Word: jazze
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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...
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...
...Robbin's Nest," as well as "Body and Soul," "Flyin' Home" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street." This was his eighth visit to Harvard. While Jacquet held the audience in thrall with his simple, warm, lyrical solos, it was the sensitive accompaniment by the entire Monday Jazz Band as well as the solid playing of Jacquet's regular drummer "Cook" Bradnax that made for such a rich musical experience...
Despite these concerns, the concert Saturday evening was a success in that it under-scored the continuity of the Jazz Band's 25 years. As the undergraduate Jazz Bands performed on the stage of Sanders Theater for a near-capacity crowd teeming with band alumni of various ages, one could sense the implicit understanding linking those who had once played on the stage and those who now occupied it. Enthralled audience members seemed hardly to notice the passing of time during the three-hour long concert, aside from their fruitless squirming to find a semi-comfortable position on Sanders' cruel...
...important aim of the performances and events of the weekend was to offer tribute to the evolution of jazz education at Harvard. Tom Everett, director of bands at Harvard, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year-long dedication to the Jazz Band. Everett received, among other things, an engraved dish from the OFA, a letter from jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson affectionately describing him as being "from another planet" and heartfelt thanks and appreciation from band alumni...