346 MTSU JAZZ ARTIST SERIES FEATURES SNOOKY YOUNG

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 9, 2006
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, (615) 898-2493

MTSU Jazz Festival Offers Clinics, Professional Feedback for Participants

(MURFREESBORO)— The MTSU Jazz Festival in conjunction with the MTSU Jazz Artist Series will began at 9 a.m. on April 14 in the Wright Music Building (WMB) on the MTSU campus. The concluding Jazz Artist Series concert will feature legendary trumpeter, Eugene "Snooky" Young with the MTSU Jazz Ensemble I at 7:30 p.m. in Hinton Hall of the WMB.
Bringing together outstanding jazz artists, jazz educators, students, and jazz lovers for a full day of performances and educational activities, the MTSU Jazz Festival start with thirty minute performances by high school and college jazz ensembles and combos running throughout the day.
School groups will perform for professional adjudicators and then given a “one-on-one” workshop with one of the visiting clinicians. Designed to help the students expand and improve their jazz skills, the festival will afford each group with audio taped comments from two clinicians and a video tape of their performance.
The clinicians this year include Clay Jenkins of the Eastman School of Music, Don Aliquo, and Jamey Simmons from MTSU, Tom Giampietro from Vanderbilt University and MTSU, Bruce Dudley from Belmont University and Pat Harbison from the University of Indiana at Bloomington.
In addition, the festival will feature a 1:45 pm clinic with Young in Hinton Hall of the WMB.
The festival will conclude with the Jazz Artist Series concert featuring Young and the MTSU Jazz Ensemble I.
"(Young) has been on thousands of records with just about every important jazz artist in the last 50 years," said Aliquo. "His Lyrical trumpet style is well recognized by jazz fans throughout the world."
Young is also known as a master of the plunger mute and has performed since the age of 5 with artists such as Jimmie Lunceford, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, and Gerald Wilson. He was a founding member of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra and also a part of the Tonight Show Orchestra.
The MTSU Jazz Ensemble I is the top performing large ensemble in the jazz studies program. It features the most experienced student players and concentrates on cutting-edge literature and master works from the big band repertoire. They have toured throughout the region and performed at top collegiate festivals including the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival.
Tickets for the Jazz Artist Series concert are $15 at the door. MTSU students, faculty and staff will be admitted free with a valid ID.
For more information on the Jazz Festival or any other events in the McLean School of Music, please visit www.mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493.


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