Misplaced Pages

#862137

58-413: The festival was established in 1990 by Charles 'City' Gatt and has featured world-renowned jazz musicians such as Wayne Shorter , John Patitucci , Diana Krall , Chick Corea , Al Di Meola , Natalie Cole , Betty Carter , Michel Petrucciani , Richard Bona and Mike Stern . In 2006, the event was controversially removed from the artistic directorship of Gatt, a pioneer of Maltese jazz, and placed in

116-464: A grand mal seizure at the age of 14. Ana Maria and the couple's niece, Dalila, were both killed on July 17, 1996, in the crash of TWA Flight 800 , while travelling to visit Shorter in Italy. Dalila was the daughter of Ana Maria Shorter's sister and her husband, jazz vocalist Jon Lucien . Composer and producer Rick Shorter (1934–2017) was Shorter's cousin. In 1999, Shorter married Carolina Dos Santos ,

174-546: A sideman (again mainly for Blue Note) with trumpeter Donald Byrd , McCoy Tyner, trombonist Grachan Moncur III , Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, as well as bandmates Herbie Hancock and drummer Tony Williams . Following the release of Odyssey of Iska in 1970, Shorter formed the fusion group Weather Report with Davis veteran keyboardist Joe Zawinul and bassist Miroslav Vitouš . The other original members were percussionist Airto Moreira , and drummer Alphonse Mouzon . After Vitouš's departure in 1973, Shorter and Zawinul co-led

232-842: A 2005 concert commissioned by the Chicago Jazz Festival , showcasing the Coltrane-Hartman material. Later, Elling and pianist Laurence Hobgood rearranged the music, culminating in a performance in the Allen Room at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. The concert was recorded in January 2009 and the album was released in June. Elling is a baritone with a four-octave range, and

290-431: A Net (rec. live 2010, rel. 2013); and Emanon (2018), with the latter, in addition to live material, including Shorter's quartet in a studio session with the 34-piece Orpheus Chamber Orchestra . The quartet has received great acclaim from fans and critics, especially for the strength of Shorter's tenor saxophone playing. The biography Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter by journalist Michelle Mercer examines

348-516: A bandleader, notably 1974's Native Dancer , which featured Hancock and Brazilian composer and vocalist Milton Nascimento . In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, he toured in the V.S.O.P. quintet . This group was a revival of the 1960s Davis quintet, except that Freddie Hubbard filled the trumpet chair. Shorter appeared with the same former Davis bandmates on the Carlos Santana double LP The Swing of Delight (1980), for which he also composed

406-532: A bartender and as a mover. He sang at weddings in addition to clubs. At this time, he began singing in a scat style and improvising his own lyrics. Elling began listening to the vocalese of jazz singer Mark Murphy , who exposed him to the poetry of Jack Kerouac . The minimalism and emotion of Chet Baker 's music was also influential. While living in Chicago in 1995, Elling decided he was ready to record. He had met pianist Laurence Hobgood through Ed Petersen, who played

464-650: A close friend of Ana Maria. Shorter practiced Nichiren Buddhism for more than 50 years as a longtime member of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International . Singer and actress Tina Turner credits Shorter with saving her life. In Turner's 2020 spiritual memoir Happiness Becomes You , she states that Shorter and his wife Ana Maria provided Turner with critical refuge at their home for six months after Turner left her abusive husband, Ike Turner , in 1976. Shorter died in Los Angeles, California, on March 2, 2023, at

522-702: A condominium from Barack Obama in Hyde Park, Chicago . The Ellings moved to New York in 2008. With SuperBlue (with Charlie Hunter ) With Laurence Hobgood With Bob Mintzer With others Elling has won the Down Beat Critics Poll thirteen times, from 2000–2012, and the Down Beat Readers Poll seven times and the JazzTimes Readers' Poll eight times, all in the Male Vocalist of

580-657: A contender for greatest living improviser". In 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize . Wayne Shorter was born in Newark , New Jersey, the son of Louise and Joseph Shorter. He graduated from Newark Arts High School in 1952. He loved comic books and science fiction as well as music while growing up. Shorter was encouraged by his parents to take clarinet lessons at age 16 and then switched to tenor saxophone prior to enrolling at New York University in 1952. His older brother Alan played alto saxophone before switching to

