Concert Jazz Ensemble To Perform In Wednesday Concert

December 1, 2003

by Richard Veit

Baylor University's Concert Jazz Ensemble -- a 21-member group that performs under the direction of Alex Parker, lecturer in jazz studies -- will present its second concert of the fall semester at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Roxy Grove Hall.
The concert will open with Sammy Nestico's "Time Stream," Bob Mintzer's "What Might Have Been" and the Paul Jennings arrangement of Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments."
The Concert Jazz Ensemble also will perform the Lennie Niehaus arrangement of Charlie Parker's "Moose the Mooche," Ernest Seitz's and Gene Lockhart's "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and Niehaus's "Chordon Blue."
The program will close with "Pachinko" by Matt Harris, followed by Mark Taylor's arrangement of the Chick Corea tune, "Elektric City."
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Baylor School of Music at 710-3991.