Music Cleveland! presents CJO Holiday Jazz with Holly Hofmann
Schedule
Fri Dec 16 2022 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Maltz Performing Arts Center | Cleveland, OH
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JUST ANNOUNCED USE DISCOUNT CODE CYBER22JAZZ TO SAVE 25% ON TICKETS UNTIL MONDAY, DECEMBER 5TH!Music Cleveland! presents an exciting HOLIDAY program with the popular Cleveland Jazz Orchestra with guest artist Holly Hofmann in a Special Christmas/Hanukkah program –“Home for the Holly-days”
Tonight’s concert is part of the CJO’s new season featuring - ” HOMETOWN HEROES & MORE! - featuring performing artists that were born and spent their early years in Northeast Ohio. There are other performances scheduled for Saturday, December 17th at BLU Jazz+ and Sunday, December 18th at the Lorain Palace Theatre.
WHO: The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Paul Ferguson with featuring Holly Hofmann, flute
WHAT: Jazzy Holiday Music w/ The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra
WHEN: Friday, December 16th at 7:30 p.m.
PRE-CONCERT DINNER: La Dolce Vita, 12112 Mayfield Road, corner of Murray Hill in Little Italy, ARRIVE from 5 to 5:30 p.m. - pre-concert Holiday Dinner for Music Cleveland! members only (join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/music.cleveland) RSVP REQUIRED to [email protected] with CJO Holiday in subject line. Include full name, email, and cell phone. We will make a reservation on your behalf - cancellations no later than 12 noon day of event (Friday 12.16.22).
LIVE STREAM: NOT AVAILABLE, This will not be available on demand at a later date.
WHERE: Maltz Center - 1855 Ansel Road (44106) in University Circle. Map w/parking: https://goo.gl/maps/GYjvi3KVUfLmvzbm7
TICKETS: Premium @ $45; Preferred @ $35 (not yet available on-line); Standard @ $25. On-Line at: http://UTIX.me/z30m1ygqpwz Or by phone at: 216.368.6062.
Maltz Performing Arts Center Box Office (216.368.6062) is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or one hour before event. Email: [email protected]
PARKING: $7 cash at gate Guests can approach the parking lot (Lot 82) from E.105th/Ansel Dr. or Chester/E.101st. Parking passes can be purchased prior to an event or you may pay at the gate. Cash is recommended.
Overflow parking is available in Lot 81. You will be directed to that lot, if needed. Golf carts will meet guests in Lot 81 to bring them to the Maltz Center.
ADA guest drop-off is available via the Ansel Road and E. 105th street intersection only. Please drop-off your guest at the marked ADA door and continue north to park in Lot 82 or 81. Both parking lots can be accessed from E. 101st Street.
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Holly Hofmann - Holly’s first memories as a musician are some of her fondest. At age 5 she would spend evenings playing a child’s flutophone, accompanying her father, a jazz guitarist, on standards from the Great American Songbook. It was an auspicious beginning for the woman who, after years of studying her instrument and performing in classical ensembles, would find equally satisfying partnerships with such renowned jazzmen as Ray Brown, Frank Wess, Cedar Walton, Kenny Barron and many of other top names in the music.
Today, Holly Hofmann has taken the flute from its middle-of-the-orchestra origins and made it a front-line instrument in jazz. She has earned the praise and respect of musicians and jazz aficionados for her bluesy, bebop-based improvisations and technical prowess on an instrument that many once regarded as definitely not a jazz horn. Hofmann has proven them wrong and critics have labeled her one of the most authoritative, swinging flutists -- male or female -- in jazz today.
Born in Cleveland, Holly’s parents insisted she have a solid foundation in classical technique. After high school at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, she gained her formal education through studies with the Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flutist Maurice Sharp. She then earned her B.A. in music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and her graduate degree from the University of Northern Colorado.
Following graduate studies in Colorado, Hofmann moved to San Diego, California in the late ‘80s and recorded her first CD Take Note with stalwarts Mike Wofford, Bob Magnusson and Sherman Ferguson for Capri Records. It was during her early years in San Diego that Hofmann began booking a fournight-a-week national jazz program at the Horton Grand Hotel for seven years, presenting hundreds of nationally acclaimed artists including Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Tommy Flanagan, Cedar Walton and Joe Henderson.