638-535: A line-up of world-renowned jazz musicians. Among the artists who performed at the 2010 festival were Bill Stewart , Ari Hoenig , Greg Hutchinson , Dave Weckl , Dave King , Mike Stern and Richard Bona . The 2011 festival featured Lionel Loueke , Joao Bosco , Monty Alexander and Avishai Cohen . The 2012 festival took place on July 19, 20 and 21 and included performances by Al Di Meola , Terri Lyne Carrington , Chano Dominguez , Tigran Hamasyan , Dianne Reeves , Jeremy Pelt and Will Vinson . The 2013 festival

SECTION 10

#1732876340863

696-401: A number of pieces. From 1977 through 2002, he appeared on 10 Joni Mitchell studio albums, gaining him a wider audience. He played an extended solo on the title track of Steely Dan 's 1977 album Aja . After leaving Weather Report in 1986, Shorter continued to record and lead groups in jazz fusion styles, including touring in 1988 with guitarist Carlos Santana , who appeared on This

754-595: A student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. After college, he enrolled in the University of Chicago Divinity School , but he left one credit short of a degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist. Elling began to perform around Chicago, scat singing and improvising his lyrics. He recorded a demo in the early 1990s and was signed by Blue Note . He has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards, winning Best Vocal Jazz Album for Dedicated to You (2009) and Secrets Are

812-562: A tribute concert at Hollywood Bowl , featuring a large number of performers including Carlos Santana and Joni Mitchell. Kurt Elling Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois , and raised in Rockford , Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while

870-484: A variety of line-ups, quartets and larger groups, including Blue Note favorites such as trumpeter Freddie Hubbard . His first Blue Note album (of 11 in total recorded from 1964 to 1970) was Night Dreamer , recorded at Rudy Van Gelder 's studio in 1964 with Lee Morgan (trumpet), McCoy Tyner (piano), Reggie Workman (bass) and Elvin Jones (drums). Two more albums were recorded in 1964, JuJu and Speak No Evil . Of

928-841: A writer and performer of vocalese , writing and performing words over improvised jazz solos. In 2007, 2012 and 2020, Circumstantial Productions published three editions of Lyrics: Kurt Elling , collections of Elling's vocalese lyrics edited by Richard Connolly . Elling has performed and recorded with David Amram , Randy Bachman , Bob Belden , Joanne Brackeen , Oscar Brown Jr. , Jodie Christian , Billy Corgan , Orbert Davis , George Freeman , Buddy Guy , Jon Hendricks , Charlie Hunter , Bob Mintzer , Brad Mehldau , Lee Ritenour , John Pizzarelli , and Bob Sheppard . Until November 2013, Elling's band included musical director Laurence Hobgood on piano, John McLean on guitar, Clark Sommers on bass, and drummer Kendrick Scott . Howard Reich's wrote in his November 6, 2013 column "My kind of Jazz" in

986-516: Is This! (1986), the last Weather Report disc. There is a concert video recorded at the Lugano Jazz Festival in 1987, with Jim Beard (keyboards), Carl James (bass), Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), and Marilyn Mazur (percussion). In 1989, he contributed to a hit on the rock charts, playing the sax solo on Don Henley 's song " The End of the Innocence " and also produced the album Pilar by

1044-596: The Chicago Tribune , that Elling and Hobgood would be going separate ways. Hobgood linked to that article from his website. Elling's website announced the change on November 12, 2013. The band included a rotating series of pianists until October 2015 when Gary Versace became Kurt Elling's first-call pianist and was added to the Band page on Elling's website. Then in August 2016, Stu Mindeman took over as piano chair and Versace's page

1102-520: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for his lifetime of contributions to the arts. On April 29, 2022, Shorter's hometown of Newark NJ renamed a street in his honor. Park Place was renamed "Wayne Shorter Way". On April 22, 2023, the BBC Radio Three magazine program J to Z broadcast a 90-minute tribute edition for Shorter, hosted by Julian Joseph . In August 2023, Herbie Hancock hosted

