Nov. 2,2010
Contact: Michele Abba
805-756-2406; music@calpoly.edu
Get Jazzed at Cal Poly's Annual Fall Jazz Concert Dec. 3
SAN LUIS OBISPO – The creativity and spontaneity of jazz will be on display when the Cal Poly jazz ensembles give their Fall Jazz Concert at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3 in the Spanos Theatre on campus.
Two big bands and a jazz combo will perform standards and cutting-edge, contemporary jazz.
“The unpredictable is always a part of jazz, and that is one of the fascinating things about it,” said Paul Rinzler, Cal Poly’s director of Jazz Studies. “The jazz musicians performing have the chance to do something really new and fresh, and they always come through, much to the audience's delight.”
Rinzler will direct the big bands, which will perform arrangements of material as varied as jazz standards such as “Cute” by Neal Hefti (who also wrote the music for the Batman television show of the 1960s), as well as new compositions, such as a radical re-working by Michael Abene of Duke Ellington's classic “Caravan.”
Tickets for the concert are $10 for the public, $8 for senior citizens and Jazz Federation members, and $6 for students. Tickets are on sale at the Performing Arts Ticket Office from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. To order by phone, call SLO-ARTS (805-756-2787).
Patrons who buy season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket office will receive a 10 percent discount; a 15 percent discount is given to those who buy tickets to five or more events.
The concert is sponsored by Cal Poly's Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, call the Music Department at 805-756-2406.
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