WINTER 2014 The Brubeck Institute Newsletter | University of the Pacific, Stockton CA | BrubeckInstitute.org University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute has announced an impressive GRAMMY Award-winning lineup for its 13 th annual Brubeck Festival celebrating the music and life of Dave Brubeck. Al Jarreau, Eddie Palmieri and Terri Lyne Carrington will headline the “2014 Brubeck Festival: Coast to Coast,” March 27–29, in Stockton. The Brubeck Festival has grown over the years and become a community event with many of the events at low or no cost. “We are thrilled to showcase the unique and contrasting styles of Jarreau, Palmieri and Carrington,” said Simon Rowe, Brubeck Institute executive director. “Dave Brubeck also championed diversity and the voice of the individual throughout his long career.” “2014 Brubeck Festival: Coast to Coast” also makes the cross-country connection to the April 7–13 Brubeck tribute at Jazz at Lincoln Center. That New York City celebration will include a six-month exhibit, “Dave Brubeck: Jazz Ambassador,” performances of new arrangements of Brubeck’s music by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and Colonists are Inspired The Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony brought a select group of the best high school jazz musicians from throughout the country to hone their performance skills in the shadow of jazz greatness. Nearly 70 applicants vied for the 18 slots to become Summer Jazz Colonists, carefully chosen through a rigorous application process. The week-long Summer Jazz Colony provides intense musical instruction, meaningful mentoring and challenging performance experiences. Guest artists included Russell Gloyd, who conducted symphonic and choral appearances for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, GRAMMY Award-winning bassists Eddie Gomez and Clark Sommers as well as GRAMMY nominees Stefon Harris (vibraphone) and Matt Wilson (drums). They were joined by a roster of outstanding artists-in-residence who are among the finest musicians and instructors in jazz today, including Ben Flocks, a former Brubeck Fellow (2007– 08 and 2008– 09), who is now a professional saxophonist, composer and educator in Brooklyn, N.Y. The students performed nightly with their faculty mentors at the Take 5 Jazz Club located in the Valley Brewing Company in Stockton and capped off the week with a concert at Faye Spanos Concert Hall. 2014 Brubeck Festival Coast to Coast March 27–29 Stockton, CA Jarreau Carrington Palmieri performances by Brubeck’s sons and current and past Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet members. The Festival will also include several performances of The Real Ambassadors, written by Dave and his wife Iola in the 1950s, which featured Louis Armstrong. Rowe said the Jazz at Lincoln Center event was one of the last that Dave Brubeck helped organize. He died Dec. 5, 2012, a day shy of his 92 nd birthday. Tickets at: BrubeckInstitute.org Partners for The Brubeck Festival include the Black History Month Committee, San Joaquin Delta College, Pacific Arts and Lectures Committee, the City of Stockton and Take 5, Valley Brewing Company. Top, clockwise: Colonists Robbie Lee, Ryan Park-Chan and Jeremy Dorsey rehearse; Daryl Johns listens intently; GRAMMY nominated vibraphonist Stefon Harris performs with colonists; and GRAMMY-winning bassist Eddie Gomez listens to Joey Cozza. 2014 Brubeck Festival Lineup is Revealed
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WINTER 2014
The Brubeck Institute Newsletter | University of the Pacific, Stockton CA | BrubeckInstitute.org
University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute has announced an impressive GRAMMY Award-winning lineup for its 13th annual Brubeck Festival celebrating the music and life of Dave Brubeck. Al Jarreau, Eddie Palmieri and Terri Lyne Carrington will headline the “2014 Brubeck Festival: Coast to Coast,” March 27–29, in Stockton. The Brubeck Festival has grown over the years and become a community event with many of the events at low or no cost.“We are thrilled to showcase the unique and contrasting styles of Jarreau, Palmieri and Carrington,” said Simon Rowe, Brubeck Institute executive director. “Dave Brubeck also championed diversity and the voice of the individual throughout his long career.”“2014 Brubeck Festival: Coast to Coast” also makes the cross-country connection to the April 7–13 Brubeck tribute at Jazz at Lincoln Center. That New York City celebration will include a six-month exhibit, “Dave Brubeck: Jazz Ambassador,” performances of new arrangements of Brubeck’s music by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and
Colonists are InspiredThe Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony brought a select group of the best high school jazz musicians from throughout the country to hone their performance skills in the shadow of jazz greatness. Nearly 70 applicants vied for the 18 slots to become Summer Jazz Colonists, carefully chosen through a rigorous application process.
