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Directions to Delaware Water Gap PA 18327 From New York & New JerseyTravel I-80 West, cross toll bridge into PA, and take fi rst exit (310) to fi rst right to Delaware Water Gap. Turn right at stop-light, and follow signs for free festival parking. All lots are within 1/4 mile of the festival site.

From Western PA and Western NYTravel I-80 East, take last exit in PA (310) into Delaware Water Gap. Follow signs for free festival parking. All lots are within 1/4 mile of the festival site.

More to enjoy at COTA 39! Arts & Crafts18+ outstanding area artisansplus COTA Apparel Store

Great Local Food Booths“Take out” (to hillside seats) or enjoycafé seating (smoke-free, no-alcohol zone)

Strolling Musicians & “Rising Star” PerformancesOn the promenade (the place to dance!),between sets on the Rick Chamberlain Stage

Children’s AreaMusic, games, storytelling, face-painting, crafts; open until dusk Saturday & Sunday

SeatingFlat-area seating is limited at the base of our hillside am-phitheater, where we provide several rows of chairs that are available on a fi rst-come basis each day. Most COTA listeners bring blankets or low beach chairs (no canopies, please), which may be left overnight Saturday-Sunday. In case of rain, folding chairs will be set up under a large tent behind the Rick Chamberlain Stage.

For a list of overnight accommodations and maps, please see our website, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to

COTAP.O. Box 249Delaware Water Gap PA 18327

Please, no pets; no recording devices.

“ . . . one of the greatest jazz alto saxophone players to ever set foot on this planet . . . .”

—Quincy Jones

September 9-11, 2016

39th Annual Delaware Water Gap

CelebrationCelebrationOf TheArtsJazz&Arts

Festival

Rick Chamberlain Stage

Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Saturday, September 10Noon Celebration Sax Quartet Noon Celebration Sax Quartet Noon Celebration Sax Quartet 1:15 Expansions: The David Liebman Group The David Liebman Group The David Liebman Group The David Liebman Group 2:30 Bill Mays 2:30 Bill Mays 3:45 Brian Lynch Quartet3:45 Brian Lynch Quartet3:45 Brian Lynch Quartet3:45 Brian Lynch Quartet featuring Emmet Cohen featuring Emmet Cohen featuring Emmet Cohen featuring Emmet Cohen5:00 Co-Op Bop5:00 Co-Op Bop6:30 Bill Goodwin Trio6:30 Bill Goodwin Trio6:30 Bill Goodwin Trio7:45 COTA Festival Orchestra7:45 COTA Festival Orchestra7:45 COTA Festival Orchestra7:45 COTA Festival Orchestra

Sunday, September 1Sunday, September 1Sunday, September 1Sunday, September 1Sunday, September 1Sunday, September 1110am Jazz Mass (free orchestral/choral church service)10am Jazz Mass (free orchestral/choral church service)10am Jazz Mass (free orchestral/choral church service)10am Jazz Mass (free orchestral/choral church service)10am Jazz Mass (free orchestral/choral church service)Noon The Steve Gilmore/Steve Brown QuintetNoon The Steve Gilmore/Steve Brown QuintetNoon The Steve Gilmore/Steve Brown Quintet1:15 Hal Galper’s Youngbloods Quartet1:15 Hal Galper’s Youngbloods Quartet1:15 Hal Galper’s Youngbloods Quartet2:30 COTA Cats Volume XXXVI2:30 COTA Cats Volume XXXVI2:30 COTA Cats Volume XXXVI4:15 Bill Charlap4:15 Bill Charlap4:15 Bill Charlap5:30 Jon Gordon Trio5:30 Jon Gordon Trio6:45 Bob Dorough and Friends of Phil Woods6:45 Bob Dorough and Friends of Phil Woods6:45 Bob Dorough and Friends of Phil Woods8:00 SheilaMark Band8:00 SheilaMark Band8:00 SheilaMark Band

On Main Street

Friday, September 9

6-8pm at the Dutot Museum & Gallery

Music Motif Art Show Opening & Reception

Suggested $2.00 donation appreciated. Show continues Sat. & Sun., Noon-6pm.

7-9:30pm at the Church Of The Mountain

Water Gap Players (edgy theater) plus classical music & interpretive dance $10.00 admission. Refreshments available by donation during intermission.

Festival Schedule

Ticket InformationDaily Admissions, Saturday & Sunday (at our gate or via our website)Adults (per day) $28Two-day ticket $40Sold in advance @ cotajazz.orgor at our gate on Saturday

Children ages 5-12 $10Students with ID $15Seniors 65-plus $15

COTA 39

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COTA Festival 39 proudly celebrates Phil Woods’ illustrious career and personal magnetism through performances by a line-up of world-class musicians who have studied with him, played with him, recorded his compositions, befriended (and tried to match wits with) him over his amazing 60 years of making music at the highest level and mentoring young talent (with his unrelenting demands for excellence and his unwavering generosity).

