CareFusion Jazz Festival New York
A Salute to James Moody

Performers

• Adam Nussbaum, Drums
• Jimmy Heath, Saxophone
• Jon Faddis, Trumpet
• Paquito D'Rivera, Clarinet
• Randy Brecker, Trumpet
• Roberta Gambarini, Vocals
• Todd Coolman, Bass
• with:
  Renee Rosnes, Piano

Program

• Program is approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes, and will be performed without intermission

Bios

• Adam Nussbaum
  
  Adam Nussbaum grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut, and started to play drums at age 12. He moved to New York City in 1975, where he began working with Albert Dailey, Monty Waters, Joe Lee Wilson, and Sheila Jordan; two years later, he performed with Sonny Rollins in Milwaukee. In 1978, Nussbaum joined Dave Liebman’s quintet and did his first European tour with John Scofield. During the early 1980s, he continued working with Scofield in a celebrated trio with Steve Swallow. In 1983, he became a member of the Gil Evans Orchestra and played with Stan Getz. In 1987, he began touring with the Michael Brecker Quintet; the following year, they recorded the Grammy winning Don’t Try This at Home. He was part of the Carla Bley Big Band in 1992 and that same year was asked by John Abercrombie to join his organ trio.
  
  Nussbaum has kept active in a variety of groups, among them the recently formed BANN with Seamus Blake, Jay Anderson, and Oz Noy; the Nuttree Quartet with Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, and Gary Versace; and We Three with Dave Liebman and Steve Swallow. Nussbaum has taught as an adjunct professor at New York University, The New School, and SUNY Purchase. He also leads clinics and master classes around the world.

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• Jimmy Heath
  
  Jimmy Heath has long been recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and as a magnificent composer and arranger. He is the middle brother of the legendary Heath Brothers (with Percy on bass and Tootie on drums). Heath has performed with nearly all the jazz greats of the last 50 years, from Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis to Wynton Marsalis. In 1948 at the age of 21, he performed in the first Paris Festival International de Jazz with McGhee, sharing the stage with Coleman Hawkins, Slam Stewart, and Erroll Garner. One of Heath’s earliest big bands in Philadelphia included John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Specs Wright, Cal Massey, Johnny Coles, Ray Bryant, and Nelson Boyd.
  
  During his career, Heath has performed on more than 100 albums, including seven with The Heath Brothers and 12 as a leader. He has also written more than 125 compositions, many of which have become jazz standards and have been recorded by such artists as Art Farmer, Cannonball Adderley, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, James Moody, Milt Jackson, Ahmad Jamal, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, J. J. Johnson, and Dexter Gordon. In addition, Health has composed extended works—seven suites and two string quartets—premiering his first symphonic work, Three Ears, in 1988 at Queens College (CUNY) with conductor Maurice Peress.
  
  After recently concluding 11 years as a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, Heath maintains an extensive performance schedule, and continues to conduct workshops and clinics throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada.

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• Jon Faddis
  
  Jon Faddis is a complete and consummate musician—conductor, composer, and educator. As a trumpeter, Faddis possesses a virtually unparalleled range and full command of his instrument, making the practically impossible seem effortless.
  
  Born in 1953, Faddis began playing trumpet at age seven, inspired by a television appearance by Louis Armstrong. Meeting Dizzy Gillespie at age 15 proved to be a pivotal beginning of a unique friendship that spanned almost three decades. Shortly before his 18th birthday, Faddis joined Lionel Hampton’s band, moving from Oakland to New York. Faddis worked as lead trumpet for the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra at the Village Vanguard (and on tour all around the world), formed his own quartet, and soon began directing jazz orchestras and big bands. The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, which celebrated its 40th anniversary at Columbia College Chicago in 2005–2006, named Faddis as its Artistic Director in August 2004. Faddis has also served as guest conductor and featured guest with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
  
  Faddis’s distinctive trumpet appears on hundreds of records and numerous soundtracks for film and television. His original compositions include the jazz opera Lulu Noire (1997); other Faddis works are available on his Grammy-nominated Remembrances (1998), Hornucopia (1991), Into the Faddisphere (1989), and his latest release, TERANGA (2006).
  
  Faddis’s TERANGA features new compositions by the trumpeter, joined by members of the Jon Faddis Quartet together with special guests Alioune Faye (sabor), Abdou Mboup (djembe and talking drum), Russell Malone (guitar), Gary Smulyan (baritone saxophone), Frank Wess (alto flute), and Clark Terry (flugelhorn and vocals).
  