The week-long Summer Jazz Colony provides intense musical instruction, meaningful mentoring and challenging performance experiences. Guest artists included Russell Gloyd, who conducted symphonic and choral appearances for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, GRAMMY Award-winning bassists Eddie Gomez and Clark Sommers as well as GRAMMY nominees Stefon Harris (vibraphone) and Matt Wilson (drums). They were joined by a roster of outstanding artists-in-residence who are among the finest musicians and instructors in jazz today, including Ben Flocks, a former Brubeck Fellow (2007–08 and 2008–09), who is now a professional saxophonist, composer and educator in Brooklyn, N.Y.
The students performed nightly with their faculty mentors at the Take 5 Jazz Club located in the Valley Brewing Company in Stockton and capped off the week with a concert at Faye Spanos Concert Hall.
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performances by Brubeck’s sons and current and past Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet members. The Festival will also include several performances of The Real Ambassadors, written by Dave and his wife Iola in the 1950s, which featured Louis Armstrong.Rowe said the Jazz at Lincoln Center event was one of the last that Dave Brubeck helped organize. He died Dec. 5, 2012, a day shy of his 92nd birthday.Tickets at: BrubeckInstitute.org
Partners for The Brubeck Festival include the Black History Month Committee, San Joaquin Delta College, Pacific Arts and Lectures Committee, the City of Stockton and Take 5, Valley Brewing Company.
Top, clockwise: Colonists Robbie Lee, Ryan Park-Chan and Jeremy Dorsey rehearse; Daryl Johns listens intently; GRAMMY nominated vibraphonist Stefon Harris performs with colonists; and GRAMMY-winning bassist Eddie Gomez listens to Joey Cozza.
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This spring, Take 5, Jazz at The Brew, celebrates its two-year anniversary. Stockton’s own jazz club — a partnership between the Brubeck Institute and Valley Brewing Company — opened Valentine’s Day 2012 and continues to feature world-class artists like Stefon Harris and Lewis Nash alongside our own favorite regional artist/educators and the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. Visit our website for a full Take 5 schedule of events!
Iola Brubeck is honored
Salute to Jazz Diplomacy
Ensuring a Legacy Lives On
“By donating to the Brubeck Institute, you are facilitating the
growth of young musicians across the country. These musicians will
be responsible for preserving the tradition of jazz, keeping the
legacy of Dave Brubeck alive and reaching out into the community
by sharing the great American art form of jazz.”
— Jeremy Dorsey, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and
2012 and 2013 Summer Jazz Colonist
When Dave Brubeck was asked how he wanted to be remembered, he said: “As someone who opened doors.”
Help support Dave’s memory while supporting the dreams that matter to you.
Through a Legacy Gift to the Brubeck Institute, you can:• Advance the mission of the Institute – on an annual basis and in perpetuity• Provide you (and your beneficiaries) a possible tax advantage and/or income
• Easily leave a gift of significant impact
As a student, Richard Barkle COP ’43 (left) participated in Friday Frolics, a weekly student variety show broadcast on radio featuring classmates Dave and Iola Brubeck.
In 2010, he established the Richard N. Barkle Endowed Scholarship through a Revocable Living Trust, which generously included the Brubeck Institute.
His legacy gift will leave $20,000 annually to the Institute in perpetuity, opening doors for talented musicians for generations to come.
