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Music Department

National Gallery of Art 

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Washington, dc

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The Sixty-third Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,524th Concert

Bobby Rodriguez Latin Jazz Quintet

Bobby Rodriguez, trumpet andjlugelhom

Ivan Renta, saxophones, Joe Rotondi Jr., piano

Russel Blake, bass, Alex Acuna, drums

Presented in honor of

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors:

The Drawings ofEd Ruscha

20 February 2005

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Bobby Rodriguez will announce the program from the stage.

The Musician

Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Grammy-nominated trumpeter Bobby

Rodriguez is a dynamic performer, entertainer, and composer who has

dedicated his life to promoting fine music. He has performed and recorded with such world-class musicians as Quincy Jones, Diana Krall, Tina

Turner, Wynton Marsalis, Tito Puente, Ray Charles, and Herbie Hancock.

Rodriguez has one gold and three platinum records to his credit, and his

new release, Trumpet Talk, produced in collaboration with Kenny Burrell

and Alex Acuna, follows close on the heels ofthe CD Latin Jazz Romance

and his Grammy Award-nominated LatinjazzExplosion. His numerous

awards and honors include Los Angeles New Times Salsa/tropical Artist 

ofthe Year, Drew University’s Lifetime Achievement Award, klon Radio’s

Best New Latin Jazz Artist, and Jazz Educator ofthe Year.

An active member ofthe Los Angeles community and the community

of musicians at large, Rodriguez is president ofthe Hispanic Musicians 

Association, Inc. as well as a member ofthe board of governors ofthe

National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the board of directors ofthe California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. He teaches in

both the Los Angeles Jazz Mentorship Program and Buddy Cpllette’s Jazz

America. He directs the Latinjazz programs at the University of California

at Los Angeles, the University of California at Irvine, and Pasadena City

College. Bobby Rodriguez and his Latin Jazz Quintet appear at the National

Gallery by arrangement with Thomas Cassidy, Inc., of Tucson, Arizona.

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings ofEd Ruscha

Ed Ruscha (born 1937) is one of America’s most important and influential 

contemporary artists. He is known for his enigmatic paintings, drawings,

and photographs of gasoline stations, apartment buildings, palm trees, 

and vacant lots, all familiar sights in his native Los Angeles. This first

museum retrospective of Ruscha’s drawings highlights his genius for wry

and deadpan juxtaposition ofwords and objects. Featuring some ninety

drawings from the past four decades, the exhibition includes examples

made with manufactured as well as organic materials, such as gunpowder 

and vegetable stains, applied with equally imaginative tools. The words

and phrases that are often the subject ofthe drawings seem extracted from 

billboard advertisements or movie dialogues. Ruscha’s straightforward 

depiction of common objects has earned him a reputation as a pop artist,

yet his interest in and use oflanguage have aligned him with conceptualism. In honor ofthe exhibition, the National Gallery presents two concerts

that celebrate the considerable contribution that performers and composers 

from Los Angeles have made to the nation’s musical life. In addition to

this concert by the Bobby Rodriguez Latin Jazz Quintet, the concert on

February 27 will feature violinist Leila Josefowicz, also a Los Angeles native,

performing works by four composers who have strong connnections with

that city: Esa Pekka Salonen, John Adams, Mark Grey, and John Novacek.

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