ATHENS JAZZ FESTIVAL
FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2019
PERFORMANCE
University of North Texas 1:00 Lab Band - Alan Baylock, director
with opening ensemble
Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra - Mark Donovan, director
7:30PM
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium
47 E. Union St., Athens, OH
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The One O’Clock Lab Band is the premier performing ensemble of the internationally acclaimed University of North Texas jazz studies program. Alan Baylock is director of the One O’Clock Lab Band. With an unprecedented seven Grammy nominations (Lab 2009 received double nominations for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" and "Best Instrumental Composition" for Ice-Nine composed by Steve Wiest) resulting from the library of over fifty critically acclaimed Lab Band recordings to date, the One O’Clock Lab Band is noted for exceptional individual musicianship and tight ensemble performance. One O’Clock Lab Band concerts feature the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson libraries (both housed exclusively at North Texas), original compositions by Grammy-nominated composers Neil Slater and Steve Wiest, jazz faculty member Rich DeRosa, and the wealth of compositions and arrangements in the UNT jazz library written by current and former North Texas students.
The opening ensemble will be the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra. Comprised of premier players in grades 9-12 from central Ohio and beyond, the CYJO has a 30-week season during the school year, and performs at the Southern Theatre prior to each of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra’s Sunday matinee concerts.
FRIDAY APRIL 12, 2019
PERFORMANCE
University of North Texas 1:00 Lab Band - Alan Baylock, director
with opening ensemble
Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra - Mark Donovan, director
7:30PM
Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium
47 E. Union St., Athens, OH
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The One O’Clock Lab Band is the premier performing ensemble of the internationally acclaimed University of North Texas jazz studies program. Alan Baylock is director of the One O’Clock Lab Band. With an unprecedented seven Grammy nominations (Lab 2009 received double nominations for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" and "Best Instrumental Composition" for Ice-Nine composed by Steve Wiest) resulting from the library of over fifty critically acclaimed Lab Band recordings to date, the One O’Clock Lab Band is noted for exceptional individual musicianship and tight ensemble performance. One O’Clock Lab Band concerts feature the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson libraries (both housed exclusively at North Texas), original compositions by Grammy-nominated composers Neil Slater and Steve Wiest, jazz faculty member Rich DeRosa, and the wealth of compositions and arrangements in the UNT jazz library written by current and former North Texas students.
The opening ensemble will be the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra. Comprised of premier players in grades 9-12 from central Ohio and beyond, the CYJO has a 30-week season during the school year, and performs at the Southern Theatre prior to each of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra’s Sunday matinee concerts.
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