Tuesday November 4, 2008
MIKE WADDELL & BOB RUSSELL evening of jazz
7:30 pm
Beckwith Recital Hall, Cultural Arts building. Randall Drive
$5 general admission
Free to students with valid UNCW ID.
Cultural Arts building box office opens at 6:30 pm the night of the performance.
"Remembering Bill Evans"
Selections from Bill Evans compositions:
Peri's Scope
Waltz for Debby
Time Remembered
Very Early
Interplay
Standards played by Bill Evans:
Beautiful Love
Dolphin Dance
Blue in Green
Nardis
The Second Time Around
MIKE WADDELL is a member of the UNCW Department of Music faculty and teaches clarinet and woodwinds. He is a North Carolina native with degrees from the University of Michigan and East Carolina University. His teachers include David Shifrin, Robert Listokin, Fred Ormand, Leon Russianoff, Buddy DeFranco (jazz), and Donald Sinta (saxophone). Prior to coming to UNCW in 2003, he taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has appeared as a guest soloist and clinician with several university and high school concert and jazz bands. As clarinetist with the world famous Dukes of Dixieland in New Orleans, Waddell performed nightly on Bourbon Street and to sold-out crowds in the Hollywood Bowl and Kennedy Center. He is also featured on solo clarinet in Déjà Vu (1997), an independent film by Henry Jaglom. Waddell is the recipient of two Jazz Composer Fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, as well as two Regional Project Artist Grants from the United Arts Council. He has released two jazz CDs: Defining Moments and Not From Concentrate. JazzTimes reviewer Owen Cordle writes, "Defining Moments defines Mike Waddell as a complete artist, a triple threat as clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer."
BOB RUSSELL is a graduate of UNCW and lecturer in jazz guitar at the Department of Music. He teaches jazz guitar and class guitar, and directs the UNCW Jazz Guitar Ensemble. Russell also plays guitar with his own jazz group, the Bob Russell Trio, as well as with other Wilmington-area jazz musicians. He 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 recorder with the UNCW Early Music Consort. Russell has two CDs currently in release: …if you never… and Watch This!. 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.
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