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1) Music: Keen and Peachy (from CD - WH "Blowin' up a Storm.")

2) Vox: Loren Schoenberg

 He was not a great jazz composer like an Ellington. He was not a great improviser like a Goodman or a Basie. //I mean, he was very good but he was different from these other folks. His talent was getting bands to play at the top of their game most of the time. That's no small achievement."

3) Bradley:

     REEDMAN WOODY HERMAN FOUNDED "THE BAND THAT PLAYED THE BLUES" IN THE 1930'S. HE WENT ON TO DRIVE HIS HARD-CHARGING "HERMAN'S HERDS" FOR OVER FOUR DECADES. AND THOUGH THEY PRODUCED JAZZ STANDARDS AND HIT RECORDS, WOODY HERMAN'S TRUEST LEGACY WAS HIS SOUND: PRECISION MUSICIANSHIP AT BREAKNECK TEMPOS. HIS BANDS BRIMMED WITH ADVENTUROUS YOUNG PLAYERS INCLUDING ZOOT SIMS, STAN GETZ AND GENE AMMONS, AND PROVIDED AN OUTLET FOR EMERGING ARRANGERS LIKE RALPH BURNS AND NEAL HEFTI.

5) Bradley: NOW ON STAGE, CONDUCTOR LOREN SCHOENBERG WITH THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA -- FOR "EVOCATIONS OF WOODY HERMAN, THE THUNDERING HERD."

4) Music/Ambience Xfade

     IT'S JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER. I'M ED BRADLEY. WOODY HERMANS, APPLE HONEY

8) Music: Apple Honey 8:12

9) Vox: Loren Schoenberg

 "Victor Goines, Walter Blanding, Ryan Kisor, Seneca Black, Vincent Gardener Rodney Whittaker…The Band.

Bradley: THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Schoenberg:

     "Apple Honey."

Bradley: CONDUCTOR LOREN SCHOENBERG SCHOENBERG

Schoenberg: In my experience that's how most bands end the set. Very few can get to that on the first tune, that's amazing. That was one of the most biggest, famous Woody Herman records "

Right now we´re going to make a segue to //one of the main themes of this evening's concert: The marvelous extended works that were written for the Woody Herman band that kind of defined the band against 99% of the big bands of the day with the exception of Duke Ellington.

He had a great writer named Ralph Burns, and Ralph Burns wrote//Lady Macgowan´s dream…and it was originally recorded on two sides of a Columbia 78. and most times when people play it they actually stop playing where they turn the 78 over. Tonight we´re going to go from one movement right into the other like Woody Herman did. I guess if this was historically accurate we´d have somebody come out and turn the record over in the middle, but we´re not going to do that."

11) Music: Lady MacGowan's Dream 4:25

\12) Vox: Loren Schoenberg

     "Wasn´t that beautiful? Man! …Lady Macgowan´s dream…Ok! //Back to the blues. Woody Herman´s band was first known as the band that played the blues, that´s how they were known long before the first Herd. This was his theme song, and it was a simple and elegant blues as there is, it´s called "Blue Flame."

13) Music: Blue Flame 7:40

14) Bradley:

     "BLUE FLAME." THE THEME SONG OF WOODY HERMAN'S "BAND THAT PLAYS THE BLUES." HERMAN ALUMNUS JOE LOVANO, AND VICTOR GOINES, TENOR SAXOPHONE. WYNTON MARSALIS, TRUMPET. HERE'S CONDUCTOR AND MUSIC HISTORIAN LOREN SHOENBERG.

15) Vox: Loren Schoenberg

     "We´re going to yet another genre that we haven't touched upon yet which was the head arrangement. What I mean by head arrangementwas This was a band, Woody Herman's band that made up a lot of pieces of music as they went along and Pete Candoli's been telling us about that. They'd start a riff going, and it would gel, somebody would just kind of sketch it down and then they would go with it and it kept growing. This one of those kind of pieces, it's called "Northwest Passage." Here we go"

16) Music: Northwest Passage: 6:08

17) Bradley:

     NORTHWEST PASSAGE. THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA WITH CONDUCTOR LOREN SCHOENBERG PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF THE WOODY HERMAN BAND.

18) Bradley: (Mid break announce) FOR MORE ABOUT WOODY HERMAN AND HIS HERDS, CLICK ON OVER TO J A L C DOT ORG SLASH RADIO , WHERE YOU CAN SEE PICTURES OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER'S NEW HOME -- THE ‘HOUSE OF SWING´. YOU CAN HEAR THIS PROGRAM AGAIN OR OTHERS FROM OUR ARCHIVES, AND SIGN UP FOR EMAILS ABOUT OUR UPCOMING SHOWS. IT'S JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER. I´M ED BRADLEY.

