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Berklee Performance Center Concerts

SUMMER ‘86

Double Concert — EXPLORATIONS/STICK MAN — The evening'’s
program opens with standards and contemporary jazz originals per-
formed by Hans Jensen and his quintet with special guest, faculty sax-
ophonist Jim Odgren. In the second half, Katsu Tanaka, playing the
Chapman stick and stick synthesizer, presents an evening of techno-
jazz-rock in solo, duet and trio settings.

WINNERS — Faculty composer/arranger/percussionist

Greg McPherson and choreographer Leta Tavares present an evening
of original music in a variety of styles and settings from rhythm and
blues to jazz to pop.

Double Concert — A LITTLE CONCERTO/THE ANN M GROUP —
Guitarist/composer Atsushi Shibata opens this double concert with a
program of original jazz compositions for quartet. In the second half,
The Ann M Group, led by keyboardist/composer Ann Maartmann, will
perform original funk and fusion compositions.

Double Concert — YURI LEE BIG BAND/MY IMAGE — Composer/
arranger/keyboardist Yuri Lee presents original contemporary jazz
for big band with special guests faculty members Allan Chase, alto,
Bill Scism, trumpet, and Bob Zung, alto. In the second half of this
douible concert composer/arranger Eduardo Souza leads an eight-
horn band in a program of jazz and Latin music by Ellington, Parker,
Herimeto Pascual and others.

JEFF FRIEDMAN BAND — Faculty guitarist/arranger Jeff Friedman
leads a sextet in an evening of original compositions and arrange-
ments of jazz classics by Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Carla Bley,

Gil Evans and others.

Double Concert — DREAM OF A SUMMER NIGHT/CON LO

LATINO POR DENTRO — Bassist/composer Yoshihiko Suwa opens
this two-for-one concert with a program of straight-ahead jazz origi-
nals for quartet. In the second half, composer/arranger/bassist
Pengbian Sang directs a thirteen-piece ensemble through a program
of jazz standards arranged in a Latin style as well as original Latin jazz
fusion compositions.



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