presents
barbary coast jazz ensemble
Don Glasgo director
Celebrating Sun Ra:
Barbary Coast plays
the Music of Sun Ra
with Craig Harris
trombonist, composer, conceptualist, educator
This performance is made possible in part by generous support by the Dartmouth Class of 1975, the William
D. 1905 and Besse M. Blatner Fund No. 1, the Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 1 and the Visiting
Performers Supplementary Fund No. 1.
Saturday, October 25, 2014 • 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium • Dartmouth College
BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Don Glasgo director/valve trombone
Tyné Freeman ’17 vocals
Leif Harder ‘15 flute
Angela Kim GR flute
Erin Huffer ’17 lead alto & soprano saxophones
Hannah O’Flynn ’15 alto saxophone
Manav Raj ‘15 lead tenor saxophone
*Ziqi Wang ‘18 tenor saxophone
Brett Szalapski ’15 baritone saxophone
*Robert Wright III ‘18 lead trumpet
*Ben Scammell ’18 trumpet
Matt Metzler ‘15 trumpet
John Martin ‘17 trumpet
Dan Nulton ‘15 lead trombone
Barrett Clark ‘17 trombone
*Ned Feist ‘18 valve trombone
*David Ballou ‘18 bass trombone
*Emma Howeiler ’18 piano & vocals
Andrew Shea ‘17 string bass
*Mali Obomsawin ‘18 string bass
Moises Silva ’16 drums
*new members of the ensemble, Class of 2018
GR=Graduate Student
program
The performance tonight will be selected from the following (alphabetical order):
DISCIPLINE 27
Sun Ra, arranged by Craig Harris
EL IS THE SOUND OF JOY
Sun Ra, arranged by Don Glasgo
ENLIGHTENMENT
Sun Ra & Hobart Dotson, transcribed and orchestrated for the
Barbary Coast by Don Glasgo, with additional arrangement by Craig Harris
IMAGES
Sun Ra, arranged by Craig Harris
KINGDOM OF NOT
Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax
LOVE IN OUTER SPACE
PINK ELEPHANTS ON PARADE
Sun Ra, arranged by Craig Harris
Music & lyrics by Norman Ferguson & Oliver Wallace;
arranged by Sun Ra; transcribed by Michael Ray and Don Glasgo;
orchestrated for the Barbary Coast by Don Glasgo
PLEIDIES
Sun Ra
SATURN
Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax
SPACE IS THE PLACE/PERSISTENCE
SPRINGTIME IN CHICAGO
TAKE A JOURNEY TO SATURN
Sun Ra, arranged by Craig Harris
Sun Ra, arranged by Richard Fairfax
Sun Ra, arranged by Craig Harris
program notes
Sun Ra & Craig Harris: Kindred Spirits
“They teach you there’s a boundary line to music,
but, man, there’s no boundary line to art!”
Charlie Parker
We like things that come in neat little packages:
jazz is this, not that. Problem is, it doesn’t work that
way: the goal of the artist is to “move the music
forward.” Jazz didn’t stop in 1945—or 1959—or
2014, for that matter. It’s just getting started:
creative music knows no bounds!
What happens when a creative musician like Sun Ra
looks around, sees what’s happening on the
planet, and comes to the conclusion, “This world
(this world) is not my home (not my home), not my
home (not my home), not my home (not my home)”?
If this world wasn't Sun Ra's home, where did he
come from? Where do we come from, and "if we
came from nowhere here, why can't we go
somewhere there?"
Sun Ra (1914-1993) was a musician, philosopher,
poet, composer, keyboardist, arranger and
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catalyst. Throughout his career, he changed
people’s lives—over and over again—around the
world, including my life and the lives of several
Dartmouth students in the Barbary Coast in
February 1990, during a weeklong residency and
Winter Carnival concert with us. Sun Ra was the
featured guest with the Coast during the first half
of the concert, then the second half featured Sun
Ra & his Intergalactic Arkestra.
During intermission Sun Ra asked five brass
players in the Coast to play with the Arkestra in the
second set. After the show, Sun Ra asked the five
students to join the Arkestra! They drove down to
Boston University a week later to perform with the
Arkestra again, causing the jazz critic for The
Boston Globe to wonder "if the use of Caucasians
signals a new direction." Those five Barbary
Coast students—long since alums—are probably
wondering the same thing to this day. “You’re on
the right road, but you’re going in the wrong
direction...”
