PULLMAN, Wash. — Guitarist John Stowell will be the special guest in an Oct. 5 concert featuring the award-winning Washington State University Jazz Big Band and VOJAZZ vocal jazz ensemble.
The 8 p.m. concert will be in Kimbrough Concert Hall on the WSU campus and is free and open to the public.
Stowell is well-known for his long association with bassist David Friesen and flutist Paul Horn and has performed and recorded with them throughout the world, including a tour of the Soviet Union—the first time jazz musicians had been asked to perform in
The program will open with VOJAZZ, directed by WSU faculty member Jennifer Scovell. The group will perform Ken Kraintz’s “Never Give Up,” Mike Mainieri’s “Oops” and Jeremy Fox’s arrangement of “How Sweet It Is.”
The Jazz Big Band, directed by Greg Yasinitsky, will perform Duke Ellington’s “In a Mello Tone,” as arranged for the Buddy Rich Band by Oliver Nelson. Stowell will perform in Sigmund Romberg’s “Softly as in a Morning Sunrise,” as arranged by Charles Argersinger, WSU coordinator of theory and composition. Matt Reid will be featured on “Jamie,” a new composition by Gus Kambietz, a WSU alumnus who teaches at
Soloists will include WSU student trumpeters Matt Reid, Brendan McMurphy and John Struzenberg; saxophonists Junior Tupa’i, Mike Lukich and Chris Siegmund; bassist David Snider and drummer Tiffany Stephens.
Stowell’s appearance is made possible with the assistance of the ASWSU Student Entertainment Board.
