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Muzycy: Paula Hatcher Jazz Quintet with Ashton Fletcher, Bill Biesecker, Willie Barberland, guest Charlie Byrd Conservatory of Music, where she has taught courses in jazz improvisation. BILL BIESECKER, also a graduate of Peabody, is a veteran of the theater and nightclub circuit. He has toured with such groups as the Johnny Mann Singers and the Mariachi Brass, and has accompanied such artists as Sergio Franchi and Sammy Davis, Jr. When not performing as a jazz musician, Bill teaches at Towson State University, and is a prolific composer of jazz works. ASHTON FLETCHER holds a degree from Peabody, and his Master's degree from Morgan University. A serious jazz performer since his college days, he has worked with many nationally known jazz artists, including Laurindo Almeida, Joe Venuti and Slide Hampton. PROGRAM NOTES BY PAULA HATCHER A common thread which runs through all of the repertoire we play is a predominance of clear rhythms and melodies. We feel that basic, WILLIE BARBER majored in music at Morgan University and holds a Master's degree in social work from Howard University where he is currently completing a doctoral degree. Willie has extensive touring and studio credits, and has been heard with such artists as Ethel Ennis and O'Donel Levy. CHARLIE BYRD has enjoyed a career which has spanned more than twenty-five years, including extensive touring throughout the world and more than sixty albums. His many credits include the Newport and Concord jazz festivals, State Department tours to Africa and South America, and Downbeat's No. 1 jazz guitarist award. Charlie has adapted a brilliant classical technique to jazz idioms, and was influential in bringing the bossa nova to the United States. uncomplicated jazz tunes are bestsuited for our instrumental combination, and allow for improvisations that are spontaneous and fun. On a program, we freely juxtapose many styles, and enjoy the qualities found in both old and new works. Charlie Byrd's guest appearance with the group gave us the perfect opportunity to start with a retrospective on the big band swing of Benny Goodman's "Seven Come Eleven," followed by the graceful melodies found in south-of-the-border "Carioca." (We couldn't resist adding a tango interlude here!) Charlie and I also played a duo arrangement of Duke's "Sophisticated Lady," which took on a rich and florid quality. A performance with Charlie wouldn't be complete without a boss nova, a musical form which he helped bring to the United States from Brazil back in the 1960s. We chose "Look to the Sky" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, who never ceases to amaze us with his alluring and understated melodies. "Battle Hymn," the last tune on the tape, speaks for itself. The quartet portion of this recording contrasts the old and the new, sometimes within the same tune. In "Love for Sale," I deliberately fragmented the melody over Ashton Fletcher's bass line, and then turned the bassist and the drummer loose on a solo a bit later on. "Pick Yourself Up," done in a more traditional way, was definitely influenced by Mel Torme's virtuosic rendition; and in "Lover Man," quitarist Bill Biesecker and I strove for the sensuous inexactitudes found in the singing of Billie Holliday. We also find continuity in the works of more contemporary composers. "Jelly Roll," a blues fusion tune by Quincy Jones, has an almost hypnotic quality. In a more experimental style, we linked Chick Corea's "500 Miles High" and Wayne Shorter's "Night Dreamer" together through an improvisatory cadenza. Corea's tune slowly takes off, doubling its internal tempo as it goes; and Shorter's piece, in contrast, gradually becomes more ethereal, and eventually just floats away. CHARLIE BYRD and PAULA HATCHER began their part-time collaboration over ten years ago. They have toured in fifteen states, recorded on Crystal Clear label, and performed at Charlie's Georgetown, the Maryland Inn, and Rick's Cafe in Chicago. They share a common interest, that of adapting classical approaches on their instruments to jazz idioms. THE PAULA HATCHER JAZZ QUARTET has been heard in hundreds of schools, colleges, communities, clubs, concert stages, and on radio and television. The group has cultivated a distinctive sound which neither derives from nor is directly comparable to any other style heard on the jazz scene today. While traditionally based, the music is sculpted into lines that encapsulate traditional elements in a strikingly modern structure. The sound is most often described by listeners as being clear, clean, and elegant to a highly unusual degree, and it has proved to be extremely popular with both traditional and progressive audiences. Recent performance credits for the Quartet include Wolf Trap, Blues Alley, cable television, and Brooklyn College, where "Rise and Shine" was recorded live. PAULA HATCHER has had a background and career which include an unusual mix of both jazz and classical music. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, she has toured in forty-two states and abroad. As a member of the New York Camerata, she perfomed at Alice Tully Hall, appeared in two U.S.I.A. films, and recorded on Vox label. Paula also has been heard at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Edison Theatre in St. Louis, and has been soloist with the Baltimore Symphony and the Goldman Band in New York. She is on the faculty of the Peabody