Hope
College Presents
'The Radiohead Project' December 6
featuring
the
Hope
College Jazz Arts Collective and
Holland Jazz Orchestra
Hope College Jazz Ensemble / Holland Jazz Orchestra
Tuesday,
December 6, 2011; 7:30pm FREE admission
Hope
College
Dimnent
Memorial Chapel, 277
College Avenue at 12th Street
Holland,
MI
Alternative
rock will be presented with a jazz flair when the Holland Jazz Orchestra and the Hope College Jazz Arts Collective
combine to present 'The Radiohead Project' on Tuesday,
December 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The
public is invited. Admission is free.
Hope
College Jazz Arts Collective
The
two ensembles will perform jazz arrangements of multiple Radiohead
tunes developed
through the international 'Radiohead Jazz Project,' which was
established in 2010 and co-commissioned
by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band (Frankfurt, Germany) and the Lawrence
University Conservatory
of Music (Appleton, WI). The initiative to adapt the works to the
large jazz ensemble format followed the
interpretation and recording of Radiohead songs by many jazz solo
artists and small ensembles. Featuring
arrangements by an international team of jazz artists, the project to
extend the repertoire to large
ensembles resulted in 12 titles released this summer as the ''Radiohead
Jazz Series.''
The
concert at Hope will feature several selections from the
series. The Holland Jazz Orchestra will perform
'Idioteque,' 'Bodysnatchers,' 'Kid A,' 'Knives Out,' 'All I Need' and
'There, There.' The Hope
College Jazz Arts Collective will perform 'Everything in its Right
Place,' 'High and Dry,' 'Paranoid
Android' and 'Pack Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box.'
RADIOHEAD
JAZZ PROJECT
Many jazz solo artists and small ensembles have recorded Radiohead
songs and frequently include them as ''new standards'' performance
repertoire. To name but a few: Pianist Brad Mehldau ("Exit Music from a
Film," "Paranoid Android," "Everything in Its Right Place," and "Knives
Out"); saxophonist Chris Potter ("Morning Bell"); singer Jamie Cullum
("High and Dry"); ensemble Bad Plus (''Karma Police''); and pianist
Robert Glasper (cleverly combining Herbie Hancock's ''Maiden Voyage''
with Radiohead's ''Everything in Its Right Place'').
It's a logical progression to expand jazz solo and small group
interpretations of Radiohead tunes to the large jazz ensemble format,
and the 'Radiohead
Jazz Project'
is the first grand scale effort to arrange multiple Radiohead
compositions for the jazz ensemble.
Radiohead
ABOUT
RADIOHEAD
The English alternative rock band Radiohead was formed in 1985,
releasing their first single in 1992 and first album in 1993. The
cutting edge 5-piece group achieved notoriety in the U.K. by the
mid-1990s and international recognition before the turn of the century.
In 2005, they were ranked 73rd in Rolling Stone's list of "The Greatest
Artists of All Time'' and they are commonly viewed as one of the most
inventive and successful band in modern rock.
Radiohead
members Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano), Jonny Greenwood (guitars,
keyboards, etc.), Ed O'Brien (guitars, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood
(bass, synthesizers), and Phil Selway (drums, percussion) have cited
the music of jazz icons Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus
as inspirational sources. The band has abandoned conventional
instrumentation and standard song forms, and they've employed rhythms
and grooves seldom found in the rock genre. They claim that they've
drawn many conceptual elements from jazz. ''We bring in our favorite
jazz albums and say: We want to do this,'' says Radiohead lead
guitarist and principal arranger Jonny Greenwood. ''That's what we do,
and that's what bands have always done, since the late '50s -- a bunch
of guys in England listening to American blues records and copying
them. In our case, it's jazz.''
JAZZ
ARTS COLLECTIVE
The Hope College Jazz Arts Collective is the premier large jazz
ensemble at Hope College. Directed by Director of Jazz Studies, Brian Coyle, the Collective places a
creative focus on ensemble communication and improvisation. Comprised
of a rhythm section and flexible wind instrumentation, this select
group performs compositions and arrangements from across the full
spectrum of music. The Collective's repertoire ranges from the
great historical jazz composers such as Duke Ellington and Charles
Mingus, to works by modern jazz masters like Vince Mendoza, Jim McNeely
and John Hollenbeck. The group also frequently performs commissions,
works by emerging young composers, and originals by Hope College
faculty and students. The ensemble also collectively reinterprets and
re-imagines the music from the twentieth century classical repertoire.
HOLLAND
JAZZ ORCHESTRA
The HJO is an ensemble dedicated to the performance of the great Jazz
Ensemble repertoire both historic and contemporary. The group is
made up of professional, semi-professional and community members alike.
The Music Director is Brian Coyle
(Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of the Hope College Music
Department) and the Manager is Paul
Wesselink (HSO Trombonist and Professional Recording Engineer).
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