UPEI Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, April 5
The UPEI Jazz Ensemble, directed by Professor Dave Shephard, will present their Spring Jazz Concert at the Dr. Steel Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:30 pm. The program will include a wide variety of jazz styles with special guests from the voice studio of Sung-Ha and Stephen Bouey. Vocalists Alexandra Smith, Lindsay Gillis, Will Millington, and Emily Roberts will perform standard jazz, Latin, and Motown tunes. Instrumental soloists in the band include Justin Amador (trumpet), Charlotte Large ( tenor and soprano sax), Emily Proude (lead alto saxophone), and trombonists Dan MacDonald and Zack Bernard. The ensemble will also proudly feature percussionist Ryan Drew on vibraphone on a tune aptly named “Good Vibes.” The rhythm section soloists will include Parker Clements on piano and Isaac Williams on guitar. Other charts for the evening will include “Mambo” from Westside Story, “It Had Better be Tonight” from The Pink Panther, and “A Short History of Jazz” an arrangement that takes you through jazz by the decade from Ragtime, Dixieland, Basie Style to the Modern Big Band of the 1970’s.
Tickets are $10 Adults/Seniors and $5 Students and are available online or by calling or e-mailing the Music Department at 902-566- 0507/music@upei.ca.
