Triad Arts with David Ford University of North Carolina Greensboro: Miles Davis Jazz Program and Honors High School Jazz Band (Part 1)November 16, 2011Our state has been a major contributor to the history of jazz music. Bebop pioneer drummer Max Roach, revolutionary pianist Thelonius Monk, and the incomparable saxophonist John Coltrane all hailed from North Carolina, and they left an indelible mark on American music. That tradition is alive and as swinging as ever at the University of North Carolina Greensboro's Miles Davis Jazz Program. You can see and hear for yourself Sunday afternoon, November 20, at 1:30pm in the UNCG Recital Hall beginning with the UNCG Honors High School Jazz Band. The ensemble is made up of some of the hottest jazz high schoolers from across the state. On the program is music of the late great –and South Carolina native—Dizzy Gillespie. Next up, UNCG’s Miles Davis Jazz Program presents UNCG Jazz Ensemble II. Each semester the jazz program brings in world-class jazz performers/clinicians to work with students. This year saxophone recording artist Stephen Riley joins the group in a performance of 7 premiere arrangements from his Steeplechase label releases. Saxophonist, composer and UNCG faculty Chad Eby and student musician clarinet/saxophonist Sam Bailey swung on by WFDD’s Greensboro studio to talk jazz. This is part one of their conversation with TAUC host David Ford.
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Triad Arts for November 16, 2011
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