MIKE WADDELL, clarinet, alto saxophone, flute / BOB RUSSELL, guitar

Wednesday November 4, 2009
7:30 pm

Beckwith Recital Hall is located in the Cultural Arts building located on Randall Drive, UNCW campus. Parking is free.

$5 general admission / free to UNCW students with valid ID.

Tickets are available at the Cultural Arts building box office 1 hour prior to the performance.

For more information, call the Department of Music at 910/962-3415.

Mike Waddell, clarinet, alto saxophone, flute

Bob Russell, guitar

Ed Paolantonio, piano

Ryan Woodall, bass

Thomas Garner, drums



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, guitar, was born in Wilmington. He also spent many years in Atlanta, GA, where he worked in studios, concerts, clubs and touring bands, appearing with Henry Mancini, the Atlanta Pops, the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and many others as well as opening for the Crusaders, Shadowfax and Spyrogyra. His music for the BET special Hard Road to Glory won a Freedoms Foundation award. Russell has recorded two jazz CDs, Watch This! and ...if you never..., both available from CDBaby.com. Just Jazz Guitar reviewer Vince Lewis writes: "Russell has a very solid single-note approach and a traditional jazz tone. His lines and phrasing are boppish in nature, very well designed and superbly executed... a fine new player with a unique voice." Russell has been a faculty member in the UNCW Department of Music since 1995, teaching jazz guitar and directing student jazz ensembles.

ED PAOLANTONIO,piano, hails from New York City but now lives in Durham, NC. Besides earning a B.S. in Music Education. from S.U.N.Y. and an M.M. in performance from U.N.C. Chapel Hill, Ed studied with world-famous jazz pianist, teacher and composer Lennie Tristano. He has been composing, arranging and performing jazz professionally since 1971 and has accompanied many jazz giants including Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath and Emily Remler. He was a N.C. Artist In Residence for three years and has taught jazz improvisation and history at U.N.C. Chapel Hill, Duke University, North Carolina State University and Elon College. Ed has two jazz CDs, Dedications and Dad's Blues. The Raleigh News and Observer describes Ed as an "all consuming musician... (whose) solo struck sparks around the room".