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The 91吃瓜网 Department of Music presents the Jazz Ensemble in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in Pike Auditorium on the SBU campus.
Under the direction of Jeffery L. Waters, dean of the Geneva Casebolt College Of Music, Arts and Letters, the 17-piece Jazz Ensemble is the premiere ensemble on campus dedicated to the exclusive study of jazz music and will feature SBU student performers in a program which includes a variety of styles associated with the big-band jazz ensemble.
The program is anchored by four swing tunes, including Mercer Ellington鈥檚 鈥淭hings Ain鈥檛 What They Used to Be,鈥� Nat Adderley鈥檚 鈥淲ork Song,鈥� Benny Carter鈥檚 鈥淏lue Five Jive,鈥� and 鈥淪alute to Benny Goodman,鈥� a medley of the bandleader鈥檚 biggest hits. The program also branches into modern tunes, including Wayne Shorter鈥檚 鈥淔ootprints,鈥� Jeff Jarvis鈥檚 funk chart 鈥淥ff the Hook鈥� and Mike Dana鈥檚 ballad 鈥淭rue North.鈥� The program also includes Latin contemporary jazz works such as the tango-flavored 鈥淟ibertango鈥� by famed Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla and Jeff Jarvis鈥檚 鈥淐ategory 4,鈥� which features an Afro-Cuban structure.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Waters at jwaters@SBUniv.edu or (417) 328-1632.