1160-489: The University of Chicago Divinity School where he studied for his master's degree in philosophy of religion . He thought about continuing work in academia or working for the World Council of Churches when he graduated. He began playing jazz gigs once a week during graduate school, with one of his first shows at Milt Trenier's, a basement club in Chicago (now defunct). He earned little money at these gigs, but Karl Johnson,

1218-521: The Woody Herman band on television and imagining what it would be like to sing with a band. Growing up, Elling sang in the classical style, learning counterpoint from the motets of Johann Sebastian Bach . At Rockford Lutheran High School , in Rockford, Illinois, Elling continued to sing in the choir: "When it was undeniably uncool and geeky and all that, to be in the choir, I did it anyway, because it

SECTION 20

#1732876340863

1276-638: The ancient Greek myth ; with Esperanza Spalding writing the libretto and architect Frank Gehry designing the sets, which premiered on November 12, 2021, at the Cutler Majestic Theatre . Shorter met Teruko (Irene) Nakagami in 1961. They were later married and had a daughter, Miyako. Some of his compositions are copyrighted as "Miyako Music" and Shorter dedicated the pieces "Miyako" and "Infant Eyes" to his daughter. The couple separated in 1964. Shorter met Ana Maria Patricio in 1966 and they were married in 1970. In 1986, their daughter Iska died of

1334-435: The 70-voice Gustavus Choir, an a cappella choir that performed works from a variety of different composers, allowing him to hone his technical skills. Elling also toured Europe with his college choir. He became interested in jazz at Gustavus Adolphus while listening to Dave Brubeck , Dexter Gordon , Herbie Hancock , and Ella Fitzgerald . After graduating from Gustavus Adolphus in 1989, Elling enrolled in graduate school at

1392-756: The Best Stories (2021). Elling often leads the Down Beat magazine Critics' Poll. He had a longtime collaboration with pianist Laurence Hobgood , leading a quartet that toured throughout the world. Elling was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 2, 1967, the son of Henry and Martha Elling. His interest in music started with his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. Elling attended elementary school at St. Paul Lutheran School in Rockford , and throughout his early years, he sang in choirs and played violin, French horn, piano, and drums. During his middle school years, Elling remembers watching Tony Bennett and

1450-550: The Davis album In a Silent Way and on his own Super Nova (recorded with then-current Davis sidemen Chick Corea and John McLaughlin ). When performing live with Davis, and on recordings from summer 1969 to early spring 1970, he played both soprano and tenor saxophones: by the early 1970s, however, he chiefly played soprano. Simultaneous with his time in the Davis quintet, Shorter recorded several albums for Blue Note Records , featuring, almost exclusively, his own compositions, with

1508-774: The Green Mill on Monday nights. Elling convinced Hobgood that he was ready to go into the studio, and they came out with nine solid songs. Following the advice of pianist Fred Simon , the cassette recording was sent to Bill Traut, a manager in Los Angeles, who eventually gave it to Bruce Lundvall of Blue Note . In 1995, Elling signed with Blue Note, and the songs on the demo became the Grammy nominated label debut, Close Your Eyes (1995). The album features Edward Petersen and Von Freeman on tenor saxophone, Dave Onderdonk on guitar, Laurence Hobgood on piano, Eric Hochberg and Rob Amster on double bass, and Paul Wertico on drums. Close Your Eyes

1566-551: The Portuguese singer-songwriter Pilar Homem de Melo . He also maintained an occasional working relationship with Herbie Hancock, including a tribute album recorded shortly after Miles Davis's death with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams and Wallace Roney . He continued to appear on Mitchell's records in the 1990s and can be heard on the soundtrack of the Harrison Ford film The Fugitive (1993). In 1995, Shorter released

1624-909: The Year category. He has also received the Jazz Journalists Association Male Singer of the Year award eight times. In 2010 he was awarded the Edison/Jazz World award for The Gate . The Edison is the Dutch equivalent of a Grammy. In 2012 he was honored as the first Jazz Ambassador at the Silesian Jazz Festival in Poland, and he also won the German Echo Jazz award and the Scottish Jazz Award – International category. In 2013 he

