09-10 Area Jazz Festivals

Press Release: April 29, 2010 Concert Event

North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra to Offer Musical Portrait of
Jazz Pianist and Composer/Arranger Mary Lou Williams

Contact: Jim Ketch, Music Director of the NCJRO jketch@email.unc.edu

http://www.ncjro.org/calendar/

Please join us for our last concert of the 2009-2010 Concert Season
at Memorial Hall.

*Thursday, April 29, 2010:
Walkin' and Swingin' with *Mary Lou
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams>*
**A Two-Part Event

Pre-Concert Lecture, presented by *Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle
<http://arts.muohio.edu/music/people/faculty-listing-bios/tammy-kernodle>*
in Gerrard Hall (adjacent and only steps away from Memorial Hall) at
6:15 p.m.**
*Dr. Kernodle's insight to one of the most important women in jazz will
provide an in-depth look in the musical soul of Mary Lou Williams. The
lecture will conclude by 7:15 p.m., allowing plenty of time to walk next
door to Memorial Hall for the Narrated Concert at 7:30 p.m.

*Narrated Concert, presented by *Dr. Ted Buehrer
<http://www.kenyon.edu/x41315.xml>* and the NCJRO in Memorial Hall at
7:30 p.m.*
We wrap up our concert season with our best concert event. We are proud
to pay homage to one of the most important and influential jazz
musicians, and also one of the most important and influential *women* in
jazz - Mary Lou Williams. The NCJRO will perform works by Mary Lou
Williams that have been painstakingly researched and transcribed by Dr.
Buehrer, who will also provide commentary on these works that were
composed and arranged by Mary Lou Williams for such bands as Andy Kirk
and his Clouds of Joy, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy
Gillespie over a period of six decades.

Please click the embedded links of the names above for additional
information on Mary Lou Williams, Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle and Dr. Ted
Buehrer.

Directions, Maps and Parking Info for Memorial Hall and Gerrard Hall
<http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/visitorinfo/>

Info on Gerrard Hall, Adjacent to Memorial Hall
<http://www.unc.edu/tour/LEVEL_2/gerrard.htm>

Tickets are available via these options:

• In person at the Memorial Hall Box Office;
• By telephone, by calling the Memorial Hall Box Office at 919-843-3333;
• At the door.

14th annual Elon Jazz Festival
February 19-20

Registration Due Feb.1, 2010

Postcard

Director Letter

Guidelines, Registration Info, and Schedule

Jon Metzger
Artist in Residence
336-278-5683
jmetzger@elon.edu

 
Duke Jazz Festival
March 26, 2010
Flyer

UNCW Jazz Festival
March 25-27,2010
Registration Form

The UNCW Guest Artist Jazz Festival affords your band the opportunity to work with, and be critiqued by, some of the world's finest jazz performers and educators.  This year's jazz festival will include guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg as our clinician/performer, and include a performance by saxophonist Chris Potter's Underground, as well as the premiere of a new big band chart written specifically for high school big bands by noted composer/arranger, Gary Lindsay.  All participating ensembles will receive a complimentary copy of this piece (i.e., parts and score) and will be able to hear the premiere during the Saturday night performance.

In addition, Jonathan Kreisberg, as well as the UNCW jazz faculty, including our Distinguished Professor of Jazz, percussionist, Joe Chambers, will be working with your students and presenting clinics during the festival.  Jonathan Kreisberg will open the festival with his quartet on Thursday night, and will perform along with UNCW jazz groups on Saturday night.  The attached registration form includes additional information about our festival and our guest artists.

Finally, "Outstanding Performance Certificates" as well as full and $100 tuition remission scholarships for the UNCW Summer Jazz Workshop will be awarded to the outstanding performers in your band.

I hope you can join us for our jazz festival.  It should be an exciting educational experience for all. The registration deadline is March 18, 2010.  If you need further information, feel free to contact me.

Dr. Frank Bongiorno

Professor of Saxophone & Jazz Studies Coordinator Department of Music UNC Wilmington

601 South College Road

Wilmington, NC 28403-5975

910.962.3395 * Fax: 910.962.7106

Dept of Music: http://www.uncw.edu/music

Personal: http://uncw.edu/music/bongiornof/

City of the Arts" Jazz Festival
Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Brochure

We are proud to announce that the Fourth Annual "City of the Arts" Jazz Festival will be held Saturday, April 17th, 2010 at Ronald Reagan High School in Pfafftown, NC (located just northwest of Winston-Salem).  The festival consists of performances by scholastic and university jazz ensembles from across North Carolina.  We are very excited that we have been able to move our festival date forward into the month of April which is Jazz Appreciation Month.  We also hope that the date change will make it easier for collegiate ensembles to participate.

