presents
Hollowbody Band
featuring Mike Stern
on April 13, 2013
South
Florida JAZZ presents John Scofield’s Hollowbody Band featuring Mike Stern –
two world-renowned guitarists in one show! Mr. Scofield brings this new band to
South Florida for the first time. Both
guitarists have achieved near-cult status. It is a one-time only chance to see
these guitar legends in the same band.
South
Florida JAZZ, South Florida ’s premier modern jazz
organization is very excited to present John Scofield’s Hollowbody Bandon
Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 8:00 PM. This concert will take place at the
Rose and Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern
University campus, 3100 Ray Ferrero, Jr Blvd , Davie 33314 .
Tickets are $40 ($15 for students) and can be purchased from the Broward Center box office by
calling 954.462.0222 option #4; or online at southfloridajazz.org.
2013 Concerts
Tickets: $40 and $15 for students with I.D.
Tickets: $40 and $15 for students with I.D.
All seating is reserved
March 9, 2013 – 8:00 PM
John Scofield’s
John Scofield’s
Hollowbody Band
featuring Mike Stern
with Ben Street and Bill Stewart
“…He (John Scofield)
possesses one of the most unique guitar voices in modern music.” – Frederick Bernas, All
About Jazz
” …the proper blend
of grace and grit” -New York Times
John Scofield is one of the most influential and
innovative guitarists of his generation. He has spent the last 40 years blazing
a trail through the post-fusion wilderness, bringing his singular voice to a
variety of different projects. His hallmark is his masterful improvising, and
his music generally falls somewhere between post-bop, funk-edged jazz, and
R&B.
Scofield’s résumé reads like a who’s who of the
last 40 years of jazz. After graduating from the Berklee School of Music, his
first recording was with Gerry Mulligan andChet Baker.
He then replaced Pat Metheny in Gary Burton’s band. Soon he
would be performing with the likes of Charles Mingus, Billy Cobham,
and Herbie Hancock, and Miles Davis, with whom he had
an influential stint from 1982-85 that placed him firmly in the foreground of
jazz consciousness as a player and composer.
Scofield has prominently led his own groups since
then, creating a huge footprint internationally in the modern jazz world with
his rock and blues influences. He has recorded over 30 albums as a leader,
including collaborations with contemporary favorites like Pat Metheny,
Charlie Haden, Eddie Harris, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Bill Friselland Phil
Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead. Throughout his
decades-long career, Scofield has punctuated his traditional jazz offerings
with funk-oriented electronica, all the while keeping an open musical mind.
The Hollowbodies project offers Scofield
the chance to play with one of today’s great guitarists, Mike Stern, another
prominent fusion player, joined by long-term collaborator Bill Stewart on
drums and Ben Street on
bass. The guitar has a huge tonal pallet and the Hollowbodies employ that
pallet doubly featuring Scofield`s arrangements for the ensemble and the
orchestral possibilities of guitars, acoustic bass and drums. The music is
neither through-composed nor a hot licks contest. Improvisation is the key
ingredient, as always, and the real magic comes in the interplay.
ARTISTIC
PERSONNEL
John
Scofield – electric guitar
Mike
Stern – electric guitar
Bill
Stewart – drums
May 11, 2013 – 8:00 PM
A
supreme trumpeter and flugelhornist, Tom Harrell creates a seemingly endless
flow of bubbling, intricate ideas conveyed with an almost serene delivery. Neither
aggressively avant-garde, nor riveted in the past, Tom Harrell’s music simply
celebrates sonic beauty for its own sake. Praised for his pure melodic
brilliance, he is widely recognized as one of the most creative and
uncompromising jazz instrumentalists and composers of our time. For over four
decades, close to 300 recordings, and numerous accolades, Tom manages to stay
fresh. His quintet has shown remarkable continuity and cohesion. It is a great
band.
June 8, 2013 – 8:00 PM
There
are no obvious parallels in the music industry. Chicago native Kurt Elling is the greatest
male jazz singer – or just jazz singer – of our time. In a career spanning 16
years, Elling has risen to international prominence as a jazz artist and
creative singer. An intellectual superman, he is a master of “vocalese” and
scatting. Remarkably, each of his nine albums was nominated for a Grammy® Award
and Dedicated to You won in 2010. He is a perennial critics
poll-winner and his quartet tours the world, performing to critical acclaim in
Europe, Asia, Canada , Israel , and Australia . This will be Mr.
Elling’s fifth performance for South Florida JAZZ.
Funding for this organization is
provided in part by the Broward
County Board of
Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Division.
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