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Sunday, March 16, 2025
— a “hybrid” event —
Brad Linde’s OFF BROADWAY
12 Jerome Kern Songs in 12 Keys
Brad Linde, alto saxophone
Simone Baron, piano
Zoë Jorgenson, bass
Keith Butler Jr., drums
PROGRAM
The Song Is You
The Way You Look Tonight
All The Things You Are
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Look For The Silver Lining
Dearly Beloved
Long Ago and Far Away
Let’s Begin
Yesterdays
A Fine Romance
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Nobody Else But Me
BIOGRAPHY
Hailed as “the capital city’s contemporary cool king” (Giovanni Russonello, Capitalbop), Brad Linde is a saxophonist, educator, bandleader, and impresario in the Washington DC metro area. He is the director of Jazz and Creative Music at Georgetown Day School and founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.
Raised in NC, he studied music at Elon University (BA) and attended UNC Chapel Hill before graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a MM. He learned the bebop language from Barry Harris and engaged in the Tristano School concepts with pianist Ed Paolantonio before studying privately with Lee Konitz and working with Ted Brown. In 2013, he was a participant in the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop. He is a Washington Performing Arts MARS artist.
He has performed or recorded with Lee Konitz, Oliver Lake, Greg Ward, Richie Cole, Steve Wilson, Charles McPherson, Caroline Davis, Ted Brown, Joel Frahm, Jon Irabagon, Keefe Jackson, Gary Smulyan, Frank Basile, John Mosca, Slide Hampton, Grachan Moncur III, Ryan Keberle, Eddie Bert, Wadada Leo Smith, Carol Morgan, Russ Johnson, Tara Kannangara, Erika Dohi, Russ Lossing, Freddie Redd, Barry Harris, Hod O’Brien, Dan Tepfer, Ran Blake, Anthony Coleman, Steve Cardenas, Anthony Pirog, Wendy Eisenberg, Butch Warren, Michael Formanek, Ratzo Harris, Jason Roebke, Luke Stewart, Matt Wilson, Allison Miller, Warren Wolf, Teddy Charles, Joe Chambers, Andrew Cyrille, Sara Serpa, and Fay Victor.
For over a decade, he has led large ensembles, including the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, the Brad Linde Expanded Ensemble, BIG OL’ (featuring the music of Australian composer Elliott Hughes), and the Team Players BIG LEAGUE.
The Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra debuted in April 2010, performing every Monday night at the historic Bohemian Caverns on U Street. During that time, and beyond, the orchestra has collaborated with Miho Hazama, Elliott Hughes, Ethan Iverson, Jeff Lederer, Jihye Lee, Angela Morris and Anna Webber, Brian Krock, Ken Schaphorst, Frank Carlberg, Nathan Parker Smith, Oliver Lake, Sheryl Bailey, among other guest artists. In 2018, the BCJO released two albums of arrangements and compositions by pianist Dan Roberts. In addition to Wammies (WAMA) awards and Jazzies “Best Of” awards (Washington City Paper), the orchestra received the 2012 Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist.
A fearless and charismatic presence, Simone Baron is a concert pianist, accordionist and composer of infectious energy. She engages with a broad range of musical languages, traditions, and art forms, and has since performed throughout Europe, Israel and North America (Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center).
“Whatever it is you love, you are the bridge between all of the things you love … and the fact that you love them and you love all these different mix of things together makes you, you.”
Having come of age in the cultural melting pot of Wilmington, North Carolina, Keith Butler, Jr. has deep roots in many musical traditions. Due in no small part to his versatility and creativity on the drum set, he has become a mainstay of the Washington D.C. music scene, performing with some of the area’s top bandleaders, including Brian Settles, Saltman/Knowles, Amy K. Bormet, Sarah Hughes, Luke Stewart, Elijah Jamal Balbed, Alex Hamburger, and Stephen Arnold. Butler was also a founding member of adventure music ensemble The New World, and is a member/composer of avant-jazz quartet ¡FIASCO! Butler has composed scores for DC productions of the plays Vietgone, and Venus (a staged reading,) both directed by Natsu Onoda-Power as well as Classic Red, a new play by DC playwright Abigail Chase. Butler released his debut album, Greener Grasses, in April of 2019, and is currently in the finishing stages of his second album. Butler is also a 2022 graduate of the MFA in Music Composition program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Zoë Jorgenson is a versatile bassist, composer, and educator whose music is deeply rooted in jazz, indie, folk, and ambient genres. She has been hailed for her innovative approach to melodic bass and vocal lines, using both to weave throughout the space of a modern jazz quartet.
As a Las Vegas native, she is constantly trying to embody the wide open skies of the desert and the jewel-toned sunsets over the mountains. Jorgenson’s compositions are reflective of all of that and more with a dynamic, melodic stage presence. She has performed on stages all over the world and her most recent post was that of Strathmore Artist in Residence with the prestigious Strathmore Music Center.
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