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Fall jazz concert to take place at Pfeiffer University
Thursday, November 26, 2009 — The Pfeiffer University Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo will present a fall concert at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in the Campus Theatre, located in the administration building on the Misenheimer campus.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The ensemble, directed by Scott Bailey and David Kirby, both faculty members in the Department of Fine Arts at Pfeiffer, will include a number of favorites from the jazz ensemble repertoire.
The ensemble will present a varied program featuring Bailey on trombone and several outstanding Pfeiffer student soloists.
Some of the selections to be performed will be “On Green Dolphin Street” by Ned Washington, “Doxy,” a tune made famous by Sonny Rollins, and “A Child is Born,” by Thad Jones. Pfeiffer’s Gabrielle Riggs, a junior music major from Lexington, N.C., will be the featured vocalist on “How High the Moon,” a jazz standard with lyrics made famous by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, first featured in the 1940 Broadway revue “Two for the Show.”
The saxophone section will be featured in Bud Shank’s arrangement of “Take Five,” a landmark tune by Dave Brubeck, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The University Jazz Ensemble will perform among several selections “Nice and Easy,” a tune in the Count Basie tradition, and Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man,” a perennial jazz favorite.
The Jazz Combo will perform a selection of standards from the jazz repertoire.
The Pfeiffer Jazz Ensemble and Combo enjoy an increasing reputation for excellence throughout the state and region.
Musicians from the ensemble for three summers performed in New Orleans and worked service projects to assist survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Twice the University Jazz Ensemble has received praise from fellow clinicians – and the public – during the Wilmington Jazz Festival.
For more information about this performance, please contact Dr. David Kirby, associate professor of music, at (704) 463-3182 or david.kirby-@pfeiffer.edu.
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