trombonist, composer, conceptualist, educator

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1 presents barbary coast jazz ensemble Don Glasgo director Celebrating Sun Ra: Barbary Coast plays the Music of Sun Ra with Craig Harris trombonist, composer, conceptualist, educator This performance is made possible in part by generous support by the Dartmouth Class of 1975, the William D and Besse M. Blatner Fund No. 1, the Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 1 and the Visiting Performers Supplementary Fund No. 1. Saturday, October 25, pm Spaulding Auditorium Dartmouth College

2 BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE Tyné Freeman 17 vocals Leif Harder 15 flute Angela Kim GR flute Erin Huffer 17 lead alto & soprano saxophones Hannah O Flynn 15 alto saxophone Manav Raj 15 lead tenor saxophone *Ziqi Wang 18 tenor saxophone Brett Szalapski 15 baritone saxophone *Robert Wright III 18 lead trumpet *Ben Scammell 18 trumpet Matt Metzler 15 trumpet John Martin 17 trumpet Dan Nulton 15 lead trombone Barrett Clark 17 trombone *Ned Feist 18 valve trombone *David Ballou 18 bass trombone *Emma Howeiler 18 piano & vocals Andrew Shea 17 string bass *Mali Obomsawin 18 string bass Moises Silva 16 drums *new members of the ensemble, Class of 2018 GR=Graduate Student Don Glasgo director/valve trombone

3 program The performance tonight will be selected from the following (alphabetical order): DISCIPLINE 27 EL IS THE SOUND OF JOY Sun Ra, arranged by Don Glasgo ENLIGHTENMENT IMAGES KINGDOM OF NOT LOVE IN OUTER SPACE Sun Ra & Hobart Dotson, transcribed and orchestrated for the Barbary Coast by Don Glasgo, with additional arrangement by Craig Harris Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax PINK ELEPHANTS ON PARADE PLEIDIES SATURN Music & lyrics by Norman Ferguson & Oliver Wallace; arranged by Sun Ra; transcribed by Michael Ray and Don Glasgo; orchestrated for the Barbary Coast by Don Glasgo Sun Ra Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax SPACE IS THE PLACE/PERSISTENCE SPRINGTIME IN CHICAGO TAKE A JOURNEY TO SATURN Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax program notes Sun Ra & Craig Harris: Kindred Spirits They teach you there s a boundary line to music, but, man, there s no boundary line to art! Charlie Parker We like things that come in neat little packages: jazz is this, not that. Problem is, it doesn t work that way: the goal of the artist is to move the music forward. Jazz didn t stop in 1945 or 1959 or 2014, for that matter. It s just getting started: creative music knows no bounds! What happens when a creative musician like Sun Ra looks around, sees what s happening on the planet, and comes to the conclusion, This world (this world) is not my home (not my home), not my home (not my home), not my home (not my home)? If this world wasn't Sun Ra's home, where did he come from? Where do we come from, and "if we came from nowhere here, why can't we go somewhere there?" Sun Ra ( ) was a musician, philosopher, poet, composer, keyboardist, arranger and

