Friday 23 February 2024
7.30pm
Milton Court Theatre
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra
with Rufus Reid
Scott Stroman director
Rufus Reid composer & double bass
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Milton Court
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Graham Packham
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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Welcome
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra has the privilege of presenting a performance with one of a handful of true renaissance figures in the Arts, bassist and composer, Rufus Reid. Reid has been an active presence in the jazz world since the 1970s. He has recorded over 500 albums, 25 under his own name, and can be heard on recordings with Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis O!ciartet, Kenny Barron, Stan Getz, J. J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette, and many others.
This programme will feature Reid's tribute to A Love Supreme by John Coltrane, Of Regal Patience, a selection from the 2003 suite, Linear Surroundings, and more recent composition Always in the Moment and a recent arrangement of Victor Feldman's Falling In Love.
Programme
The Tree Atop the Hill
Finn Genockey
Time for Nostalgia
Rufus Reid
A Linear Collage
Rufus Reid
Falling in Love
Rufus Reid
Of Regal Patience
(a tribute to A Love Supreme by John Coltrane)
Rufus Reid
Interval (20 minutes)
Walk Softly
Scott Stroman
Singing Head
(from Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project)
Rufus Reid
Always In The Moment
Rufus Reid
Weird Shuffle
Scott Stroman
You Make Me Smile
Rufus Reid
Performance order correct at time of publication.
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra
Voice
Alex Moss
Woodwinds
Alex Wilson
(soprano sax/alto sax/flute/B-flat clarinet)
Tom Jarvis
(alto sax/flute/B-flat clarinet)
Max Barnard
(tenor sax/B-flat clarinet)
John Alcock
(tenor sax, B-flat clarinet)
Jack Murray
(baritone sax/bass clarinet)
Trumpet
Jack Ross
Matthew Hill
Edward Hogben
Sandy Watkin
Seb Carpenter
Trombone
Matt Cooper
Connor Martin
Cat Eden
Sam Cox (bass)
French Horn
Ima Kirkwood
Jacob Eynon
Piano
Lucian McCauley
Edgar Ho
Guitar
Bryn Powell
Sam Plackett
Bass
Isaac Burland
Ed Le Feuvre
Drums
Finn Genockey
Rufus Reid
composer & double bass
Rufus Reid is one of a handful of true renaissance figures in the Arts. This bassist and composer has been an active presence in the jazz world since the 1970’s. He has recorded over 500 albums, 25 under his own name, with Terrestrial Dance and Always In The Moment released in Vinyl by Newvelle Records. The 2022 CD release, Celebration, features the jazz trio with a string quartet. Reid can be heard on recordings with Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Quartet, Kenny Barron, Stan Getz, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Jack DeJohnette and many others.
Reid has written for strings, chamber ensembles, solo bass, jazz ensembles of varying sizes and symphony orchestras and has had the privilege of having all of them performed.
His reputation as an educator is equal to that of his musical achievements. His book The Evolving Bassist (Myriad Limited, 1974) remains the industry standard for double bass methodology. Reid and Dr. Martin Krivin created the Jazz Studies and Performance Bachelor of Music Program at William Paterson University. This program offered the first professional academically accredited Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies in the NY, NJ, CT tri-state area.
He has received the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the MacDowell Colony Grant among others. His 2014 release, Quiet Pride – The Elizabeth Catlett Project, received two Grammy Nominations; for Best Large Jazz Ensemble and for Best Instrumental Composition.
Rufus Reid continues to be the Evolving Bassist.
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