Yale University Bands
Thomas C. Duffy, Director presents
Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band
Celebrating Max Roach: Championing Equality and Social Justice Through Music
Wayne Escoffery, Music Director
Monday, March 6, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Star Eyes
Driva Man
Freedom Day
Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
RAYE and DEPAUL arr. Slide Hampton adapted by Michael Philip Mossman*
MAX ROACH/OSCAR BROWN JR. arr. Michael Philip Mossman*
MAX ROACH/OSCAR BROWN JR. arr. Michael Philip Mossman*
Eclipse CHARLES MINGUS arr. Sy Johnson
In A Sentimental Mood DUKE ELLINGTON
Miles Zaud – piano, Thara Joseph – bass, Christopher Palazzo – drums
Yes or No WAYNE SHORTER arr. Mike Tomaro
*M. Mossman’s arrangements commissioned with funds from the Robert Flanagan Yale Bands Commissioning Endowment
American drummer and composer Max Roach (1924-2007) was fiercely committed to championing equality and social justice through music Tonight’s program features two movements of his 1960 avant-garde jazz album and vocalinstrumental suite We Insist! (subtitled Freedom Now) on themes related to the Civil Rights Movement. Both movements were orchestrated and arranged specifically for the Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band by Michael Philip Mossman.
Roach was a pioneer of bepop but worked in many other styles of music and with various musicians including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, and more. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992.
Yale Jazz Ensemble 2023-2024
Wayne Escoffery, Music Director
Stephanie Hubbard, Operations and Productions Manager
Alto Saxophones
Chris Sylvester DC ’26
Elizabeth Seward DC ’27
Tenor Saxophones
Wes Lewis GSAS ’25
Rohan Wassink ES ’26
Baritone Saxophone
Allie Gruber PC ’26
Trumpets
Jared Wyetzner PC ’27
Truth Templeton BF ’26
Mia Rose Kohn GH ’27
Aria Harris SM ’24
Trombones
Max Saffer-Meng BR ’24
Daniel Fried TD ’26
Jacob Lebroda ES ’27
Will Crall ES ’27
Piano
Miles Zaud SY ’26
Bass
Thara Joseph GH ’26
Drums
Christopher Palazzo SY ’27
Vocals
Nina Grigg BF ’24
Teddy Horangic ES ’25
~ The Yale Jazz Ensembles are brought to you, in part, through the generosity of the Adam R. Rose ’81 Yale Jazz Ensemble Endowment ~
Upcoming Yale Bands Concerts
Monday, April 8: Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band at Dizzy’s Club, New York. Wayne Escoffery, Music Director. 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY. 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. $ Tickets: https://jazz.org/dizzys/.
Friday, April 12 – 7:30 p.m. Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Afro-American Symphony (William Grant Still), Medieval Suite (Ron Nelson), New England Triptych (William Schuman). Woolsey Hall. Free
Sunday, May 19 – 7:00-7:45 p.m. Yale Concert Band Twilight Concert, Thomas C Duffy, Music Director. Celebratory music and Yale songs on the eve of Yale’s Commencement ceremony. Outside on the Old Campus. Free (chairs provided).
Yale University Bands
P.O. Box 209048 New Haven, CT 06520-9048 phone (203) 432-4111 | stephanie.hubbard@yale.edu | www.yale.edu/yaleband
