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UNC's Sunset Jazz Series
2007-08
The Sunset Jazz Series is a project of the UNC Jazz Studies Program beginning in the Fall of 2002 and supported by the UNC student chapter of the International Association for Jazz Eudcation. Other concerts in the series will be held in October, February and March.
Colorado Jazz Orchestra inaugurates series
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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.
The Colorado Jazz Orchestra launches its performance calendar this Fall 2007 at the first Sunset Jazz Series Concert of the year. The Orchestra features some of the finest musicians including the University of Northern Colorado faculty and guests. For more details, please visit soon.
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Ingrid Jensen with The UNC Jazz Faculty Trio
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$10.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, Canada, Ingrid headed east after receiving a number of scholarships to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since graduating in 1989, her life has contained a whirlwind of musical activities. From her early days playing in the subways of New York, to establishing herself as a leader and soloist in a wide array of musical genres, Ingrid has made her mark. Her three CD's for the ENJA label won her nominations from the Canadian Juno Awards, including an award in 1995 for Vernal Fields.
Her performances as a leader and as a featured soloist have taken her around the world from Canada to Japan, Australia, South America, the Caribbean and to almost every country in Europe and Scandinavia.
Jensen can be heard with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the IJQ. Nordic Connect and a number of New York-based bands. She has received rave reviews and a strong reputation among critics and peers. In 2003 she was nominated, for the second time, alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas for a Jazz Journalist Association Award in New York. A recent highlight was being featured on Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, under the direction of Maria Schneider. She was also a guest in the festival's "Tribute to Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard," alongside Terence Blanchard, Eddie Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson and Kenny Garrett. Some of the many musicians she has performed and/or recorded with include: Steve Wilson, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Marc Copland, Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, Jeff Hamilton, Bill Stewart, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Conner, Victor Lewis, Clark Terry, and the DIVA Big Band.
Ingrid has been on staff at the Port Townsend Centrum Jazz Workshop for the past five years and from 1990 until 1992 held the Professor of Jazz Trumpet chair at Bruckner Conservatory of Music. Jensen continues to fill her schedule with an astonishing array of artistic creativity as a performer and educator. In addition to performing, she conducts masterclasses, clinics, and workshops around the world.
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Steve Wilson with the Colorado Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, February 28, 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.
A native of Hampton, Virginia, Wilson began his formal training at age 12. Playing saxophone, oboe, and drums in school bands, he also played in various R&B and funk bands throughout his teens. He then decided to major in music ar Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, affording him opportunities to perform and/or study with Jimmy and Percy Heath, Jon Hendricks, Jaki Byard, John hicks, Frank Foster and Ellis Marsalis. In 1986, he landed a chair with O. T. B. (Out of the Blue), a sextet of promising young players recording on Blue Note Records. In 1987, he moved to New York and the following year toured the US and Europe with Lionel Hampton. Becoming a first-call choice for veteran and emerging artists alike, Wilson was the subject of a New York Times profile "A Sideman's Life," highlighting his work with Ralph Peterson, Jr., Michele Rosewoman, Renee Rosnes, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Joanne Brackeen, The American Jazz Orchestra, The Mingus Big Band, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Leon Parker, and Buster Williams' Quintet "Something More." In 1996, he joined the acclaimed Dave Holland Quintet, and from 1998-2001 he was a member of Chick Corea's Grammy winning sextet, "Origin."
Wilson continues to tour with the Steve Wilson Quartet and Generations. He performs in duo with his long-time friend and colleague, Lewis Nash, in Musical Dialogue with Lewis Nash and Steve Wilson. He is also a touring member of the Grammy winning Maria Schneider Orchestra, The Buster Williams Quartet, and Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan, and is on the faculty at The Manhattan School of Music, SUNY Purchase, and Columbia University
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Eddie Daniels with The UNC Jazz Faculty Trio
Thursday, April 3, 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.
