Mark Morganelli BU'77

Mark Morganelli (BU '77), trumpet
Steve Bowman, tenor saxophone
Steve Adams, piano
Bill Stetz, bass
Phil Haynes, drums

June 2, 2006
8:00 p.m.
Bucknell Hall - Free

MARK MORGANELLI, trumpet and executive director of the Jazz Forum All-Stars, began presenting concerts in his first Jazz Forum loft at 50 Cooper Square in June 1979. By the time the second Jazz Forum loft closed its doors in April 1983, recordings, videos, films, and radio broadcasts had documented performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis,Woody Shaw, Red Rodney, Carmen McRae, Barry Harris, and Max Roach. After brief residencies at the Village Gate and the Entermedia Theater, he established Jazz Forum Arts, a not-forprofit arts presenting organization, and started the Riverside Park Arts Festival in 1985. Morganelli has produced over fifty CDs, most for Candid Records, 20 recorded live at NYC’s Birdland club, where he was the music coordinator for five years. Fourteen years ago, he moved to Westchester and inaugurated the Jazz at the Music Hall series in Tarrytown. Performers have included Ahmad Jamal, Billy Taylor, Lionel Hampton, Betty Carter, and many other notables. He produced the Sunnyside and Berkshire Jazz festivals. He has produced concerts at theTarrytown Arts Festival, C.W. Post College, Paramount Center in Peekskill, Palace Theatre in Stamford, NJPAC, John Harms Center in Englewood, Purchase College SUNY, and NYC’s Beacon Theatre and Town Hall. Morganelli also produced the Dizzy Gillespie 75th Birthday concert at Carnegie Hall and co-produced the Jazz Beats Breast Cancer concert at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2005, he began presenting a new concert series at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He continues to perform with his Jazz Forum All-Stars on Wednesdays at Castle-on-the-Hudson in Tarrytown and on Thursdays at Aperitivo Plus in Larchmont. He has just released My Romance, his fourth CD as leader.

STEVE BOWMAN studied jazz improvisation, theory, and arranging at the Berklee College of Music and holds a B.A. in music from Penn State University.With the Glenn Miller Orchestra, he has toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America. He has performed with Billy Eckstine, Buddy DeFranco, Rosemary Clooney, Frankie Laine, and Bob Hope, among others. Locally, Steve performs in regional symphony and theater orchestras, TV and radio commercials, and numerous jazz, pop, and rock groups.

STEVE ADAMS was an original member of the David Rose Band and has performed locally with Cruel 4 Days, Jazzin’, The Transcendants, and the big band Backbay Express. He has appeared with international artists David Liebman, Nelson Hill, Virginia Mayhew, and Jim Pugh.

BILL STETZ has been featured in many of the region’s best-known bands including AAA Blues Band, Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band, The Earthtones, The Arthur Goldstein Quartet, Jim Yanda’s Regional Cooking, and Averie Clark’s Cool Blue.

PHIL HAYNES made his recording debut with the Paul Smoker Trio’s QB, which was named the Number One Jazz Album of 1985 in Coda Magazine. More than 20 years later, he is a veteran of over 40 CDs. Haynes produces, and occasionally performs on, the Jazz at Bucknell series of chamber jazz performances.