Duke Performances at Duke University, Durham, North Carolna, has done it again! For the past three years, since Aaron Greenwald became the director, and Ken Rumble, the marketing director, jazz lovers have been treated to first-class, top notch performances by world-class musicians. This season gets off to a fabulous start with the appearance of the touring San Francisco Jazz Collective, October 28, at 8 p.m. at Page Auditorium.
This piedmont, centrally-located area is called Triangle North Carolina, and is home to three major universities, Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. which all have student jazz ensembles and jazz studies departments. The famed North Carolina Central University Jazz Ensemble, located in Durham, has performed at the White House and at the Montreux, Newport and Detroit Jazz Festivals. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, a Durham resident, and his group have been artists-in-residence at NCCU. The area is also blessed to have two 24-hour straight-ahead jazz stations (WNCU and WSHA) and other stations, community (WCOM) and student (WXYC, WXDU and WKNC) which program jazz on a regular basis. If you add transplants from all over the nation and a hip local jazz following, you have a very aware, very-appreciative set of fans who love and support good jazz music.
Expect a full house to see this edition of the collective. All of the members are leaders and working sidemen who will perform their arrangements of Horace Silver's music. The latest group, which is slightly different than the one that performed in Chapel Hill about two years ago, consist of Miguel Zenon, alto saxophone; Mark Turner, tenor saxophone; Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet; Luis Bonilla, trombone; Stefon Harris, vibes; Edward Simon, piano; Matt Penman, bass, and Eric Harland, drums. Stefon Harris, the vibraphonist, will perform a pre-concert, October 28, at 6 p.m., at Six Plates, in Durham. Harris, whose mother was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina, mentioned that he was glad to be playing in his mother's home state the last time he was in the area. Micheal Cuscuna, a prominent record producer and writer, will teach a course on jazz and SFJC and have a conversation with the public at The Regulator Book Store, Durham, Wednesday, October 27, 2010. MacArthur genius fellow alto saxphonist Miguel Zenon and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner will also talk the public at Duke University, Friday, October 29, 2010.
Future jazz concerts for the 2010-2011 Duke Performances jazz series include: Allen Toussaint (November 7, Vijay Iyer Trio (December 3), Wayne Shorter Quartet (February 11), and the WATTS Project (April 1). For more information call (919) 684-4444 and go to: dukeperformances.org..
Zenon will also have a conversation with the public, at Duke University.
This piedmont, centrally-located area is called Triangle North Carolina, and is home to three major universities, Duke University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. which all have student jazz ensembles and jazz studies departments. The famed North Carolina Central University Jazz Ensemble, located in Durham, has performed at the White House and at the Montreux, Newport and Detroit Jazz Festivals. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, a Durham resident, and his group have been artists-in-residence at NCCU. The area is also blessed to have two 24-hour straight-ahead jazz stations (WNCU and WSHA) and other stations, community (WCOM) and student (WXYC, WXDU and WKNC) which program jazz on a regular basis. If you add transplants from all over the nation and a hip local jazz following, you have a very aware, very-appreciative set of fans who love and support good jazz music.
Expect a full house to see this edition of the collective. All of the members are leaders and working sidemen who will perform their arrangements of Horace Silver's music. The latest group, which is slightly different than the one that performed in Chapel Hill about two years ago, consist of Miguel Zenon, alto saxophone; Mark Turner, tenor saxophone; Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet; Luis Bonilla, trombone; Stefon Harris, vibes; Edward Simon, piano; Matt Penman, bass, and Eric Harland, drums. Stefon Harris, the vibraphonist, will perform a pre-concert, October 28, at 6 p.m., at Six Plates, in Durham. Harris, whose mother was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina, mentioned that he was glad to be playing in his mother's home state the last time he was in the area. Micheal Cuscuna, a prominent record producer and writer, will teach a course on jazz and SFJC and have a conversation with the public at The Regulator Book Store, Durham, Wednesday, October 27, 2010. MacArthur genius fellow alto saxphonist Miguel Zenon and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner will also talk the public at Duke University, Friday, October 29, 2010.
Future jazz concerts for the 2010-2011 Duke Performances jazz series include: Allen Toussaint (November 7, Vijay Iyer Trio (December 3), Wayne Shorter Quartet (February 11), and the WATTS Project (April 1). For more information call (919) 684-4444 and go to: dukeperformances.org..
Zenon will also have a conversation with the public, at Duke University.
