Scholar-ship Com-mittee Chairman Brent Colwell recently announced the winners of the fall

2010 CTJS jazz scholarships.

The three scholarship winners are:

- Jeremy Langthorn – grade 10 – alto saxophone

- Altin Sencalar – grade 11 – trombone

- Ajay Narayanan – grade 11 – piano

The three scholarship winners are students at Temple High School (reflecting the pool of applicants for the fall, all of whom were from the Temple area).

Each winner will receive a half ($200) scholarship, which partially

funds a total of 10 1-hour jazz-based lessons from an in-structor chosen by the Central Texas Jazz Society. The lessons began in October.

Pianist AJAY NARAYANAN, 16, is a member of the Temple High School Highlighters and the Temple College Jazz Ensemble. He has been playing piano for 10 years and began playing jazz as a student at Travis Middle School.

He has been studying jazz piano with Dr. Benjamin Irom. Ajay has amassed a number of honors as a musician, including being selected for All Region Jazz Band two years in a row and for All Area Jazz Band this year. He doubles on French Horn.

Trombonist ALTIN SENCA-LAR, 16, is a member of the Temple High School Highlighters and both the Temple College Sym-phonic Band and Jazz Ensemble.

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CTJS Awards Fall Scholarships

TJO Plans Scandinavian Tour

Ajay Narayanan

Altin Sencalar

(continued on Page 6)TJO and Randy Brecker at North Sea

The Temple Jazz Orchestra is returning to Europe next summer, and you're invited to tag along.TJO visited Europe in 2009, on a tour that began in Paris, wound

south to Switzerland and ended in Holland. That tour included a number of friends and relatives, all of whom thoroughly enjoyed themselves. This year's tour is head toward Scandinavia, and jazz

fans who want to be part of TJO's entourage are welcome.The 2011 TJO European trip

currently is scheduled to start on July 6 with a flight from Texas to Amsterdam. After three days in Holland (with an appearance at the North Sea Jazz Festival), the band moves north and east, with a

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Meet the Board…Larry Simonette

Dr. Benjamin IromDr. Colin Mason

Bill BerningThomas FairlieBrent ColwellGreg Bashara

David WildJohn R. Francis

PresidentVice PresidentSecretaryTreasurerArtistic DirectorBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsLegal Advisor(Attorney at Law)

Neal JakubowskyJim Burns

Evan KlarasGary Smith

Jesse Ybarbo Johnny Walker

Tim CatesAlex Parker

Rob PageKaren Gonzales

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PO Box 643, Temple TX 76503-0643. President: Larry Simonette

Editor: David Wild Production Assistance: Tony Wild

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Treasurer Bill BerningMeet your CTJS board members

Bill Berning has held the position of Treasurer for the Central Texas Jazz Society since its founding in 2007. Although Berning jokingly says, "I can balance my

checkbook, which qualifies me for being treasurer," in fact he has carefully and professionally managed the society's funds since assuming the treasurer's duties, ensuring that CTJS continues to comply with the rules and accounting requirements of a nonprofit organization. Berning has had an inter-

est in drumming and jazz since high school and col-lege. "I played percussion in the Beeville High School band in the ’50s", he says, "went to regionals and obtained a partial scholarship to St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas." At St. Mary's, Berning notes, "I played in the college

band led by Frank Sturgio. I was also the first drum-mer to play in the Temple College Jazz Orchestra, before Tom Fairlie arrived." Professionally, Berning has been a clinical social

worker since 1967, with a graduate degree in social work. "I had a clinical practice in Temple for 30 years,"

he says, "until I retired last year. I continue to work with people, as I have taken a part time position as a

clinical social worker for an organization called Vericare, and I do therapy with veter-ans at the William Courtney VA Home in Temple."Although Berning has had a

fulltime career outside music, he is among those who love jazz enough to be willing to take on the responsibilities of an organization that sup-ports the music. "I am a fan

of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and have an extensive jazz CD collection. “I believe in what CTJS is doing, providing opportu-

nities for young people to further their study of jazz, to enrich others in the community to the jazz medium, and to promote this American art form for all to ap-preciate as a great contribution to the musical arts of our country," he says.

Bill and Sheila Berning

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Meet your CTJS board members

Vice-President Benjamin IromDr. Benjamin Irom has held the position of Vice-

President of the Central Texas Jazz Society since its founding in 2007.

Irom is currently Director of Jazz Studies/Instruc-tor of Jazz Piano at Temple College in Temple. Prior to this appointment, he spent two years as Director of Jazz Studies at Baylor University in Waco. He has also served as Adjunct Instructor of music theory at River-side Community College in Riverside, Calif., and as Assistant Instructor of music theory and jazz at The University of Texas at Austin.

In 1992, Irom received his B.A. in Music from The University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied composition with David Cope and piano with Mary Jane Cope. He completed his M.A. in music composi-tion at The University of California, Los Angeles, in 1995 after having studied with composers Ian Krouse, Paul Reale and Elaine Barkin. In May of 2003, Irom received a D.M.A. in composition with jazz emphasis at The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied closely with Richard Lawn, Jeff Hellmer, John Mills, and Donald Grantham.

