Berklee Performance Center Concerts

October 3 — American Fruit with African Roots

- Voice department faculty member Lawrence
“Larry’ Watson prepares for a national tour to
promote his Fall Release CD American Fruit with
African Roots. The twelve cut CD is a musical
social history and social commentary covering
our triumphs and failures. It will be an evening
to educate, entertain and heal. This concert will
feature several never heard before compositions
from the soon to be released CD and a medley
of songs from his first CD, The Journey.

Larry’s special guest for the evening will be

the vocal legend Ms. Tata Vega, the voice of
“Shug” in the Spielberg Motion picture, The
Color Purple. She has also been the lead singer
for the Andre Crouch Group. She will showcase
two songs from her upcoming new Gospel CD
and then she and Larry will perform Watson'’s
composition Half Empty Glass. The All Star
Band will be headed up by the extraordinary
drummer Les Cleveland.

October 11 - Dino Govoni & Friends - Dino
Govoni will be presenting an evening of original
jazz compositions by Jeff Galindo, Andy McWain
and Dino Govoni in trio to quintet format.

October 15 - Syncopation Vocal Jazz Quartet

— Pop, jazz, and standards in four-part harmony
featuring vocalists faculty members Christine
Fawson, David Thorne Scott, as well as alumi
Tsunenori “Lee” Abe, and student Aubrey Logan
will be performed with a rhythm section.

October 16 - The Lazlo Gardony Trio - Faculty
pianist Laszlo Gardony, faculty bassist John
Lockwood and Assistant Chair Percussion
department Yoron Israel will perform originals
as well as original arrangements of standards
which feature original harmonizations, grooves,
Improvisations, arrangements and a lot of inter-
play between trio members.

October 22 - Juan Ospina’s Ja — Colombian
pianist/composer Juan Ospina presents a series
of original compositions written while enrolled

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in the Jjazz Compositions major at Berklee taste-
fully blending Colombian rhythms with jazz
elements.

October 23 — The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra
with George Garzone - Jazz Orchestra with
special guest George Garzone, long-time Berklee
faculty member and world-renowned educator
and saxophonist. Music arranged and composed
by faculty member Ayn Inserto who recently
released her CD Clairvoyance.

October 23 - The Jazz Educators Orchestra

— The Jazz Educators Orchestra, directed by
Berklee faculty member Brian Lewis will present
a program of jazz compositions from Thelonious
Monk, Wayne Shorter and original composi-
tions from the director. The JEO is a standard
sized jazz "big band” featuring Berklee faculty,
students, former students and some of the best
local professional jazz musicians.

October 24 - Fall Together (Jazz Composition
Faculty Department Concert) — This is the 22nd
annual Fall Together concert which features
compositions by faculty teaching in the Jazz
Composition Department. Featured writers will
be Greg Hopkins, Ken Pullig, Bob Pilkington,
Bruce Thomas, Marc Rossi, and Phil Wilson.

October 25 — The Music of Jimi Hendrix: Big
Band - Guitar Department faculty member
Thaddeus Hogarth presents an evening of big
band music featuring the music of Jimi Hendrix.
The big band arrangements for this show are
transcribed, edited or based in part on some of
those written and performed by Gil Evans and
his orchestra in what was to be a collabora-
tion with Hendrix before his untimely death in
1970. This is a joint project between Thaddeus
and the Boston Horns Big Band, a 19-piece

big band which includes and features Berklee
faculty members Kenwood Dennard, Thaddeus
Hogarth, Diane Richardson, Mike Moss, Oscar
Stagnaro, as well as other Berklee faculty and
alumni,