensely
tage. Howard Reich wrote in The Chicago Tribune: lyrical work” (Jazzwise, UK) made numerous top 10
“The three players practically have become a single lists for 2006 and was lauded for the “unassuming
rhythmic organism...one of the great rhythm units honesty” (AllAboutJazz.com) and “persistent cre-
of the day.”
ativity” (Bagatellen) which have helped establish
Crump as “an impressive and original voice” (The
Described in the The Village Voice as “the most com-
Wire, UK) as both composer and performer. He has
manding pianist and composer to emerge in recent performed and recorded in the U.S. and across the
years,” VIJAY IYER was named #1 Rising Star Jazz globe with a diverse list of artists—from late blues
Artist and #1 Rising Star Composer by the legend Johnny Clyde Copeland to Portishead’s
Downbeat International Critics Poll for both 2006 Dave McDonald, contemporary folk artist Lucy
and 2007. The son of Indian immigrants, he has Kaplansky, The Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, Big
released 12 recordings, including Reimagining (2005) Ass Truck, Dave Liebman, Sonny Fortune, Eddie
and Tragicomic (2008) with his trio and quartet; Henderson, The Mahavishnu Project and Bobby
Simulated Progress (2005) and Orbis Tertius (2008) Previte, among others. In addition to his association
with the trio Fieldwork; Raw Materials (2006) with with Vijay Iyer since 1999, Stephan is currently
saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa; and In What a member of guitarist Liberty Ellman’s quartet,
Language? (2004) and Still Life with Commentator Joel Harrison’s Harbor and singer/songwriter Jen
(2007), his large-scale works with poet-performer Chapin’s band.
Mike Ladd. Vijay performs constantly around the
world at international festivals and concert venues, MarCUs giLMore (born 1986) was inspired by
and he has collaborated with artists such as Steve the music of his grandfather, legendary jazz drum-
Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, mer Roy Haynes, who gave him his first set of drums
Amiri Baraka, Butch Morris, Ethel, Imani Winds, at age 10. He took naturally to jazz, as well as classi-
dead prez, Karsh Kale, George Lewis, DJ Spooky, cal theory and percussion. He has performed around
John Zorn, Dennis Russell Davies and the American the world with some of today’s best-known jazz
Composers Orchestra. He received the 2003 CalArts artists, including Chick Corea, Gonzalo Rubalcaba,
Alpert Award in the Arts, the 2006 New York Natalie Cole, Clark Terry, Cassandra Wilson, Steve
aBoUt tHE artists ContinUEd
Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Douglas, John Journalists Association in 2006, a Grammy Award
Clayton, Christian Scott, Najee and many others. Nomination for Absolute Quintet as Best Latin Jazz
Gilmore joined Vijay Iyer’s group in 2003, at the age Album and a Latin Grammy Nomination for Best
of 16. He also leads his own ensemble, and recently New Artist in 2007. In May of 2008, Dafnis Prieto
debuted a commissioned suite of his music, titled Sextet, led by Mr. Prieto, released the CD Taking the
American Perspicacity.
Soul for a Walk on Mr. Prieto’s own record label,
Dafnison Music.
tHe Dafnis prieto seXtet
Drummer Dafnis prieto’s arrival in the U.S. Also a gifted educator, Mr. Prieto has conducted
has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting numerous master classes, clinics and workshops.
New York. Indeed, within a short period of time his Since 2005, he has been a member of the New York
revolutionary drumming techniques had a powerful University Music Faculty.
impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, lo-
cally and internationally. Having studied at the peter apfeLBaUM, playing saxophones and
school of Fine Arts in Santa Clara as a youngster and melodica, was born in Berkeley, California and
later at the National School of Music in Havana, Mr. started playing drums at the age of 3. He took up
Prieto obtained a thorough classical education while piano and saxophone in elementary school and
broadening his knowledge of Afro-Cuban music, formed his first band at age 11. A product of the
jazz and world music outside of the academy.
Berkeley School District’s pioneering Jazz Project,
Mr. Apfelbaum began performing professionally
He first toured Europe with pianists Carlos Maza while in his early teens and was a member of the
and Ramon Valle and the groundbreaking group award-winning Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble.
Columna B. A resident of New York only since 1999, During his senior year of high school, Mr.
Mr. Prieto has already played in bands led by Henry Apfelbaum formed the 17-piece Hieroglyphics
Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Eddie Palmieri, Chico Ensemble as a vehicle for composing and exploring
and Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels & The non-traditional musical forms.
