Saturday April 5, 2008
Department of Music presents Ron McCurdy Quintet
7:30 pm
Beckwith Recital Hall, Cultural Arts building
$5 general admission / free to students with valid UNCW ID
For more information, call the Department of Music Events Hotline 910/962-7416 or 910/962-3415.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Although a non-competitive festival, the UNCW Guest Artist Jazz Festival affords high school bands the opportunity to work with and be critiqued by some of the world's finest jazz performers and educators in an educational and entertaining atmosphere.
RON McCURDY
Ronald C. McCurdy is Chairman of the Jazz Studies Department and Professor of Music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern Californi. McCurdy has recently released Once Again for the First Time on the INNOVA label and is author of Meet the Great Jazz Legends, published by Alfred Publishing Company. McCurdy is co-author of the vocal jazz improvisation series Approaching the Standards, published by Warner Brothers. He is currently touring with the Langston Hughes Project's Ask Your Mama: 12 Mood for Jazz. The multimedia presentation features a jazz quartet and spoken-word and images from the Harlem Renaissance. McCurdy is a consultant to the Grammy Foundation educational programs, including serving as director of the National Grammy Vocal Jazz Ensemble. A few of the artists he has worked with include Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Leslie Uggams, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Schuur, Ramsey Lewis, Mercer Ellington, Dr. Billy Taylor, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton and Dianne Reeves. He has served as a member of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Camp faculty. McCurdy is a performing artist for the Yamaha International Corporation.
Additional support for the UNCW Jazz Festival is provided by the UNCW Jazz Festival Endowment established with a gift from Ann Sherman-Skiba in memory of her husband Guenther Skiba.
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