Duke Jazz Ensemble Features Drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr., in Outstanding Program
Jazz director John Brown chose to open this concert with six classic compositions featuring only soloists from his current Duke Jazz Ensemble while devoting the whole second set to the guest master drummer Ulysses Owens. This...
Read MoreIt was a continuing pleasure to be present at the closing Saturday night concert of Wilmington’s 40th annual North Carolina Jazz Festival held before an enthusiastic audience downtown at The Ballast Hotel. Most of the same...
Read MoreJon Hill and UNCW Students Featured in NC Jazz Festival Concert
It was a distinct pleasure to be present at the inaugural concert of Wilmington’s 40th annual North Carolina Jazz Festival amid a sold-out audience of several hundred jazz fans in the well-appointed ballroom of the...
Read MoreTimeless Sloane Enchants North Carolina Audience Once More
Jazz singer Carol Sloane has made an epic return to the concert stage in North Carolina after more than 30 years. She was accompanied by the multiple award-winning pianist and composer Mike Renzi. With the singer gracefully...
Read MoreNCSU’s Jazz Ensemble I Swings Hard with Big Band Standards
It was a thrill to return to Stewart Theatre after almost exactly a year to the day to enjoy band director Wes Parker’s superb NCSU’s big band Jazz Ensemble I. From their opening piece “On Green Dolphin...
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