CLC Music Presents

 47th ANNUAL "ART OF JAZZ" CONCERT
featuring the CLC JAZZ ENSEMBLES
with Guest Artist Tim Hagans, Trumpet

Sunday, November 19, 2023
4 p.m.

JLC Mainstage Theatre

Passion. Innovation. Diversity. Connection. Community.

These aren’t just hallmarks of the arts; they’re woven into the very fabric of the College of Lake County and our commitment to offering, “equitable, high-quality education, cultural enrichment, and partnerships to advance the diverse communities we serve.” Within the Communication Arts Division, we champion the belief that the arts have a unique power to reflect, unite, and transform the world by bringing diverse voices and experiences together through shared storytelling and celebration!

This season, we’re thrilled to showcase a rich array of artistic, intellectual, and cultural experiences. Revel in our exceptional music, theatre and dance performances; immerse yourself in art exhibits hosted in the beautiful Wright Community Gallery; explore our dynamic film and literary series; or engage in one of our many free community workshops and events. Each offering underscores the breadth and diversity of talent at CLC and within the wider community we serve. To learn more about our distinguished lineup for the 2023-24 season, please visit www.clcillinois.edu/events/the-arts-events.

In the coming months, we also invite you to delve into the “Voices of Lake County,” a multi-year, interdisciplinary project spanning the Communication Arts, Fine Arts, and Humanities Division. This year’s theme, Sustainable Lake County, investigates environmentalism and sustainability through the lens of the arts and humanities. We will collaborate across the college and the broader Lake County community to explore how we all can live more sustainable, just, meaningful, and socially conscious lives that preserve our environment while cultivating the diverse communities that make up our region. For more information, visit www.voicesoflakecounty.com/sustainable-lake-county.

Finally, join us in further exploration and discovery by taking one of our many exciting courses in literature, creative writing, communication studies, digital media and design, philosophy, the humanities, world languages, or the vast landscape of visual and performing arts. Whatever your goal—from personal enrichment to earning a certificate or degree—we’d love to play a part in your own story of transformation!

Thank you for coming to the College of Lake County! We are excited you’re here!

Dr. Sheldon Walcher
Dean

Joe Ott - Director, Tuesday Night Jazz Ensemble

WHAT AM I HERE FOR?
Composed by Duke Ellington Arranged by Frank Foster

FUN TIME
Composed by Sammy Nestico

THE MOOCHE 1930
Composed by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills

SUCH SWEET THUNDER
Composed by Duke Ellington
Transcribed by David Berger

BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER
Composed by Paul Simon
Arranged by Alan Baylock

BIG SWING FACE
Composed by Bill Potts

Joe Ott - Director

SAXOPHONES

Tony Licocci – Alto
Steve Loerch – Alto
David Rainish – Tenor
Marjorie Newman – Tenor
Megan Gabler – Bari

TRUMPETS

Paul Hawn
Paul Velez
John Petschelt
Sam Licocci

TROMBONES

Jeff Slepak
Jackie Graham
Louis Thoms
Joe Kuzmanoff

RHYTHM SECTION

Kai Funahashi - Piano
Jess Smith – Bass
Richard Bothmann – Drums
Jill Unrein - Drumset

Michael Flack, Director Monday Night Jazz Ensemble

AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
Arranged by Robert Curnow

STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY
Arranged by Bill Holman

THE BLUES WALK
Composed by Clifford Brown
Arranged by Fletcher

(Featuring Trumpeter Tim Hagans, program to be selected from the following:)

PASSING GIANTS
Composed by Tim Hagans

BOO
Composed by Tim Hagans

MISSED THE BALLGAME BLUES
Composed by Tim Hagans

PALT SEANUTS
Composed by Tim Hagans

BUCKEYES
Composed by Tim Hagans

ROLLIN’ WITH VON OHLEN
Composed by Tim Hagans

Michael Flack - Director

FLUTE
Betsy Rehm

BASS CLARINET
Steve Schmidt

SAXOPHONES
Mike Garippo –Alto
Kai Funahashi –Alto
Joe Ott – Tenor
Alan Schramm – Tenor
Kurt Anderson – Baritone

TRUMPETS
Bryan Grabowski
Mitch Warren
Mark Zar
Tom Forkenbrock
Andre Rivera

TROMBONES
Dave Johnson
Evan Lyons
Rick Simmons
Tracy Nielsen
Joe Kuzmanoff

RHYTHM
Bill Chapin – Piano
Paul Nielsen – Guitar & Bass
Eileen Jarrett – Bass
Dan Prowse – Drumset
Daniel Henson – Drumset

Jim Macnie of the Village Voice wrote: “Fetchingly situated between Brownian blasts and Milesian murmurs, the trumpeter’s lines cover lots of emotional breadth. It makes for a straight-ahead quintet approach that is quite willing to bend the rules to suit a tune’s forgotten corners. His poetry with standard ballads might hush this room. Evidently, he does know what love is.”

