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News Release
March 31, 2009
Media Advisory
What: Gene Harris Jazz Festival kicks off tomorrow
When: April 1-3
Where: The festival is entirely on campus this year; concerts will be
in the Student Union and the Stueckle Sky Center
The 12th annual Gene Harris Jazz Festival gets started tomorrow and is
expected to draw hundreds of music lovers to the Boise State University
campus. The schedule includes:
• 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.
Tickets are available by calling Select-a-Seat at 426-1494 or by visiting
http://idahotickets.com. Packages are
available, including a $150 all-events package. Tickets to the Pete Escovedo
Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Pat Coil Sextet are $15-$35; tickets to the
Campus Jazz-Club Crawl are $10; tickets to “The Three Pianists” are $100.
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.
For more information, contact Julie Hahn, communications specialist, at
(208) 426-5540 or
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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