'Chops' Award-winning Documentary
Chronicles
Experience of
Middle and High School Jazz Musicians in New York
Friday,
February 12, 2010 - 7pm [89min]
Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor
Director &
Univ-Michigan Alum Bruce Broder to
Introduce Film, Conduct Q&A Session Aftershow
http://michtheater.org
ph: (734) 668-TIME [24-hour info]
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37th Annual CMU Jazz
Weekend 2010
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
Thursday-Friday, February 11-12, 2010
Staples Recital Hall, CMU
Music Building, School of Music;
Plachta
Auditorium, CMU Campus
Jazz Director: Rob Smith,
Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies
Ph: (989) 774-3281
 Guest
Artist: Nicholas Payton,
trumpet
Concert:
Friday, February 12; 8pm
Plachta
Auditorium, CMU Campus
Tickets:
students $7, adults $10
Students are invited to participate in two days of exciting musical
performances in an educational and entertaining atmosphere. Jazz
Weekend XXXVII brings together outstanding guest artists,
clinicians, and over 1,100 college, high school and junior high school
students comprising dozens of big bands and jazz combos. CMU jazz
ensembles include CMU Jazzbone, Jazz Central, and Jazz Lab I. Top
clinicians and adjudicators provide commentary
and suggestions throughout the day as high school and junior high
school bands perform for ratings and awards.
Jazz
Weekend XXXVII kicks off with a Thursday evening
concert featuring the CMU Faculty Jazz Sextet (Staples Recital
Hall). An all-day Friday program (8am - 4pm) in
and around the School of Music features
over 50 high school and middle
school jazz ensembles from all over Michigan. Trumpet
extraordinaire Nicholas Payton, this year's special guest
artist,
presents a clinic at 12noon Friday afternoon and then performs with the
CMU Jazz Lab I in a finale showcase concert.
University of
Michigan Jazz Festival
Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 9am to 5pm; 8pm evening concert
School of Music, North Campus / Power Center, Central Campus
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jazzfest
Director: Dennis Wilson,
Associate Professor of Jazz Studies
Guest
Artist: Christian McBride, bass
An all-day presentation of clinics, workshops, master
classes and
adjudicated performance. Saturday is officially named 'Charles
Mingus Day'; a noon talk seminar led by Christian McBride offers
a
major retrospective on the influential music and life of bass legend
Minus. A ticketed evening concert, featuring all headliners at
the Power Center, closes the
festival.
Tickets
Festival
Schedule Overview
Headerliners:
- "Charles Mingus
Day", World Premiere of "The Movement
Revisited" by the
Christian
McBride Quintet (recorded live for National
Public Radio broadcast)
- Special guest Christian
McBride Quintet: bassist Christian McBride, the
with saxophonist Ron Blake, pianist Geoff
Keezer, drummer Terreon
Gully, vibist, Warren
Wolfe
- U-M Jazz Ensemble directed by Dennis
Wilson
- Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra
- Festival adjudicators: Matt Harris (piano),
Terrell Stafford (trumpet)
14th Annual NMU Jazz
Festival
Friday, April 16, 2010
Northern Michigan University, Marquette
Jazz Director: Mark Flaherty, Associate Professor of Jazz
Featuring special
guest, vocalist Kevin Mahogany with the NMU Jazz
Band & NMU Jazz Combo
Schedule>>
High School and Middle
School jazz
bands in the region are invited. The registration fee is $200 per
ensemble. Space is
limited and participation is on a first come, first serve basis. Registration
deadline is March 8, 2010.
JEN Announces the...
1st Annual Jazz Education
Network Conference
May 20-22, 2010
University of Missouri, St. Louis
http://www.jazzednet.org/
See the Events page for more jazz education
concerts and performances.
All in-state performances and
special events are
linked
through the individual college or university
profiled on our Education page.
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