First Half of Performance
Darryl Harper: Those Who Make Believ

Bryant, Freddie

Harper, Darryl

Harris, Kevin

Parrish, Matthew

Reed, Harry  Butch

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vcu vcuartsDarryi Harper: Those Who Make BelieveSunday, August 28, 2016 at 4 p.m.Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall | W. E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts. Darryi Harper, clarinetMatthew Parrish, bassHarry "Butch" Reed, drumsFeaturingFreddie Bryant, guitarKevin Harris, pianoBippidi-Boppidi-Boo Mack David, Ai Hoffman, Jerry LivingstonThis I Dig of You Hank MobleyScrapbook Kevin HarrisCariocas Andy JaffeKaleidoscope Freddie BryantAnthem for Unity Freddie BryantInner Urge Joe Henderson#*About the ArtistsThe OnusSince 1996 TheOnushascultivated a rich repertoire oforiginal pieces)inventive arrangements, and collective improvisations. Their 2005album Triphony (Hipnotic) made the CMJ Top-40 and garnered suchpraisefrom critics as a citation in The Village Voice for one of the bestalbums of the year. Their 2013 release, The Edenfred Files (Hipnotic),was reviewed and featured on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" withTerri Gross and counted among the best albums .of 2013 by notedjazz historian Ted Gioia. The Onus isledby Darryi Harper and includesMatthewPam'sh on bass and Harry "Butch" Reed on drums.Darryi Harper, clarinetDarryi Harper's creditsinclude dates with Orrin Evans, Tim Warfield, DeeDee Bridgewater, Roscoe Mitchell, Dave Holland, Uri Caine, and a two-yearstinttouringwithReginaCarter.He has recorded seven albumsas aleaderon the Hipnotic Records labeland has receivedthree DownBeatCritic's Poll citations for Rising StarClarinetist. As a composer, Harperhas published and recorded over two-dozen works. He has written afilm score for the award-winning documentaryfilm "Herskovits: At theHeart ofBlackness," and commissions forchoreographers Li Chiao-Pingand Ingo Taleb Rashid and visual artists Peter Bruunand Elisa Jimenez.Harper holds music degrees from Amherst College,Rutgers Universityand New England Conservatory. Hehasledprojectsincluding TheOnus,Into Something, and the C3 Project. Harper ischair of the Departmentof Music at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity.Matthew Parrish. bassMatthew Parrish began playing the acousticbass at the age of eighteenafter playing trumpet for several years. He received musical training atRutgers University underthe tutelage of Kenny Barron, Larry Ridley, andCaroline Davis. Parrish has performed with Orrin Evans, Shirley Scott,Mickey Roker, Bobby Durham, Ralph Peterson,SamDockery and TerrellStafford. Hetoured forthree yearswithlate bebop trombone legend AlGreyand forfiveyears withviolinist ReginaCarter. He has toured mostrecently with Houston Person and Richie Cole. His performance creditsalso include dates with Clark Terry, Harry "Sweets" Edison, MarionMcPartland, Miri Ben-Ari, Wynton Marsalis, Mark Turner, Eric Lewis, RaviColtrane, Miss Justine,Ruth Naomi Floyd and Linda Hopkins.Harry "Butch" Reed, drumsHarry "Butch" Reed began playing drums at Philadelphia's SettlementMusic School and received private instruction from Carl Mottola andSkeets Marsh. Reed has toured and performed with John Blake, theGerald Veasly Band and the Philadelphia Cleff Club Jazz Big Band.Reed's performance credits include dates with Nat Adderly, BobbyWatson,LewTabackon, Roy Hargrove, HankCrawford, Ralph Moore,Steve Turre, Randy Brecker, Archie Shepp, the Blue Note All-Starsand vocalist Ruth Brown.Freddie Bryant, guitarFreddie Bryant has recorded and performed with Tom Harrell,Steve Wilson, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Avishai Cohen, Dee DeeBridgewater, Sheila Jordan, Randy Brecker, David Sanchez, JoshuaRedman, Wynton Marsalis, Max Roach and Lonnie Smith. He hastoured in 50 countries and has collaborated with musicians from awide variety of backgrounds including Indian sitarist ShubhendraRao, klezmer clarinetist Giora Feidman, Taarab oud player ZeinL'abdin, Cuban trumpeter El Greco and Malian singer Salif Keita.He has toured as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Departmentof State and performed at the Kennedy Center with the Billy TaylorTrio appearing on National PublicRadioshow, "Live at the KennedyCenter." He holds a BAfrom Amherst College and a master's degreein classical guitar from the Yale School of Music. He currently is onthe facultyat Berklee College of Musicand PrinsClaus Conservatoryin Groningen, Holland, and was previously a professor of Africahastudies and music at Williams College.Kevin Harris, pianoKevin Harrishas collaborated with Greg Osby, Jeremy Pelt, FranciscoMela, Avishai Cohen, Eddie Gomez, Duane Eubanks, RalphPeterson, Yoron Israel, Dezron Douglas, and Terri Lyne Carringtonand has performed inCuba, Panama, Italy, Denmark, Peru, Israel andthroughout the United States. In2015, Harrisreleased his fifthalbum"Bird Interpretations," his perspective on the musicof CharlieParker.He is currently on the faculty at Berklee College of Music and is aMassachusetts Institute of Technology affiliated artist. He serves asa council member for the Brooklyn-based arts organization "Musicis my First Language," and The Bronx Museum of Fine Arts. Harrisholds a Master's degree in jazz performance from the New EnglandConservatory of Music and an undergraduate degree in music fromMorehead State University, KY.AcknowledgmentsSpecialthanks to:Antonio Garcia,Directorof Jazz Studies, Department of MusicCurt Blankenship, Concert Hall Manager, Department of MusicLinda Johnston, Administrative Director, Department of MusicAmySheets, Director of Communications, Department of MusicJames Frazier, Dean, School of the Arts

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