NCSU Jazz Ensemble I Features Renowned Drummer Bryan Carter
Band director Wes Parker has diligently created a first-rate educational jazz program in the NCSU Music Department. This concert featured the first of two performances by classic big band and combo jazz ensembles. Jazz Ensemble...
Read MoreMaria Schneider Orchestra Gives Provocative Performance in Baldwin Auditorium
Although the terms “big band” and “orchestra” are used interchangeably in the jazz context, the latter often implies a more eclectic approach to the music. The Maria Schneider Orchestra certainly fills...
Read MoreJazz Drummer Tommy Igoe and Birdland All-Stars at NCSU’s Stewart Theatre
Tommy Igoe has followed in the footsteps of his late father, the renowned drummer Sonny Igoe, who was a member of numerous big bands from the 1940s and 1960s, such as those of Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, as well as television...
Read MoreWillie E. Atkinson and the Transitional Jazz Trio Bring Jazz Classics to CAM Wilmington
On an unusually warm winter evening, a sold-out audience came to the Cameron Art Museum for a most relaxing concert. They basked in the “jazz poetry” interpretations that vocalist Willie Atkinson gave to...
Read MoreOutstanding Performance by Joshua Redman in Monk@100 Festival
This was the second show of the evening featuring a world-class jazz musician in the person of saxophonist Joshua Redman, who incidentally was the winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991 at...
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