4 program notes CONTINUED catalyst. Throughout his career, he changed people s lives over and over again around the world, including my life and the lives of several Dartmouth students in the Barbary Coast in February 1990, during a weeklong residency and Winter Carnival concert with us. Sun Ra was the featured guest with the Coast during the first half of the concert, then the second half featured Sun Ra & his Intergalactic Arkestra. During intermission Sun Ra asked five brass players in the Coast to play with the Arkestra in the second set. After the show, Sun Ra asked the five students to join the Arkestra! They drove down to Boston University a week later to perform with the Arkestra again, causing the jazz critic for The Boston Globe to wonder "if the use of Caucasians signals a new direction." Those five Barbary Coast students long since alums are probably wondering the same thing to this day. You re on the right road, but you re going in the wrong direction... Our 1990 performance with Sun Ra was the only time a Barbary Coast concert sold out in Spaulding before When I mentioned this to the great Lester Bowie, he said, Of course Sun Ra sold out! He played more times in Egypt then he did in New Hampshire! Everything you imagine has already been done and can be done. What you can t imagine is where Sun Ra begins. Amiri Baraka There were no limits to Sun Ra's Omniverse. I ve never seen and will never see another ensemble with the breadth and depth of the Arkestra, from foot-stomping "bat-outta-hell" swing tunes by Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington to the extraordinary cool jazz version of Sun Ra s Enlightenment (in a 1958 recording with trumpeter Hobart Dodson); from space vamps you can t get outta your head (Space Is the Place) to the beautiful ballad, Love in Outer Space; from space chords ( beyond the boundary of the last possibility ) to Disney and show tunes like Pink Elephants on Parade. The Arkestra could stop on a dime, turn and go anywhere and still does, under the direction of Marshall Allen. Sun Ra and his Arkestra could captivate you, enchant you and send you on your way, singing and dancing in the streets. Simply put, Sun Ra's goal was to save humanity through music: I m dealing with the potential of people. I m dealing with what they should be and what I see in them that isn t there but should be there. Sun Ra To help us celebrate 100 years of Sun Ra, we re thrilled to be joined by Craig Harris, trombonist, composer, conceptualist and educator. Harris exploded upon the New York scene in 1976, playing with Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra! When Harris graduated from SUNY College at Old Westbury in 1976, Pat Patrick (Sun Ra s great baritone sax player) said, What you gonna do? Craig said, I dunno. Patrick said, Listen, we re playing tonight at The Bottom Line. Come on and sit in with the band. So Harris went over to the club that night and sat in with the Arkestra. After the gig, Sun Ra asked him, Do you have a passport? Craig said, No. Sun Ra said, Get a passport, because we re going to Paris next week. So he got a passport and it was on from then... I learned so much with Sun Ra. Once again, discipline and study. Watching John Gilmore play every night, you learn...this is the level to be an improviser. You have to bring it every night...[sun Ra] would write music every day. This is for real. This is how people do this. Every day! Craig Harris Harris has performed with Cecil Taylor, Abdullah Ibrahim, Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, the World Saxophone Quartet, The Roots, RAKIM and many others. Earlier this year Craig performed two

5 program notes CONTINUED Centennial Celebrations of the music of Sun Ra with his group, the Harlem Night Songs Band. Sun Ra and Craig Harris are kindred spirits: visionaries whose creativity is an immeasurable equation! Thank you all for joining us tonight for this special concert, Celebrating Sun Ra: Barbary Coast Plays the Music of Sun Ra with Craig Harris, and please welcome our talented new students in the Class of 2018! Enjoy! Don Glasgo, Director ABOUT THE ARTISTS The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble is the student jazz ensemble of Dartmouth College. Composed almost entirely of non-music majors, the ensemble specializes in the music of the African-American and Afro-Caribbean jazz traditions. The Barbary Coast has performed with such outstanding musicians as Pepper Adams, Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin, Marshall Allen, David Ambrosio, Robby Ameen, Ray Anderson, Peter Apfelbaum, Karl Berger, Steven Bernstein, Jimmy Bosch, Byron Bowie, Joseph Bowie, Lester Bowie, Cecil Bridgewater, Don Cherry, Bill Cole, Graham Collier, Walter Cunningham and the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, Dave Ellis, Marty Ehrlich, Andy Gonzalez, Jerry Gonzalez, Dexter Gordon, Tim Green, Joe Gonzalez, Bob Gullotti, Slide Hampton, Donald Harrison, James Harvey, Jimmy & Percy Heath, Julius Hemphill, Conrad Herwig, Giovanni Hidalgo, Christine Jensen, Ingrid Jensen, Adam Klipple, Oliver Lake, Erik Lawrence, George Lewis, Jason Lindner, Brian Lynch, José Madera, Nicole Mitchell, Frank Morgan, Butch Morris, David Murray, Arturo O Farrill, Manny Oquendo, Eddie Palmieri, Tobias Ralph, Michael Ray, Ivan Renta, Sam Rivers, Max Roach, Adam Rudolph, Kermit Ruffins, Samarai Celestial, Bobby Sanabria, Ray Santos, Maria Schneider, Jim Seeley, Woody Shaw, Warren Smith, John Stubblefield, Sun Ra, Clark Terry, Adam Theis, Gregorio Uribe, Papo Vasquez, Walter White, James Williams and Deanna Witkowski. In May 1986 the Barbary Coast received a bronze award for its performance in the Downbeat International Class competition of the Canadian National Stage Band Festival at EXPO 86, the World s Fair in Vancouver, B.C. In March of 1992, the Coast was the featured ensemble in the First Annual Jazz Festival of the Vermont Chapter of the International Association of Jazz Educators. In September of 1994, the Barbary Coast performed, by invitation, a series of concerts on a Transatlantic crossing of the QE2. For several years the Barbary Coast received considerable praise for their performances at the Williams College Jazz Festival. In 2004 the Coast took a successful whirlwind tour to Newport, RI, performing five times in three days. In May 2007 the ensemble performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center for a special event, You, Dartmouth & All That Jazz. In March 2013, as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Hopkins Center, the Barbary Coast did a highly acclaimed Big Band Funk tour to New York City with special guest, Joe Bowie. Don Glasgo has taught courses in jazz, jazz and literature, American music and world music at the colleges of Dartmouth, Hamilton, Lyndon State and in the graduate program of Vermont College, and jazz ensembles and theory and composition at The Putney School. For twelve years he was also a faculty member in music at Goddard College, where he directed the Institute for Creative Music and SALSA MEETS