1682-525: The acts on stage were Danilo Perez , John Patitucci , Brian Blade , Dave Holland , Chris Potter , Lionel Loueke , Eric Harland , David Binney , Chucho Valdes , Kurt Elling , Soweto Kinch , Joe Cohn and Richard Bona . For 2016, the festival moved away from Ta` Liesse for its opening night, which took place at Valletta 's City Gate. Among the acts at the 2016 festival were headliner Mike Stern , Snarky Puppy , Omer Avital , Harold López-Nussa and pianist Marcus Roberts ' trio. This 26th edition of

1740-744: The age of 89. In 1999, Shorter received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of Music . On September 17, 2013, Shorter received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz (formerly Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz). On December 18, 2014, the Recording Academy announced that Shorter was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of his "prolific contributions to our culture and history". In 2016, Shorter

1798-479: The album High Life , his first solo recording for seven years. It was also his debut as a leader for Verve Records . Shorter composed all the compositions on the album and co-produced it with the bassist Marcus Miller with pianist, synthesist , and sound designer Rachel Z . High Life received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album in 1996. Shorter worked with Herbie Hancock once again in 1997, on

Malta Jazz Festival - Misplaced Pages Continue

1856-501: The band. Together they toured the US, Japan, and Europe, recording several albums. During this time, Shorter "established himself as one of the most gifted of the young saxophonists" and received international acknowledgment. Herbie Hancock said of Shorter's tenure in Miles Davis 's Second Great Quintet : "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. He still is a master. Wayne

1914-421: The breakup of the quintet in 1968, playing on early jazz fusion recordings including In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew (both 1969). His last live dates and studio recordings with Davis were in 1970. Until 1968, he played tenor saxophone exclusively. The final album on which he played tenor in the regular sequence of Davis albums was Filles de Kilimanjaro . In 1969, he played the soprano saxophone on

1972-406: The complex Latin rhythms that he specialized in during his Weather Report days. In 2015, producer/director Dorsay Alavi began filming a documentary about the life of Wayne Shorter called Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity . A number of high-profile musicians, including Herbie Hancock , Esperanza Spalding , and Terri Lyne Carrington , performed at a donor event to raise funds for the documentary; two of

2030-423: The festival took place between July 21 and 23. The 2017 festival was staged between July 20 and 22, featuring acts including Mark Guiliana , Al di Meola , Antonio Sanchez , Nicholas Payton and Munir Hossn . The 2018 Malta Jazz Festival was headlined by Chick Corea , John Patitucci and Dave Weckl . The festival took place between July 16 and 21. The 2019 festival took place between July 15 and 20. Some of

2088-719: The festival's archives and a virtual exhibition of photography. The 2021 festival took place in a reduced 'City Jazz Series' format between July 12 and 17 with appearances from Danny Grissett , Chiara Pancadli and Darryl Hall , Yonathan Avishai , Felipe Cabrera 'Mirror' and Dmitry Baevsky 4tet. The 2022 edition of the festival took place between July 11 and 16. It featured, among others, Clark Tracey & Dominic Galea Legacy Quintet, The Blue Tangerine , Francesco Ciniglio “Locomotive Suite”, Yusan , Danny Grissett Trio, John Scofield ’s “Yankee Go Home”, Warren Galea Trio, Joel Ross “Good Vibes”, Richard Bona & Alfredo Rodriguez and Daniele Cordisco quintet. The festival

2146-460: The first permanent acoustic group under his name, a quartet with pianist Danilo Perez , bassist John Patitucci , and drummer Brian Blade , playing his own compositions, many of them reworkings of tunes going back to the 1960s. Four albums of live recordings have been released: Footprints Live! (rec. live 2001, rel. 2002); Beyond the Sound Barrier (rec. live 2002–2004, rel. 2005); Without

2204-450: The group until the band's break-up in late 1985. A variety of musicians would make up Weather Report over the years (most notably the revolutionary bassist Jaco Pastorius and drummers Peter Erskine and Omar Hakim ) helping the band produce many high quality recordings in diverse styles, with funk, bebop , Latin jazz , ethnic music, and futurism being the most prevalent denominators. Shorter also recorded critically acclaimed albums as

