The music of The Rolling Stones will be the focus of the band's annual fall concert. Classic rock and jazz will come together today when the One O'Clock Lab Band plays music from the Rolling Stones.
The lab band will have its 50th Annual Fall Concert at 8 p.m. tonight at Murchison Performing Arts Center, featuring music by the Stones with guest artists Bernard Fowler and Tim Ries.
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by Jacqueline Flusche of North Texas Daily The music of The Rolling Stones will be the focus of the band's annual fall concert. Classic rock and jazz will come together today when the One OClock Lab Band plays music from the Rolling Stones.
The lab band will have its 50th Annual Fall Concert at 8 p.m. tonight at Murchison Performing Arts Center, featuring music by the Stones with guest artists Bernard Fowler and Tim Ries.
You take the Rolling Stones music that you dont think of as jazz music, and then to do jazz arrangements of it is kind of what jazz artists have been doing all along, said Steve Wiest, a music professor, the lab bands director and a Grammy-nominated arranger. They took Broadway tunes and pop tunes and did jazz versions. Thats what Tim has done with the Stones music.
The band will perform pieces including those written by student composers and then feature jazz renditions of Stones music with Ries and Fowler. Those songs might include Satisfaction, Under My Thumb, Lady Jane, and Wild Horses.
Ries, a UNT alumnus and close friend of Wiest, has worked with many artists within the jazz genre and has performed and recorded with the Stones, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Tony Bennett. Wiest said Ries came up with the idea to compose a jazz rendition of the music.
Fowler, an American composer and vocalist, is a backup singer for the Stones and a lead singer in many groups. Wiest said Fowler has been working with Ries as the vocalist for his arrangements.
Hes a very experienced, wonderful singer, Wiest said. Tim has been collaborating with him for a while, so he wanted to bring him for this concert as well.
Within the last 40 years, the bands albums have been nominated for six Grammy Awards. The band has also toured around the world.
Mark Dehertogh, a jazz studies graduate student and saxophonist in the band, is happy to be a part of this concert.
I get to play a featured solo, and thats always scary and exciting, Dehertogh said. Also, Im looking forward to listening to Tim Ries, who is an incredible alumnus and tenor player.
Nick Wlodarczyk, a jazz studies senior, first-semester lab band member and trombone player, expressed his excitement as well.
Ive always gone to see the annual fall jazz concerts with all these guest stars, Wlodarczyk said. Its just really an honor for me to finally be in the band on the other side of it. Pegasus News Content partner - North Texas Daily