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3rd Annual UCF Orlando Jazz Festival - March 19
& 20, 2010
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The UCF Department of Music and WUCF-FM present the
3rd annual UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival including
CLINICS, MASTER CLASSES and
PERFORMANCES by internationally acclaimed
artists Dr. Lonnie Smith and Grant Stewart, UCF jazz bands and
select high school musicians from across the country.
Friday night concert,
March 19 at 8:00 p.m.
featuring the Grant
Stewart Quartet
and special guest, the UCF Jazz Ensemble I.
Saturday schedule
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm, FREE!
● Wekiva HS Jazz Band
● Jupiter HS Jazz Band
● University HS Big Band I
● Lakewood Ranch HS Jazz band
● Osceola HS Jazz Band
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Clinics with the pros, FREE!
Saturday night concert,
March 20 at 8:00 p.m.
features The UCF Jazz Professsors Tribute to Bill
Evans and Stan Getz, and headlining the show: Dr. Lonnie
Smith, Hammond B-3 organ, with Marty Morell and Bobby
Koelble
TICKETS: Admission $25/night or $40 for both
evenings, preferred seating $60. Buy your tickets online
here! |
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Extra Goodies from the folks at NPR
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2010 is proving to be another great year for
music! Here at 89.9 JAZZ & MORE we always bring you
the timeless classics of yesterday, AND the
latest and greatest new music releases.
In our efforts to keep you informed and entertained, we
are aided by the good people at National Public Radio who
offer additional interviews, concert recordings, and
recommendations. Here's the latest topics from NPR...
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Live
At The Village Vanguard
He's
the son of a bassist, the nephew of a saxophonist, the
neighbor of his bass player and the roommate of his
drummer. And now, the graceful, nuanced, 25-year-old
pianist made his debut at the venerable club. Hear the
concert. |
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Tiny
Desk Concerts
Castaneda
is the sort of musician who isn't afraid to challenge
the established order. He's carving out a place for
himself in Latin jazz on an instrument you don't often
hear in his style of music: the Colombian harp.
Castaneda recently parked himself behind Bob Boilen's
desk and crafted a transporting mix of tradition and
improvisation. |
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Music
Reviews
Out
'n' In, the latest album from Empirical, is a tribute to
the late musician Eric Dolphy. The record contains six
original pieces that adopt Dolphy's style and
adaptations of two songs from his album Out to
Lunch! |
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Blogs
A
Blog Supreme is an ongoing conversation about jazz
for both indoctrinated fans and curious listeners, with
NPR Music producers and special guests. Follow along at
NPR.org/blogsupreme. Join us now
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| The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Radio
Broadcasts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  WUCF is proud to offer
the Metropolitan Opera's live Saturday matinee
broadcasts - the longest-running continuous classical music
program in radio
The live broadcast season continues thru May
8th.
Coming up May 1st, Renee Fleming in Rossini's
1817 opera Armida - featuring a topic that was
widely popular from the seventeeth through the early twentieth
centuries. Indeed, there are almost 100 operas and ballets
that employ the story of the Saracen sorceress and her desire
for the Christian warrior, Rinaldo. The source material is
Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme Liberate
(1581). Rossini's treatment of the material contracts with his
other operas and demonstrates his range and capabilities
especially in the first and third acts where the world created
is darker, more sensual, and magical. Of special note is the
fact that there are seven tenor roles written for the opera
rendering it - in the eyes of some - as
"un-performable."
The Metropolitan Opera's website
hosts synopses, artist biographies, production photos,
sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides
for every
opera in the broadcast season.
The 2009-10 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast
Season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home
builder®, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg
Foundation and the Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Broadcast
Media, and through contributions from listeners
worldwide. |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Coming up in March
on JALC - American
Icons: Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis and, the Joey
DeFrancesco Trio.
And, April is Jazz
Appreciation Month !! Jazz at Lincoln
Center celebrates by gathering, the living luminaries of jazz
together under one roof as the National Endowment for the Arts
honors America's Jazz Masters. Hear the words and works of
this year's inductees: pianists/composer Muhal Richard Abrams,
Kenny Barron and Cedar Walton; saxophonists/composers Bill
Holman and Yusef Lateef; vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson;
vocalist Annie Ross and producer/critic George Avakian. Join
us for this moment of jazz history.
