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16 February 2006

JSU Jazz I in Concert with Guest Artist Wycliffe Gordon

On Friday, March 3, JSU Jazz I is appearing in concert at the Mason Hall Performance Center at 8 p.m. Wycliffe Gordon is the guest artist featured in this concert which is one in a series of Kaleidoscope 2006 events comprising this year's JSU arts festival.

Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. His trombone playing, which mixes powerful, intricate runs with sweet notes extended over clean melodies, has been universally hailed by jazz critics. Gordon received the Jazz Journalists Association 2002 and 2001 Award for Trombonist of the Year, the Jazz Journalists Association 2000 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Trombone and has been nominated for the 2003 Jazzpar Award.

In addition to a thriving solo career, he tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet headlining at legendary jazz venues throughout the country. Gordon is a former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and The Gully Low Jazz Band.

Gordon is rapidly becoming one of America’s most persuasive and committed music educators. He currently is serving on the faculty of the newly established Jazz Studies Program at The Juilliard School and serves as Artist-In-Residence at the School of Music at Michigan State University. His work with young musicians and audiences from elementary schools to universities all over the world is extensive, and includes masterclasses, clinics, workshops, children’s concerts and lectures. Gordon will be on the JSU campus Thursday, March 2, and Friday, March 3, and will be giving a jazz masterclass Friday afternoon at 1:30 in the Performance Center.

This performance with guest artist Wycliffe Gordon will be a highlight for jazz aficionados. Visit the artist's Web site: Wycliffe Gordon.

Support Live Alabama Jazz! Admission to this Kaleidoscope 2006 event is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.

Visit the Music Department's Web site: Jazz Studies at JSU. For more information about this event, contact Dr. Legare McIntosh at 782-5560 or 782-5559.



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