For this concert in Landmark Center’s Weyerhauser Auditorium, the ensemble will tackle music primarily from the albums Spiral and Medina. Hagedorn notes that “Dave Milne and I have had to transcribe the majority of the music we are playing from the original recordings, since no scores exist. This gives both of us some substantial insight into the forms, harmonies, and melodic content of the pieces, because we have to learn all of the parts to write them out.”  Among the compositions for this concert, the quintet will play “Ungano” (Joe Chambers), “Dave's Chant” (Stanley Cowell), “Spiral” (Joe Chambers),  “Visions” (Bobby Hutcherson), “Poor People's March” (Harold Land), “Matrix” (Chick Corea), “Highway One” (Bobby Hutcherson), and “Shame Shame” (Bobby Hutcherson).

 

The Quintet

Vibes master Dave Hagedorn directs the award-winning jazz bands and percussion ensemble at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.  With degrees from the University of Minnesota, New England Conservatory and Eastman School of Music, he has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Opera, and on regular jazz gigs with the Phil Hey Quartet, the Pete Whitman X-Tet, and the Good Vibes Trio. He’s also appeared in duo with former student/pianist Dan Cavanagh, with whom he released Horizon in 2010. Dave’s acclaimed CD, Solid Liquid, was released on Artegra Records.

 

David Milne is Professor of Music (Saxophone/Jazz Studies) at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. A native of Rochester, NY, he holds BA and MM degrees in music from Indiana University and a DMA from the Eastman School of Music. In the Twin Cities, Dave is an active jazz and classical saxophonist, guest artist/clinician, composer, and arranger who has appeared with the JazzMN Big Band, the Out to Lunch Quintet (Eric Dolphy tribute band), Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Phil Woods, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff, Smokey Robinson, and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.

Pianist Phil Aaron is a Chicago native who studied music at the Berklee College of Music and the University of Illinois. By day, Phil works as a composer of film and television scores, winning an Emmy in 2007 for his scoring work on the PBS animated series, Auto-B-Good. As a performing jazz artist, Phil has shared the stage with Lee Konitz, Eric Alexander, and Barbara Morrison, among others, and has provided piano accompaniment to many local jazz singers and ensembles. Phil plays regularly with his own trio and Lucia Newell, as well as the Phil Hey Quartet.

Tom Lewis (bass) is a busy sideman throughout the Twin Cities. He played in Eddie Berger’s last band, The Jazz All-Stars, and has appeared with such touring artists as Benny Golson, Mose Allison, Jim Rotondi, Slide Hampton, Lew Tabackin, and Charles McPherson . He’s a veteran of the Phil Aaron Trio, Out to Lunch Quintet, and Phil Hey Quartet, and appears on numerous recordings with area musicians.

A former student of Ed Blackwell and Marv Dahlgren,  Phil Hey was born in New York City and raised in Philadelphia. Phil toured for 20 years with the late Dewey Redman and currently tours with British vocalist Stacey Kent. He also manages percussion duties for the Pete Whitman X-Tet and Good Vibes Trio, has a weekly gig with the Benny Weinbeck Trio, and teaches at the U of M, St. Olaf College and MacPhail Center for Music. Following the release of his recording Subduction in 2006, City Pages named Phil its Jazz Artist of the Year.

Landmark Center is located at 75 W. 5th Street in downtown St. Paul. Tickets (at the door only) $12/$10 TCJS/$5 students with ID. Show begins at 5 pm.