UNT Division of Jazz Studies

Lou Marini’s new CD, “Highly Classified” was released March 23rd. Hardcopies and downloads are available for purchase at www.primavistarecords.com.

UNT's Center for Achievement and Lifelong Learning (CALL) is organizing a trip to Ireland with the One O'Clock Lab Band from October 18 to October 26, 2010. For more information, see the CALL website or contact Dianne Gibbons at dianne.gibbons@unt.edu. August 20 is the deadline to complete your reservation.

On March 26, 2010 we changed the website theme to a custom UNT-branded theme designed by UNT's expert Central Web Services staff. All of the content is the same. The news items that had been on the main page can all be found by following the News - current link in the Contents menu.

The UNT U-Tubes are the winners of The Eastern Trombone Workshop National Jazz Ensemble Competition for 2010. They will be performing on March 17 in Fort Myers Virginia right outside of Washington D.C. at 5:00pm Eastern Time. The event is hosted by The U.S. Army Blues big band and will feature a number of guest artists including jazz legend Curtis Fuller.

The concert will be streamed live on the internet. To see the live feed click here.

This site's theme will change to a UNT theme over spring break.
All of the content will remain in more or less the location it is in now.

The 30 Years of Vocal Jazz concert DVD is available now in the Jazz Studies office.
When the DVD of the Nov. 22, 2008 event honoring Neil Slater and Jim Riggs is ready, it will be publicized here.

Jason Levi is teaching our new Music Business Entrepreneurship class in Spring 2010.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jason moved to the Dallas metroplex in 1999 to study at the University of North Texas where he received his Bachelor and Master degrees in jazz studies. While pursuing the graduate degree he directed the 4:00 and 5:00 lab bands, was a full-time teaching-fellow in Jazz Aural Skills and Jazz History and a member of the One O'clock lab band in 2004-2007, recording 6 albums with the band including Live in Thailand, Live At Blues Alley and Labs 2004-2007. In 2004 he co-founded Bell's Super Lube, a musical instrument lubricant company, now found on music store shelves throughout the country. Interested in business, Jason began study for an MBA degree and has completed 25 hours of MBA classes. Astounded with how much a business education helped him in his music career, he began to teach business fundamentals to other musicians and work as a small business creative consultant. Mr. Levi now teaches Music Industry Entrepreneurship class, the first class of its kind at UNT aimed towards musician-entrepreneurs. Jason performs regularly in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area in groups such as The Project Band, Ricki Derek big band, Rebel Alliance Jazz Ensemble, and The Official Texas Jazz Orchestra. He published Fathers of First Trumpet in 2009, a book that stylistically analyzes the masters of lead trumpet playing. He has performed with The Temptations, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Patti Austin, the Dallas Wind Symphony, Wayne Bergeron, Rufus Reid, Benny Golson, Phil Woods, Bill Holman, Pete Christlieb, Houston Person, among many others. Website: www.jasonlevi.net

Paris Rutherford's new a cappella group, The New Collection, is featured in an article by Lucinda Breeding in today's Denton Record-Chronicle. Link to article. The performance dates in the article are incorrect. Here are the correct ones:
Sunday March 7th FREE at 3:00 pm at the Episcopal Church of the Annunciation auditorium, 602 N. Old Orchard Lane in Lewisville.
Monday night, March 8th at 7:30 pm in Ft Worth at McDavid Studio/Bass Hall.
Purchase tickets for the McDavid Studio performance

The UNT Jazz Studies Division has had a Facebook presence since fall 2008 as a Profile. Recently I learned that Profiles are only for individuals. Today I created a Page, which is what organizations use, and began inviting Friends of the Profile to become Fans of the Page.

The new Page is facebook.com/northtexasjazz.

If you are a current Friend of the NorthTexas Jazz Profile (now located at facebook.com/untjazzstudies) and would like to continue to receive updates about our program, please visit the new Page at facebook.com/northtexasjazz and become a Fan, and then unfriend the Profile. That way I know which Friends to contact individually to invite them to become Fans of the new Page.

If you are not yet a Facebook Friend, and would like to receive news about the program, please visit the new Page and become a Fan.

Thanks

John Murphy
Chair and web-person
UNT Jazz Studies

As of the morning of Feb. 25, a limited number of seats are available for tonight's concert. These can be purchased at www.thempac.com.
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The concert by Lyle Mays with jazz faculty and the One O'Clock Lab Band on Feb. 25 at Winspear Hall at UNT will be very special. Lyle has prepared new music for small and large ensemble. For the One O'Clock Lab Band portion the instrumentation has been greatly expanded. This will be a very special concert and it will not be streamed live. Tickets can be purchased at www.thempac.com. Hope to see you there!