Caribbean Jazz Project, Jane Bunnett, D.D. Jackson,
Edward Simon, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdez, During the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Apfelbaum’s
Claudia Acuna, Roy Hargrove, Don Byron and career as a professional musician took off. He toured
Andrew Hill, among others. He has performed at the U.S. with O.J. Ekemode and the Nigerian
many national and international music festivals as a All-Stars, worked regularly with Cuban percussion-
sideman and as bandleader.
ist Francisco Aguabella’s band and Bay Areal reggae
and R&B bands. In addition, the Hieroglyphics
As a composer, he has created music for dance, film, Ensemble received a Grammy nomination for
chamber ensembles and, most notably, for his own Candles and Stones, a song on their Signs Of Life
bands, ranging from duets to his “Small Big Band” release and in 1992 won the Down Beat Critics Poll
and including the distinctively different groups fea-
Award for Big Band Talent Deserving Wider
tured on his two acclaimed recordings as a leader, Recognition.
About the Monks and Absolute Quintet. He has
received new works commissions, grants and In 1998, Mr. Apfelbaum moved to Brooklyn, New
fellowships from Chamber Music America, Jazz at York, where he soon formed a sextet featuring
Lincoln Center, East Carolina University and Meet Dafnis Prieto, among others. Mr. Apfelbaum toured
the Composer. Various awards he has received in-
Europe with several NY-based groups over the next
clude Up & Coming Musician of the Year by the Jazz few years before joining Phish frontman Trey
aBoUt tHE artists ContinUEd
Anastasio’s band in the Spring of 2002, with whom nominated album Paseo, which was released by Blue
he would play four sold-out U.S. tours, appear on Note Records. At this time, he also performed for
the David Letterman Show and the Tonight Show, two years with the New Cuban Quartet all over the
among others. Apfelbaum also began appearing world. In 2006, Mr. Lamoglia arranged and played
with Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista’s Beat on Ignacio Berroa’s album Codes, which was also re-
The Donkey and was hired by legendary singer/ leased by Blue Note Records and nominated for a
activist Harry Belafonte to arrange and compose Grammy. In 2007, Mr. Lamoglia released his first
music for his 2003 European tour.
solo album, Dimensions.
In February of 2003, Mr. Apfelbaum formed the raLpH aLessi, a trumpeter, composer and educa-
11-piece New York Hieroglyphics, adding five tor, has been an active member of the New York jazz
members to the personnel of his New York Sextet. and improvisational music scene as both sideman
They released the CD It Is Written in August 2005 and leader since 1991. Called “a highly-in-demand,
and performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the adventurous virtuoso who can handle just about
High Sierra Music Festival in 2006. In addition to anything” by L.A. Weekly, Mr. Alessi has performed
the New York Hieroglyphics, Mr. Apfelbaum and recorded with the likes of Steve Coleman, Uri
continues to perform regularly with Steven Caine, Don Byron, Ravi Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Drew
Bernstein’s Millenial Territory Orchestra, the Trey Gress, Fred Hersch and many other great musical
Anastasio Band, the Dafnis Prieto Sextet, the Josh innovators.
Roseman Unit and Kamikaze Ground Crew.
As a composer, Mr. Alessi has recorded four albums:
feLipe LaMogLia, on saxophones, is a native of Hissy Fit, Vice Virtue, This Against That (which was
Holguin, Cuba, and is a Grammy-winning saxo-
voted one of the top 10 jazz recordings of 2002 by
phonist, composer and arranger. He has studied Jazz Times) and the recently released, Look—which
music at the prestigious Superior Institute of Arts features Mr. Alessi’s band This Against That. In the
and at the University of Sao Paulo. Mr. Lamoglia coming year, Mr. Alessi will release two more re-
stayed in Sao Paulo after his studies, where he was cordings, one being a quartet project featuring Jason
greatly influenced by Brazil’s musical and spiritual Moran. As an educator, Mr. Alessi has been a mem-
wealth and seized the opportunity to play with such ber of the faculties at Five Towns College and the
great artists as Raul de Souza, Arismar do Espirito Eastman School of Music. He is currently the found-
Santo, Sizao Machado, Cuca Teixeira and Toquinho.
er and director of the School for Improvisational
Music (www.schoolforimprov.org), a non-profit
After moving to the United States in 1999, Mr. entity holding improvisational music workshops in
Lamoglia has either produced or performed with Brooklyn. Since 2002, he has been on the jazz faculty
many acclaimed musicians. His work with Grammy at New York University.
