{"id":18349,"date":"2017-02-01T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=18349"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:35:34","slug":"jazzfest2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=18349","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Roberts and Modern Jazz Generation to headline Carolina Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marcus
Marcus Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read a Q&A with Jim Ketch.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Marcus Roberts and the Modern Jazz Generation will headline the 40th<\/sup> annual Carolina Jazz Festival<\/a> at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Feb. 15-18. The festival promotes a broad range of programming spanning performance, education and scholarship.<\/p>\n

Roberts and the Modern Jazz Generation will perform Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. A jazz pianist\/composer, Roberts rose to prominence with the Wynton\u00a0Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center bands, then with his own trio and as a\u00a0classical soloist. Best known for his entirely new approach to jazz\u00a0trio performance, his critically acclaimed legacy of recorded music reflects\u00a0his tremendous versatility as an artist.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Jazziz Magazine wrote: \u201cIn the course of a single piece, [Roberts] constantly modulates grooves, tempos and keys, plays separate time signatures with the right hand and the left, and, as he puts it, \u2018flips around the roles of the piano, bass and drums \u2026\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For 40 years, festival founder and director Jim Ketch,<\/a> a music professor and director of jazz studies, has brought his passion and love for jazz to the Carolina campus and community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has happened over the years is that the festival has evolved from a department of music event to a university event,\u201d Ketch said. \u201cIn 40 years, many of the world\u2019s most talented jazz artists have graced our stage. We also created an artist-in-residence program that brings talent jazz artists and educators to work very closely with jazz students. Our students have been<\/p>\n

\"Dayna
Dayna Stephens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

inspired by these generous and gifted artists, but so, too, has the jazz faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The festival will feature additional performances and workshops by the UNC Jazz Band, UNC Faculty Jazz Ensemble, UNC Jazz combos, Charanga Carolina and Dayna Stephens, a tenor saxophonist and composer who is the artist-in-residence. Many of the events are free.<\/p>\n

The Carolina Jazz Festival also links UNC-Chapel Hill to the educational wing of Jazz at Lincoln Center. For 12 years, the festival has featured the North Carolina Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Festival, which has engaged student participation from high school bands from North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., and New Jersey in performances and clinics. This year\u2019s high school jazz festival is Feb. 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Hill Hall and the Kenan Music Building.<\/p>\n

Full details about Carolina Jazz Festival are available here<\/a> or call the music department in the College of Arts and Sciences at (919) 962-1039.<\/p>\n

For tickets, contact the Memorial Hall box office at (919) 843-3333 or visit the Carolina Performing Arts website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebration of jazz on Carolina\u2019s campus Feb. 15-18 marks 40th festival for founder, music professor and director of jazz studies Jim 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