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Berklee Performance Center Concerts

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" IT’S NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY— Faculty pianist

Consuelo Candelaria presents an evening of modern orxgmals
pcrformcd by her sextet in an acoustic jazz/blues setting.

- THE BRIAN LEWIS BIG BAND—A broad spectrum of muslcal
“styles from traditional bebop to contemporary fusion will be
- performed by a 19-piece big band under the direction of faculty

trumpeter Brian Lewis. Featured compositions and arrangements
are by Lewis, faculty members Don Nolan and Jerry Cecco and

~ student Daniel Hamuy. Guest performers include faculty members

Fred Schmidt, trombone, and Wayne Naus, trumpet aswell as
Cecco and Lewis. ; s

A TRIBUTE TO MONK— The Piano Dcpartment faculty, under
the direction of Chairman Paul Schmeling, present a tribute to jazz

- legend Thelonious Monk with a series of small groups playing origi-
- nal arrangements of compositions by the late pianist. Featured fac-

ulty members include pianists Jeff Covell, Suzanna Sifter, Bill Davies,
Makoto Takenaka and special guest Alex Elm on tenor saxophone

THERE’S NOTHING ONT.V. TONIGHT/THE ECLECTIC BAND
— Composer/keyboardist Jonathan Dryden leads a nine-piece
ensemble performing original contemporary jazz compositions

“and featuring arrangements for three vocalists— Carolina Brandes,

Paula Cole and Jill Siefers. In the second half, composer/arranger
Daniel Hamuy presents original funk and Latin styles for a big band
with special guest fa(.ulty saxophonist Bob Zung. :

THE YUKI ARIMASA TRIO/ “SIMPLE; CHANGE THE
GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT OF THE UNIVERSE”—In the
first half, faculty pianist Yuki Arimasa presents jazz originals for
piano trio. Then, the Continuum Jazz Brass Band, six brass and

: drums, under the direction of faculty trombonist/composer/

arranger Bob Pilkington, performs a variety of styles from
Hoagy Carmichael to John Coltrane to Led Zepplin.

A TRIBUTE TO ART BLAKEY AND DEXTER GORDON