160 JOINT FACULTY RECITAL FEATURES JAZZ ENSEMBLE I, ORIGINAL WORKS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 26, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

JOINT FACULTY RECITAL FEATURES JAZZ ENSEMBLE I, ORIGINAL WORKS
Free & Open Event Will Showcase Talents of Sax Player Aliquo and Trumpeter Simmons

(MURFREESBORO)—An MTSU faculty jazz concert featuring Don Aliquo (tenor sax) and Jamey Simmons (trumpet) will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30, in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
"The concert will have original music by both (Aliquo) and myself," Simmons said.
Jazz Ensemble I, the premier jazz ensemble at MTSU, will assist on the program during the performances of Thelonious Monk’s Bright Mississippi and an original work by Simmons titled Damascus. The big-band tunes will feature jazz alumnus Oscar Utterstrom (trombone) and Vinnie Ciesielski (trumpet), a professional musician based in Nashville. Additionally, many of the other selections will be original works by Aliquo.
Another featured group will be MTSU’s graduate jazz rhythm section that consists of Mason Embry (piano), Chris Munson (drums) and Jimmie McEachern (bass).
Simmons is the associate professor of jazz studies and jazz trumpet at MTSU and has written arrangements and compositions that have been performed by the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cedar Avenue Big Band and the MTSU Wind Ensemble.
Aliquo, MTSU’s director of jazz studies and associate professor of saxophone, has had extensive experience as an educator and performer, with recent concert appearances at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York City, the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival and the North American Saxophone Alliance International Conference.
This concert is free and open to the public.
For more information on this and other events in the music school at MTSU, please call 615-898-2493 or visit www.mtsumusic.com.

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