WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY’S SPRING JAZZ ROOM
SERVES UP HOT AND SPICY LATIN JAZZ ON MARCH 3
Percussionist Lawrence Killian fronts the William Paterson University
Latin Jazz Ensemble in a concert directed by Chico Mendoza on Sunday,
March 3 as part of the University’s Spring 2002 Jazz Room Series.
Concert time is 4 p.m.3in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on the
University campus in Wayne. A 3 p.m. informal discussion, open to
the public, with the afternoon’s performers, titled "Sittin’
In," in Shea 101 is a special feature of the series.
The concert opens with a half-hour set by a student jazz ensemble.
Admission prices are $12 standard and $9 senior citizens.
The pulsating rhythms of the multi-faceted percussionist Killian have
been heard around the globe during an illustrious recording career
as a sideman for some of the top artists in jazz, Latin, and commercial
music. With more than 500 recordings to his credit, Killian is a favorite
for movie soundtracks and television commercials; his latest studio
project is on Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers’ compact disc,
"Groovin’ High." Other artists with whom Killian has
performed include Ahmad Jamal, Stan Getz, Pharaoh Sanders, Art Blakey,
and Phyllis Hyman. Also, he toured five years with the original Village
People.
The New Jersey-born Killian is quick to say, "The
drums are my mouth piece and I always have something to say."
He continues, "I don’t have to get the last word in, cause
I’m just happy to be in musical conversation."
Mendoza, who will direct the William Paterson University Latin Jazz
Ensemble, has been an adjunct member of the University faculty since
1980. As a performer and bandleader, Mendoza has credits with Latin
groups at Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall; with George Benson
and Stanley Turrentine at Newark Symphony Hall; and at colleges and
clubs. Among his numerous recordings, his fourth album, "El Sonida,"
received a Latin Grammy Nomination in 1979. He is the host of "Salsa
Meets Jazz" on Monday evenings at The Village Gate in New York
City.
William Paterson University is a flagship of jazz education. For more
than 25 years its internationally known Jazz Studies Program has offered
a true jazz environment in which students study firsthand with an
artist/teacher faculty composed of world-class, New York-area professionals.
The program has created and fostered the nationally acclaimed Jazz
Room Series of concerts each fall and spring and the summer Jazz It
Up! Festival. Both programs are designed to make jazz more accessible
to the community and draws thousands of jazz fans to the University’s
campus.
For information, call the Shea Center for Performing Arts Box Office
at 973-720-2371
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For
Further Information, contact:
- Mary
Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations 973-720-2966
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