The award-winning Temple University Jazz Band (TUJB) will return to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in a one-night only concert on Sunday, April 16 at 8:00 PM. Hailed as one of today’s leading jazz student ensembles, TUJB is joined on stage by its sister groups—TU’s Symphony Orchestra and Studio Orchestra—as well as its Faculty Sextet: Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone and Justin Faulkner.
The program includes the New York premiere of Billy Childs’s Labyrinth, the world premiere of Bill Cunliffe’s Rainforests, Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera’s energetic Four Dances from Estancia and Banks Sapnar’s Red Braid from the performance that earned the TUJB second place at this year’s Jack Rudin Jazz Championship. In celebration of the school’s latest album release, the Faculty Sextet performs the eponymous track from Fly With the Wind.
After 10 years of performing at Dizzy’s Club, the 18-member TUJB returns to JALC though this time on the much larger Frederick P. Rose Hall stage and with the 85-member Temple University Symphony Orchestra (TUSO) and the Grammy-nominated Temple University Studio Orchestra. Led by Terell Stafford, Director of Jazz Studies and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Jazz, the Temple University Jazz Band (TUJB) performs on Temple’s main campus and throughout the greater Philadelphia region and hosts the annual Essentially Ellington Eastern Regional High School Jazz Band Festival. Among many respected jazz artists who have played with the TUJB on stage, in master classes and in clinics are: Wynton Marsalis, Slide Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. Billy Taylor, Max Roach, Phil Woods, Mel Lewis, Dick Oatts, Byron Stripling, Conrad Herwig, Regina Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, McCoy Tyner and more.
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Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall is located at Columbus Circle, New York, NY
