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News Release
EVENT NEWS / March 11, 2009
Tickets on Sale now for Gene Harris Jazz Festival April 1-3
at Boise State University
Tickets are available now for the 12th annual Gene Harris Jazz Festival
April 1-3. All of this year’s festival events — educational activities, club
nights and headliner concerts — will take place on the Boise State campus.
Along with great jazz music, student and community participants can take
advantage of easy-access parking, the close proximity of all events and two
new venues: the Stueckle Sky Center and the new, 1,000-seat Student Union
Building ballroom.
Tickets are available by calling Select-a-Seat at 426-1494 or visiting
http://idahotickets.com. Ticket
packages are available for multiple concerts and are offered at a discount —
an all-events ticket package is $150.
• The 2009 festival will get underway with “The Three Pianists: A Gene
Harris Legacy Concert.” This fundraising performance, memorializing Harris’
name and his music, will be presented at 7 p.m. April 1 in the Stueckle Sky
Center, with social hour beginning at 6 p.m. Pianists Pat Coil, Mark Levine
and Chuck Smith will play jazz inspired by Harris’ musical journey and
explore its influence on jazz pianists today. Night club seating will be
limited to 400 and admission will be $100; the tax-deductible funds raised
from this event will support both the operating budget of the festival and
the Gene Harris Jazz Festival Endowment, providing scholarships for students
demonstrating artistic potential.
• Club Night has been renamed the “Campus Jazz-Club Crawl.” Three venues
will be open from 5-7:30 p.m. in the Student Union Building on April 2-3.
Operating as all-ages nightclubs, the venues will feature Boise’s Frim Fram
Four, the Brianne Bower-Gray Quintet and Portland’s Pete Petersen Porkpie
Septet. The atmosphere and music in the clubs will play off of a “When Swing
Was King” theme, and students, directors, chaperones and the public are
encouraged to dress in Swing Era-fashion. Two 21-and-older clubs will be
available in the Taco Bell Arena Reception Room and the Stueckle Sky Club,
where the music will be provided by Sandon Mayhew and Chuck Smith’s New Trio
and saxophonist Jamey Aebersold with pianist Mark Levine.
• The festival will feature evening jazz concerts with headliners the Pat
Coil Sextet at 8 p.m. April 2 and the Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra,
which will perform the finale concert at 8 p.m. April 3. Other participating
artists include Pete Petersen’s Porkpie Septet, saxophonist Aebersold,
pianist Levine, the New Trio, the Frim Fram Four and the Brianne Bower-Gray
Quintet.
Coil is an accomplished pianist, composer, producer, arranger, programmer
and highly respected studio musician. Coil’s talent spans the musical
spectrum — pop, jazz, R&B, gospel and country. Escovedo is a
Grammy-nominated artist and legendary percussionist who broke down barriers
between smooth jazz, salsa, Latin jazz and contemporary music.
• As in years past, student jazz bands from throughout the Northwest will
engage in critiqued performances, jazz clinics and improvisational
workshops. Jamey Aebersold, world-renowned jazz teacher, will present “How
to Play Jazz and Improvise” at 11 a.m. in the Student Union Barnwell Room
April 2-3, while other educational events will take place from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
April 2-3 in the Student Union.
For more information about the 2009 Gene Harris Jazz Festival, visit
http://geneharris.org or contact Mike
Samball at (208) 426-3498 or e-mail
msamball@boisestate.edu.
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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540,
juliehahn@boisestate.edu
Boise State University is “The New U Rising” with record student
enrollment, new academic buildings, additional degree programs and a growing
research agenda. Learn more at
www.boisestate.edu.
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Last reviewed on
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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