Eddie first came to the attention of the jazz audience as a tenor saxophonist with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. When Thad and Mel first organized their band in 1966 to play Monday nights at the Village Vanguard in New York, Eddie was one of the first musicians they called. Later that year, he sank $400 into a roundtrip flight to enter the International Competition for Modern Jazz, a contest organized by pianist Fredrich Gulda and sponsored by the city of Vienna, and won first prize on saxophone. He continued working with Thad and Mel over the next several years and toured Europe extensively with them.
A single clarinet solo recorded with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, "Live at the Village Vanguard" garnered sufficient attention for him to win Downbeat Magazine's International Critics New Star on Clarinet Award. This conversion to clarinet was not new, for Eddie began clarinet at age 13 and received his Masters in Clarinet from Juilliard. Winning numerous Grammy Awards and nominations, Eddie Daniels revolutionized the blend of jazz and classical.
Eddie Daniels is clearly a renaissance musician, a virtuoso in both jazz and classical music, recipient of unreserved accolades from his peers, from critics, and from the public. Eddie's overriding ambition is to reach as many people as possible with his music, to enlarge the audience for both jazz and classical music and at the same time to tear down the walls separating them. In Eddie's hands, the music of Mozart can be as engaging as that of Charlie Parker and a concert featuring both can be a uniquely rewarding experience for the audience.
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UNC's Sunset Jazz Series
2006-07
The Sunset Jazz Series is a project of the UNC Jazz Studies Program beginning in the Fall of 2002 and supported by the UNC student chapter of the International Association for Jazz Eudcation. Other concerts in the series will be held in October, February and March.
Colorado Jazz Orchestra inaugurates series
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$7.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
The Colorado Jazz Orchestra launches its performance calendar this Fall 2006 at the first Sunset Jazz Series Concert of the year. The Orchestra features some of the finest musicians including the University of Northern Colorado faculty and guests. For more details, please visit soon.
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Colorado Jazz Orchestra with Paul McKee
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Educational Workshop
Friday, Novembr 10, 2006
Noon to 1:30PM • Frasier 90
Free and open to all
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$10.00 General Public
$5.00 for non-UNC Students and Senior Citizens 60+ with I.D.
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Trombonist Paul McKee received the Bachelor of Music in music education degree from the University of Northern Iowa and the Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1984, he has been a member of Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd and continues to tour and record with the band. In addition to making frequent appearances as a guest artist and clinician, Paul has served on the jazz faculty at DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, Youngstown State University and is currently a member of the jazz faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. His compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by academic and professional jazz ensembles worldwide. Paul’s recent recording, Gallery, was released to critical acclaim on the Chicago-based Hallway Records label, and features special guests Carl Fontana, Bobby Shew, Tim Ries and Ron Stout. Paul is a clinician for C.G. Conn and plays King trombones.
Colorado Jazz Orchestra with Ed Soph
Friday, February 2, 2007
Educational Workshop
3:00 - 4:30 PM Frasier 63 (Tentatively)
Free and open to all
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$10.00 General Public
$5.00 for non-UNC Students and Senior Citizens 60+ with I.D.
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Ed Soph is an Associate Professor in the Jazz Studies and Performance Divisions of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. He teaches applied drumset students, the Rhythm Section Master Class, and coordinates the Summer Drumset Workshop. His touring and recording work includes the groups of Stan Kenton, Bill Watrous, Woody Herman, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Marvin Stamm, Dave Liebman, and Stefan Karlsson. He is the author of a video, THE DRUMSET: A MUSICAL APPROACH (Warner Bros.) and a DVD, MUSICAL TIME (Carl Fischer). His books include THE BIG BAND PRIMER (RonJon Publishers), ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES (Meredith Music), and MUSICAL TIME (Carl Fischer). Ed is an artist clinician for the Yamaha Corporation of America, the Avedis Zildjian Company, Evans drum heads, and Innovative Percussion drum sticks and mallet.
George Garzone with The UNC Jazz Faculty Trio
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Educational Workshop
3:00 PM Frasier 63 (Tentatively)
Free and open to all
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$10.00 General Public
$5.00 for non-UNC Students and Senior Citizens 60+ with I.D.