The performance schedule will be staggered so that attendees can listen to non-stop jazz on the two festival stages throughout the day.  Following each band's performance they will receive an onstage clinic from our distinguished panel of jazz educators or, if directors wish, they may fill up their performance slot with music and have the option of having the guest clinicians "sit in" with their band.  It is not often that developing jazzers get the chance to listen to and hang out with professional jazz musicians.  Our hope is that this festival will not be a play and leave event.  Come early and hang out with us for the day.  We'll have full concessions and CD and DVD recordings of each ensemble's performance will be available for purchase.

Our festival clinicians are all members of our featured ensemble, the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and include Don Hough - trombone, Keith Brown - drums, Rusty Holloway - bass & Vance Thompson - trumpet.

Formed in 1999 by trumpeter and arranger Vance Thompson, the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra is comprised of East Tennessee’s top professional musicians and performs a wide range of music from America’s jazz tradition.  The group’s performances have been described as energetic, exciting, engaging and highly entertaining.

Since its inception, the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra (www.knoxjazz.org) has appeared at jazz festivals in Europe and the Americas and has released four critically acclaimed CD recordings. They have performed dozens of concerts featuring many guest artists including John Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, Vincent Herring, Maceo Parker and Dan Trudell.

The orchestra’s local season features themed events including “Jazz is for Lovers,” “A Swingin’ Christmas,” and “Evening with a Legend,” as well as a yearly “Tribute“ concert.

Members Include:
Vance Thompson - director, Saxophones: Mark Tucker, David King, Bill Scarlett, Will Boyd and Tom Johnson, Trumpets: Vance Thompson, Stewart Cox, Michael Spirko and Tom Fox, Trombones: Tom Lundberg, Don Hough, Nate Malone and Brad McDougall, Rhythm Section: Bill Swann, Rusty Holloway and Keith Brown

There is a $50.00 registration fee for participating ensembles to help offset the costs of our featured performers and clinicians.  Participants and directors will receive complementary admission to the festival and the finale concert.

We hope that you will consider participating in this outstanding educational opportunity.  We're sure to have a blast playing, listening to and learning about jazz.  Don't have a jazz band, but are interested in getting one started?  There's no better way to get kids fired up about starting a jazz band than by coming to see students their age having a great time performing.

As in years past, the "City of the Arts" jazz festival is heldon the same day and at the same location as the Northwest District Bandmasters Association and North Carolina Orchestra Section Solo and Ensemble Festival.  Many directors have found it very convenient to have students from their program participate in multiple events without having to give up another Saturday.

Attached to this email is an informational brochure and registration form.  Bands may register by filling out and returning this registration form or can register on-line by visiting the jazz festival page of our band website - www.reaganbands.org .  The performance slots will fill up by director request on a first received first time requested basis.

If you've got any questions, just let me know.  Hope to see you on April 17th.

Matt Liner
Band Director
Ronald Reagan High School
www.reaganbands.org

Jazz events at UNC-CH

Jim Ketch, Director of Jazz Studies,  jketch@email.unc.edu; 919-962-7560
Stephen Anderson, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies and Composition,  anderssr@email.unc.edu

Savannah Music Festival
Savannah, Georgia

March 18 - April 3, 2010

Although we have received numerous applications from interested HIGH SCHOOL bands who want to come to the 2010 Savannah Music Festival for our Swing Central High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop, we still have music to give away .  

We are giving away free music ( Stolen Moments & Moten Swing from Sierra Music Publishers) to promote our jazz band competition & workshop.

Interested band directors need to fax me (at 912-236-1989) a completed copy of the form found at our website, www.2010swingcentral.com .  

If possible, we’d like the bands to send us a recording of themselves band playing the two charts but this is not absolutely necessary. There is no other obligation. This is a pain - free way for bands to receive two great arrangements AT NO COST. This offer is good until October 20 ^th or as long as supplies last. Please act now, quantities are limited.

More details and the application form are available at http://savannahmusicfestival.org/swingcentral.php or by email through workshops@savannahmusicfestival.org or by phone at 912.234.3378.

About the Savannah Music Festival
The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) is Georgia’s largest musical arts festival and one of the most distinctive cross-genre music festivals in the world. SMF is building a robust history on its devotion to living, vibrant musical traditions, regularly producing premieres, commissioned works and rare regional appearances by renowned artists in jazz, classical, blues, bluegrass, gospel and other genres of American and international roots music. Artists collaborate, students and master musicians intermingle, vocalists showcase their talents and communities uplift and celebrate over eighteen specially conceived days and nights.

FESTIVAL CONTACT: Gene Pinion at 912.234.3378 x102 or gene@savannahmusicfestival.org

The UNCG Honors High School Jazz Band is taking place this November 21 and 22, 2009.  Applications for your students are available by downloading them at www.uncg.edu/mus.  For more information, call Steve Haines at 336-256-0105.