All-State Jazz Concert

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2018

5:00 PM

SORENG - HULT CENTER

Conductor: Dan Gailey

Manager: Ben Lawson

A Minor Point of View

George Stone

A Ha! Bob Mintzer

Widows Walk Rick Margitza arr Dan Gailey

Dog, Tired David von Kampen

Union Michael Conrad

The Kid from Red Bank Neal Hefti

Dan Gailey, Jazz Conductor

Dan Gailey is the Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Kansas, where he directs Jazz Ensemble I, teaches courses in jazz composition, arranging and pedagogy, and produces the annual KU Jazz Festival He has been named to a coveted Chancellor’s Club Teaching Professorship at KU for 2017-23 Dan is the recipient of the 1996 IAJE Gil Evans Fellowship, presented to an emerging jazz composer from an international field of candidates. Under his direction, the KU Jazz Studies Program has been the recipient of 25 DownBeat Student Music Awards, including Jazz Ensemble I’s 2015 award for Best College Jazz Ensemble in the Graduate Division, and their Outstanding Performance Award in the same category in 2017 .

As director of KU Jazz Ensemble I, Dan has led performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the 2008 and 2014 Montreux Jazz Festivals in Switzerland, the 2014 Jazz à Vienne Festival in France, the 2017 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival in California, and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City He also directed the band in invited appearances at International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences in New York City, Atlanta and Boston

The Dan Gailey Jazz Orchestra debut CD What Did You Dream? was released in July 2010 on Origin/OA2 Records and features all original compositions by Dan The CD spent almost two years on the JazzWeek Radio Airplay charts, and received very favorable reviews from JAZZIZ, JazzTimes and Cadence magazines, among others

Dan has directed all-state high school jazz ensembles in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, along with the 2015 NAfME All-Northwest Jazz Ensemble and the 1996 National Band Association National High School Ensemble . He holds degrees from the University of Northern Colorado (MM) and Pacific Lutheran University (BM).

Ben Lawson, Jazz Manager

Ben Lawson is the Band and Choir director at Redmond High School in Redmond, Oregon Ben holds a BA in Instrumental Conducting and a MAT in Music Education from Oregon State University. Since his first-year teaching, he has been an active member of OMEA, serving as chairs for multiple festivals at the district level, two years on the State Executive board as 2nd Vice President and Conference Chair of the OMEA 2011 All-State Convention, “Planting the Seed of Inspiration,” as well as the past three years as All-State Jazz Band Manager. Outside of Oregon Ben was the All-NW Wind Symphony Site Manager for two years, and is currently the All-NW Band Manager. He is a certified OBDA/OSAA band adjudicator and is on staff with the Oregon Ambassadors of Music .

Jazz

Alto Saxophone Will Glausi West Linn High

Alto Saxophone Sawyer Mitchell Beaverton High

Baritone Saxophone Sam Redding Grant High

Bass Finn Jones Grant High

Drums Thomas Lowe Glencoe High

Guitar Noah Weinberg Westview High

Piano Abraham Luedtke South Eugene High

Tenor Saxophone Justin Elliott West Albany High

Tenor Saxophone . . . . Ryan Schmid . . . . . . . . . Redmond High

Trombone Max Becker West Linn High

Trombone Josh Busby Sherwood High

Trombone Eric Jensen Westview High

Trombone Silas Kidd Myers Grant High

Trumpet Luukas Lemetyinen West Linn High

Trumpet Aaron Park Redmond High

Trumpet Cameron Roche West Salem High

Trumpet Riley White Beaverton High

Vibraphone Joey Craighead Sherwood High