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February 11, 2008
SAXOPHONIST VINCENT HERRING AND HIS QUARTET PERFORM IN SPRING JAZZ ROOM SERIES ON FEBRUARY 24
Virtuoso alto saxophonist and newest William Paterson jazz faculty member Vincent Herring will bring his hard-swinging group to the Jazz Room stage on Sunday, February 24 at William Paterson University.
The concert will begin at 4 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus in Wayne. Prior to the concert, Herring and his group will be the guests 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.
Tickets are available in advance or on the day of the performance at $15 standard; $12 senior citizens, William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni; and $8 for non-William Paterson students. William Paterson students may attend free of charge.
Herring is one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. He first toured Europe and the United States with Lionel Hampton’s big band in the early 1980s. As he developed his musicianship he worked with Nat Adderley for six years. Other musicians he has worked or recorded with include Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, The Mingus Big Band, Kenny Barron, Nancy Wilson, Dr. Billy Taylor, Carla Bley, and John Hicks. Herring has had guest soloist engagements with Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center. He also appeared as a guest soloist at Carnegie Hall with John Faddis and The Carnegie Hall Big Band.
Herring has 15 recordings as a leader and more than 200 as a sideman. He teaches jazz studies at William Paterson University and conducts master classes and jazz workshops at Juilliard.
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.
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.
For tickets or information, call the Shea Center for Performing Arts Box Office at 973-720-2371.
NOTE: High resolution, downloadable photographs are available at http://ww2.wpunj.edu/publicityphotos/Jazz/JazzRoomSeries
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