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22nd Annual Jazz Bash takes the stage of H.M. King High School Auditorium

KINGSVILLE (November 14, 2005) — The music department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will host its 22 nd annual Jazz Bash at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, at the H.M. King High School Auditorium. Admission is free.

Groups performing are as follows, in order of appearance:

Jazz Combo ; Vox, directed by Dr. Joan Lee; Jazz Band III, directed by assistant professor of music James Warth; Jazz Band II, directed by Warth; and Jazz Band I, directed by Dr. Paul Hageman, professor and chair of the music department.

The Jazz Bash is the university’s annual fall jazz concert always held the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to get the holidays started on the right note. The groups will be performing a wide variety of jazz music including jazz standards, swing, Latin jazz, jazz fusion and more. The students performing in the jazz groups come from all over the university in different majors ranging from music to engineering and from business to human sciences. A&M-Kingsville has one of the largest university jazz programs in the state and in the southern United States.

The concert is about two hours of non-stop music that showcases the talents of the university’s award-winning jazz groups, including Jazz Band I, selected in 2004 as the outstanding college big band in the United States and Canada by DownBeat Magazine. A&M-

Kingsville jazz groups have performed in venues across the nation from Colorado to New Orleans to Mobile.

Some of the jazz tunes that will be part of the concert include “Hey There,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart,” “Lady Your Cow’s On Fire,” “Hunting Wabbits,” “La Almena Pequeña,” “Night Sky,” “Under the Wire,” “Del Corazon,” “Mas Production” and “Superstition.”

This year’s Jazz Bash is taking place at the H.M. King High School Auditorium due to renovations taking place at the traditional location of A&M-Kingsville’s Jones Auditorium.

For more information on the 22nd annual Jazz Bash, call 361-593-2803.

This page last updated 18 November, 2005