In the mid ‘90s she also began performing nationally with pianist Bill Cunliffe, a partnership that led to several recordings in duo and other configurations for Cleveland-based Azica Records. They also recorded the critically acclaimed Live at Birdland in a quartet with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Victor Lewis. Hofmann began working with the legendary Ray Brown at New York’s Village Vanguard in the late ‘90s and later toured throughout the United States and Europe with Brown’s trio as a guest artist. She credits Brown’s support as one of the major turning points in her career and recalls that each performance with him was a learning experience.
Hofmann also teaches jazz and flute and conducts master classes at schools and universities around the country. She is on the Board of Directors at Keynote Jazz Foundation which provides concerts and clinics in high schools and middle schools in the United States.
With 12 recordings as a leader in the duo or quartet setting, Holly Hofmann is earning respect for the flute as a jazz instrument. Audiences and promoters recognize her as one of the premiere jazz flutists in the world, and alto great Phil Woods, while describing her performance at the Telluride Jazz Festival, said “Along with Hubert Laws, Holly is frankly the best jazz flute player today.” She has become the standard by which jazz flute is being judged.
- T. Michael Crowell, Froggerdogger.com
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The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra:
Under the direction of Paul Ferguson, the 2022-23 Season presents the theme of HOMETOWN HEROES and features performing artists that were born and spent their early years in Northeast Ohio.
* Holly Hofmann–Home for the Holly-days
* Holly Hofmann on Friday, December 16th from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The tremendous jazz flutist Holly Hofmann joins the orchestra with a mix of Christmas offerings, some new arrangements of progressive jazz by members of the CJO, and a few favorites from the American Songbook.
Coming Attractions
* Our Huckleberry Friend: The Lyrics of Johnny Mercer w/ The Musical Theater Project, Saturday, January 28th from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The CJO joins with The Musical Theater Project to celebrate Johnny Mercer, the finest lyricist of the mid-20th century. Mercer collaborated with Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, and so many more. Featuring vocalists Michael Shirtz, Evelyn Wright, and Vince Mastro.
* Blues, Gospel, and the Abstract Truth, Friday, March 3rd from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Vocalist Adrianna Miller and conductor Jonathon Turner present a high energy gospel program that combines jazz, funk, blues, gospel, and hip-hop. Extra seasoning will come from the music of late great Oliver Nelson, whose work is drenched with gospel music influence.
* Joe Lovano-Coltrane, Sinatra, and the Surprise of Being, Friday, May 5th from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Joe Lovano is one of the seminal voices of the tenor saxophone of the last 40 years. Here’s an extraordinary program that covers Coltrane, Sinatra, and excerpts from “The Surprise of Being”, which featured Joe in a historic collaboration with the CJO at Birdland in New York way back in 2006. The evening will be made perfect by vocalist Judi Silvano, the beautiful Mrs. Lovano.
THE CLEVELAND JAZZ ORCHESTRA - CJO returns for its 38th season, “Hometown Heroes & More.” The orchestra will be highlighting Ohio-born musicians, as well as sharing a range of music across the jazz spectrum, including Benny Goodman, the American Songbook, gospel, blues, progressive, and more. Let’s welcome home some amazing musicians and celebrate jazz in Cleveland! Click Here to Subscribe to the new season. https://case.universitytickets.com/w/packages/PackageDetail.aspx?PackageNewID=142
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra has been Northeast Ohio’s premier jazz voice since 1985. Led by award-winning composer and trombonist Paul Ferguson, the CJO promotes jazz in its historical and contemporary forms, through concerts featuring a stellar line-up of jazz luminaries, arrangers, composers, and educators.
At a CJO concert, you will enjoy "the best jazz you've ever heard and the best jazz you've never heard." Through inventive, original music and effective, innovative Educational Outreach, the CJO shepherds young and up-and-coming musicians and provides the region with unique and important cultural experiences.
CJO WEB SITE: https://www.clevelandjazz.org/
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