Here are the complete
program listings.
WUCF airs Jazz at Lincoln Center on Sundays
7 pm, and an encore presentation on
Mondays at 7 pm. Miss the program?
Listen online to an archived
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| Jazz Profiles
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Singer Nancy
Wilson presents an in-depth look at the greatest
performers who have influenced the history of jazz - each week
on National Public Radio's "Jazz Profiles."
Jazz Profiles is currently not producing new
programs, however the archived body of
recordings are re-broadcast each week on
WUCF-FM.
Upcoming March 2010 programs feature: Betty
Carter, Nat Adderly, The Village Vanguard, Jimmy
Smith and Stanley Turrentine.
Jazz Profiles airs Sundays at 10 am and Tuesdays at
7 pm. |
| Jazzset
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JazzSet delivers rhythm... melody... harmony... improv...
every week since 1992. Host Dee Dee
Bridgewater brings you music in performance, sweet and
hot. Coming up in March...
James Williams (1951-2004)
Remembered ... The pianist
directed Jazz Studies at William Paterson University in Wayne,
NJ. Successor and friend Mulgrew Miller leads an all-star
ensemble in James's music, with love.
Women Play Drums:
Sherrie Maricle and Cindy Blackman Maricle
leads her Five Play quintet, and Blackman's Quartet features
J.D. Allen on sax -- both at the Mary Lou Williams Women in
Jazz Fest at the Kennedy Center. Esperanza Spalding at Newport
... The 25-year-old bassist and singer, originally from
Portland as in her song "City of Roses," now juggles
invitations from the White House and festivals around the
world. Michel Camilo at
Newport ... Newport is special for Camilo, the
brilliant Dominican-trained pianist because impresario George
Wein was an early champion. "Poinciana" gets a beautiful
treatment. Michael Wolff Trio
and Special Guest Steve Wilson ... A pianist
from the last Cannonball Adderley Quintet, tight trio and
hard-working guest (Steve's no walk-on) plus great
arrangements at the KC Jazz Club at the Kennedy Center. "Joe's
Strut" is for Zawinul.
Jazzset airs on WUCF on Sundays at 8 pm,
and an encore presentation on Wednesdays at 7
pm. Coming up in December: The Dave Brubeck Quartet,
Pink Martini, Steve Turre's Sanctified Shells, and the New
York Voices with the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Orchestra!
Here's this week's presentation. |
| Marion McParland's Piano
Jazz
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  30 Years Of Piano
Jazz!!
As Marian McParland's Piano Jazz continues to
celebrate its 30th year, National Public Radio is marking the
occasion with 30 of
their favorite Marion moments. It wasn't easy for NPR to
cull them from over 700 episodes, and almost as many guests -
but they did so, and built a nifty interactive for it too.
McParland has welcomed such a wide range of musicians to
her program: for every legend like mary Lou Williams or Roy
Eldridge, there's an Alicia Keys or Willie Nelson. Not to
mention Dizzy Gillespie, and Sarah Vaughan, and Ray Chanrles,
and Steely Dan, and Keith Jarrett, and ... you get the
picture. Happy listening!
WUCF airs Marian McParland's Piano Jazz
Fridays at 7 pm. An
encore presentation of the program airs
Sundays at 11 am.
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| Bob Edwards Saturdays on 89.9 News &
More
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  When I
tell strangers that I host a radio interview program, they
ask, "What's it about?" Sometimes I say, "It's about an hour,"
just to see if my new acquaintance has a sense of humor.
Unfortunately, my questioners are conditioned by
commercial radio's glut of talk shows "about" politics,
sports, business, travel, relationships and all manner of
subjects targeted to appeal to a particular demographic group.
Since public radio isn't trying to sell products to its
audience, my show doesn't have to be "about" anything other
than an interesting conversation.
This actually confuses
some people unfamiliar with the culture of public radio.
