Southern Crescent Chorale Presents Arise, My Soul

The Southern Crescent Chorale will present Arise, My Soul on Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m. at Spivey Hall. Located on the campus of Clayton State University, Spivey Hall is a 400-seat, acoustically superior performing arts venue that has presented the best in jazz and classical music to metro Atlanta since 1991. Its celebrated concert series receives regular national and international attention as one of America's finest, and the hall's acoustics and design are routinely lauded by patrons and performers.

Janice Folsom, founder and artistic director of the Southern Crescent Chorale, stated: “The Chorale is always thrilled to sing in this amazing venue. Our audience routinely raves about the musical nuances that become so apparent in the spectacular acoustical setting.”

The Chorale’s thirteenth Spivey Hall appearance features magnificent choral classics including works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Gjeilo, Rutter, and Clausen, as well as familiar hymn arrangements about the soul. Accompanied by a professional string quartet and Spivey Hall’s magnificent Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ, the Chorale will transport you with glorious music.

Steve Shivers, the Chorale’s accompanist since 2009 and McDonough resident, will be featured in two outstanding pieces entitled Dark Night of the Soul and Luminous Night of the Soul. In Dark Night (2010), composed first, Ola Gjeilo wanted to place the chorus, piano and string quartet on more or less equal footing rather than writing for chorus with accompaniment. He also wanted to convey a sense of the poem’s colorful, passionate spirituality. The chorus and instruments work through contrasting passages, urgent seeking or serene contemplation. Gjeilo describes Luminous Night (2012) as “the brighter, sunnier sequel to Dark Night of the Soul.” Most of the text, composed by Charles Anthony Silvestri, a frequent collaborator, uses the human impulse toward artistic creation — choirs, silversmiths, poets, potters, actors, authors — as evidence of divine inspiration (“You were the Spirit of all that is art”).

Be sure to tune to WABE 90.1 FM on Monday, February 26 at 11:00 p.m. for the Atlanta Music Scene program in which excerpts from previous Southern Crescent Chorale Spivey concerts will be featured.
Tickets for Arise, My Soul are $20.00 for adults and $10.00 for students. Purchase tickets by calling Spivey Hall at 678-466-4200 or online at www.spiveyhall.org.

Trimmins Performs at Sunbelt Jazz Festival

Jazz musicians and jazz enthusiasts will gather at the 24th annual Sunbelt Jazz Festival on Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. in the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts to hear jazz legend Ken Trimmins perform on stage.

Trimmins has been a guest performer on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” where he demonstrated his unusual talent of playing two trumpets at one time. His musical performance for the Clearwater Jazz Holiday has also been featured on BET Jazz.

Trimmins, a graduate of Mercer University and a 23-year-veteran with the United States Air Force Band, will perform with the UWG Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Daniel Bakos, professor of music.

Selections for the evening’s concert include “Jumpin’ Jivin’ Joey” by Matt Harris, “Li’l Liza Jane” by Doug Beach and George Shutack, “Uno Mas” by Paul Lopez and “Quintessence” by Hank Levy.

Trimmins, currently a member of the music faculty at Armstrong Atlantic State University, directed two Air Force jazz bands and performed as a trumpet soloist. He has studied trumpet with a number of world-renowned artists including jazz greats Bobby Shew, Willie Thomas, Vincent DiMartino and former Atlanta Symphony principle trumpeter Jim Thompson.

Tickets for the event are $10 for adults, $7 for senior citizens, $3 for children and $5 for UWG students with ID. The Townsend Center Box Office hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 678-839-4722 or visit http://www.kentrimmins.com/.

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Savannah Jazz Festival is on Tap to Start September 20

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Savannah, Georgia is known for its commitment to the arts and the many festivals that are offered during the year. The week-long Savannah Jazz Festival, one of the largest and most popular of the Savannah festivals, is presented by the Coastal Jazz Association and is dedicated to the growth of jazz and jazz audiences in the Coastal Empire.

The 27th Savannah Jazz Festival, celebrating jazz as a living art built on a constantly evolving tradition will offer all types of jazz, from Dixieland, traditional swing, straight-ahead and bop to melodic standards, and funky down-home "gutbucket" blues. The Festival kick-off on Saturday night (Sept 20) will be a Jazz Concert-Wine Tasting event to raise money for the Backus Children's Hospital. The Jazz Trio featuring Ben Tucker, is headlining for this evening.

The festival features the best in international, national, regional and local jazz talent. The 2008 festival will feature (among others), Bob James, The Savannah Jazz Orchestra-Featuring "Simone", Donald Harrison, The Ben Riley Trio featuring 'Larry Willis', Ben Tucker, Teddy Adams, Wanda Johnson with Shrimp City Slim, James Cotton, Eric Culberson’s Blues Band, Freeport, Bob Baldwin, Eric Mintel, The Coastal Jazz Association All-Stars, The University of North Florida Jazz ensemble with Trombonist, Steve Davis, The Jazz Corner Quintet, Beer Parlor Ramblers, The Jazz Trio, & The Skylite Jazz Ensemble."

All events are at no charge to the public.

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters

NEA Partners with Jazz at Lincoln Center for NEA Jazz Masters
Awards Ceremony and Concert

The National Endowment for the Arts today announced the recipients of the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Award-the nation's highest honor in this distinctly American music. The six recipients will each receive a $25,000 grant award, and will be publicly honored in an awards ceremony and concert on Friday, October 17, 2008.

The six 2009 NEA Jazz Masters are: George Benson (vocalist and solo instrumentalist, guitar), Jimmy Cobb (rhythm instrumentalist, drums), Lee Konitz (solo instrumentalist, saxophone), Toots Thielemans (solo instrumentalist, harmonica and guitar), and Snooky Young (solo instrumentalist, trumpet). Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder will receive the 2009 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy.