001How are you? How are you? We got that They won't think anything. Now actually my son. I It's a smooth Christmas. video. Oh yeah. [ __ ] Too dark. There it is. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [applause] >> Good even check. Good evening. So excited to be here. And how about Candy Academy jazz ensemble? [applause] You heard solos on that last tune from Tyler Ael back there on trumpet [applause] and that's his shopping center saxophone. That [applause] last one was entitled Brazil and that was written by Ari Barroso in 1939. Um, and it was actually he wrote that tune due to some torrential rain that forced it to stay inside
002like contrary to what he typically did. So, it's an interesting way to write a tune, I guess. I guess when you're inside and have cabin fever. So, um, and that tune is actually one of the 20 most recorded songs of all time, which I did not know that. Um, but yeah, it was a fun piece for us to dig dig into. Uh, this next tune you're going to hear is entitled Group Merchant. This is going to feature our drummer Danny Holman. Um, this was a tune that was made famous by Jerome Richardson, who was the lead alto and soprano saxoponist of what was known as the Thad Jones Melo Jazz Orchestra, which is now current day the Village Bill Vanguard, which is their play every Monday night in Manhattan. Um, and the funny enough on
003Jerome Richardson's solo album, he recorded this and made it a like a small group tune. It was actually received pretty poorly. It was like terrible. And then when they put it on the big band record where uh Thaad Johns did the arranging for uh it was actually a huge hit and is played almost all the time across the country probably by many high schools, many colleges and really a really well-known tune at this point. So um this is going to feature our saxophone section as well as Danny Hullman. So we hope you enjoy group Merchant. One, two, one, two, one, two, three, four, up. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music]
004>> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Excellent. [music] [applause] [cheering] [applause] Excellent section. Stand up. Yeah. [applause] Come on, Danny Hol back on drum set. [applause] >> Great. We're going to move on to another tune. Um, it's a popular jazz standard entitled Doxy that was made famous and written by uh the great tener saxoponist Sunny Rollins who is still alive with us. Um, he is 95 years old. I don't think he's playing anymore, but he is 95 [clears throat] years old and has just like had a trailblazing career and played with who's who pretty much of jazz. Um, this tune was recorded with Miles Davis in 1954 on Miles Davis with Sunny Rollins and we're going to feature a handful of solists that I will tell you about after. So, we hope you enjoy. Doc
005[clears throat] One, two, uh, [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [bell] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat up here. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [applause] >> Great. We We heard from Hunter Crystal on me. [applause] Danny Homeman on Vines [applause] Whitel on Zack. You don't have to stand [applause] up. Melody Crystal on Alasax [applause] and Lawson on Val Trombone. [applause] We've come at the
006end of our very long program to our last tune of the night. Just a few thank yous. Um number one for our new inaugural set of Triumph ushers that will be at every single concert across the district. So we'll have some questions across the district from Triumph. So hand for them. Yeah. [applause] Josh Sena, Angie Robba, and his and their production crew that made all this happen and helped out with it. [applause] To our academy teachers, music staff, and administrators, and I think we have Mrs. Lo in the audience tonight. Woo! Yeah. [applause] to all of you as parents, guardians, friends, family. Thank you so much for always supporting these wonderful students. Without you, this would not be possible at all. So students, how about you give all them a round of applause as well?
007[applause] Can you give yourself a round of applause? And last but not least, um the student and well, I should point out to mention one of us is not a student here. [laughter] Uh Mr. Mr. Eric Baitman has helped us out just like just I called him. I was like, "Hey, I need someone to play keyboard base." He drew it and he just gracefully accepted. So, we are so fortunate to have him here and helping us out. Um, so a huge thank you to him. [applause] And last, but certainly not least, all these wonderful, talented students. I mean, we we rehearse every other day and this is like the first concert that happens typically. It's it's not a whole lot of time to prepare. So, and they've done a great job just taking the content
008and I've thrown some hard stuff at them. So, we are so excited to continue the year. But, how about a round of applause for all of them. [applause] We're going to close out this end of our program with a tune entitled Cold Duck Time. It was written by a saxoponist Eddie Harris. Um, it happened to be recorded originally on a live album entitled Swiss Movement. And I'm pretty sure it seems that the players are reading it for the first time. So, it's not very good actually. Um, that one tune on the album. Everything else for some reason is very good. Uh, and you can hear it that they make mistakes on it. We acknowledge here, we talked about it in class, that mistakes are a part of live live music. It's different every single time.
009So, uh, you're going to hear from a few soloists, um, from Scott Andrews as well as Izzy Shepard and, uh, this tune is originally played in a rock field, but we're going to change that to where our arrangement is in a chaot. So, um, thank you so much for coming out tonight. Thank you for supporting us, and we look forward to seeing you at our next event. Here is cold duck time. [applause] One, two, three. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [applause] >> Thank you for
010the job. Also, [cheering] >> [applause] [applause] >> We hope you enjoy. We'll see you at our next event. Thank you so much. [applause]