Our 1990 performance with Sun Ra was the only
time a Barbary Coast concert sold out in Spaulding
before 2007. When I mentioned this to the great
Lester Bowie, he said, “Of course Sun Ra sold out!
He played more times in Egypt then he did in New
Hampshire!”
“Everything you imagine has already been done
and can be done. What you can’t imagine is where
Sun Ra begins.” Amiri Baraka
There were no limits to Sun Ra's Omniverse.
I’ve never seen—and will never see—another
ensemble with the breadth and depth of the
Arkestra, from foot-stomping "bat-outta-hell"
swing tunes by Fletcher Henderson and Duke
Ellington to the extraordinary “cool jazz” version of
Sun Ra’s Enlightenment (in a 1958 recording with
trumpeter Hobart Dodson); from “space vamps”
you can’t get outta your head (Space Is the Place)
to the beautiful ballad, Love in Outer Space; from
“space chords” (“beyond the boundary of the last
possibility”) to Disney and show tunes like Pink
Elephants on Parade. The Arkestra could stop on a
dime, turn and go anywhere—and still does, under
the direction of Marshall Allen. Sun Ra and his
Arkestra could captivate you, enchant you and
send you on your way, singing and dancing in the
streets.
Simply put, Sun Ra's goal was to save humanity
through music: “I’m dealing with the potential of
people. I’m dealing with what they should be and
what I see in them that isn’t there but should be
there.” Sun Ra
To help us celebrate 100 years of Sun Ra, we’re
thrilled to be joined by Craig Harris, trombonist,
composer, conceptualist and educator. Harris
exploded upon the New York scene in 1976,
playing with Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra!
When Harris graduated from SUNY College at Old
Westbury in 1976, Pat Patrick (Sun Ra’s great
baritone sax player) said, “What you gonna do?”
Craig said, “I dunno.” Patrick said, “Listen, we’re
playing tonight at The Bottom Line. Come on and
sit in with the band.” So Harris went over to the
club that night and sat in with the Arkestra. After
the gig, Sun Ra asked him, “Do you have a
passport?” Craig said, “No.” Sun Ra said, “Get a
passport, because we’re going to Paris next week.”
So he got a passport and “it was on from then...”
“I learned so much with Sun Ra. Once again,
discipline and study. Watching John Gilmore play
every night, you learn...this is the level to be an
improviser. You have to bring it every night...[Sun
Ra] would write music every day. This is for real. This
is how people do this. Every day!” Craig Harris
Harris has performed with Cecil Taylor, Abdullah
Ibrahim, Henry Threadgill, Lester Bowie, the World
Saxophone Quartet, The Roots, RAKIM and many
others. Earlier this year Craig performed two
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“Centennial Celebrations” of the music of Sun Ra
with his group, the Harlem Night Songs Band.
Sun Ra and Craig Harris are kindred spirits:
visionaries whose creativity is an immeasurable
equation! Thank you all for joining us tonight for
this special concert, Celebrating Sun Ra: Barbary
Coast Plays the Music of Sun Ra with Craig Harris,
and please welcome our talented new students in
the Class of 2018!
Enjoy!
Don Glasgo, Director
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble is the
student jazz ensemble of Dartmouth College.
