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October 2010
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W.C. Handy
arranger1873 - 1958

George Gershwin
composer / conductor1898 - 1937

Ira Gershwin
composer / conductor1896 - 1983

James P. Johnson
piano1894 - 1955
Berlin was the site not long ago of the debut performance of Swing Symphony, the third symphony of

Wynton Marsalis
trumpetb.1961
"The sultry sound of a saxophone floats through a windowless room several floors beneath Washington, D.C.'s rush-hour traffic. John Edward Hasse adjusts his chair in front of a camera, tapping his toes as the big-band tune "Take the 'A' Train" plays on a CD. It's 8:30 a.m. in the nation's capital, but it's 3:30 p.m. at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where a crowd has gathered to watch Hasse, via video conference, speak about the genre that revolutionized American music..." Thus opens an article in Smithsonian magazine about the national museum's music curator, whose daily task is to teach people worldwide about jazz. Hasse founded Jazz Appreciation Month, now celebrated in 40 countries and all 50 states. He recently joined an international panel to produce Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology, a six-CD, 111-track set that revamps and expands the 1973 Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. Go to smithsonian.com and search for "Ambassador of Jazz."
"In our program books, I always give a thank you to

Vince Giordano
composer / conductorb.1952

Dan Levinson
clarinet
James Chirillo
guitarb.1953

Marian McPartland
piano1918 - 2013

John Zorn
saxophone, altob.1953

Greg Cohen
bass, acoustic
Joey Baron
drumsb.1955
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Fradley Garner
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W.C. Handy
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
James P. Johnson
wynton marsalis
Jazz Appreciation Month
Vince Giordano
Dan Levinson
James Chirillo
Marian McPartland
john zorn
Greg Cohen
Joey Baron
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