Your Annual Gift will: • Provide opportunities for aspiring young artists• Expand opportunities for the Institute to engage with schools and
the community regionally, nationally and internationally• Help support annual operations to fulfill the Institute’s mission• Give potential annual tax benefits
Contact:Marianne Blackwell, Executive Director Office of Estate and Gift Planning [email protected] or 209.946.2501
Briana Ezzell, Director of Development Brubeck Institute [email protected] or 209.946.7635
The Brubeck Fellows are joined on stage by Open World alumni musicians in Washington, D.C. last October.“It’s an absolute honor
to be a part of this Brubeck Institute program and to be a recipient of the Iola Brubeck Fellowship.
I couldn’t be more excited to try and improve on every
aspect of myself through all of the challenges and puzzles this
year seems to be filled with.” — Sarah Kuo
University of the Pacific, in partnership with American University’s Initiative for Russian Culture and the Open World Leadership Center, hosted an evening that spotlighted jazz diplomacy on Oct. 8. The event highlighted the special cultural relationship that exists through jazz between Russia and the United States.
Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet joined Open World alumni musicians to form the first-ever U.S.-Russia Rising Stars Jazz Band. During their performance at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the band reprised works that the late Dave Brubeck performed at the 1988 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit.
“This is an amazing opportunity for our fellows, because this is the sort of jazz diplomacy Dave Brubeck believed in so much,” said Simon Rowe, Brubeck Institute executive director. “Playing with the Russian musicians is something that they will never forget.”
The evening, which represents the third annual event that the Initiative for Russian Culture has hosted in the nation’s capital, also featured a discussion and performance with Russian jazz great Igor Butman, Russian saxophone virtuoso, bandleader, club owner and television host.
During a visit to University of the Pacific last March, Iola Brubeck ’45 was both surprised and touched when President Pamela A. Eibeck announced that a $1 million endowment had been named in her honor.
The endowment is one of five created to support the Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program — a one- or two-year specialized performance program designed to facilitate the education of five gifted jazz students.
Hailing from performing arts schools and high schools throughout the nation, the fellows are selected through an intensive application and audition process.
The Iola Brubeck Fellow for 2013–14, bassist Sarah Kuo, is the first female musician to be
Patrick Langham, Joe Mazzaferro and Brian Kendrick performing as part of the Patrick Langham Group at Take 5, Jazz at the Brew.
selected for the program. Since it began, 37 fellows have completed the program, moving into prestigious jazz programs and/or high-level performance opportunities across the country.
Sarah Kuo, 2013–14 Brubeck Fellow
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Shirley DozierPatty
Fensterwald ’48Carole GilbertsonMarlene HnathBob HnathStuart I. JacobsRon Kass
Louise KassGail Kautz ’58Larry Leasure ’63Scott Liggett ’71Giulio OngaroTommie PardueJean Purnell ’02
Marion SachsPaul SachsCarol SimsTasha Stadtner ’42Stephanie StevensonDenny Stilwell ’88
HONORARY BOARD The BI would like to thank its Honorary Board members for their generosity and service to the Institute:
Herb AlpertDavid N. Baker Jr.James R. BancroftDavid BenoitKen BurnsDonald V. DeRosaClint Eastwood
Clive GillinsonRalph Guild ’50Tom HallTim JacksonAl JarreauQuincy D. Jones Jr.Dame Cleo Laine
Norman M. LearLarry Leasure ’63Dennis A. LeVett ’61Ramsey E. Lewis Jr.George LucasYo-Yo MaWynton Marsalis
Christian McBrideDoug RamseyLarry RosenHedrick SmithA. Earle WeatherwaxGeorge T. WeinGordon Zuckerman
AMBASSADORS
The BI thanks its volunteer group of Ambassadors for their ongoing support:
From the Executive DirectorIn the last month, now a year since Dave’s passing, I am once again reminded of the enormous impact and indelible mark left by great leaders, visionaries, teachers and artists. With Nelson Mandela’s death, the entire world celebrated the life of one of the greatest statesmen and catalysts of our modern age. Closer to home, I lost a 96-year-old mentor, William Adam, who will be remembered as one of the great trumpet pedagogues of the 20th century.
