Berklee JFaculty Asseciation
Ceoncert Series

DUO: WALTER NORRIS AND PHIL WILSON
WITH SPECIAL GUEST SAM SULTONSTALL

under the direction of

PHIL WILSON

Since coming to prominence in the late fifties recording
on the west coast with Ornette Coleman, Walter Norris has
been highly respected in the world of jazz. He has toured
the United States, Europe and Japan playing with such
musicians as Charles Mingus, Stan Getz, the Thad Jones-
Mel Lewis Orchestra, Frank Rosolino, Johnny Griffin

and others who recognized him as an artist of rare skill
and sensitivity. Critics too have sung his praises:

Whitney Balliet in the New Yorker, "... a marvelous pianist
...adventuresome and oblique..."; John Wilson of The New
York Times, "Norris has superb technique and highly
provocative creativity."; and Gary Giddins in the

Village Voice, "A music maker of imagination and integrity."

A fifteen year veteran of the Berklee Faculty, Phil Wilson
has served as soloist/composer/arranger with such esteemed
artists as Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson and
Marian McPartland, and received a Grammy nomination for

his arrangement of "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" for the Rich band.
This versatile brassman has recorded several albums of

his jazz compositions and arrangements with The Phil Wilsen
Septet as well as a duo album with pianist Makoto Ozone.

He 1is also the co-founder of Boston's annual "Sackbut Week,"
celebrating the history and development of the trombone.