Monday, February 26, 2018, at 7:30 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall
Yale Jazz Ensemble Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director Stephanie Hubbard, Business Manager Theo Van Dyck, Assistant to the Director featuring guest artist
Wayne Escoffery, tenor saxophone Front Burner Sammy Nestico Kari Hustad - trumpet; Hersh Gupta - alto sax; Chloe Swindler - trumpet
Quiet Lady
Ben Grobman - piano; Mat Ferraro - guitar; Elliot Connors - trumpet
Hunting Wabbits 3 (Get Off My Lawn!)
Thad Jones
Gordon Goodwin
Nick Indorf - tenor sax; trumpet - Theo Van Dyck; Mat Ferraro - guitar
Cheek to Cheek
Irving Berlin/arr. Garth Neustadter YSM ’12
Chloe Swindler - vocals; Thomas Hagen - drums
Free Cell Block F, ’Tis Nazi U.S.A.
Charles Mingus/arr. Boris Kozlov
Without a Song
Vincent Young/arr. Joe Henderson
Nick Indorf – flute; Michael Gancz – trombone; Ben Grobman – piano; Mat Ferraro - guitar; Hersh Gupta - alto sax Wayne Escoffery – tenor saxophone
Isotope
Ben Grobman – piano; Wayne Escoffery - tenor saxophone
Joe Henderson
About Tonight’s Guest Artist Wayne Escoffery began his professional career touring and recording with the Eric Reed Septet. Since then, he has played with Abdullah Ibrahim’s Ekaya, the Grammy Awardwinning Mingus Big Band, Tom Harrell’s quintet, and developed his own quartet. Escoffery has also toured with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Music of the Masters, two groups of musicians hand-picked by Wynton Marsalis to perform the music of Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis. Born in London, Escoffery moved to the United States in 1983 and settled in New Haven three years later, where he studied at Neighborhood Music School and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts. He also studied at the New York City-based Jazzmobile. Escoffery later attended the Hartt School, from which he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance before earning a master’s degree in 1999 from the New England Conservatory. Escoffery returned to New Haven in the fall of 2016 to become a part of the Yale School of Music’s Jazz Initiative, where he is a lecturer in jazz improvisation and an ensemble coach. Wayne Escoffery appears, in part, with support from the Rosamonde Safier Yale Band Endowment, established in honor of Rosamonde Safier, a piano prodigy and Tin Pan Alley song composer, to support collaborations between the Yale Bands and the professional world.