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UM Jazz Workshop in concert on Saturday, Dec. 11

University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations

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IMMEDIATELY holmquist/jm UM JAZZ WORKSHOP IN CONCERT 12-8-76 ON SATURDAY, DEC. 11 local

MISSOULA--

The University of Montana Jazz Workshop will perform in a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday,

Dec. 11, in the University Theater at ~1. The concert will be presented to raise funds for

the workshop's participation in the College Jazz Festival next spring in Colorado.

All tickets for the concert will cost $1. Tickets may be purchased at the Memory Banke,

140 E. Br oadway; Eli ' s Records and Tapes, 3629 Brooks, and the Associated Students' Store

Ticket Office on the first floor of the UM University Center.

According to Lance R. Boyd , assistant professor of music and director of jazz studies at

UM, money raised at Saturday's concert will enable the workshop to participate in the

noncompetitive College Jazz Festival. About twelve college and university bands from Montana,

Colorado and Wyoming will participate in the festival which will be held April 30 at the

University of Northern Colorado, Greely.

Works performed at the fund-raising concert will include a special arrangement of

Christmas songs by jazz musician Stan Kenton.

Also included will be "A String of Pearls" by Jerry Gray, originally recorded in the

early 40's by the Glenn Miller Orchestra; "A Final Analysis" by Don Ellis; "Count Basie,

Straight Ahead" by Sammy Nestico; "Bass Folk Song" by Stanley Clarke; "Nice and Juicy" by

. Maynard Ferguson, and "Chico and the l'-1an" by Jose Feliciano.

Feliciano ' s work will be sung at the concert by Roger R. John, a ~1 freshman in general

studies from New York .

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