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NANCY MARANO TRIO TO PERFORM IN WINTER JAZZ ROOM SERIES FINALE AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY World-class vocalist Nancy Marano is set to perform with the William Paterson University Jazz Ensemble on Sunday, March 11 in the final concert of the Winter 2001 Jazz Room Series. She will perform with her Trio, featuring long-time associates John Mosca on trombone, Jack Wilkins on guitar and Steve LaSpina on bass. 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. Marano has been lauded as a distinctive musical talent in a New Yorker magazine profile as well as by Billy Taylor on the CBS "Sunday Morning" television program. Her recordings include "If You Could See Us Now!," a recording she made with Manny Albam and the Metropole Orchestra, "Double Standards," "A Perfect Match," "The Real Thing," "Tomorrow's Standards," "Benny Carter Songbooks, I and II," and "Swing is Here" as a guest of Dick Hyman. Her concerts include appearances at Absolut Jazz with Stephane Grappelli, Jazz at the "Y," and Songwriter's Hall of Fame. She has performed at The Blue Note, Michael's Pub, Regattabar, Scullers and Blues Alley, as well as in St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Buffalo, and Hilton Head, and throughout Florida and California. Marano has been a regular at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City since 1988, performing a solo piano/vocal engagement. She has recorded with Benny Carter, Michel Legrand, Gerry Mulligan, Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Roger Kellaway, the internationally acclaimed duo of Marano & Monteiro, and most recently with the Metropole Orchestra in Holland with arrangements by Manny Albam. She has performed at several jazz festivals and as part of the Kennedy Center Women in Jazz Series. Marano and her group 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. 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
358 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 (25 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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