The Delta State University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Bret Pimentel, assistant professor of music at Delta State, will present its annual fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the Delta and Pine Land Theatre of the Bologna Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n
The Jazz Ensemble is an 18-piece “big band” made up of music majors and non-music majors selected by a process of competitive auditions. <\/p>\n
Big band jazz is characterized by tightly coordinated, high-energy playing from a large horn section made up of trumpets, trombones, and saxophones, working in partnership with a powerful, driving rhythm section of guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums. Individual group members often perform solos that are “improvised”—composed spontaneously in live performance.<\/p>\n
The Delta State Jazz Ensemble’s repertoire includes favorites from the Swing Era of the 1930’s and 1940’s as well as more contemporary jazz styles from the 1950’s to the present. <\/p>\n
This year’s fall concert lineup includes classics from the repertoires of the Count Basie and Woody Herman bands, the Cuban-influenced bebop of Dizzy Gillespie, energetic funk-rock, and more, and will feature over a dozen talented soloists.<\/p>\n
The concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
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