The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the genre, and new original compositions.
Program
Modern Band
Here you came and there you'll go
to be why the grass grows
to be why the eyes close
when a kiss under the moon
feels like the light of the sun
inspired Me
to kiss you.
Can I be for while you wait?
To borrow stories from a
greyhound next to us on the
interstate
On our way to the next place
I'll illustrate
what I see deep inside your
fingerprint face
You're the most recent reason
for this liminal feeling
that every morning is a funeral
and every night is a wedding
One of us is ending as the other is
becoming
a lit fuse with little left to do
but color our sky with the infinite
in You.
Decorated delusions
Far away conclusions
Patient inspiration
Everchanging solutions
to a problem that is not
I believe we are free
Falling isn't fatal
I prayed to be
You: the ground beneath
Bare-minded
standing in You
I am reminded:
We are what we're looking for.
Use Us to find It
- Jack Kennelly
Prelogue: Transition Modern Band
Can I Be For While You Wait Jacob Lipp
The Most Recent Reason Beau Wood
Chemical Burn Jacob Lipp
Solution EJ Brannan
Believe in Freedom Jai Lasker
The Ground Beneath EJ Brannan
S.O.S. (Smell of Spring) Shai Permilovsky
Studio Jazz Ensemble
It’s Just Talk Pat Metheny arr. Bob Curnow
Dream of the Return Pat Metheny arr. Bob Curnow
Whirly Bird Neal Hefti arr. Sammy Nestico
In a Mellotone Duke Ellington arr. Frank Foster
Don’t Be That Way Benny Goodman/ Edgar Sampson/ Mitchell Parish arr. Matt Catingub
PERSONNEL
Modern Band
EJ Brannan, drums
Jai Lasker, guitar
Jacob Lipp, saxophone
Shai Permilovsky, piano
Beau Wood, bass
Jack Kennelly, poet, guest speaker
Studio Jazz Ensemble
TROMBONE
Richie Torres-Antunez
Alex Weber
Peter Joaquin Koenig
Daniel K. Matsumoto, 1st trombone
Alec Raring
TRUMPET
Ben F. Von Jess
Noah Kim, 1st trumpet
Gavin Elias
SAXOPHONE
Leo Zhang, alto sax
Joshua Cheng, alto sax
Liam Jaeden Salas, tenor sax
Imants Smidchens, tenor sax
BASS
Elise Corinne Soper
DRUMS
Dante Reiger
PIANO
Gavin Westlund