"I was exposed early to jazz and classical music," says Irom, "because my father always had music playing on the radio throughout the house." Irom's early jazz influ-ences were Bill Evans, Chick Corea, and the Latin jazz recordings of George Shearing. "I got my first Real Book as a present when I turned 14, but I never really learned how to use it properly until I was 16, when I started taking a few jazz piano lessons," Irom says.

Irom has had the opportunity to perform alongside numerous Latin and jazz legends, including Paquito D'Rivera, Poncho Sanchez, Arturo Sandoval, Pedro Eustache, Christian McBride, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Shew, Randy Brecker, Jim Pugh, Rufus Reid,

James Moody, Roy Hargrove, Kenny Burrell, John Fedchock, and Kevyn Letteau. His music is available for purchase through The University of Northern Colo-rado Jazz Press.

Irom notes, "I look forward to the expansion of CTJS across all of Central Texas in the hopes of educating today's youth about jazz and further enriching this area's already vibrant musical culture."

Dr. Benjamin Irom

Where the bands are....

The Waco Jazz Orchestra will present its fall con-cert on Monday, Dec. 6, in the Ball Performing Arts Center at McLennan Community College, starting at 7:30 p.m. WJO, under the direction of trumpeter Tim Cates, will present an eclectic program ranging from classic Count Basie charts to arrangements of the

compositions of Pat Metheny. Temple Jazz Orchestra takes to the road on Jan. 21 for

a concert at Howard Payne University in Brownwood. TJO will feature vocalist Toni Ringgold in a program of the music of Cole Porter. Proceeds from the concert will go toward TJO's 2011 European tour.

Where the bands are playing...

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Jazz in the park...There was nothing spooky about the third in a se-

ries of three Jazz in the Park concerts at Cameron Park's Redwood Shelter in Waco on the afternoon of Halloween. The concert opened with TC Fu-sion (Colin Mason, saxophones; Keith Fiala, trumpet; Gary Smith, trombone; Ben Irom, piano; Vince Bryce, bass; and Mike Morris, drums), followed by the A. J. Moore Steel Drum Band, with the Temple Jazz Orchestra and vocalist Toni Ringgold closing out the concert.

Photos by Larry Simonette and Angie Wild.

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TJO fall concert...

Temple Jazz Orches-tra's fall concert featured a program of arrange-ments of the works of Cole Porter. TJO was joined by vocalist Toni Ringgold for the Nov. 6 performance, with the program repeated the following afternoon in Georgetown.

Photos by Jim Burns and Angie Wild.

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He lists euphonium as his primary instrument, with trombone as his alternate. He began playing in the sixth grade, adding jazz in the seventh. He has been studying jazz trombone with Gary Smith.

Altin attended an Essen-tially Ellington festival in Louisiana earlier this year and was recognized for his solo. He was selected to attend the Boston Univer-sity Tanglewood Institute music camp last summer, and was selected for the All Region Jazz Band.

Saxophonist JEREMY LANGTHORN, 15, is a sophomore at Temple High School and a member of the Highlighters. He began playing saxophone in the sixth grade, at Bonham Middle School. He is a stu-dent of Dr. Colin Mason. Jeremy lists a wide range of artists among his favorites, ranging from John Col-trane through Count Basie and Gordon Goodwin. He hopes to pursue a career in music after high school.

Lessons are provided through the Temple College Academie Musique. The scholarship support is provid-ed by CTJS, drawing on funds from prior grants by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, money raised by the CTJS Gala and other sources.

n December 2, 'Greg Bashara/Evan Klaras,' ‘Uncorked,’ 1201 Hewitt Dr. #200, Waco, 7:30 p.m.n December 6, ‘Waco Jazz

Orchestra,’ Ball PAC, McLennan

Community College, Waco, 7:30 p.m. n December 8, ‘Dave Wild/Tim

Cates,’ ‘Barnett’s,’ 420 Franklin Ave., Waco, 8 p.m. n December 16, ‘Pat Kelly/Ter-

rence Guerrero,’ ‘Uncorked,’ 1201 Hewitt Dr. #200, Waco, 7:30 p.m.n December 23, ‘Dave Wild/Tim

Cates,’ ‘Uncorked,’ 1201 Hewitt Dr. #200, Waco, 7:30 p.m. n January 21, ‘Temple Jazz

Orchestra with Toni Ringgold,’ Howard Payne University, Brown-wood, 7:30 p.m.n February 22, ‘Baylor Jazz

Ensemble,’ with trumpeter Terell Stafford, Jones Hall, Baylor Uni-versity, Waco, 7:30 p.m.n March 26 ‘Temple Jazz

Orchestra’ with trumpeter Allen Vizzutti, ‘Temple College Jazz Festival,’ Temple, 7:30 p.m.

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Jeremy Langthorn

stopover in Germany, arriving in Aarhus, Denmark, for the Aarhus Jazz Festival. After three days in Copenhagen, TJO crosses the water to Sweden to visit the Falkenberg Jazz Festival, following up with three days in Stockholm. TJO returns to the U.S. on July 20.Total cost per person for the trip is around $4000,

which covers air fare, hotels, transportation and some meals. The great music is free. The sign-up period for the tour ends early in 2011.

Contact Colin Mason at 254-298-8558 for details.

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