Program: The Jazz Orchestra
"Down For The Count" by Frank Foster. Written for and originally played by the Count Basie Orchestra.
"So What"-- the classic Miles Davis tune from the album "Kind Of Blue," in a new and very different arrangement by John La Barbera.
"A Bit Of Heaven" by Curtis Fuller, arranged by Don Sickler.
"Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson.
"Butter" by Jerry Dodgion. Dedicated to the great trombonist Quentin "Butter" Jackson, who played with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charles Mingus and the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. Dodgion wrote "Butter" for the latter group.
"Carnegie Hall 100", written by Chico O'Farrill for the Mario Bauza Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra to be played at the 100th anniversary of the opening of Carnegie Hall.
"E's Flat, Ah's Flat, Too" by Charles Mingus, arranged by Tommy Obeso (HSU student and trumpet player in the band.)
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