6 R ABOUT THE ARTISTs CONTINUED JAZZ: The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Seminar with the Eddie Palmieri Octet. Seven years ago Don started his own educational program, JAZZology, in the Upper Valley. Don has written over 100 jazz compositions and arrangements, many of them premiered by the Barbary Coast, and he was recently hired to write professional arrangements for Joe Bowie s Defunkt Big Band. Glasgo is an accomplished valve trombonist who has performed with the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, Dartmouth Idol, Oliver Lake Big Band, Joseph Bowie s Defunkt Big Band, Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen and Phish. He leads his own professional bands, Sol Food and Sol Food Unplugged, is the author of Jazzlines and a former columnist for Jazz Improv. In 2009 he was a profesor at Trombonanza 2009 (Santa Fe, Argentina), and he was the associate director of the Rutgers Summer Jazz Institute (New Brunswick, NJ) from This is his 39th year as director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble. BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE DON GLASGO director 39th ANNUAL WINTER CARNIVAL CONCERT sat FEB 7 8 pm SPAULDING AUDITORIUM Celebrate Dartmouth s Winter Carnival with the Barbary Coast as the talented students in the ensemble join forces with Ryan Keberle, founder of The Big Band Living Legacy Project, on trombone, and Michael Rodriguez on trumpet. For tickets or more info call the Box Office at or visit hop.dartmouth.edu. Sign up for weekly HopMail bulletins online or become a fan of Hopkins Center, Dartmouth on Facebook Hopkins Center Management Staff Jeffrey H. James 75a Howard Gilman Director Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS Austin M. Beutner 82 Kenneth L. Burns H 93 Barbara J. Couch Allan H. Glick 60, T 61, P 88 Barry F. Grove, II 73 Caroline Diamond Harrison 86, P 16 Kelly Fowler Hunter 83, T 88, P 13, P 15 Richard P. Kiphart 63 Robert H. Manegold 75, P 02, P 06 Nini Meyer Hans C. Morris 80, P 11, P 14 Chair of the Board Robert S. Weil 40, P 73 Honorary Frederick B. Whittemore 53, T 54, P 88, P 90, H 03 Jennifer A. Williams 85 Diana L. Taylor 77 Trustee Representative Please turn off your cell phone inside the theater. Assistive Listening Devices available in the lobby. DARTM OUTH RECYCLES If you do not wish to keep your playbill, please discard it in the recycling bin provided in the lobby. Thank you.