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February 12, 2007
JAZZ ROOM SERIES CONTINUES WITH GIL LOPEZ AND THE WILLIAM PATERON UNIVERSITY LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE ON SUNDAY, MARCH 4
Latin music arranger and composer Gil Lopez joins the William Paterson University Latin Jazz Ensemble for a concert at William Paterson University in Wayne on Sunday, March 4 as part of the Spring Jazz Room Series.
The concert begins at 4 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus. “Sittin’ In,” an informal jazz talk with Chico Mendoza and Gil Lopez, the afternoon’s featured artists, will be presented prior to the concert at 3 p.m. in Shea Center 101 and is free to all Jazz Room ticketholders. The concert begins with a performance by a William Paterson student jazz ensemble.
Chico Mendoza, the ensemble’s director, who is in his 33rd year on the William Paterson faculty, leads the group in new, original arrangements written by Lopez especially for this concert performance.
Admission prices to the Jazz Room series are $15 standard; $12 for senior citizens; and $8 for students. For information, call the Shea Center for Performing Arts Box Office at 973-720-2371. Funding for The Jazz Room at William Paterson University has been made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.
Launched in 1978, 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.
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