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The Newsletter of the Central Texas Jazz Society September-October 2011 Volume 4 Number 5

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CTJS Gala: Third Time’s a Charm

Dancing to the music of the Temple Highlighters.

Last month's third annual CTJS Gala was a rousing suc-cess, raising more than $1000 for the CTJS scholarship fund, introducing new people to CTJS and reuniting jazz and dance.

The Gala unfolded at the In The Mood Ballroom in Temple on Saturday, Sept.24. As they have for previous Ga-las, ITMB owners Karen and Rudy Gonzales provided CTJS with use of their facilities at no cost. Karen is a member the CTJS Board of Directors and is a strong supporter of CTJS.

CTJS President Larry Simonette said, "I personally want to thank Karen and Rudy Gonzales for their generosity to CTJS. Over half of the money we made the night of the Gala came from the ITMB cli-entele. Additionally, it was she who

placed CTJS envelops on the tables for donations that netted us more than $200. And that night was the third event for which they donated the use of the ballroom to CTJS —it usually rents out for $1,200 for four hours.”

The first set at the event was pro-

vided by The Temple High School Highlighters, an excellent student jazz band fresh from its second trip to New York City to participate in the Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington com-petition (May 2011). The Highlighters were directed by Brent Matheson.

After the break, the CTJS Little Big Band supplied the dancers with music — the Little Big Band combined Temple College faculty, band directors and other members of the Temple

Jazz Orchestra with a few hold-overs from the Highlighters, under the direction of CTJS Board Mem-ber Dr. Colin Mason.

"It was great to see so many people dancing — especially for

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CTJS Awards Fall Scholarships

Ajay Narayanan

CTJS Scholarship Committee Chairman Brent Colwell announced the winners of the fall 2011 CTJS jazz scholarships for the Temple area on Oct. 13.

The four scholarship winners are: — Jeremy Langthorn, alto saxophone — Altin Sencalar, trombone — Ajay Narayanan, piano — Thomas Abercrombie, trumpet

The four scholarship winners are stu-dents at Temple High School (reflecting the pool of applicants for fall, all of whom were from the Temple area). Each win-ner will receive a half ($200) scholarship, which partially funds a total of 10 one-hour jazz-based lessons from an instructor chosen by the Central Texas Jazz Society.

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The Waco Jazz Orchestra will cook with Carbonara on Monday, Oct. 24, when vocalist Bruce Car-bonara joins the band in a Frankly Basie concert.

The concert’s title refers to the music produced by the legendary collaborations between vocal-ist Frank Sinatra and the Count

Basie Orchestra in the early 1960s. The two joined forces for two studio albums in 1962 and 1964 before recording together live at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in early 1966.

The Sands recording was the first commercially released album to

capture Sinatra live, and its was the perfect blend of Sinatra and Basie's well-oiled swing machine with superb charts by Quincy Jones that produced definitive versions of many of the songs most closely associ-ated with Sinatra, such as “Fly Me To The Moon” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.”

That body of work will be explored in the "Frankly Basie" concert, as Carbonara and WJO re-create the magic of those live performances from Las Vegas. WJO (under the direction of Tim Cates) and Carbonara will perform at 7:30 p.m., in the Ball Performing Arts Center on the campus of

McLennan Community College in Waco. The concert is free and open to the public.

Meet the Board…Larry Simonette

Dr. Benjamin IromJim Burns

Bill BerningThomas FairlieBrent ColwellGreg Bashara

David WildJohn R. Francis

PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerArtistic DirectorBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsLegal Advisor(Attorney at Law)

Neal JakubowskyDr. Colin Mason

Evan KlarasGary Smith

Jesse Ybarbo Johnny Walker

Tim CatesAlex Parker

Rob PageKaren Gonzales

Board of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of Directors

CenTex Jazz News is published bimonthly by the Central Texas Jazz Society,

PO Box 643, Temple TX 76503-0643. President: Larry Simonette

Editor: David Wild Production Assistance: Tony Wild

For more information:centraltexasjazz.org

www.wildmusic-jazz.comwww.baylor.edu/baylorjazz/

www.templejc.edu/dept/Music/Jazz/jazz2011.htm

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WJO to Cook 'Alla Carbonara'

Bruce Carbonara

A Word For Our Sponsors

A number of individual and com-pany sponsors play an important part in helping CTJS preserve this American artform. Current spon-sors of CTJS are:* Scott & White Healthcare* Waco Council for the Arts* Friendly Tire* Emporium Packaging and Spice Company* In The Mood Ballroom* Central Texas Jazz Society Board of Directors* Norene E. Miller, Cameron* Jim Scrivner, Waco* David and Margia Barke- meyer, Cameron* John Francis and Becky Musil, Temple* Sam Burnes, Waco

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They Could Have Danced All Night...The Temple High School High-lighters and the CTJS Little Big Band directed by Colin Mason keep the dancers in mo-tion at the CTJS Third Annual Gala at the In The Mood Ball-room in Temple on Sept. 24.

Photos by Jim Burns

Guest artists for the 2012 Temple College Jazz Festival have been announced. The headliner will be saxophonist Ed Calle, who will join the Temple Jazz Orchestra on Sat-urday, March 24. Friday's

guest artist will be trumpeter Marcus Printup, who will perform with the Temple College Jazz Ensemble.