  Faddis remains true to the tradition of honoring mentors, regularly leading master classes and clinics worldwide, and also teaching as a full-time faculty member at the Conservatory of Music, Purchase College–SUNY (where he is Director of Jazz Performance) and as a guest lecturer at Columbia College Chicago. Visit jonfaddis.net and terangajazz.com for more information.

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• Paquito D’Rivera
  
  Paquito D’Rivera defies categorization. The winner of nine Grammy Awards, he is celebrated both for his artistry in Latin jazz and his achievements as a classical composer.
  
  Born in Havana, D’Rivera became a featured soloist with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra at age 17. As a founding member of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, he directed the group for two years, while also playing both the clarinet and saxophone with the Cuban National Symphony. He later became a founding member and co-director of the innovative musical ensemble Irakere. With its explosive mixture of jazz, rock, classical, and traditional Cuban music, Irakere toured America and Europe, and earned a Grammy Award in 1979.
  
  D’Rivera is a founding member of the United Nations Orchestra, a 15-piece ensemble organized by Dizzy Gillespie in 1988 to showcase the fusion of Latin and Caribbean influences with jazz. The group features such artists as James Moody, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis, Claudio Roditi, and others. Visit paquitodrivera.com for more information.

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• Randy Brecker
  
  Grammy Award–winning Randy Brecker has been shaping the sound of jazz, R&B, and rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, Horace Silver, and Frank Zappa. Brecker began his foray into jazz/rock by joining Blood, Sweat, and Tears, working with the group for a year and playing on its innovative 1968 debut Child Is Father to the Man. In 1968, he also recorded his first album as a leader, Score, featuring a young and then unknown 19-year-old tenor saxophonist named Michael Brecker. The two brothers joined forces again in 1974 as the Brecker Brothers, recording a total of six albums and garnering seven Grammy nominations; they went on to win a Grammy in 1994 for Out of the Loop.
  
  Throughout his career, Randy Brecker has also played with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Larry Coryell, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, and the great James Moody. Brecker won his first Grammy as a solo artist in 1998 for Into the Sun. As a composer, performer, and in-demand Yamaha clinician, he continues to influence musicians from around the world. His most recent release is Nostalgic Journey: Tykocin Jazz Suite (Summit Records).

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• Roberta Gambarini
  
  Roberta Gambarini grew up in a family where jazz was loved and appreciated. She started singing at a very young age and went on to perform at many jazz venues in her native Italy and throughout Europe. In 1998, she moved to the US where she became one of the runner-ups in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and soon launched an international career that led her to perform in many of the biggest venues in the world, while sharing the stage with some of her childhood idols, among them James Moody, Herbie Hancock, Slide Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Hank Jones. Her albums Easy to Love (2006) and So in Love (2008) both received Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

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• Todd Coolman
  
  Grammy Award–winning bassist Todd Coolman is among the more in-demand musicians on the New York music scene today. Since moving to New York in 1978, Coolman has performed and/or recorded with such jazz artists as Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Tommy Flanagan, Ahmad Jamal, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, and numerous others. Coolman has recorded three CDs as a leader, most recently Perfect Strangers (2009), an ArtistShare fan-funded project.
  
  In addition to his busy performing schedule, Coolman is a jazz educator. He is a professor of music and is Director of the Jazz Studies Program at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College (SUNY). He was selected for the 2001–2003 Doris and Karl Kempner Distinguished Professorship at Purchase and has received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The author of two books, The Bass Tradition and The Bottom Line, Coolman is also in demand as a clinician and lecturer at universities throughout the world, and is frequently sought after as a writing and research consultant for jazz history and CD liner-note projects. Visit toddcoolman.com for more information.

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• Renee Rosnes
  
  Renee Rosnes has emerged as one of the premier jazz pianists and composers of her generation. She has toured and recorded with such artists as Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, J. J. Johnson, Bobby Hutcherson, the SFJAZZ Collective, and James Moody, among others. Rosnes has released 12 highly acclaimed recordings, which have garnered four Juno Awards. Her newest CD is Manhattan Rain (Pony Canyon Japan). She also frequently performs in a two-piano setting with husband Bill Charlap; Double Portrait, a debut Blue Note recording that features the two, was released this spring.

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