Clay Jenkins with the UNC Jazz Faculty Trio
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Performance
Stetson's at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center
(701 8th Street, Greeley, CO 80631)
7:00 p.m.
Clay Jenkins' career as a jazz artist has covered a wide range of musical
experiences and responsibilities, bringing him to the forefront of the jazz
performing and teaching arenas. Hailed as one of today’s finest modern jazz
trumpeters, Jenkins is a charter member of the acclaimed Clayton-Hamilton
Jazz Orchestra and has toured or recorded with the Stan Kenton Orchestra,
the Count Basie Orchestra, Buddy Rich, Milt Jackson, Harold Danko, Billy
Harper, Lyle Mays, Peter Erskine, Ray Brown, Dr. John, Bob Sheppard, Jim
Widner, Eric Reed, Gary Hobbs, Bill Perkins, Joe La Barbera, Pat La Barbera,
Bill Cunliffe, Billy Childs, Steve Houghton, Lennie Niehaus, Ernestine
Anderson, Kurt Elling, and Miki Coltrane. Jenkin's solo recordings include
Rings, Give and Gather, Yellow Flowers After, Azure Eyes, and Matters of
Time. Additionally, his ensemble with co-leader Kim Richmond has released
three recordings: Range, Look at the Time, and Crossweave. A respected
educator, Clay Jenkins is a member of the jazz faculty at the Eastman School
of Music. For this concert, Clay will be joined by the UNC Jazz Faculty
Trio, including members Dana Landry (piano), Erik Applegate (bass), and Jim
White (drums).
Colorado Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Performance
Plaza Ballroom, Regency Hotel
(701 8th Street, Greeley, CO 80631)
7:00 p.m.
The Colorado Jazz Orchestra will perform at this season’s third installment of the University of Northern Colorado Sunset Jazz Artist Series in Greeley. The concert will be held at 7:00pm, Thursday, February 5, 2009, in the Plaza Ballroom of the Regency Hotel (701 8th Street, Greeley, CO 80631) in downtown Greeley. Admission is $8 for the general public, free for UNC students and faculty/staff with ID, $5 for non-UNC students or faculty/staff with ID, and $5 for seniors. Tickets are available at the door only; reservations are not necessary. More information is available at 970-351-2394 or at www.uncjazz.com.
The Colorado Jazz Orchestra (CJO) is a professional big band based in Greeley. The CJO was formed by pianist Dana Landry, drummer Jim White, and conductor/composer David Caffey (all from the faculty of the UNC School of Music) to present the best in contemporary and classic big band music. This performance will feature original compositions by many of the Colorado Jazz Orchestra’s members and offer the unique opportunity for the band to individually feature many of its fine musicians.
In addition to the leaders, the CJO features outstanding Colorado-based musicians, including Erik Applegate, Nat Wickham, Andy Dahlke, Rob Murray, John Davis, David Stamps, Wil Swindler, Kevin Whalen, Scott Meredith, Gary Mayne, Rob Borger, Toshi Chun, Nick Frazee, Joel Nagel, Johan Eriksson, and Greg Johnson.
Bill Holman with UNC Jazz Lab Band I
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street – UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Grammy award-winning composer, Bill Holman, was born Willis Leonard Holman on May 21, 1927 in Olive, CA, near Santa Ana. He took up clarinet in junior high school and tenor saxophone in high school by which time he was leading his own band. After serving in the Navy and studying engineering, he decided in the late '40s that he wanted to write big band music and studied for a while at the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles.
In 1952 he began his association with Stan Kenton, for whom he wrote and played for many years. During the '50s, he was also active in the West Coast jazz movement, playing in small bands led by Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne, and co-leading a quintet with Mel Lewis in 1958. In the 60s, he widened his writing associations, and eventually contributed pieces to libraries and recordings of bands led by Louie Bellson, Count Basie, Terry Gibbs, Woody Herman, Bob Brookmeyer, Buddy Rich, Gerry Mulligan, Doc Severinsen and others. His arrangement of "Take The 'A" Train" for Severinsen's "Tonight Show Orchestra" earned Holman a Best Instrumental Grammy in 1987.
Holman started The Bill Holman Band in 1975 and since 1980, Holman has been increasingly active in Europe, writing, conducting and playing lengthy works for the West German Radio Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, and the Metropole Orchestra in Holland, that feature such soloists as Phil Woods, Sal Nestico and Lee Konitz.
Dana Landry Trio
Featuring
Dana Landry, piano
Erik Applegate, bass
Jim White, drums
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street – UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$8.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
