An Evening of Jazz You’ll Never Forget!
TOGETHER ON ONE BILL FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER
DIZZY GILLESPIE™ ALL-STAR BIG BAND
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ ORCHESTRA
IN ITS NEW ORLEANS THEN & NOW TOUR FEATURING THE
PREMIERE OF IRVIN MAYFIELD’S RISING TIDE
AT NJPAC NOVEMBER 25
Newark, NJ (November 20, 2006) – NJPAC presents the Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in a concert honoring New Orleans Then & Now, featuring the premiere of Irvin Mayfield’s Rising Tide for one performance only at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 25, at 8 pm, in Prudential Hall. Tickets are $58, $51, $43, $35 and $20, and may be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at
http://www.njpac.org/
NJPAC commissioned the composition of Rising Tide, made possible by a grant from the Prudential Foundation. It is the third large-scale work by Irvin Mayfield, the young jazz trumpet virtuoso who is also founder/artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. In this first-time double bill at NJPAC with New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band will feature New Jersey’s own Paquito D’Rivera, along with superstar trumpeter Roy Hargrove and pianist Cyrus Chestnut. In addition to the Rising Tide premiere, the NJPAC program will also include a century’s worth of great New Orleans jazz, including favorites by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
Rising Tide is a cultural and emotional statement on the nature of life along the lower Mississippi River. Though it is not a memorial to the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it features a haunting passage dedicated to Mayfield’s father, Irvin Mayfield Sr., who drowned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It celebrates New Orleans’ music traditions through the sounds of brass bands and Mardi Gras and church traditions, with influences ranging from neighborhood music to Ray Charles, Terence Blanchard and Lauryn Hill “It’s an honor to come play at what feels like a second home for us at the New Jersey Performance Arts Center,” Mayfield said. “It’s here where folks so graciously reached out to our musicians following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. We thought this was the appropriate time and place to unveil our newest work and show that jazz in New Orleans is still alive and growing.”
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in the heart of an emerging downtown Newark, New Jersey, is the sixth largest performing arts center in the United States. Home of the Grammy® Award-winning New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, NJPAC has been widely cited as a catalyst in the revitalization of New Jersey's largest city, attracting over 4.5 million visitors (including more than 850,000 children) in its first nine years of operation.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
NJPAC is a wheelchair accessible facility and provides assistive services such as TTY ticket purchase, designated seating, Sennheiser infrared listening devices and seat cushions.
Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band NJPAC
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Prudential Hall
New Orleans Then & Now Saturday, November 25, at 8 pm
NJPAC presents Dizzy Gillespie™ All-Star Big Band and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in a first-time-ever double bill on its New Orleans Then & Now tour, featuring the premiere performance of Irvin Mayfield’s Rising Tide, commissioned by NJPAC.
Tickets are $58, $51, $43, $35 and $20, and may be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at
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