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The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Matching Grant
Dear Jazz Series Supporter:
The 2008/2009 season provides us with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – something special and unique – something we at the Jazz Series are tremendously proud of. This season our “Annual Campaign” zooms in on support for a major concert & educational event – one where the National Endowment for the Arts will match your Jazz Series support – dollar-for-dollar – up to $30,000.
Charlie Hunter Trio
Sunday, January 25
The Blue Note
Born in Rhode Island and raised in the Bay Area, innovative guitarist Charlie Hunter has continued to surprise, engage and enthrall audiences since he arrived on the scene in 1993. Two years later, Blue Note Records signed the bourgeoning musician who had performed on the streets of Europe and in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., and issued Bing, Bing, Bing. An energetic and searching improviser, Hunter, who makes his first “We Always Swing” Jazz Series appearance this season with his trio, has, at last count, something close to 20 recordings to his name.
Terence Blanchard Quintet
Sunday, February 8
Murry's
We are extremely pleased to present trumpeter Terence Blanchard who, leading his quintet, returns for his second Jazz Series appearance and first since 2003. The prominent trumpeter is known for his multiple talents: as a front-line present-day jazz improviser and technician, as a bandleader and as the man who has composed most of Spike Lee’s film scores to date. Like at least two of his significant trumpet playing peers and colleagues – Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton – Blanchard is a Crescent City native – and still resides there in the city’s Garden District. His latest release for Blue Note Records, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), speaks volumes about how he feels about his home town – and earned him a Grammy. Previous to that he released Flow.
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Jazz Series Launches Annual Fund as dollar-for-dollar match for major NEA Jazz Masters Live
This is a special year for us. As recipients of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts – the Jazz Masters Live Initiative we are required to match the award dollar for dollar. The goal: $30,000 – and we need do reach it by February 18, 2008 – the day commissioned composer and Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer returns to Missouri to conduct the world premier of his new work performed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. This season your tax-deductible donation to the Jazz Series goes twice as far.
Make a tax-deductible pledge (PDF) do the Jazz Series and we will apply it toward matching the NEA grant special NEA grant – one of only 12 in the country that allowed us to commission new work, and present one of the best big bands in the world at the Missouri Theatre. As a way of saying “Thank You” we’re pleased do offer tickets to this one-of-a-kind event—and a the most recent CD from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra CD – which is a part of University of Missouri’s Arts & Science Week.
Jazz Series Receives NEA Grant
“We Always Swing” Jazz Series snags prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Live grants…
Organization, one of only 12 presenters in the United States selected to receive $30,000 award paves the way for Missouri native and NEA Jazz Master Bob Brookmeyer to compose new work for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. New York-based, 16-piece orchestra arrives in Columbia to perform world premiere February 18, 2009, at the Missouri Theatre with Brookmeyer as guest conductor. Also on hand: Dan Morgenstern, fellow NEA Jazz Master and Director of Rutgers Jazz Institute. The world renowned historian will serve as guest emcee and host a pair of forums: a one-on-one interview with Brookmeyer and an in-depth look into the chronology of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, which has been holding court at jazz’s most famous basement – The Village Vanguard – since 1965. Much-anticipated events serve as centerpiece for MU’s Arts & Science Week.
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