NEC Jazz Orchestra at Jordan Hall

Ken Schaphorst, New England Conservatory's chair of jazz studies, leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in The Music of Ken Schaphorst, a program of his original music and arrangements. The free concert takes place at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 12 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. For more information, log on to http://necmusic.edu/music-ken-schaphorst or call 617-585-1260.

The program will include music from Schaphorst’s 1999 Naxos Recordings release Purple, along with several newer pieces, including two compositions influenced by the mbira repertoire of Zimbabwe. NEC faculty member Nedelka Prescod will join the band to sing Schaphorst’s arrangement of Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” with the lyrics Joni Mitchell created for her Mingus album. Donny McCaslin, a faculty member in the jazz studies department, is represented by Schaphorst’s new arrangement of “Stadium Jazz” and by a featured solo on Schaphorst’s “Blues for Herb,” written for legendary Boston trumpeter/educator, Herb Pomeroy. ...

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Ken Schaphorst, New England Conservatory's chair of jazz studies, leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in The Music of Ken Schaphorst, a program of his original music and arrangements. The free concert takes place at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 12 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. For more information, log on to http://necmusic.edu/music-ken-schaphorst or call 617-585-1260.

The program will include music from Schaphorst’s 1999 Naxos Recordings release Purple, along with several newer pieces, including two compositions influenced by the mbira repertoire of Zimbabwe. NEC faculty member Nedelka Prescod will join the band to sing Schaphorst’s arrangement of Charles Mingus’ “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” with the lyrics Joni Mitchell created for her Mingus album. Donny McCaslin, a faculty member in the jazz studies department, is represented by Schaphorst’s new arrangement of “Stadium Jazz” and by a featured solo on Schaphorst’s “Blues for Herb,” written for legendary Boston trumpeter/educator, Herb Pomeroy.

Led by Schaphorst since 2001, the NEC Jazz Orchestra was named Best College Big Band in the 2004 DownBeat Student Music Awards. Performing are Richard Garcia, alto saxophone;
Lihi Haruvi, alto and soprano saxophones;
Wyatt Palmer, tenor saxophone;
Jacob Sieckman, tenor saxophone;
Austin Yancey, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; Kai Sandoval, Aaron Bahr,
David Adewumi and
Jeffrey Cox on trumpets; Dan Gabel,
Michael Prentky,
Blake Manternach and
Joe Ricard on trombones; Nikolaos Anadolis, piano;
Xiongguan Zhang, guitar;
Daniel Raney, bass; and
Carl Pillot, drums.

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