2262-446: The hands of private promotion company N'n'G, who attempted to style it into a more populist 'Rock and Jazz' festival. Subsequent line-ups almost entirely bereft of contemporary jazz content and mainly featuring a host of passé rock musicians, reformed prog rock acts and tribute bands led the festival into a period of brief decline. 2009 saw the festival return to its roots under the directorship of Maltese musician Sandro Zerafa with

2320-426: The house pianist, was his mentor and teacher. Elling recalls, "By day I was reading Kant and Schleiermacher, trying to get a handle on that, and at night I was sitting-in in clubs, and, of course, you can't do both and be effective. Eventually Saturday night won out over Sunday morning." He remained a graduate student until January 1992, when he left school one credit short of graduation. In Chicago, Elling worked as

2378-575: The largest donations came from the Herb Alpert Foundation and Carlos Santana . In 2018, a four-hour preliminary cut was completed. Subsequently, Brad Pitt joined the project with his production company. After some delay, partly due to the Covid crisis, from August 2023, the documentary is available as a three-hour miniseries on Amazon Prime Video . In 2016, it was announced that Shorter, Carlos Santana, and Herbie Hancock would begin touring under

Malta Jazz Festival - Misplaced Pages Continue

2436-552: The main acts performing were Jazzmeia Horn , Kenny Garrett , Ozmosys (featuring Omar Hakim ) and Chucho Valdés . The festival also featured local acts such as the William Smith Trio, Dominic Galea and Malta Concert Orchestra's Big Band together with Joe Cutajar. Due to the outbreak of Coronavirus , the 2020 edition of the festival took place in a reduced format between July 13 and 18, including virtual masterclasses, an internet channel featuring rare broadcasts of concerts from

2494-618: The much acclaimed and heralded album 1+1 . The song "Aung San Suu Kyi" (named for the Burmese pro-democracy activist ) won both Hancock and Shorter a Grammy Award. In 2009, he was announced as one of the headline acts at the Gnaoua World Music Festival in Essaouira, Morocco. His 2013 live album Without a Net (rec. 2010) is his first with Blue Note Records since Odyssey of Iska (rec. 1970, rel. 1971). In 2000, Shorter formed

2552-457: The name Mega Nova. Also included within the supergroup was bassist Marcus Miller and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana . Their first show together was on August 24, 2016, at the Hollywood Bowl . In 2018, Shorter retired from his near 70-year performing career due to health issues. He continued working as a composer, creating a "new operatic work" titled Iphigenia , a loose adaptation of

2610-510: The rules, in order to bend them to your own satisfaction and taste." Ian Carr , musician and Rough Guide author, said that with Davis, Shorter found his own voice as a player and composer. "Blakey's hard-driving, straight-ahead rhythms had brought out the muscularity in Shorter's tenor playing, but the greater freedom of the Davis rhythm-section allowed him to explore new emotional and technical dimensions." Shorter remained in Davis's band after

2668-540: The three Blue Note albums Shorter recorded in 1965, The All Seeing Eye (rec. 1965, rel. 1966) was a workout with a larger group, while Adam's Apple (rec. 1966, rel. 1967) was back to carefully constructed melodies by Shorter leading a quartet. Then a sextet again in the following year for Schizophrenia (rec. 1967, rel. 1969) with Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter , trombonist Curtis Fuller , alto saxophonist/flautist James Spaulding and strong rhythms by drummer Joe Chambers . Shorter also recorded occasionally as

2726-806: The trumpet in college. While in high school, Wayne also performed with the Nat Phipps Band in Newark. After graduating from New York University with a degree in music education in 1956, Shorter spent two years in the U.S. Army , during which time he played briefly with Horace Silver . After his discharge, he played with Maynard Ferguson . In his youth, Shorter had acquired the nickname "Mr. Gone", which later became an album title for Weather Report. His early influences include Sonny Rollins , John Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins . In 1959, Shorter joined Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers where he stayed for four years, eventually becoming musical director and composing pieces for

