Come enjoy some Jazz music!

Jazz Night 3 in Little Theatre April 9

            Central Wyoming College jazz ensembles perform a Friday, April 9 concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre, located in the CWC Student Center.

            Jazz Night 3 is the final jazz concert of the season and features the vocal ensemble JAZZMAGIC, the instrumental group, the Jazz Messengers, and the Time’s-A-Wastin’ Big Band. The concert is free and the public is invited.

            JAZZMAGIC, under the direction of Robert Hussa, performs “In A Mellow Tone,” a swinging jazz standard written by Duke Ellington. The group concludes with two a cappella arrangements: “All the Things You Are” and VoiceDance 4. VoiceDance is performed with the singers only using jazz syllables. The  final piece is an arrangement of a jazz standard as sung by the Singers Unlimited.

            The Jazz Messengers, directed by Steve Traylor, begins the performance with “Baby Elephant Walk,” an arrangement by Traylor of a Mancini tune. “Nica’s Dream,” written by Horace Silver for an Austrian baroness who supported and inspired many jazz artists during the bebop era, is also planned, and is followed by “Up Jumped Spring,” a happy waltz written by the famous hard bop-era trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.

            The Messengers conclude the concert with “Summertime,” a George Gershwin tune that is a jazz favorite.

            Time’s-A-Wastin’ s first tune “Willow Weep for Me” is a bluesy tune that features Netta Bell Girard on saxophone. “I Remember Clifford” features trumpeter Garold Whisler, and is a ballad written in memory of Clifford Brown, an extremely gifted jazz musician who died young in a car accident.

            The concert concludes with “I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues,” written by John Clayton for his orchestra; and “Tonight,” the tune from the musical “West Side Story.”