Two musicians who first joined forces with Phil in 1974 will bring their own new groups to COTA’s newly dedicated Rick Chamberlain [Main] Stage: bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin (Phil’s longtime record producer, and the brother of Phil’s wife, Jill Goodwin). Both Bill and Steve performed at COTA’s first festival in 1978, are charter members of the original Phil Woods Quartet (and

Quintet), and toured Europe in 1997 with the Phil Woods Big Band, which won a Grammy

Award nomination for Celebration.

The two celebrated pianists with whom Phil had worked most recently—Bill Charlap and Bill Mays—will also grace

COTA 39. Charlap’s solo set will feature his acclaimed rendition of one of Phil’s most lyrical and oft-recorded compositions, “Goodbye Mr. Evans” (which Charlap chose for his first album, Souvenir). Mays, also highly regarded as a prolific composer and arranger, prizes among his many recordings (solo, duo, trio, and sextet) 2011’s Phil & Bill (with, of course, Mr. Woods).

Phil’s longtime trumpeter Brian Lynch lights up COTA 39 with his exuberant swing quartet, featuring the young Emmet Cohen (a new jazz piano star), backed by legendary drummer Billy Hart and master bassist Boris Kozlov.

Jon Gordon—hailed by Phil himself as “one of the greatest alto players ever”—will bring his trio to COTA for the first time. (When you watch/listen to his 10-minute interview on our

website, you’ll appreciate the unique experience of studying with Phil, as Jon began doing when he was only 17.)

Among our other headliners are ever-popular COTA Festival veterans, including Phil’s fellow NEA Jazz Master David Liebman, leading his group “Expansions”; the incomparable singer/songwriter Bob Dorough (for whom Phil never ceased “campaigning,” believing Bob to be an “American treasure” who should also be honored as a Jazz Master); Hal Galper, leading his new-to-COTA Youngbloods Quartet, with their inventive “rubato” sound; and Nelson Hill (Phil’s student beginning at age

13) with the other five collaborators who comprise Co-Op Bop.

Finally, our festival would not be complete without the

two dynamite Big Bands that Phil developed and sustained: the magnificent COTA Festival Orchestra (Saturday night’s closer) and (performing on Sunday afternoon) the 36th iteration of the COTA Cats, the high-school all-star band (assembled anew each summer) that COTA founded in 1981, at Phil’s initiative.

Offering a full weekend of first-class entertainment for less than the price of one night out at a city club, COTA promises you great jazz and art—and on-site food and fun. We invite you to check details on each scheduled performance on our website, and book your tickets today!

ith a devoted international following of friends, fans, jazz collaborators and critics,

Philip Wells Woods was the brightest

star ever to settle in the little borough of

Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania. The

world-renowned alto saxophonist, who would

eventually perform on six of the seven continents,

chose this quiet, forested Delaware River community as his adopted hometown in

1976, just a few years after living in France for fi ve years.

“Revered in jazz circles for his bright, clean sound and his sterling technique…,”* Phil was nominated for seven

Grammy Awards, and won four, beginning in 1975 with Images (orchestrated by Michel Legrand). Moving easily

and gracefully across multiple jazz genres, Phil’s innovative styling of bebop is perhaps his most lauded contribution to

jazz legend. “Rigorous, complex and brisk, bebop’s stylistic language would be a constant for Mr. Woods throughout his prolifi c career, as both a leader and a sideman.”* In 2007,

Phil was awarded America’s highest honor in jazz, being named a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Master

(Composition), and in 2011 was presented a Living Jazz Legend Award from the Kennedy Center.

In early September 2015, Phil Woods played his fi nal concert (“Bird with Strings…and More”) in Pittsburgh, backed by a

local rhythm section and members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Just weeks later, on September 29, he departed

our planet, at age 83, surrounded by loving family members. Both they and Phil’s adoring Celebration of the Arts (COTA)

family imagine him joining the two timeless friends who in 1978 became his COTA co-founders (or “fl ounders,” as they dubbed themselves). In a letter penned only a month before he passed, Phil referred to these two endearing characters—

innkeeper/community organizer Ed Joubert (d. 1981) and trombonist/indomitable energizer Rick Chamberlain (d. 2015)

— as the “glorious partners” he deeply missed.

*Nate Chinen, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2015

Philip Wells Woods

saxophonist, who would eventually perform on six

of the seven continents, chose this quiet, forested

ith a devoted international following of friends, fans, jazz collaborators and critics,

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Bob Dorough

Jon Gordon

Award nomination for

The two with whom Phil had worked most recently—Bill Mays

Brian Lynch

Bill Charlap

Finally, our festival would not be complete without the

36th iteration of the COTA Cats, the high-

Hal Galper’s Youngbloods Quartet

39 with his exuberant swing quartet, featuring the

Hal Galper’s Youngbloods Quartet

Come join our glorious celebration of the great

Phil Woods!

“Pray for us, Zoot!” —Phil Woods, at COTA 2006