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The Oregon Jazz Festival - January 22-23, 2010
Lane Community College and the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance present the 2010 Oregon Jazz Festival!
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2009 Oregon Jazz Festival headliner Don Braden teaching the finer points of Jazz to students from around Oregon. |
Each year in January, the Jazz Programs at Lane Community College and the University of Oregon team up to bring high school students from around Oregon to Eugene to study and play Jazz with some of the brightest jazz lights in the Pacific Northwest and from around the country.
This year the festival will take place Friday and Saturday, January 22 & 23, 2010 at the University of Oregon (student performances and clinics) and Lane Community College (Evening Concerts).
The Festival opens Friday evening January 22 at 7:30 on the Lane Performance Hall Main Stage with The Big Band Concert, featuring The Lane Jazz Ensemble and the Oregon Jazz Ensemble. The ensembles will be joined by guest artists and clinicians Dan Gailey – saxophone, Vern Sielert - trumpet, Dave Glenn - trombone and Gary Hobbs - drums.
Saturday morning, January 23, the festival continues with student clinics and workshops at the University of Oregon Frohnmayer Music Building, where they will study with expert jazz musicians. A 4:15 performance by the Lane Jazz Ensemble and Oregon Jazz Ensemble at UO’s Beall Hall caps the afternoon.
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Oregon Jazz Festival Special Guest Artist Thomas Marriott plays Saturday night, January 23 at 7:30pm in the Lane Community College Performance Hall. |
The festival returns to the Lane Performance Hall Saturday, January 23 at 7:30 when Special Guest Artist Thomas Marriott and The Thomas Marriot Quintet hit the Main Stage!
Seattle trumpeter and Origin Records recording artist Thomas Marriott has been called one of the most exciting musicians to emerge on the national jazz scene in more than a decade. The six-time Golden Ear award winner is a skilled instrumentalist, composer and producer, and is always seeking to expand the boundaries of jazz music in all its forms. The Seattle Times called his latest album, Flexicon, (April, 2009) “one of the best Jazz CD’s of 2009!”
Getting his start playing alongside Maynard Ferguson in the Big Bop Nouveau Band, Marriott’s incredible chops on the trumpet resulted in gigs with Rosemary Clooney, the Tito Puente Orchestra, The Chico O’Farrill Orchestra, Eddie Palmieri, Eric Reed, Bebo Valdez, and Les Brown and the Band of Renown, to name but a few.
The Thomas Marriott Quintet is:
Thomas Marriott - trumpet
Mark Taylor - saxophone
Jeff Johnson - bass
Alan Jones - drums
Darrel Grant – piano
All proceeds from ticket sales go to support scholarships and music programs, including the Oregon Jazz Festival! Tickets will be available through the Lane Community College Online Box Office on January 15th. Go to 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/tickets for information, pricing and to purchase your tickets. You will be able to purchase festival day passes for Saturday as well as tickets to the concerts. There are a very limited number of tickets available to the public.
For more information about Student Clinics and University of Oregon events please contact Scott Barkhurst, University of Oregon School of Music Director of Marketing and Publicity at (541) 346-1163 or by email scottb@uoregon.edu
For more information about the Lane Community College concerts please contact John Watson, Lane Community College Marketing and House Manager, Department of Music, Dance and Theatre Arts at (541) 463-5161 or by email watsonj@lanecc.edu
Submitted by John Watson, Lane Community College Marketing and House Manager.
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Lane Community College PIO: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591 or by email at aschimj@lanecc.edu
