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Sound and Unity
February 27, 7:30 pm-9:00 pm
UTulsa Jazz will play host to the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music Jazz Orchestra and Frost Extensions, a vocal jazz ensemble. They will be joined in concert by the UTulsa FOCUS jazz combo.
Frost Extensions is a multiple Downbeat award-winning vocal jazz ensemble directed by Dr. Kate Reid. They received top honors at the 2015 Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival.
The Frost Jazz Orchestra is a Grammy-nominated jazz big band directed by Dr. John Daversa; long-time friend and collaborator of Professor Mancini’s.
The UTulsa FOCUS Combo is a six-piece student jazz combo directed by UTulsa Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Professor Nick Mancini, performing the music of Horace Silver. The band consists of TU students Shaun Roberts tenor sax, Cole Huggins trumpet, Peter Chesser guitar, Cameron Stultz piano, Mason Chow bass, Sam Bostic drums.