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Tradition and experimentation are not only united in the way Garzone teaches, they are bound up in his own career as a creative artist as well. Growing up in a musical family, Garzone started playing at an early age, and by his mid-teens, it was clear he had a special talent. His uncle, Rocco Spada, contacted the legendary Berklee woodwind teacher Joe Viola, with whom he'd worked in local dance orchestras, to see if he'd take his nephew as a student. The late Viola, who was the first person Berklee founder Lawrence Berk hired to teach at his music school in 1945, took the teenaged Garzone under his wing.
"I stayed with him from high school until I graduated," he says, "and I really want people to know that he's responsible for the way I play. He was really magic. What I learned from him the most, was how to be natural."
After graduating from Berklee, where his classmates included saxophonist Joe Lovano (currently the Gary Burton Professor of Jazz Studies at Berklee) and pianist Kenny Werner, Garzone spent time on the road briefly with Woody Herman as well as pop singer Tom Jones, before settling down in Boston. In 1975, he cofounded The Fringe, an avant-garde jazz trio that today includes founding drummer Bob Guilotti and bassist John Lockwood. The band's Monday night gigs at a succession of Boston-area clubs (most recently at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge) are part of the city's jazz lore. The gigs have also been a real world learning and listening experience for countless Berklee students. Although best know for his work in The Fringe, Garzone prides himself on being able to fit into any musical setting. "It's not like I play free. I can play bebop; I'm just not into it as my own thing. I've played with Lovano's nonet and The Fringe."
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UNC's Sunset Jazz Series
2005-06
New York-based trumpeter inaugurates series
Scott Wendholt
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Educational Workshop
4:30 PM in Frasier Hall room 63
Free and open to all
Performance
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$7.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Scott Wendholdt, a respected New York city jazz trumpeter, will perform at the first concert of UNC's Sunset jazz Series. Wendholt, a native of Denver, is known as a passionate and lyrical musician and has appeared on over 30 recordings under this name and as a sideman. Wendholt's recording Beyond Thursday earned a four-star rating in Downbeat Magazine. He has performed with many top-notch jazz artists including Kenny Garrett, Vincent Herring, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Critics have called him "especially impressive" (Paul Ferguson, Jazz Player Magazine) and have said he "might just be the best young trumpeter you never heard, a musician's secret." (Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader).
Dick Oatts
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Educational Workshop:
2:00 PM in Frasier Hall room 63
Free and open to all
Performance:
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$7.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Born and raised in the state of Iowa, Dick Oatts was brought up in a musical family. He was introduced to the saxophone by his father Jack Oatts, a respected jazz educator and saxophonist. After high school, Dick attended Drake University and in 1972 he began his professional career in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
It was 1977 when Oatts decided to move to New York City. He then became a member if the Thad Jones - Mel Lewis Orchestra. Since then he has recorded and toured with small groups such as Red Rodney, Eddie Gomez, Vic Juric, Bob Brookmeyer, Mel Lewis, Dom Salvador, Jerry Bergonzi, Flim & the BB's, Fred Hersch, Dave Berkman, Terell Stafford, Jon Faddis, Lalo Schiffrin, and Ray Mantilla.
His big band and larger group experience include performances with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Mel Lewis, Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Lester Bowie, Joe Lovano, Sam Jones-Tom Harrell, Paquito D'Rivera, Jim McNeely, Tito Puente, Kenny Wheeler, and Gunther Schuller. Oatts has also been featured with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, Danish Radio Big Band, Norboton Jazz Orchestra, and the UMO Big Band in Helsinki. He has accompanied such vocalists as Joe Williams, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Neene Freelon, Mel Torme, and Milton Nascimento. He has recorded solos for pop artists Luther Vandross, James Taylor, and Everything But the Girl.
