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...former member of the Jazz Band, is tremendously active today as a performer, composer, writer and political activist, and his music blends jazz with folk music elements from Asia and the Pacific Islands...
Also among those present were a small group of alumni from the first Harvard Jazz Band. According to bass player Mark Schuster '74, the jazz band at Harvard actually started as an unofficial organization four years before director Tom Everett was hired. The band at that time was called the 'Prescott Sodality,' (named for the street their rehearsal space was on), and it was led by a student, David Archibald '71. Soon after Everett was hired, the Sunday and Monday Jazz Bands were formed and they have continued to this...
Fortunately, Saturday night's concert started good and got better. The concert opened with the Sunday Jazz Band, who performed a sophisticated arrangement by longtime Harvard Jazz Band collaborator Jeff Friedman of the Thelonious Monk tune "Brilliant Corners." The Monday Band then took to the stage with a rousing performance of "Take The 'A' Train," replete with mean brass and take-no-prisoners attitude. The band played six more tunes, including two more in the Ellington/Strayhorn vein, "Star-Crossed Lovers" and "Cottontail," Wardell Gray's "Twisted," Charles Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and two premieres...
...second half of the program began with baritone saxophonist Fred Ho fronting the band on his composition "Liberation Genesis." The piece was written with the support of a grant from the Office for the Arts (OFA) while Ho was an undergraduate...
Tenor saxophonist and recording artist Don Braden '85, also a Jazz Band alum, performed three tunes, including an arrangement commissioned by the OFA entitled "Landing Zone" and an arrangement of the Hank Mobley tune "Soul Station." The latter, which will appear on Braden's upcoming release for RCA/Victor entitled The Voice of the Saxophone, was performed by an all-Harvard Jazz Band Alumni 13-person "Octet." Outstanding solos by tenor player Anton Schwartz '89 and trumpet player Bob Merrill '81, as well as uplifting playing by the rhythm section, fully expressed the buoyant yet nostalgic atmosphere which characterized this reunion...