Award winner Arturo Sandoval includes the albums
Trumpet Evolution and Rumba Palace (which won a ManUeL VaLera, a Cuban pianist, bandleader,
Grammy in 2008) and on two DVD releases: Live at composer and arranger, is at the forefront of con-
Blue Note NYC and Live at the Ann Arbor Summer temporary modern jazz. He represents the next gen-
Festival. Mr. Lamoglia has also shared the stage with eration of great performers and composers. The son
Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Wynton Marsalis, of heralded saxophonist Manuel Valera, Mr. Valera
Eldar, Marcus Miller and others. In 2004, Felipe emigrated to the United States at the age of 15. Prior
joined the Grammy Award winner Gonzalo to leaving Cuba, he had studied European music and
Rubalcaba for the recording of the Grammy Award-
classical saxophone at the Manuel Saumell
aBoUt tHE artists ContinUEd
Conservatory in Havana. Upon his arrival in the Competition, and is a recipient of the 2005 and 2006
United States, Mr. Velera found that both English ASCAP Young Composers Award, and a final nomi-
and the piano were new his means of expression. nee in the Up & Coming Musician of the Year cate-
Remarkably, he quickly taught himself both. Mr. gory of the Jazz Journalists Association Awards. Mr.
Valera believed that through his musical education Valera was recently commissioned for the 2007
in Havana, the piano was his “natural instrument.” Chamber Music America New Works Award.
He attended high school in New Jersey and Miami
and studied at The New School in Manhattan. By Bassist CHarLes fLores ignites the jazz world
the time he graduated, he had started composing with his powerful and inspiring performances. He
and had studied under George Garzone and Jane Ira began his professional music career in Cuba with
Bloom and privately with pianists Richie Beirach jazz vocalist and composer Bobby Carcasses. Mr.
and Phil Markowitz.
Flores was next recruited by pianist Emiliano
Salvador, one of the key figures in the history of
An active sideman in the jazz and Latin jazz scene, Cuban jazz. For the next three years, Mr. Flores
Mr. Valera made his debut recording as a leader in performed throughout Europe and Latin America
2004 with Forma Nueva, featuring John Patitucci, with Mr. Salvador and his quartet. In the mid-1990s,
Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, Bill Stewart and Mr. Flores joined the Issac Delgado Group and
Seamus Blake, followed in 2005 by Historia with Ben toured internationally and recorded three CDs with
Street and Antonio Sanchez. Melancolia (2006) in-
the group: Con Ganas, El Chevere de la Salsa y El
tegrates world rhythms and classical concepts into a Caballero del Son, and El Año que Viene.
jazz context and features Antonio Sanchez, Ben Street,
Seamus Blake, Luisito Quintero and a string quartet. Mr. Flores has gone on to record and perform with
Mr. Valera’s most recent recording Numerico features many notable music artists and groups including
Ernesto Simpson and Hans Glawischnig.
Afro-Cuba, Jane Bunnett, J.P. Torres, Brian Lynch,
Giovanni Hidalgo, David Sanchez, BBC Big Band,
Mr. Valera has also played with Paquito D’ Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Valentin, Steve Khan, Hahir
Vincent Herring, John Benitez, Donny McCaslin, Atakoglu and Dafnis Prieto. In 2002, Mr. Flores
Claudio Roditi, Louis Hayes, Bobby Sanabria, joined the Michel Camilo Trio, performing at the
Giovanni Hidalgo, Dave Valentin, Nelson Gonzales, most important jazz venues of the world. Recording
Juan Pablo Torres, William Cepeda, Eddie Gomez live at The Blue Note, he, along with Michel Camilo
and Richard Bona. He has performed and recorded and Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, won the 2003
with salsa singer George Lamond. He has won sec-
Grammy Award for the Best Latin Jazz Album, Live
ond place in the 2004 and 2006 Great American Jazz at The Blue Note.
ConnECting HoP artists to tHE CommUnitY
While at Dartmouth, Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto participated in classes in Dartmouth’s Mathematics,
Philosophy and Music Departments. Both musicians led master classes with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble.
Mr. Iyer also participated in a public panel discussion with Dartmouth faculty about musical cognition and the
way the brain makes sense of rhythm and meter. Both the Vijay Iyer Trio and the Dafnis Prieto Sextet are partici-
pating in a post-performance discussion. For more info on Hop Outreach & Arts Education, call 603.646.2010
or visit hop.dartmouth.edu/outreach.
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sérgio & odair assad
Brazilian master guitarists Sérgio & Odair Assad, with unmatched
guitar artistry and technical prowess, salute great Brazilian guitarists
of the past.
friday, January 30 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium • $26 • Dartmouth students $5
Post-performance discussion with the Assads, Spaulding Auditorium
assad Brothers guitar Master Class
Friday, January 30 • 3 pm • Faulkner Recital Hall • Free
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