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 Aardvark Jazz Orchestra's April 21st concert at MIT was featured in a review in the Sunday Boston Globe:
CAMBRIDGE — When you think “jazz college,” MIT probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. But this year, MIT is celebrating 50 years with jazz on the curriculum, going back to the hiring of Herb Pomeroy in 1963. Saturday night, current MIT jazz-faculty member Mark Harvey led his Aardvark Jazz Orchestra in a program at Kresge Auditorium that celebrated the MIT benchmark as well as the 40th anniversary of his band, and, coincidentally, Jazz Appreciation Month... Read the full story at the BostonGlobe.com |
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 Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 8:00 pm MIT, Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, MA
Aardvark performed on MIT's main stage in a program entitled "Echoes & Resonance" as part of the 50th Anniversary of Jazz at MIT. Music director Mark Harvey reprised two of his major MIT commissions for the April 20th show: Beyond (written for the MIT Wind Ensemble and featuring Herb Pomeroy and Ran Blake in the premiere), and Saxophrenia (composed for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, featuring Joe Lovano in the premiere). The concert also invoked memories of legendary musicians and their connections to Aardvark and MIT: Jaki Byard, who performed with Aardvark in 1986 in Kresge Auditorium, and Mercer Ellington, who lectured to Mark Harvey's classes at MIT and donated his arrangement of Moon Mist to the band. Harvey dedicated the concert to the memory of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings as well as MIT police Officer Sean Collier. He introduced the show saying he hoped it would “reaffirm the power of music and of life.”
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 Friday, March 8, 2013 at 7:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Aardvark marked the high point of its historic 40th season with the world premiere of Mark Harvey's epic new work, Boston JazzScape. The audience enjoyed an exuberant display of Aardvark's "awe-inspiring audience fascination" (Downbeat) as the band delivered Harvey's exhilarating 21st century salute to Boston. This extended suite, composed over 10 years, showed off Harvey's prodigious skill in styles ranging from jazz, swing, blues, and rock to multi-stylistic mashups. The piece tells a fascinating story of Boston, from the Great Fire of 1872 to Sacco & Vanzetti to the infamous urban renewal of the West End (a precursor to the Big Dig), from Boston-born jazz maven Nat Hentoff to social crusader Kip Tiernan, from the back story of the Charlie Card to Mayor Kevin White's Summerthing. |
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 Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Wednesday, January 30th has been proclaimed "Dr. Mark Sumner Harvey Day" in the City of Boston by the City Council offered by City Councilors Felix G. Arroyo & Tito Jackson. Read the official proclamation (PDF) Meanwhile, the Cambridge "City Council declares Wednesday, January 30, 2013, to be 'Mark Sumner Harvey Day' in the City of Cambridge." On the evening of January 29, 2013 the Key to the City was presented to Dr. Harvey by Councillor Reeves on the occasion of Jazz Boston's 7th annual members event held at Ryles Jazz Club. |
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