19) Midbreak: 60 (music cover)

20) Bradley: BORN IN MILWAUKEE, IN 1913, WOODY HERMAN STARTED PLAYING THE ALTO SAXOPHONE AT AGE ELEVEN. HE WENT PROFESSIONAL AT 16. FIVE YEARS LATER HE JOINED THE ISHAM <EYE-sham> JONES ORCHESTRA. WHEN JONES RETIRED HERMAN FORMED HIS ENSEMBLE FROM THE REMENANTS OF THAT BAND.. THEY WERE KNOWN AS "THE BAND THAT PLAYS THE BLUES." UNDER THAT NAME AND LATER AS WOODY HERMAN'S HERDS THEY TOURED AND RECORDED FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS THE BAND HAD ITS CROWD PLEASERS --LIKE THE SAXOPHONE FEATURE KNOWN AS THE 'FOUR BROTHERS' -- AND SUCH TUNES AS "NORTHWEST PASSAGE" AND "WOODCHOPPERS BALL." BUT WOODY HERMAN KEPT HIS MUSIC FRESH WITH YOUNG PLAYERS -- SOME 2000 MUSICIANS CAME THROUGH THE HERMAN HERDS -- AND WITH NEW ARRANGERS, LIKE A YOUNG NEAL HEFTI AND EVEN IGOR STRAVINSKY. AT CARNEGIE HALL IN 1946 THE BAND DEBUTED RALPH BURNS' 4 MOVEMENT MASTERWORK OF JAZZ ORCHESTRATION : "SUMMER SEQUENCE." ONSTAGE AT LINCOLN CENTER, CONDUCTOR LOREN SCHOENBERG PICKS UP THE STORY.

21) Vox: Loren Schoenberg

     The interesting thing about it is // this is the piece that made Stan Getz a world famous saxophone player -- because he played the great solo at the end. and in the score Ralph Burns wrote his choice for the solo. He wrote "Zoot or Stan," Could have been Zoot Sims. This is Summer Sequence, probably the first time it's been played in its entirety in a long, long time."

22) Music: Summer Sequence 12:48 (check applaause between movements

22a) Bradley {alt} SUMMER SEQUENCE - THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY LOREN SCHOENBERG, FEATURING WOODY HERMAN ALUMNI PETE CONDOLI ON TRUMPET AND JOE LOVANO ON TENOR SAXOPHONE PLAYING THE SOLO CREATED BY STAN GETZ.

22a) Bradley -(continues)

This is from the second herd. Just a short story. What made it famous was called the Four brothers. < And so we're gonna have our four brothers here… And we should mention of course the great baritone saxophonist from this orchestra was also in one of the great Woody Herman's band The great Joe Temperley.

So we're gonna do the signature piece of the second band. It was four saxophone players who loved Lester Young's playing, so they were brothers in Lester Young.>. It's written by a great saxophone player from Texas his name is Jimmy Giuffre. And he wrote this back in 1947. So this is Four Brothers.

Music: Four Brothers ( 3:14) from performance

Schoenberg Four - five brothers. Joe Lovano…

Bradley:

     SAXOPHONES - JOE TEMPERLEY, WALTER BLANDING JR. JOE LOVANO, TED NASH, AND VICTOR GOINES, SAXOPHONES… FOUR BROTHERS

     OUR FINAL EVOCATION OF HERMAN'S HERD WAS ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY HIS FIRST ORCHESTRA IN 1939. TODAY IT'S A JAZZ BAND STANDARD. "THE WOODCHOPPER'S BALL."

26) Music: Woodchoppers Ball 7:57

27) Bradley:

     THE LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA. "WOOD CHOPPERS BALL." OUR TRUMPETERS -- WYNTON MARSALIS, SENECA BLACK, MARCUS PRINTUP, AND RYAN KISOR. SAXOPHONES: JOE TEMPERLEY, WALTER BLANDING JR. WES ANDERSON, TED NASH, AND VICTOR GOINES. TROMBONES: ANDRE HAYWARD, VINCENT GARDNER AND RON WESTRAY. FREDERIC SANDERS PLAYED PIANO, RODNEY WHITTAKER -BASS. HERLIN RILEY WAS THE DRUMMER. OUR SPECIAL GUESTS WERE WOODY HERMAN ALUMNI PETE CONDOLI ON TRUMPET AND JOE LOVANO, TENOR SAXOPHONE. ADAM BIRNBAUM ALSO PLAYED PIANO. WARREN WOLF, VIBRAPHONE, AND JAMES CIRILLO <Cher-illo> GUITAR

28) Bradley:

     JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER RADIO IS PRODUCED WITH JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER BY MURRAY STREET PRODUCTIONS. OUR WRITER AND ASSOCIATE PRODUCER IS DAVID GOREN. SENIOR PRODUCER IS STEVE RATHE. THE RECORDINGS WERE MADE BY SAUNDRA PALMER GRASSI, WITH FACILITIES BY EFFANEL MUSIC. THANKS TO ADAM BLACKBURN, CHARLIE CAMPELL, AND RAY RIVERA, OUR PRODUCTION CREW INCLUDED AVE <ah-vay> CARRILLO <car-ee-oh> MATTHEW PAYNE AND RONIT SCHLAM. <schlom>. THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER IS WYNTON MARSALIS. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IS DEREK GORDON. I´M ED BRADLEY