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BARBARY COAST JAZZ ENSEMBLE

The Barbary Coast is the award-winning student jazz ensemble of Dartmouth College. Specializing in the music of the African-American and Latin jazz traditions, the students in the Coast (mostly non-music majors) enjoy outstanding opportunities to learn from and perform with some of the finest jazz artists in the world, such as recent guests Peter Apfelbaum, Karl Berger, Jimmy Bosch, Joseph Bowie, Graham Collier, Conrad Herwig, George Lewis, David Murray, Eddie Palmieri, Bobby Sanabria and Maria Schneider. Guest artists for the coming year will be the remarkable tenor saxophonist/bandleader John Stubblefied in the fall, and Jose Madera, a highly-respected Latin persussionist and former musical director of the Tito Puente Orchestra, and the wonderful trumpeter Brian Lynch in the winter. The Coast performs both on- and off-campus, including a main stage concert (Spaulding Auditorium) during fall, winter and spring terms. (The Coast concert each February is one of the highlights of Dartmouth's Winter Carnival.) Members of the Coast also frequently participate in student jam sessions. The wide-ranging repertoire of the ensemble extends from original compositions by its director and students within the group, to early works of Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, from the Latin jazz of Eddie Palmieri to the challenging hard-core funk of Joseph Bowie and the out-of-this-world compositions of Sun Ra.

Director: Don Glasgo, Master of Music (valve trombone and piano). Don Glasgo, Director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music theory and composition from Ohio University and the University of Illinois. Mr. Glasgo has taught courses in jazz and literature, jazz history, jazz composition, jazz ensembles, American music and world music at Dartmouth, Hamilton College, Lyndon State College, Goddard College, and in the graduate program of Vermont College, and he has written over 75 jazz compositions and arrangements, many of them premiered by the Barbary Coast. As an accomplished valve trombonist, Glasgo has performed with Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe, Joseph Bowie's Defunkt Big Band, the Oliver Lake Big Band, the Sun Ra Arkestra and Phish. He is the leader of the Latin/blues/soul/funk/New Orleans group, Gusano, and a self-taught jazz pianist. As a faculty member at Goddard College, he directed the Institute for Creative Music and “Salsa Meets Jazz”: The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Seminar with the Eddie Palmieri Octet. He is the author of Jazzlines, a newsletter sent to over 2,700 jazz fans and a featured columnist for Jazz Improv magazine. This is his twenty-eighth year as Director of the Barbary Coast.

Email: Don.Glasgo@Dartmouth.EDU