CSUB Jazz Coffeehouse on 11/17/07

The award-winning CSU Bakersfield Jazz program will present a Jazz Coffeehouse Concert Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Albertson room inside the Doré Theatre. Tickets can be obtained at the door on the night of the event for $10 for general admission and $6 for any student with an ID card and seniors (60+).

This concert will feature many small jazz groups filled with talented young musicians in the CSUB Music program as well as the CSUB Jazz Singers.

The CSUB Jazz Singers make their Jazz Coffeehouse premier for the 2007-08 academic year. Director Peggy Sears has prepared a set of classics including a stirring arrangement of God Only Knows – the Brian Wilson penned Beach Boys tune and You’re Makin’ Me Crazy a Michelle Weir arrangement of a New Orleans Jazz inspired blues tune. The Jazz Singers are joined for this performance by their rhythm section – Jaime Sevilla, piano; Jim Scully, electric bass and Nathan Yeasley, drums.

The original compositions of Greg Kalar, guitar; Eddie Ziegler; drums, Sam Jarvis, guitar and FAMAS scholarship recipient Daniel Musquez, trumpet will be featured in a performance by the Jazz Messiahs. This group of students is planning to record their new works in December for an upcoming CSUB Jazz Department release and will attend and perform at the Reno Jazz Festival in April 2008.

Cross SAXtion, featuring Mat Willis, saxes; Nathan Yeasley, drums and Jason Ocampo, guitar will perform a set of jazz standards including two Horace Silver classics – Sister Sadie and Song for My Father.

Vocalist Jaz Wiggett, will present a set of standards with the members of Cross SAXtion. Selections will include – Route 66, All the Things You Are and Body and Soul.

The Tom Keel/Chuck Provencio Quintet will present a set of hip standards including Equinox by John Coltrane and West End Blues by Wes Montgomery. Keel (trombone) and Provencio (guitar) are joined by drummer Nathan Yeasley and Doug Davis, piano.

The Jazz Coffeehouse Concert Series is a five-concert series in which CSUB students and community members perform live jazz in all of its many guises. The CSUB Jazz Coffeehouse Concert Series is produced and directed by Jim Scully, guitarist, composer and member of the CSUB Music Faculty.

Mr. Scully is the director of the small jazz ensembles at CSUB as well as a lecturer in Music Theory, Theory Skills, Jazz Appreciation, Music Technology and Chamber Music. On any given night at a CSUB Jazz Coffeehouse Concert the listener could be treated to 1950’s Hard-Bop, 1970’s Fusion, 1980’s Post-Bop and the 1990s New Creative Music. Whatever the style, you are sure to enjoy the fine student musicians on display at all of our events.

For more information, call Mr. Scully at 654-2511 or send e-mail to: jscully@csub.edu

For more information about the CSUB Music Program, visit: http://www.csub.edu/PAD/music/ or call 654-3093.

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CSUB Jazz Coffeehouse on 11/17/07