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Winter 2004 ' Volume 11

Ellington Reunion Project
            We look forward to your joining us for this sixth concert season at Claremont McKenna College. February reunites alumni of the legendary Duke Ellington Orchestra for an ambitious oral history project highlighted by a Saturday evening
concert with the AJI Big Band and a Monday evening jam session. In March, we pay a big-band tribute to Chico O’Farrill; in April, Gene Lees and Roger Kellaway present The Johnny Mercer Songbook. See page 3 for details on One Day with Lee, AJI’s new CD with Lee Konitz performing his own compositions arranged by Mark Masters.

AJI presents ONE DAY WITH LEE
             In April 2002, the AJI produced a studio recording with one of the elder statesmen
of jazz, Lee Konitz. The disc, titled ONE DAY WITH LEE, is scheduled for release early in 2004 on the Capri Records label.

Mark Turner & Friends
            One of the main goals of every creative jazz musician is to develop one's own sound, a voice that is distinctive and immediately recognizable. Mark Turner was an original from the time of his recording debut in 1998, and he has continued to grow in depth through each of his albums. No one else sounds like him, and he has a tone and ideas that are unlike any of his contemporaries or predecessors.      

An Evening with Steve Kuhn
             Steve Kuhn Trio with David Finck, bass, and Peter Erskine, drums with string quartet, woodwinds and harp in a performance of Gary McFarland's third stream masterpiece, "OCTOBER SUITE."

Spring concerts at CMC feature Jimmy Knepper, Porgy & Bess and special tributes to Gary McFarland and Jelly Roll Morton.

Memorable moments of the Fall 2001 season at Claremont McKenna College.

AJI Goes to College: Announcing the Spring 2002 concert series at Claremont McKenna College.

Ellingtonia 2001 The Music of Duke Ellington with Special guest: Gina Eckstine, vocalist Lee Konitz & Friends.

A Tribute to Lee Konitz The American Jazz Institute Big Band Special guests: Alan Broadbent, Bob Enevoldsen, Gary Foster, Joe LaBarbera, Jack Montrose, Putter Smith.

Lee Konitz, Jelly Roll Morton tribute and fresh Porgy & Bess to highlight 2001-2002 season at Claremont McKenna College.

AJI goes to college: Memorable moments of the 2001 Spring season at Claremont McKenna College.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Special Ellington concert comes to CMC in September.

Sketches of Spain : Special guest Tim Hagans, trumpet, Celebrating Mingus : Special guest Ray Drummond, bass, Jack Montrose & His West Coast Friends, 3rd Annual Kenton Sound