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JAMIE BAUM SEPTET TO PERFORM AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY'S JAZZ ROOM SERIES William Paterson University continues its fall 2000 Jazz Room Series on Sunday, October 22 with Jamie Baum, the Grammy-nominated flutist who has impressed musicians and critics alike with her powerful and unique approach to the flute as a lead instrument. 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; $9 for senior citizens, non-William Paterson students and William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni. William Paterson students may attend free of charge. Originally from Connecticut, Baum has been living in New York for ten years, working as a leader or side musician with a wide range of consummate musicians, including Randy Brecker, Paul Motion, John Abercrombie and others. "Baum exhibits remarkable artistic facility as composer/arranger/ bandleader/flutist," says a recent review in DownBeat magazine. A 1998 and 1999 winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll (in the category of talent deserving wider recognition), Baum has performed in clubs and concerts throughout the United States, Japan, and South America. Her recent performances have been at venues such as New York's Blue Note, Birdland, The Knitting Factory, The Five Spot, Visiones, and the Guggenheim Museum Jazz Series. Baum's recent recordings include her newly released "Sight Unheard" on Gunther Schuller's label, "GM Recordings," "Woodwinds on Fire," "Jazziz in Disc," and "Undercurrents," her last debut album as a leader on the German label Konnex. Jamie Baum and members of her Septet will be the guests for "Sittin' In," an informal discussion with the artists presented before the concert. The talk begins at 3 p.m. in room 101 of Shea Center. Admission is free to all Jazz Room ticketholders. Launched in the spring of 1978, William Paterson's Jazz Room Series has earned a reputation for presenting concerts by eminent musicians in the jazz world. The series has been awarded numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and Citations of Excellence from the Council for its cultural contribution to the state. This program was made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. For additional information, please call William Paterson's Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371. William Paterson University, one of the nine state colleges and universities in New Jersey, offers 30 undergraduate and 18 graduate programs through five colleges: Arts and Communication, Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Science and Health. Located on 370 hilltop acres in Wayne, the university enrolls approximately 10,000 students and provides housing for nearly 2,300 students. The institution's 352 full-time faculty are highly distinguished and diverse scholars and teachers, many of whom are recipients of prestigious awards and grants from the Fulbright Program (24 scholars), the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. ###
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