Jazz
Jazz students are offered opportunities to perform with one or more of the 17 jazz ensembles at MSU. Jazz ensembles are open to all MSU students by audition.
Jazz Ensembles Audition Information 2011-12
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Auditions for all jazz ensembles are scheduled for Sunday and Monday, August 28, and 29, 2011, in Room 135 Music Building. Auditions are organized by instrument, as follows:
- Sunday, August 28, 2011
- 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saxophones
- 3:00- 04:00 p.m. Guitar
- 4:00-06:00 p.m. Trumpets
- 7:30-09:30 p.m. Trombones
- 9:30-10:30 p.m. Vocalists
- Monday, August 29, 2011
- 9:00-11:00 a.m. Drums
- 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Bass
- 1:30-2:30 p.m. Piano
- Sunday, August 28, 2011
- Jazz Convocation will be held on Monday, August 29, 2011, 9:30 p.m. in Room 103 Music Practice Building.
- Audition information
- Jazz excerpts
Jazz Guest Artists
Several guest artists and jazz greats have given master classes and performances at the College of Music, including:
- Wynton Marsalis
- Wycliffe Gordon
- Ingrid Jensen
- Frank Morgan
- Eric Reed
- Cyrus Chestnut
- Jon Faddis
- Jimmy Cobb
- George "Saxophone" Benson
- Carl Allen
- Vanessa Ruben
- Antonio Hart
- Walter Blanding
- Andrew Speight
- Andre Hayward
Click on a link at left to learn more about specific MSU jazz ensembles.
Jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis holds a master class at MSU in April 2008.
Student musicians are from the Detroit Symphony Civic jazz ensembles.
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