ASC Jazz concert is November 19 (11-10-05)
Jazz Band
The Adams State College Music Department presents their annual Winter Jazz Concert at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, November 19 in the Richardson Hall Auditorium. Admission is $3 for adults $1 for children, and is free to Adams State College Friends of Music and AS&F. The concert will feature both the Adams State College vocal jazz ensemble 68 West and the Adams State College Big Band.
68 West, the A.S.C. vocal jazz ensemble, is comprised of eight singers and is supported by an instrumental combo of piano, bass and drum set. Their repertoire will include: Hoagy Carmichael's Georgia On My Mind, Billy Joel's And So It Goes, Get Happy, Chili Con Carne, You Can Call Me Al, Here's That Rainy Day, God Only Knows, and Africa.
The A.S.C. Big Band is comprised of 19 instrumental performers including: five trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, bass, electric guitar, piano, drum set, and an auxiliary percussionist. Their repertoire will include: Duke Ellington's I'm Beginning To See The Light, the jazz/fusion hit Birdland, Switch In Time from the Count Basie / Sammy Nestico Library, the Afro-Cuban bebop tune Mantecca and a beautiful bossa nova which features flugelhorn, Trinita. The big band will also feature the talents of the A.S.C. dance squad on the Momcat Mambo.
Professor Douglas Camp, director of Jazz Studies at Adams State, said both groups should be in rare form since they will have just returned from performing on a three day recruiting tour.
The Concert will last approximately an hour and thirty minutes including intermission. Seating is available beginning at 6:30 p.m. Evening beverages and snacks will be sold during intermission as a fund raiser for the A.S.C. Jazz Gift Fund. For further information contact Professor Camp in the Music Department at 587-7059 or dcamp@adams.edu.
By Linda Relyea
