Chamber Jazz Ensemble Concert Scheduled March 31
Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256
ORONO — The members of the University of Maine Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present a formal concert Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m.at Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall.
The organization is composed of soloists or small ensembles performing with piano accompaniment. The spring semester’s group consists of 16 musicians, representing a variety of instruments and from a wide variety of majors at UMaine.
The Chamber Jazz Ensemble is a major component of the minor in jazz studies, which consists of classes in jazz improvisation, chamber jazz arranging and piano, jazz history, and the performance of jazz in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble.
The March 31 program will include great jazz standards and originals by Milt Jackson, Duke Pearson, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, Eddie Harris, George & Ira Gershwin, John Coltrane, Ferde Grofe, John L. “Wes” Montgomery and Charlie Parker.
Tickets are $6 for the public and free for UMaine students with a MaineCard. For more information, call the Maine Center for the Arts Box Office at 581-1755 or visit the UMaine School of Performing Arts website.
The Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present free concerts on:
- April 7, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Story Room at the Bangor Public Library;
- April 20, 8:30-9:15 a.m. in the newly reopened Collins Center for the Arts;
- And April 22, 11 a.m.-noon in Union Central at the Memorial Union.