The 9th Annual Evanston Jazz Festival during Evanston Township High School (ETHS) welcomes Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, with special guest Victor Goines, on Saturday, Feb 11, 2012. The festival offers a full day of non-competitive, educational workshops and performances by center and high propagandize jazz ensembles, culminating in an dusk opening of orchestral jazz.
The daytime prominence will be a noontime unison by Grammy-winning alloy jazz percussionist Paul Wertico. For many years a drummer with a Pat Metheny Group, Wertico now leads countless singular jazz groups.
All daytime activities, including a noontime concert, are giveaway and open to a public.
The dusk opening starts during 7:30pm with a set from ETHS’s possess Jazz Ensemble. The unison will be hold in a ETHS Auditorium, 1600 Dodge Ave., in Evanston. The Auditorium is disabled accessible, and parking is giveaway in a propagandize lot on Dodge Ave., opposite from a Auditorium entrance. Reserved-seat tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for children, students with ID, and seniors. A $50 family sheet covers acknowledgment for dual adults and adult to 4 children. Call (847) 424-7848 or revisit www.ethsjazz.com to sequence tickets online.
The Evanston Jazz Festival attracts some-more than 400 tyro musicians from propagandize bands around a Midwest. The festival focuses on educating high propagandize and center propagandize jazz students and showcasing their talents. Activities embody workshops, clinics, and master classes offering by jazz musicians and educators, and a special seminar on mechanism song technology. Each participating rope or combo performs and afterwards receives both live and available feedback and coaching from consultant judges. All deduction from sheet eventuality sales go toward enhancing a ETHS Jazz Program.
This year’s Evanston Jazz Festival facilities trumpeter and composer Orbert Davis. Davis is co-founder, conductor and artistic executive of a Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP). Winner of a 1995 Cognac Hennessy National Jazz Search, Orbert was one of Chicago Tribune’s “1995 Arts People of a Year.” Chicago Magazine named him “Y2k Best Trumpeter in Chicago” and “Chicagoan of a Year for 2002.” Orbert’s CD recordings embody “Priority,” “Blue Notes” and CJP’s Collective Creativity,” expelled in 2009.
Acclaimed saxophonist-clarinetist, jazz teacher and composer Victor Goines will perform with a CJP. Goines is widely famous as one of a many enchanting and versatile performers, composers, collaborators and educators in song today. A member of a Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra given 1993, Mr. Goines has achieved and available with The Victor Goines Quartet, and collaborated with artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Dianne Reeves, Bo Didley, Freddie Hubbard, Damon Short, Freddie Green, and a horde of other eminent musicians and ensembles.
The ETHS Music Department has some-more than 400 students in bands, choirs, orchestras, tiny ensembles, and jazz groups. ETHS tyro groups have won dual Downbeat song awards, and a song module is a three-time Grammy Signature School Winner. The ETHS Music Department also takes students on semi-annual trips, that over a past few years have enclosed Montreal, New York, Orlando, New Orleans and Nashville. The endless jazz module includes 9 combos and 3 large bands. The school’s tip jazz garb and combo have achieved in Europe and Japan, as good as during a Chicago Jazz Festival and other jazz venues around a Chicago area.
For some-more information about a 9th Annual Evanston Jazz Festival, record on to www.ethsjazz.com or hit Dr. Dave Fodor during fodord@eths.k12.il.us