37th Annual IWU Jazz Festival
featuring Ed Calle, saxophone
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Dear Colleague:
As the new Director of the Jazz Program at Illinois Wesleyan University, it is my sincere pleasure to invite you to the 37th Annual IWU Jazz Festival, which will be held on Saturday, January 21, 2012. This year we will feature internationally renowned saxophonist Ed Calle as our guest soloist and clinician. As in year's past, the Festival will be held in various locations throughout IWU's beautiful campus.
In keeping with the successful tradition of our educational jazz festival, we will feature the following:
- A non-competitive, friendly atmosphere
- Digitally recorded comments by all judges
- A mid-day concert featuring the fiery, Latin jazz big band compositions of Ed Calle and the IWU Jazz Ensemble
- Improvisation clinics divided by instruments and conducted by our outstanding clinicians
- A clinic geared specifically to the junior high students who attend
- A clinic with you and your band in a separate room following your performance by one of our distinguished adjudicators
- All-Star awards gifted to student performers and a Birch Creek Outstanding Performer Award
Applications should be received no later than Friday, December 16, 2011 (plan to apply as quickly as possible). Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail as soon as the application process is completed. Since we expect the festival to continue to be well-received and entrance to the festival is accepted on a first-come basis, we suggest you apply early!
2012 IWU Jazz Festival Registration Form
Sincerely,
Director of the Jazz Program
Instructor of Trombone
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
tpitchfo@iwu.edu
309.556.3269
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Saxophonist Ed Calle is known for his extraordinary ability to play bebop, Latin and contemporary jazz, and pop. Born in Caracas of Spanish parents, it was obvious from the start that he was a natural player and now, Calle can be heard on hundreds of recordings both as a sideman and soloist. He appears on Grammy-award-winning albums by Frank Sinatra, Vicky Carr, Arturo Sandoval, and Jon Secada, as well as on numerous television and motion picture soundtracks. He also has recorded and performed around the world with such artists as Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Michael Bolton, Bob James, Bobby Caldwell, Rhianna, Extreme, and Vanessa Williams. Among his many solo recordings, Ed Calle Plays Santana garnered a Latin Grammy Award nomination in 2005. His latest release In the Zone (2006) features original compositions and jazz standards and earned a Latin Grammy nomination in 2007. Besides being an internationally acclaimed jazz performer and prolific composer and arranger, Calle is in great demand as a jazz clinician and enjoys working with students. Ed has served as a guest artist and clinician with the Monk Institute and at colleges including Brigham Young University, Temple College, The University of North Florida, The University of Florida, The University of Miami, and West Palm Beach Community College. Ed and Sari Calle live with their three children in South Florida where Ed serves as Associate Professor Senior of Music Business and Production at Miami Dade College. A member of the Miami Saxophone Quartet, a Selmer saxophone artist, and Jody Jazz mouthpieces and AMT microphones endorser, Ed Calle also owns and operates One-Take Recording Studios, leads the Fuego Caliente Latin Jazz Orchestra, and has earned a Doctor of Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University where he graduated with a perfect 4.0 average. Addressing one of America's greatest educational challenges, Dr. Calle's doctoral dissertation compares the effectiveness of online and traditional remedial mathematics education. In addition to his passion for and study of music, Ed is a lifelong student of mathematics who is frequently asked to deliver lectures exploring the relationship between music and mathematics. Dr. Calle delivered the keynote address at the MAC^3 conference in 2007.