Oatts is now a Steeplechase recording artist and has five Cd's released as a leader. (All of Three, Standard Issue, Simone's Dance, Standard Issue vol. 2, South Paw). He also has a new CD out on the RED label with bassist Dave Santoro entitled Meru. Dick has 3 Cd's as a leader on the DMP label with pianist and a co-leader Garry Dial.
For 30 years, Mr. Oatts has appeared at college jazz festivals as a soloist and clinician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, South America, and the Middle East. Oatts has been on the Manhattan School of Music Faculty since 1989 and an artist-in-residence at the Amsterdam Conservatory since 1997.
Deborah Brown
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Educational Workshop
4:40 PM in Frasier Hall Room 90
Free and open to all
Performance:
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$7.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Tickets at the door only; no reservations are accepted.
Brown has received critical and popular acclaim throughout the world, and
especially in Europe where she is well recognized and in high demand as a
major jazz artist. She is known as a superb interpreter of lyrics as well as
a gifted improviser. Her voice is brilliant, strong, clear, and above all,
inviting. Deborah has recorded 11 albums as a leader, has been featured on
numerous other recordings, and has performed with the likes of Cedar Walton,
Johnny Griffin, Michelle LeGrand, "Toots" Thielemans, Harry "Sweets" Edison,
Bobby Shew, Roy Hargrove, and many others. For many years, she co-led the
group JAZZ 4 JAZZ that featured pianist Horace Parlan, Red Mitchell on bass,
and drum wizard Ed Thigpen.
"It's a bit ironic and a real shame,' explains Dana Landry, UNC's Director
of Jazz Studies, 'That since Deborah was embraced so strongly by overseas
audiences and artists, she's not as well known in her native country (the
US) as she deserves to be."
For this concert, Deborah will be joined by UNC faculty members Dana Landry
(piano), Erik Applegate (bass), and Jim White (drums).
Greg Abate
Monday, March 20, 2006
Educational Workshop
3:30-4:30 PM in Frasier Hall Room 249
Free and open to all
Greg Abate has the ability to astound, soothe and replenish all who dig jazz.
The veteran, known globally as the ‘prince of bebop,’ takes nothing for granted. Work is a constant – always has been and will be.
Twenty-five years ago, as a prolific writer and young turk, Abate was searching for his musical voice and identity. “I JUST WANT TO GET INTO THE PERFECTION OF FEELING GOOD.” HE SAID.
Today, the search goes on. “But I’m getting there. At that time, my ideas were coming out faster than I could play them and I wasn’t in the same synchronization of timing and pulse. Music should come out instantaneously. If you think about the notes, then it becomes subconscious and you stumble.
“I feel good about my playing now. But to be good, not even great, you have to practice and work a lot. If you don’t do that, then it becomes hit or miss.”
The Jeff Hamilton Trio
Jeff Hamilton, Drums
Tamir Hendelman, Piano
Christoph Luty, Bass
Friday, April 7, 2006
Educational Workshop
11:30 AM in Frasier Hall Room 90
Free and open to all
Performance:
Panorama Lounge at the University Center
(Corner of 11th Avenue and 20th Street - UNC Campus)
7:00 PM
Admission
$7.00 General Public/$5.00 for non-UNC Students
Free for UNC students, faculty and staff with I.D.
Tickets at the door only; no reservations are accepted.
Originality is what versatile drummer Jeff Hamilton brings to the groups he performs with and is one of the reasons why he is constantly in demand, whether he is recording or performing with his trio, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, the Clayton Brothers or co-leading the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Jeff's recording, It's Hamilton Time (Lake Street Records), received enormous airplay while reaching #5 on the Gavin national jazz radio chart. His trio's second release, Jeff Hamilton Trio-LIVE! (MONS) was nominated by critics for best jazz recording in Germany in 1997. The trio's second MONS release is entitled, Hands On . Hamilton House-Live at Steamers (MONS) is the trio's 2000 release. As well as recording and performing throughout the world, Jeff also teaches, arranges and composes.Greg Abate has the ability to astound, soothe and replenish all who dig jazz.
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