All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! Concert Featuring the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Dave Douglas Quintet and Dianne Reeves at Rose Theater March 9

All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! Concert Featuring the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Dave Douglas Quintet and Dianne Reeves at Rose Theater March 9

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Two trumpet virtuosos and one of today's most distinct jazz vocalists will headline the All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! concert sponsored by HIP Health Plan of New York on March 9, 2005 at 8pm in Rose Theater. This special evening of jazz will feature the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Dave Douglas Quintet as each take the stage of Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Leading lady of jazz Dianne Reeves will lend her vocal stylings as she joins the Wynton Marsalis Quintet as a special guest. Tickets for this concert are priced at $25, $40, $65, $80 and are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office, by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500, or via http://www.jalc.org/.

All That Jazz: Now That's HIP! is a one-of-a-kind event wherein Wynton Marsalis and Dave Douglas will present their two distinct trumpet approaches to jazz. For the first half of the night, Dave Douglas will perform his unconventional interpretations of traditional jazz that has earned him critics' acclaim and numerous awards. For the second half, Grammy-award winning Mr. Marsalis, backed by his septet and special guest vocalist Dianne Reeves, will demonstrate down-home swing and fine sense of classical style.

Dave Douglas is widely recognized as one of the most important and original American musicians to emerge from the jazz and improvised music scene of the last few decades. His collaborations as a trumpeter include: John Zorn, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Steve Lacy, Fred Hersch, Anthony Braxton, Myra Melford, Andy Bey, Nick Didkovsky, Trisha Brown, Terry Winters, Jennifer Tipton, Louis Sclavis, Henry Grimes, Tim Berne, Tom Waits, Rabih Abou-Khalil, DJ Olive, Ikue Mori, Han Bennink, and many others. Since 1993, Mr. Douglas has recorded and released 21 albums of original music, and has appeared on over one hundred recordings. From 1991 - 2003, Mr. Douglas led the Tiny Bell Trio, a pioneering group that melded jazz and Balkan music, and recorded four albums worth of new material. Since 1993 he has been a member of John Zorn's popular Masada quartet. In 2003, he composed a series of poetry settings for singer/pianist Andy Bey. Poems by Samuel Beckett, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Stanley Kunitz were included. Since 2003 Mr. Douglas has served as artistic director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, collaborating in performances and master classes with Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, George Lewis, Jason Moran, Mark Turner, Louis Sclavis, and many others.

Wynton Marsalis is the Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Mr. Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in local bands of diverse genres. He entered The Juilliard School in 1979 when he was 17 years old, joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that same year. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 30 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music, for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new recordings in his unprecedented "Swinging into the 21st" series, and premiered several new compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a June 1999 collaboration with the New York City Ballet. That same year he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) and the Morgan State University Choir. Mr. Marsalis signed to Blue Note Records in 2003, and his debut CD, a quartet recording entitled "The Magic Hour", was released March 9, 2004. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout the U.S. He conducts educational programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People(SM) concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Marsalis has also been featured in the video series Marsalis on Music and the radio series Making the Music. He has also written two books: Sweet Swing Blues on the Road in collaboration with photographer Frank Stewart, and recently released Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life with Carl Vigeland. On March 20, 2001, Mr. Marsalis was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.

HIP Health Plan of New York is the largest HMO in New York City. HIP provides access to care in a variety of ways. Members have access to doctors organized and practicing in large multidisciplinary medical groups in medical centers. Alternatively, they may see doctors in medical centers associated with leading hospitals, including Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke's- Roosevelt Hospital Center, St. Barnabas Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital or Montefiore Medical Center. Members also have access to HIP's network of physicians practicing in their own office, which includes over 22,000 providers in more than 33,000 locations. HIP is affiliated with more than 100 participating hospitals, including those named above and other outstanding institutions. HIP acquired Vytra Health Plans in 2001. The acquisition of ConnectiCare, a leading Connecticut health care company, was initiated in 2004 and is awaiting final regulatory approval. For more information about HIP, please visit our Web site, http://www.hipusa.com/. It is available in English, Spanish, Chinese and Korean.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Julliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses, film programs, and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President & CEO Derek E. Gordon, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004- 05 season. This is the inaugural season in JALC's new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.

Listings Information:
Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center
Event: All That Jazz: Now That's HIP!
Featuring the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Dave Douglas Quintet
and Special Guest Vocalist Dianne Reeves
Dates/Times: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at 8pm
Location: Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose
Hall on Broadway at 60th Street., 5th Floor
Tickets: $25, $40, $65, $80 Available at Jazz at Lincoln Center's
Frederick P. Rose Hall box office on Broadway at 60th
Street (open Monday - Saturday, 10am-8:30pm and Sunday
11am-8:30pm), CenterCharge at 212-721-6500 or via
http://www.jalc.org/

For more information, please visit http://www.jalc.org/.



Source: Jazz at Lincoln Center

CONTACT: Zooey Tidal, Manager, Public Relations, +1-212-258-9821,
ztidal@jalc.org, for Jazz at Lincoln Center

Web site: http://www.jalc.org/

NOTE TO EDITORS: High-resolution, downloadable photos: For Wynton Marsalis: http://www.jalc.org/presenters/images/index.html or For Dave Douglas and Dianne Reeves: http://www.jalc.org/press/photos_05b.asp

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