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Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
The award-winning Knox Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Scott Garlock, will be perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 11, in Kresge Hall, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature pianist David Rogosin, assistant professor of music at Knox, performing Jelly Roll Morton's "Black Bottom Stomp" and Duke Ellington's "Oclupaca."
A section of French horns will be added to the ensemble for the Miles Davis/Gil Evans arrangement of "Maids of Cadiz" by Leo Delibes, and the horns will also play on Stan Kenton's "Malaguena" and Rob McConnell's "Blue Daniel."
Other selections will include "Angel Eyes", arranged by Knox percussion instructor Kevin Hart; Kenton's "No Heat"; Denis DiBlasio's "Badda Bing, Badda Bang"; LaBarbera's "Message from Art," and Jim Martin's arrangement of "Dear Old Stockholm."
The ensemble will also be selling their newest compact disc, "Y is a Vowel in Spy."
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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