The Waco Jazz Orchestra will be featured on Thursday night. Saturday's performance with Calle will be reprised Sunday af-ternoon at the Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center.

This year's Temple Jazz Festival Jazz Jam will be held at the In The Mood Ballroom in downtown Temple. Details in future editions of the CenTex Jazz News.

* * * CTJS Board Member Jim Burns, one of our two

"official" photographers, has taken on the additional responsibility of CTJS Secretary, succeeding Colin Mason. Jim's duties include keeping track of the con-

versations at our regular board meeting and providing the board with a record of discussions and decisions.

* * * Dr. Lynn Seaton will be the guest artist for the 2012 CTJS

Jazz Party. Lynn is an associate professor in the University of North Texas' jazz studies program. His long career as a bassist includes stints with Woody Herman, Count Basie, Tony Bennet, George Shearing and a long list of others.

Lynn will be featured at the Waco Jazz Party on Friday, May 4 (venue to be announced), and Saturday, May 5, at the In The Mood Ballroom in Temple. He will also talk about

his career in a Humanities Lecture at Temple College at noon on Thurs-day, May 3. Details in future editions of the CenTex Jazz News.

* * * Temple Jazz Orchestra is on schedule to visit Europe next summer,

and fellow travelers are welcome. The two-week tour starts July 2 with stops in Vienne, France; Montreux, Switzerland; and Vienna, Austria, among other locations. For more details, contact Colin Mason at colin.mason@templejc.edu

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TJO Plays Things‘Kinda Dukish’

The Temple Jazz Orchestra will explore the music of Duke Ellington in its fall concert on Nov. 12.

The concert will include per-formances of transcriptions of some of the Duke's earlier works, such as "Diminuendo and Cre-scendo in Blue,” "Kinda Dukish/Rockin' in Rhythm" and "Happy-Go-Lucky Local,” contemporary arrangements of classic Ellington standards like "Satin Doll" and "Isfahan” and excerpts from Don Sebesky's "Joyful Noise Suite,” written as a tribute to Ellington.

The concert takes place at 8 p.m. in the Mary Alice Marshall Per-forming Arts Center at Temple College. Admission is free. TJO will host a jam session after the concert at the Historic Cotton Ex-change Gallery at 116 S. First St. in Temple.

Ed Calle

Marcus Printup

Lynn Seaton

The lessons will begin later this month.

Pianist Ajay Narayan-an, 17, is a member of the Temple High School Highlighters and the Temple College Jazz

Ensemble. He has been playing piano for 11 years. Ajay will be studying with Dr. Benjamin Irom.

Trombonist Altin Sencalar, also 17, is a member of the Temple High School Highlighters and both the

Temple College Symphon-ic Band and Jazz Ensem-ble. He has been studying jazz trombone with Gary Smith.

Saxophonist Jeremy Langthorn is a junior at Temple High School and a member of the Highlight-ers. He is a student of Dr. Colin Mason. Jeremy's list of favorite artists ranges from John Coltrane through Count Basie and Gordon Goodwin.

Trumpeter Thomas Abercrombie is in the eleventh grade at Temple High School. He is a member of the Temple HS Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, THS Highlighters (jazz soloist chair) and THS Jazz Combo. He indicates that “Jazz is a serious passion of mine and I plan on continuing my studies of jazz throughout college and professionally.” He will be studying with Lee “Sparky” Thomason.

A separate scholarship program is currently under development for the Waco area under the direction of CTJS Board Member Evan Klaras. The Waco chapter hopes to begin awarding scholarships for the spring semester 2012. Band directors and others interested in competing for a scholarship should contact Evan at eklaras@cbtwaco.com or Brent at brent.colwell@templejc.edu.

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the kids, who get to see the joy of the music they produce by our representation on the dance floor", observed Karen.

In The Mood Ballroom will host at least two more events for CTJS during the current activity year (as noted elsewhere in this newsletter), the spring JazzJam jam session following the Friday evening Temple College Jazz Festival performance in March and the Temple edition of the CTJS Jazz Party in May.

For more about the Gala see our Jazzshots section on page 3; for more about In The Mood, go to http://www.inthemoodballroom.com.

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Four to Receive CTJS Fall Scholarships

Altin Sencalar

Jeremy Langthorn

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n October 18, “Baylor Jazz Ensemble,” Jones Concert Hall, Glennis McCrary Music Building, Baylor University, Waco, 7:30 p.m.n October 20 ‘‘Hal Galper Trio,”

The Syndicate, University of North Texas, Denton, 9 p.m.n October 24, “Waco Jazz

Orchestra and Bruce Carbonara: Frankly Basie,” Ball Performing

Arts Center, McLennan Commu-nity College, Waco, 7:30 p.m.n October 28, “Dave Wild (solo

piano),” Legacy Cafe and Art Gal-lery, 723 Austin Ave., Waco, 752-5200, 7:30 p.m.n November 12, “Temple Jazz

Orchestra,” Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center, Temple College, Temple, 8 p.m. Jam ses-sion follows the concert at Historic Cotton Exchange, 116 S. First St., Temple.n December 5, “Waco Jazz

Orchestra,” Ball Performing Arts Center, McLennan Community College, Waco, 7:30 p.m.