Tim Hagans was nominated for Grammy awards for Best Instrumental Composition for “Box of Cannoli” from THE AVATAR SESSIONS (2010 Fuzzy Music); Best Contemporary Jazz CD for RE ANIMATION (2000 Blue Note) and ANIMATION IMAGINATION (1999 Blue Note).

Tim Hagans has performed and recorded with Thad Jones, Ernie Wilkins, Joe Lovano, Bob Belden and Dexter Gordon. It was Thad Jones who encouraged Tim to write music, and Hagans' first composition appeared on a Thad Jones Eclipse LP.

For three years he was a member of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. For fifteen years he was artistic director and composer-in-residence for the Norrbotten Big Band, traveling to Sweden to perform, conduct and arrange projects with guests including Rufus Reid, Randy Brecker,

Peter Erskine, and Dave Liebman. THE AVATAR SESSIONS CD features music he created during that tenure, performed by Tim Hagans, the Norrbotten Big Band, and the above-mentioned guest artists.

Hagans is the featured soloist on the soundtrack by Howard Shore for the movie The Score, starring Robert DeNiro and Marlon Brando. In 2001 he was the subject of an hour- long documentary made for Swedish television entitled Boogaloo Road). In June 2012 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki.

Hagans was the recipient of the 2008 IAJE/ASCAP Established Composer commission and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Composition Grant. Other notable commissions include the Barent’s Composers Orchestra in 2009; NDR Big Band in Hamburg in 2001, 2004, 2013 & 2016; Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra in 2003, 2007 and 2014; and the UMO Jazz Orchestra in Helsinki in 1997 and 2005. He has composed music for Christer Engberg’s play The Hostage and for Jazz Baltica.

In 2007 he began performing and composing for the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, a contemporary dance company dedicated to the use of live original music in performance and the integration of musicians into the stage imagery. In 2009 he created music for GET OUTSIDE, an evening-length work for the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble in collaboration with the Norrbotten Big Band. In 2010 he collaborated with author, actor, and filmmaker Peter Josyph on THE WAY OF THE TRUMPET, a performance work for improvised trumpet and haiku. 

Upcoming Events at the JLC

WINTER DANCE CONCERT
CLC Dance
Friday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 2 at 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

CHORAL ENSEMBLES HOLIDAY CONCERT
CLC Music
Saturday, December 9 at 4 p.m.

WIND ENSEMBLE HOLIDAY CONCERT
CLC Music
Sunday, December 10 at 4 p.m.

CONCERT BAND HOLIDAY CONCERT
CLC Music
Wednesday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m.

RUTH PAGE'S THE NUTCRACKER
JLC Performing Arts Series
Saturday, December 16 at 1 p.m. & 5 p.m.
Sunday, December 17 at 1 p.m.

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College of Lake County
Board of Trustees

Julie B. Shroka, M.A. Chair 
Torrie Mark Newsome, J.D. Vice Chair 
Paul G. Virgilio, B.S., S.E., P.E. Secretary 
Allena Barbato, J.D. 
William M. Griffin, Ed.D. 
Amanda D. Howland, J.D. 
Gerri Songer, M.A. 
Daniel Blaine Student Trustee 
Lori Suddick, Ed.D. President 

Trustees Emeriti  

Richard A. Anderson, J.D. 
William M. Griffin, Ed.D.
Patricia Jones, M.Ed. 
Barbara D. Oilschlager, M.Ed.   

James Lumber Center Staff

Alisa Baum
Executive Director

Leslie Baraboo
Marketing & Communications Analyst

Jessica Daly
Patron Services Coordinator

Kim Dizzonne
Accounting Associate

Jeremy Eiden
Technical Coordinator

Peter Hansen
Technical Production Assistant

Judie Katz
Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Jianni Newsome
Box Office Assistant

We respectfully acknowledge that the College of Lake County is on the ancestral homelands of the Kickapoo, Peoria, Potawatomi and other native peoples. We recognize the longstanding significance of these lands for indigenous peoples past, present and future. Historical awareness of indigenous exclusion and erasure is critically important to preventing further atrocities. The College of Lake County pledges to acknowledge the grave injustices of the past and pledges to create awareness and advance education that invites truth.