Brown Jazz Band featuring Joe Lovano perform the 37th Eric Adam Brudner ’84 Memorial Concert

GRAMMY-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano is the featured guest for the 37th Annual Eric Adam Brudner ’84 Memorial Concert with the Brown Jazz Band, directed this semester by Ed Tomassi. This event takes place at De Ciccio Family Auditorium in Salomon Center on the main green at Brown University. Tickets: $25; $10 seniors; $5 students. General admission.Tickets on sale now! (https://tickets.brown.edu/arts/Online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=94815CD5-A7E3-4601-A30A-AF06D878EEF8)   Brown Jazz Talk at 7pm Joe Lovano, Timo Vollbrecht, and Ed Tomassi talk about jazz, Lovano’s music and career. Attendees must have a ticket to attend this talk. Concert starts at 8pm   About the Annual Eric Adam Brudner ’84 Memorial Concert Eric Adam Brudner graduated in 1984 after distinguishing himself as one of the finest students to pass through the Department of Music in recent memory. Eric was a talented pianist and composer. He was the founder and president of an active Departmental Undergraduate Group that enlivened the department and contributed ideas for curricular and extracurricular programs that have had a continuing impact on our offerings. While still an undergraduate, Eric was a busy professional, playing jazz in local clubs and successfully teaching piano to dozens of fellow students. He was awarded the Buxtehude and Arlan Coolidge Prizes in music in his junior and senior years respectively. Eric was a favorite of faculty and students alike. He brightened our classes and our lives with his effervescent good humor and quick wit, and he touched our hearts with his music. These annual concerts are dedicated to the memory of our student, friend, and family member in celebration of his talent and aspirations. The Brudner Memorial Concerts have become an important tradition at Brown. They began in 1988 with a concert featuring compositions by Brown students and visiting composers. Members of the Brown Jazz Band were well represented in the first three concerts. In the inaugural Brudner Concert, Dan Seiden’s Eyes can not was performed by Dan (who sang and played guitar) along with Jon Feinberg (drums) and Ethan Basch (bass). The second and third concerts included original compositions performed by The Jazz Tarboosh (Don Katz, saxophone, Jon Schapiro, trumpet, Andy Woo, trombone, Steve Schenfeld, Joe Mulholland and Russ Faegenburg piano, Greg Levine, guitar, Mark Tourian, bass, Eric Levine and Chris Sbrollini, drums). Beginning in 1991, with the fourth Brudner Concert, world-renowned musicians have visited Brown and performed with Brown student musicians in successive Brudner Concerts. About Joe Lovano Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer and producer Joe Lovano is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. With a Grammy win for his 52nd Street Themes and 14 other nominations, he has won DownBeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Polls countless times as Tenor Saxophonist, Musician of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year and Triple Crowns from DownBeat. He has also received numerous awards from JazzTimes and the Jazz Journalists Association for Tenor Saxophone, Album of the Year and Musician of the Year. Born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1952 he attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where years later he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Since 2001 he has held the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance and is a founding faculty member since 2009 of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee directed by Danilo Pérez. He is a guest lecturer at New York University’s Jazz Program, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music as well as Clinician at Universities around the globe. From 1991 through 2016, Lovano released an unprecedented 25 records as a leader for the historic Blue Note Records. Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport featuring Hank Jones was recorded in 2005 and released in 2016 to critical acclaim. In 2019, Lovano released his debut album as a bandleader on ECM Records, Trio Tapestry, with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi. Over the next few years, Lovano saw the release of three additional ECM Records albums: ROMA, a collaboration with Enrico Rava; Arctic Riff, a special guest appearance with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio; and the sophomore release from Lovano’s Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression. In 2021, Lovano released Other Worlds, his third album with Sound Prints, a quintet he co-leads with trumpeter Dave Douglas. The next year brought a collaboration with guitarist Jakob Bro, Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian. Most recently, Lovano released his third Trio Tapestry recording entitled, Our Daily Bread. In addition, composer Mark Anthony Turnage wrote a Concerto for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra for Joe called “A Man Descending” which has been performed globally and Maestro Michael Abene orchestrated an album of all-Lovano originals called Symphonica for the WDR Symphonic Orchestra and Big Band, which was released on Blue Note and received a Grammy nomination. Joe has performed and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Woody Herman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Tony Bennett, Abbey Lincoln, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Gunther Schuller, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Judi Silvano, Ravi Coltrane, Chucho Valdés, Ornette Coleman, Diana Krall, and many others. Joe has created an extensive body of work for his own ensembles including strings, woodwinds, his horn-rich Nonet, the Classic Quartet, Trio Tapestry, and more. Joe Lovano continues to explore new horizons within the world of music as a soloist, bandleader and composer.