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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Aardvark Jazz to Salute Duke Ellington\nEvent Url: 
 http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441213553/Aardvark_Jazz_to_Salute_D
 uke_Ellington\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-04-30\nEvent Date End: 2011-04-30\n
 \nThe legendary Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (38th season) celebrates Duke Elli
 ngton with classics and rarities from his 5 decades of composing\, includi
 ng The Mooche\, Solitude\, Caravan\, Wild Man Blues (from the major motion
  picture Paris Blues)\, and Billy Strayhorn's Daydream.  Sacred music will
  be drawn from the Second Sacred Concert\, performed by Duke Ellington and
  His Orchestra at Emmanuel Church in 1969\, including Heaven\, It's Freedo
 m\, The Shepherd\, and Praise God and Dance.  Guest vocalist Dominique Ead
 e and guest narrator Robert Honeysucker will join Aardvark vocalists Jerry
  Edwards and Grace Hughes in featured roles. \n\nThe concert is a Weekend 
 Kickoff Event in Jazz Boston's Jazz Week\, celebrating Duke Ellington's bi
 rthday (April 29) and the 'th year of Emmanuel Church. \n\nThe Aardvark Ja
 zz Orchestra is known for its exhilarating concerts spanning the jazz and 
 American music spectrum. Winner of the Independent Music Awards\, the band
  has released 10 CDs to international critical acclaim\, including 5 discs
  on the Leo Records Label.  Aardvark has performed all-Ellington concerts 
 for two decades throughout New England\, including a major performance at 
 MIT for the Ellington Centennial (1999)\, recorded by WGBH radio with port
 ions later released on the Aardvark CD Duke Ellington/ Sacred Music (Aardm
 use).   Music director Mark Harvey has transcribed many Ducal works\, and 
 has written and lectured about Ellington for many years.  His review of Ha
 rvey G. Cohen's monumental new book Duke Ellington's America (Chicago) wil
 l appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal of American Music.   In 198
 9\, Harvey co-produced an Ellington Sacred Concert at Boston Symphony Hall
  performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer E
 llington.  In 1974\, Harvey was an usher at Ellington's funeral. \n\nMark 
 Harvey and Aardvark have enjoyed a long relationship with Emmanuel Church.
   The band was in residence from 1974 to 1992\, and over the past decade h
 as resumed its Annual Christmas Benefit Concert tradition at Emmanuel.  Ha
 rvey based his Jazz/Arts Ministry and the affiliated Jazz Coalition there 
 in the 1970s and 1980s\, presenting concerts\, liturgies\, festivals and m
 ajor events such as Mary Lou Williams' Mass (1976) and the world premiere 
 of George Russell's The African Game (1983). \n\nJazz vocalist Dominique E
 ade has been praised by New York Times Magazine as &ldquo\;an impossibly v
 ersatile vocalist\, composer\, lyricist and instrumental arranger.&rdquo\;
  She has been a clinician and performer throughout the United States and E
 urope.  She has performed extensively with Ran Blake and with other notabl
 es including Anthony Braxton\, Bill Frisell\, Cecil McBee\, Gene Bertoncin
 i\, Bill Pierce\, Billy Drummond\, Larry Goldings\, John Medeski\, Bob Mos
 es\, Mick Goodrick\, Donald Brown\, Ben Street\, Kenny Wolesson and Fred H
 ersch. She can be heard on RCA Victor\, Accurate\, and other labels. \n\nB
 aritone Robert Honeysucker is recognized internationally for his brilliant
  opera\, concert and recital performances.   He has performed in the U.S.\
 , Europe\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Asia and the Middle East.  Honored as
  the Boston Globe's Musician of the Year in 1995\, Mr. Honeysucker has bee
 n a winner of the National Opera Association Artists Competition and a rec
 ipient of the Jacopo Peri Award.   He has performed with opera companies i
 n Boston\, Philadelphia\, Sacramento\, Salt Lake City\, Tulsa\, and Fort W
 orth\, and in opera houses in Auckland\, NZ\; Berlin\, and Linz\, Austria.
  Orchestral performances have included appearances with the Boston Symphon
 y Orchestra (Kurt Mazur)\; the Salt Lake Symphony (Keith Lockhart)\; the P
 ittsburgh Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas)\; other U.S. orchestras\; and s
 ymphonies in Japan.  Mr. Honeysucker's discography includes five Videmus d
 iscs\, a CD recently released by the Jubilee Trio titled Let's Have a Unio
 n (Brave Records)\, and featured roles on the Centaur\, Ongaku and Titanic
  labels.   \n\nMusic director Mark Harvey has performed as trumpeter in th
 e U.S.\, Mexico and Europe\; has recorded with George Russell (Blue Note) 
 and Baird Hersey (Arista/Novus)\; and performed with Gil Evans\, Claudio R
 oditi\, Howard McGhee\, Sam Rivers\, Joe Carroll\, Kenny Dorham and others
 .  An internationally acclaimed composer with over 120 works in his catalo
 gue\, he has received awards and commissions from ASCAP\, the National End
 owment for the Humanities\, the 15th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert
 \, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators\,  the MIT Wind Ensemble 
 and Meet-the-Composer-Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Commissioning Program\,
  among others.  Commissions have featured such notables as Joe Lovano\, St
 eve Turre\, Herb Pomeroy and Ran Blake. Dr. Harvey teaches jazz studies at
  MIT.   \n\nAardvark is:  Arni Cheatham\, Peter H. Bloom\, Phil Scarff\, C
 hris Rakowski\, Dan Zupan/saxes & woodwinds\; K.C. Dunbar\, Jeanne Snodgra
 ss/trumpets\; Bob Pilkington\, Jay Keyser/trombones\; Jeff Marsanskis\, Bi
 ll Lowe/bass trombones\, tuba\; Richard Nelson/guitar\; John Funkhouser/st
 ring bass\; Harry Wellott/drums\; Jerry Edwards/vocalist\; Mark Harvey/tru
 mpet\, music director. \n\n\nTHE AARDVARK JAZZ ORCHESTRA is managed exclus
 ively by AMERICAS MUSICWORKS \nRebecca DeLamotte\, managing director\, 617
 -776-8778.  Email:  delamotte-amw@comcast.net and visit our websites:  www
 .americasmusicworks.com  and www.aardvarkjazz.com\n\nStart time: 8:00 pm
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