Tuesday November 6, 2007
UNCW JAZZ GUITAR ENSEMBLE / JAZZ COMBO
7:30 pm / Culural Arts Building recital hall
Tickets: $5 General Admission / Free to students with valid UNCW ID
Tickets are available at the Cultural Arts buiding box office 1 hour prior to the performance.
For more information, call 910-962-7416
UNCW Department of Music presents student jazz performance. Enjoy the Wire Choir - an ensemble for guitar lovers. Hear the Department of Music's finest jazz guitar students in performance, directed by UNCW music jazz faculty Bob Russell. The UNCW Jazz Combo, directed by UNCW music jazz faculty Jerald Shynett, performs an electic mix of music old and new, including a tribute to the late Michael Brecker.
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
ROBERT RUSSELL is a lecturer in jazz guitar. He teaches jazz guitar and class guitar, and directs the UNCW Jazz Guitar Ensemble. In addition to his teaching duties, Russell also supervises the department's concert recording service.
Russell plays guitar with his own jazz group, the Bob Russell Trio, as well as with other Wilmington-area jazz musicians. He also plays guitar in the Cape Fear Jazz Orchestra and the popular local rock group The 360 Degrees. A firm believer in the benefits of a varied musical diet, he also performs on recorders with the UNCW Renaissance Consort.
Russell has two CDs currently in release: "...if you never...", released in 2005, and "Watch This!", released in 2002. Both CDs are available through CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/all/bobrussell
Russell's website, www.bobrussellguitar.com, is a widely-known source of online jazz guitar instruction.
JERALD SHYNETT has been on the faculty at University of North Carolina Wilmington for 8 years where he teaches trombone, improvisation, jazz theory, jazz arranging, jazz history, and jazz combo. He is an active performer and clinician throughout North Carolina and is currently performing with the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and The Jazz Surge, a professional jazz orchestra based out of Florida.
Before coming to UNCW in 1998, Mr. Shynett maintained an active career as a freelance trombonist, composer and arranger in Florida. Throughout his career he has performed with Chick Corea, Bob Brookmeyer, Slide Hampton, Nneena Freelon, Gerald Wilson, Ira Sullivan, Vincent Herring, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, The O'Jays, Ray Charles, and Liza Minelli among others. His compositions and arrangements have been performed throughout the country, most recently with the Jazz Ensembles of UNCW, University of South Florida, University of Miami and Northwestern University.
For more information, call the Department of Music Events Hotline 910/962-7416 or 910/962-3415.
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