Various West Virginia University student jazz ensembles from the School of Music will perform during “Live at Falbo,” a jazz concert at the Creative Arts Center, Sunday, March 17.

The concert begins at 3:15 p.m. in the Gladys G. DavisTheatre and is free and open to the public.

Directed by jazz students Jeremy Carter and Wesley Hager, the concert is a mixture of vocal and instrumental jazz, and a wonderful mixture of jazz standards, new pieces and experimental music.

It will feature the WVU Jazz Big Band and the WVU Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as the groups “Morganhole,” “Buncha’ Jazz Turkeys,” “We Lost Our Keys,” “PB&J” (a piano, bass and jazz group), “Trio de Janeiro.”

The program will include “All of Me” and “US” by Thad Jones; “I Can’t Get Started With You” by Vernon Duke/Ira Gershwin; “Birdland” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” by Josef Zawinul; “The Heat’s On” by Sammy Nestico; “Equinox” by John Coltrane; “Arabian Song” by student Wesley Hager; “Habitual Changes” and “Confliction” by student Cody Barcroft; “Scrapple from the Apple” by Charlie Parker; “Mahjong” by Wayne Shorter; “Dear Old Stockholm” by Varmeland; “Felicidade” by Antonio Carlos Jobim; and “Velouria,” based on a recording of The Bad Plus.

More than 25 music students will perform in the various groups, including drummers Jonathan Taub and Paul Harc; bassists Cody Barcroft, Mack Gage, Mackenzie Gage and Kyung Soo; guitarists Louis Falbo, Wes Hager and Evan Paden; pianists Grace Leong and Alexander Merandi; trombonists Kacey Clark, Kenneth Johnson, Kevin Lovering, Will Kicthy, Jeremy Carter and John Bryant; saxophonists Vernon Jones, Bethanie Aylor, Matthew Beeson, Matt Pitts, Jamal Davidson and Adam Honse; and trumpeters Brenan Wood, David Dockan, Kevin Shields and Tim Kowlaski.

For more information, contact the College of Creative Arts at (304) 293-4359.

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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