Auditions will be held Thursday, August 21 for placement in the NSU jazz groups. The sign-up sheet is at the NSU Jazz Lab, 315 N. Muskogee, two blocks south of the primary campus. You must audition to be considered for a slot with the NSU Jazz groups. For more information, email whitea@nsuok.edu.
The NSU Jazz Ensemble I is the flagship ensemble of the Jazz Studies Program at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. The Jazz Ensemble I have recently performed with internationally recognized artists such as Joe Lovano, Slide Hampton, Mike Mainieri, Bob Mintzer, Byron Stripling, Jimmy Cobb, Kevin Mahogany, Bobby Shew, and many others. NSU is the only higher education institution in the state of Oklahoma to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a Jazz Studies major. NSU hosts the Green Country Jazz Festival, the longest running jazz festival in Oklahoma. The NSU Jazz Lab, a unique state-of-the-art performance and recording facility, serves as the home for the jazz studies program. The NSU Jazz Studies program has hosted concerts performed by Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Kevin Mahogany, Marvin Stamm, Ravi Coltrane, Bobby Watson, Mulgrew Miller, John Patitucci, Diana Krall, Russell Malone, T.S. Monk, and Eliane Elias, to name but a few. The band has released three CDs: Hour of the Pearl with New York trumpet guru Scott Wendholt, Appointment in Milano with saxophone legend Bobby Watson, and The Point with guitar wizard Henry Johnson. The band’s second CD, Appointment in Milano with Bobby Watson, was named as a Blue Chip Award winner by Jazz Education Journal, signifying the CD as one of the top ten university jazz CDs of 2006. The third CD, The Point, was named to allaboutjazz.com's 2007 outstanding big band CD list, one of only ten college jazz CDs to make the list. Look out for the fourth CD, featuring ROBIN EUBANKS, in August 2008.
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