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WILLIAM PATERSON TO PRESENT SIXTH ANNUAL "JAZZ IT UP!" FESTIVAL --Free week-long event to feature top jazz artists in concert from July 26 to 30.
The free week-long event will feature concerts at 7:30 p.m. from Monday, July 26 through Friday, July 30 in Shea Center on campus. The festival also includes a morning jazz session for children on Wednesday, July 28 and a special noon-time concert at the Newark Museum in Newark on Friday, July 30. All events are free and open to the public. "Jazz It Up!," which has drawn thousands of jazz aficionados to the university's campus during the past five summers, is designed to make jazz, America's native musical form, more accessible to the community. William Paterson has been on the forefront of jazz education for more than 25 years through its internationally known Jazz Studies Program, and its nationally acclaimed Jazz Room Series, which presents the entire spectrum of jazz music through concerts each fall and spring. The festival opens on Monday, July 26 with the Barry Danielian Quintet. Danielian, one of the most in-demand trumpeters on the East coast and his stellar quintet will perform the best of today's jazz. On Tuesday, July 27, guitarist Howard Alden joins tenor saxophonist and jazz clarinetist Ken Peplowski in a duo of fresh, imaginative, and inspired sounds. Vivian Lord, pianist, singer and educator, brings her band to the Shea stage on Wednesday, July 28 for a morning workshop designed to introduce elementary school children to the world of jazz. That evening, saxophonist Bob Mintzer teams up with the up-and-coming members of the William Paterson Summer Big Band directed by Stephen Marcone. Ingrid Jensen, a new giant in the world of jazz, brings her quartet on Thursday, July 29. Jensen, who has a new release on Enja Records titled "Higher Grounds," combines virtuostic trumpet playing with a deeply improvisational sensibility. The blues-soaked tenor saxophonist and former sideman for Ray Charles, David "Fathead" Newman, brings this year's festival to a close on Friday, July 30 with two high-powered performances by his all-star quartet -- at noon in the garden of the Newark Museum in Newark, and at 7:30 p.m. in Shea Center. The festival is being held in conjunction with the university's Summer Jazz Improvisation Workshop for high school and college students, featuring seven intense days of morning classes, afternoon performance sessions and clinics with nightly jazz artists. "Jazz It Up!" is funded, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.
For more information, contact the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371. ###
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David
"Fathead" Newman, Howard Alden and Ken Peplowski, and
trumpeter Ingrid Jensen are among the all-star lineup of top
jazz artists who will perform at William Paterson University
in Wayne during the sixth annual "Jazz it Up!" festival
from July 26 to 30.