Conversation? For its own sake? What a concept! It follows
then, that the perfect guest for "Bob Edwards Weekend" is the
person who can be interesting or entertaining for a sustained
period of time.
In preparing for the first show, I
made a list of my favorite interview guests from my 30 years
with NPR, then added the names of people I'd always wanted to
meet. The list was dominated by politicians, journalists,
writers and social commentators - all personable and
provocative. Then I resorted to the cheap trick of putting
humorists at the top of the list because laughter would help
break the ice with a new audience right away. So I treated
listeners to Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, Roy
Blount, Joe Queenan, Andy Borowitz, Carl Reiner and
Christopher Buckley.
Next came another category of
guests that I call "good talkers," the ones you wouldn't
abandon at a cocktail party even if your glass were empty.
These include Maureen Dowd of "The New York Times," Paul Light
of New York University, author/critics Camille Paglia and
Garry Wills, and Eugene Robinson and T.R. Reid of "The
Washington Post."
Our most senior citizens have been
welcome guests, in part because they've had more time to
figure out how to be interesting. Author Studs
Terkel, early radio producer Norman Corwin, baseball legend
Buck O'Neill, historian John Hope Franklin, former Social
Security Commissioner Bob Ball and silent movie organist Bob
Mitchell are all in their 90s.
Among the 80-somethings
I've interviewed are former President Jimmy Carter,
journalists Walter Cronkite, Richard C. Hottelet and William
F. Buckley, KKK infiltrator Stetson Kennedy, jazz pianists
Billy Taylor and Dave Brubeck, former Interior Secretary
Stewart Udall, actors James Whitmore and Bea Arthur, former
Senators George McGovern and Bob Dole, and musicians Doc
Watson, Billy Joe Shaver, Jack Clement. I draw much
satisfaction in listening to tales of a long productive life
well lived.
The career just taking wing also makes for
a good story. Fresh out of Yale, Anya Kamenetz lamented the
heavy debt burden of the young. The political influence of
lobbyists opened the eyes of Matthew Continetti, a young
reporter for "The Weekly Standard." Listeners were introduced
to Chimamanda Adichie, a 27-year-old African writer discussing
her first novel. The much younger Kaki King wowed us with her
guitar technique, and a Kyrgystan-born jazz pianist named
Eldar is the toast of jazz fans, though he's just 18 years
old. The show's young staff has made me aware of newcomers in
many fields - rookie writers, performers, thinkers and
activists I might not have discovered on my own.
The
program has no political agenda other than to hold those in
authority to account for their actions. I'm not interested in
hearing political partisans spin the latest hot issue. When I
interviewed conservative William Kristol and liberal Lewis
Lapham, I was more interested in the development of political
philosophy over time. I've always liked the old adage that
journalists are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict
the comfortable. While I'm not one to overtly root for
underdogs, I like to see that they get a hearing.
I'm
also proud that the program gives significant air time to
complex problems often dismissed because they don't fit neatly
into sound bites. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed the rollback
of environmental standards, economist Jeffrey Sachs outlined a
program for ending world poverty, lawyer Scott Turow and
Sister Helen Prejean addressed capital punishment and "New
Yorker" writer Elizabeth Kolbert reported on the global
warming. Soon our listeners will hear us reporting from
Kentucky on mountaintop-removal coal mining.
Some of
our best material has been gathered on the road. We went to
the Arizona desert to report on immigration issues; to
Oklahoma City for the 10th anniversary of the Murrah Building
bombing; to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest
festival; to California's Big Sur to visit Hearst Castle and
the Henry Miller Library; and to Missoula, Mont., where a
community of Italian natives has lived since being interned
there at the outbreak of World War II. We've also been to
Chicago to ask what happened to the city's historic stockyards
- and to Hartford, Conn., to tour the homes of Mark Twain and
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The most important homes we
visit belong to you, our listeners. We're probably not always
the best guests, given that we like to be provocative and
unpredictable. Some of you have written that you enjoy being
surprised by the topics raised and the way they're presented.
Good. That means we're not boring. Maybe you'll invite
us back next week.
On 89.9 HD2 - News & More! Saturdays 11 am -
1 pm, encore airing Sundays 5 - 7 pm
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