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CMU Jazz Weekend 2012 
Thursday-Friday, February 9-10,
2012; all event times TBA
CMU Music Building, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant
CMU Jazz Director: Rob Smith (right),
Asst. Professor of Jazz Studies
Information: musicevents@cmich.edu
Special guest: Bobby Shew-Trumpet
Soloist, Band Leader, Composer, Educator
The opening concert on Thursday, Feb.
9 presents the CMU
Faculty Jazz Sextet with a guest appearance by trumpeter Bobby Shew (left). Friday's  lengthy
schedule boasts 56 High School jazz bands and 14 HS combos performing
throughout the day at several venues on the CMU campus. The
Friday, Feb. 10 evening gala concert again features Shew, but this time
with the CMU
Jazz Lab 1, in Plachta Auditorium (Warriner Hall).
Shew's early career included work with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the
Woody Herman band, and the Buddy Rich band. He moved to Los
Angeles, working with leading big bands and jazz performers all over
the coast, recording his own albums, and amassing a large body of TV
and Film studio work. Today, in addition to a busy performing and
private teaching schedule, Shew conducts clinics and master classes at
high schools and college campuses all over the world.
WESTERN
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
JAZZ
34th
Anniversary Gold Company Miller Show - Salute to the Oscars!
Gold Company / GCII
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2pm
& 8pm
Miller
Auditorium
Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo
http://www.millerauditorium.com
Join
Gold Company and GC II for their 34th annual super spectacular Gold Company Show: Gold Company Salute to
the Oscars!
Gold
Company puts their unique and fun spin on the songs that have taken
home the Oscar! Recognized as one of the most successful collegiate
vocal groups in the world, and having appeared through the US, Canada
and Europe, Gold Company is sure to thrill audiences with a walk throuh
time remembering the award winning songs of the Silver Screen.
All
Gold Company and GC II alums are invited back to campus to participate
in the festivities.
Gold Company
WAYNE
STATE UNIVERSITY
JAZZ
'Mondays at the Max with Wayne State'
Wayne State University Jazz Big Band I and
II
WSU
Prof. Christopher Collins &
Prof. Russell Miller,
conductors
Monday,
February 13, 2012; 7:30pm
Music
Box at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit
Website: http://www.music.wayne.edu/
Tickets:
DSO box office - $15 adults, $10 students, Friends
of Music, DSO
Civic Youth Ensemble Families, and WSU students (with OneCard) receive
a 50% discount
DSO
box office - ph: (313) 576-5111 ¦ online: www.dso.org
A
new concert series featuring premier
Wayne State student ensembles at the Max M. Fisher Music Center.
The WSU Jazz Big Band I and Jazz Big Band II kick off the winter season on
February 13 with a tribute to the music
of composer-arranger Stan Kenton,
with special guest artist Jerry
McKenzie.
WSU
Jazz Big Band I with special guest Eddie Daniels
CLASSROOM CORNER
The Jazz Big
Band: Ingredients to Assure Good
Ensemble Performances
Presenter:
Scott Cowan, Western Michigan University
Review
a 3-part music education primer by WMU jazz master educator-trumpeter
Scott Cowan, a series of articles which originally appeared in the International Trumpet Guild Journal quarterly
magazine. Cowan gives an insightful look at the top 10 essential
elements he says enable a solid foundation for achieving high returns
in big band performance and music awareness benefitting students within
a large ensemble framework. Must reading for jazz
students,
educators, and all others
seeking a greater understanding of the dynamics at play, big band
format at work.
Download
PDF
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