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February 8, 2005
SAL MOSCA TRIO TO PERFORM IN THE JAZZ ROOM
SERIES AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 AT
4 P.M.
The Sal Mosca Trio will appear at William Paterson University in
Wayne on Sunday, February 27 as part of the spring 2005 Jazz Room
Series.
The concert will begin at 4 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing
Arts on the campus in Wayne. Tickets are available in advance or
on the day of the performance at $12 standard and $9 for senior
citizens, non-William Paterson students and William Paterson faculty,
staff and alumni. William Paterson students may attend free of charge.
Prior to the concert, Mosca will be the guest for “Sittin
In,” an informal discussion about jazz, at 3 p.m. in room
101 of Shea Center. Admission is free to all Jazz Room ticketholders.
Originally from Mount Vernon, New York, Mosca began taking piano
lessons at the age of 12 and studied under, among others, Hal Scofield,
a Broadway theatre musician who was an expert in sight-reading and
transposing. By the age of 15, Mosca was tutoring his own small
group of students and began regularly playing in nightclubs. Assigned
to the Army band during World War II, Mosca’s skill at transposing
music quickly made him a popular musician.
Mosca attended the New York College of Music and studied classical
music. He has played on records including “Ezz-thetic”
with Miles Davis and Max Roach and collaborated with saxophonist
Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh. Mosca has also given solo performances
in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Recital Hall
in New York City. Mosca’s recent CD, “Trickle,”
features his live performance in Antwerp, Belgium.
Now in its 27th year of exciting performances, The Jazz Room is
one of the largest and most prestigious college-sponsored jazz events
in the country. Performers include renowned professionals who encompass
the complete spectrum of jazz, from practitioners of traditional
jazz to avant-garde to bebop to swing to Afro-Latin jazz as well
as William Paterson’s own student ensembles. The series has
won numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for its innovative programming.
For more information, call Shea Center for Performing Arts Box Office
at 973-720-2371.
Note to editors and reporters: High-resolution,
downloadable photographs are available at http://ww2.wpunj.edu/publicityphotos/Jazz/JazzRoomSpring05/
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