Composed almost entirely of non-music majors,
the ensemble specializes in the music of the
African-American and Afro-Caribbean jazz
traditions. The Barbary Coast has performed
with such outstanding musicians as Pepper
Adams, Toshiko Akiyoshi & Lew Tabackin,
Marshall Allen, David Ambrosio, Robby Ameen,
Ray Anderson, Peter Apfelbaum, Karl Berger,
Steven Bernstein, Jimmy Bosch, Byron Bowie,
Joseph Bowie, Lester Bowie, Cecil Bridgewater,
Don Cherry, Bill Cole, Graham Collier, Walter
Cunningham and the Dartmouth College Gospel
Choir, Dave Ellis, Marty Ehrlich, Andy Gonzalez,
Jerry Gonzalez, Dexter Gordon, Tim Green, Joe
Gonzalez, Bob Gullotti, Slide Hampton, Donald
Harrison, James Harvey, Jimmy & Percy Heath,
Julius Hemphill, Conrad Herwig, Giovanni
Hidalgo, Christine Jensen, Ingrid Jensen, Adam
Klipple, Oliver Lake, Erik Lawrence, George
Lewis, Jason Lindner, Brian Lynch, José Madera,
Nicole Mitchell, Frank Morgan, Butch Morris,
David Murray, Arturo O’Farrill, Manny Oquendo,
Eddie Palmieri, Tobias Ralph, Michael Ray, Ivan
Renta, Sam Rivers, Max Roach, Adam Rudolph,
Kermit Ruffins, Samarai Celestial, Bobby Sanabria,
Ray Santos, Maria Schneider, Jim Seeley, Woody
Shaw, Warren Smith, John Stubblefield, Sun Ra,
Clark Terry, Adam Theis, Gregorio Uribe, “Papo”
Vasquez, Walter White, James Williams and
Deanna Witkowski. In May 1986 the Barbary
Coast received a bronze award for its
performance in the Downbeat International Class
competition of the Canadian National Stage
Band Festival at EXPO ‘86, the World’s Fair in
Vancouver, B.C. In March of 1992, the Coast was
the featured ensemble in the First Annual Jazz
Festival of the Vermont Chapter of the
International Association of Jazz Educators. In
September of 1994, the Barbary Coast
performed, by invitation, a series of concerts on
a Transatlantic crossing of the QE2. For several
years the Barbary Coast received considerable
praise for their performances at the Williams
College Jazz Festival. In 2004 the Coast took a
successful whirlwind tour to Newport, RI,
performing five times in three days. In May 2007
the ensemble performed at Jazz at Lincoln
Center for a special event, You, Dartmouth & All
That Jazz. In March 2013, as part of the 50th
Anniversary of the Hopkins Center, the Barbary
Coast did a highly acclaimed Big Band Funk tour
to New York City with special guest, Joe Bowie.
Don Glasgo has taught courses in jazz, jazz and
literature, American music and world music at
the colleges of Dartmouth, Hamilton, Lyndon
State and in the graduate program of Vermont
College, and jazz ensembles and theory and
composition at The Putney School. For twelve
years he was also a faculty member in music at
Goddard College, where he directed the
Institute for Creative Music and SALSA MEETS
ABOUT THE ARTISTs
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JAZZ: The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Seminar with
the Eddie Palmieri Octet. Seven years ago
Don started his own educational program,
JAZZology, in the Upper Valley. Don has written
over 100 jazz compositions and arrangements,
many of them premiered by the Barbary Coast,
and he was recently hired to write professional
arrangements for Joe Bowie’s Defunkt Big Band.
Glasgo is an accomplished valve trombonist who
has performed with the Dartmouth College
Gospel Choir, Dartmouth Idol, Oliver Lake Big
Band, Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt Big Band, Michael
Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, The Sun Ra Arkestra
under the direction of Marshall Allen and Phish.
He leads his own professional bands, Sol
Food and Sol Food Unplugged, is the author of
Jazzlines and a former columnist for Jazz Improv.
In 2009 he was a profesor at Trombonanza 2009
(Santa Fe, Argentina), and he was the associate
director of the Rutgers Summer Jazz Institute
(New Brunswick, NJ) from 2008-2012. This is his
39th year as director of the Barbary Coast Jazz
Ensemble.
BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE
DON GLASGO director
39th ANNUAL WINTER CARNIVAL CONCERT
sat FEB 7 8 pm • SPAULDING AUDITORIUM
Celebrate Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival with the Barbary Coast as the talented
students in the ensemble join forces with Ryan Keberle, founder of The Big
Band Living Legacy Project, on trombone, and Michael Rodriguez on trumpet.
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Hopkins Center Management Staff
Jeffrey H. James ‘75a Howard Gilman Director
Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement
Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film
Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs
HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS
Austin M. Beutner ’82
Kenneth L. Burns H’93
Barbara J. Couch
Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88
Barry F. Grove, II ’73
Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16
Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15
Richard P. Kiphart ’63
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Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06
Nini Meyer
Hans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board
Robert S. Weil ’40, P’73 Honorary
Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54, P’88, P’90, H’03
Jennifer A. Williams ’85
Diana L. Taylor ’77 Trustee Representative
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