2784-598: The working life of the musicians as well as Shorter's thoughts and Buddhist beliefs. Beyond the Sound Barrier received the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album . Shorter's 2003 album Alegría (his first studio album for 10 years, since High Life ) received the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album; it features the quartet with a host of other musicians, including pianist Brad Mehldau , drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and former Weather Report percussionist Alex Acuña . Shorter's compositions, some new, some reworked from his Miles Davis period, feature

2842-434: Was acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone since switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s and beginning an extended reign in 1970 as DownBeat ' s annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics' poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers' for 18. The New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and

2900-550: Was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers , for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964 he joined Miles Davis ' Second Great Quintet , and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1970. He recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader. Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards. His music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise, universal commendation, and 12 Grammy Awards . He

2958-470: Was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of music composition, the only jazz artist to receive the honor that year. In 2017, Shorter was announced as the joint winner of the Polar Music Prize . The award committee stated: "Without the musical explorations of Wayne Shorter, modern music would not have drilled so deep." In 2018, Shorter received the Kennedy Center Honors Award from

SECTION 50

#1732876340863

3016-669: Was dedicated to the memory of the event's founder, Charles 'City' Gatt, who died in February 2022. The 2023 festival was staged between July 11 and 15, headlined by Samara Joy , Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet, Kurt Elling featuring Charlie Hunter performing Superblue, Immanuel Wilkins , The New York Blue Note Quintet and Raynald Colom Quintent. The 2024 festival took place between July 8 and 13, headlined by Chief Adjuah , Walter Smith III Quintent, Something Else! , Trio Grande , Monica Solmaso and Tom Ollendorff Trio. Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023)

3074-479: Was followed by The Messenger (1997). In 1999, Elling became a National Trustee for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences , and in 2003 he was elected vice-chair and served two terms. In 2006, Elling performed on the television program Legends of Jazz , in the episode "The Jazz Singers". Elling sang "She's Funny That Way" and performed a duet with Al Jarreau on " Take Five ". The recording

3132-464: Was moved to Extended Family. In 2016 he was a member of Branford Marsalis 's quartet. He toured with the band and performed on the album Upward Spiral , which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Marsalis co-produced Elling's album The Questions and performed on three songs. In 1996, Elling married dancer Jennifer Carney. Their daughter Luiza was born in 2005. In the same year, the Ellings purchased

3190-405: Was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Davis said, "Wayne is a real composer. He writes scores, writes the parts for everybody, just as he wants them to sound. ... Wayne also brought in a kind of curiosity about working with musical rules. If they didn't work, then he broke them, but with musical sense; he understood that freedom in music was the ability to know

3248-487: Was released on CD and DVD. In August of the same year, Elling signed a contract with Concord Jazz , and his first album with the label, Nightmoves , was released in 2007. The follow-up, Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman (2009), is a tribute to the 1963 recording John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman , widely recognized as one of the all-time finest jazz vocal albums. The album arose out of

3306-565: Was reliably beautiful, and it was rewarding, and it gave me gifts of experience and friendships." One of these experiences was that of singing the National Anthem with the high school madrigal choir, "Joyful Sounds" under the direction of Joyce Kortze in front of his first large crowd of over 40,000 people. Elling attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where he majored in history and minored in religion. In college, Elling sang in

3364-925: Was staged on July 18, 19 and 20, featuring the Robert Glasper Experiment , Vijay Iyer Trio, Gregory Porter , Michel Camilo Trio, Gilad Hekselman Quartet, Charles 'City' Gatt Vibraphone Quintet , Gerald Clayton Trio (featuring Logan Richardson ), Cusp and Walter Vella Quartet. Among the acts appearing at the 2014 festival were Warren Wolf , Tom Harrell (featuring Jaleel Shaw , Johnathan Blake , Esperanza Spalding , Wayne Escoffery and Ugonna Okegwo ), Kneebody , Brecker Brothers Band Reunion (featuring Terry Bozzio ), Laurent Coq 's Dialogue Trio, Ada Rovatti , Barry Finnerty , Neil Jason , Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana . Mehldau and Guiliana performed as their synthesizer-oriented duo project "Mehliana". The festival took place between July 17 and 19. The 2015 festival took place between July 16 and 19. Among

#862137