While many of us may see our own children and descendants as a way
to sustain our individual legacies, some, like Nelson Mandela, Bill Adam and Dave Brubeck, are identified more universally, with critical moments in time, history and culture. They create legacy by changing our hearts and the way in which we view the world.
Sitting in a movie theater in Northern California watching a movie about the making of “Mary Poppins” and America in the early 1960’s, I was transported by strains of the Dave Brubeck Quartet from the album Dave Digs Disney. I remembered the stories about Dave recording this album after countless nightly meals of Disney tunes as bedtime approached at the Brubeck home.
Almost every day, I receive a note, email or message reminding me of the myriad ways, big and small, in which Dave changed the world.
BIJQ performs at Monterey Jazz FestivalThe Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet (BIJQ) joined an all-star lineup at the 56th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. The BIJQ performed at the festival’s Night Club venue, followed a few hours later by the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, consisting of Chris and Dan Brubeck, Mike DeMicco and Chuck Lamb.
“Dave Brubeck’s long and fruitful career was intertwined with the Monterey Jazz Festival from its very beginnings. He helped convince Monterey city elders to grant permission for its debut, regularly performed as a headliner, and premiered a number of important works at the festival,” said Simon Rowe.
Previous quintets have performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. This was the first major public performance for the 2013–14 BIJQ.
The 2013–14 Brubeck Fellows include: bassist Sarah Kuo of Los Angeles; drummer Jalon D’Mere Archie of Houston; trumpeter Max Boiko of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;
guitarist Sean Britt of Hingham, Mass.; and vibraphonist Joel M. Ross of Chicago.
Salute to Jazz Diplomacy
Top, clockwise: The 2013-14 BIJQ performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival featuring Joel Ross on the vibraphone; Sarah Kuo on bass; Sean Britt playing guitar; and Max Boiko on trumpet. Not pictured: drummer Jalon Archie
Darius Brubeck, the eldest son of Dave and Iola Brubeck, paid a visit to the Brubeck Institute in September for workshops and concerts with the Brubeck Fellows. Darius is a noted musician, composer and educator in his own right. He joined the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet for a performance at the Take 5 Jazz Club at the Valley Brewing Company and again at Mills College in Oakland.
Darius Brubeck rehearses with BIJQ
“The opportunity to bring the BIJQ to perform at such a
historic festival and represent the Institute before a packed house at the MJF was truly a
great experience for us.”— Nick Fryer,
Associate Director
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EUGENE WRIGHT VISITS PACIFIC“Senator” Eugene Wright, renowned jazz bassist and the last living member of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, visited University of the Pacific in October. While at Pacific, he toured the Brubeck Collection, observed activities of the Brubeck Institute and the Conservatory of Music and interacted with students and faculty members.
Wright recounted his career, including his time in the Dave Brubeck Quartet, during the panel discussion “Life and Times of Senator Eugene Wright.” The panel included Brubeck Institute Executive Director Simon Rowe, Pacific professors Patrick Langham and Keith Hatschek, and University Archivist Michael Wurtz.
Known as the Senator among fellow musicians, Wright is best known for his work as a member of The Dave Brubeck Quartet, in particular on the group’s most famous album Time Out (1959), which included drummer Joe Morello and saxophonist Paul Desmond.
HAPPENINGS
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“We captured some amazing stories that we hope to add to our collections. Short of Iola and the
rest of the family, there is probably no one that understood the mind, music, and humanitarian efforts
of Dave Brubeck during the “classic” Quartet years better
than Senator Wright.”
— Michael Wurtz, University Archivist
Clockwise from top: Senator Wright rehearses with the Classic Dave Brubeck Quartet; the BIJQ joins Eugene Wright and Executive Director Simon Rowe for a photo; and the Senator visits the Brubeck Collection during his visit and chats with Simon Rowe and University Archivist Michael Wurtz.
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