Associate professor of ethnomusicology John-Carlos Perea presents a concert of cedar flute songs featuring arrangements of jazz standards by Coltrane, Ellington, Ayler, and Jordan. With special guests Jessica Bissett Perea (voice), Rose Martin (percussion, voice), Jess Pena Manalo (voice), and Marc Seales (piano).
Program
Prayer Blossom
(composed and arranged by Martin and Perea)
Don’t Cry
(powwow song learned from Dr. Bernard Hoehner-Peji, arranged for flute by Perea)
The Photograph
(learned from Hoehner-Peji)
Ghosts
(Albert Ayler, arranged for flute by Perea)
Farther Along
(learned from Mavis Staples, arranged by Peña Manalo and Perea)
Smell of the Rain
(Perea)
Tattoo
(Lewis Jordan)
Blue Horse Special
(powwow song learned from Hoehner-Peji, arranged for flute and voice by Bissett Perea and Perea in honor of Hoehner-Peji’s 100th birthday)
Come Sunday
(Duke Ellington, arranged for flute and piano by Seales and Perea)
Song for Josephine
(Perea, arranged for flute and piano by Seales and Perea)
Naima
(John Coltrane, arranged for flute, piano, and voice by Seales and Perea)
Personnel
John-Carlos Perea
cedar flutes, voice
Jessica Bissett Perea
voice
Rose Martin
percussion, voice
Jess Peña Manalo
voice
Marc Seales
piano
Thank You
Thanks to Jessica, Rose, Jess, and Marc for sharing sounds and space, the Perea and Hoehner families, student, staff, and faculty colleagues in the UW School of Music and American Indian Studies, flute builders Ken Light and Guillermo Martinez, Masaru Koga, Hafez Modirzadeh, Gary Stroutsos, Ann and Clark Tenakhongva and the Öngtupqa ensemble, and the students of Music 512, 251, 534, and 445 during the 2023-24 academic year.