DuPage Community Jazz Ensemble
Friday, Dec. 6 | 7:30p
Belushi Performance Hall
$7 tickets
DuPage Community Jazz Ensemble
Director Matt Shevitz Guest Artist: Vincent Herring, saxophone
Join the DuPage Community Jazz Ensemble and Director Matt Shevitz for a concert featuring two big bands with Herring along with this semester's Artists-In-Residence Jim Buennig (saxophone), Constantine Alexander (trumpet), Henry Sparks (trombone), and Scott Hesse (guitar). The bands will be playing songs by Monika Herzig, Bob Mintzer, Quincy Jones, and Vincent Herring himself.About the Director: Matt Shevitz is an in-demand musician in the jazz, blues, and popular music scenes of Chicago area. He has performed alongside such internationally renowned jazz musicians as Dick Hyman, Ignacio Berroa, Howard Levy, Frank Capp, and Frank Wess along with blues/roots rock guitarist Eric Lindell and Ropeadope Records artists Spare Parts. Shevitz has performed at Jazz in the Park Festival (Milwaukee), Waterfront Blues Festival (Portland), Chicago Blues Festival, Lollapalooza and House of Blues in Chicago. Matt is a contributor to DownBeat Magazine since 2009 with articles analyzing transcriptions of great jazz solos as well as jazz theory and effective practice habits. Matt is a professor and the Director of Jazz Ensembles at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, IL. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Jazz Performance degree from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master of Music in Jazz Pedagogy from Northwestern Univ. and a Bachelor of Science in Music from the Univ. of Oregon.
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