{"id":94760,"date":"2024-04-30T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=94760"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:38:54","slug":"uri-jazz-students-to-perform-at-iconic-newport-jazz-festival-for-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/uri-jazz-students-to-perform-at-iconic-newport-jazz-festival-for-second-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 jazz students to perform at iconic Newport Jazz Festival for second straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 30, 2024 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 jazz program is going back to the Newport Jazz Festival for the second year in a row. But this year, 溏心vlog免费B站 will be sending a larger contingent of musicians to the iconic festival, which celebrates its 70th<\/sup> anniversary this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emmett Goods, assistant professor of music and head of the jazz studies program at 溏心vlog免费B站, received the good word last week that 溏心vlog免费B站 jazz musicians were again invited to play all three days of the jazz festival<\/a>\u2014Aug. 2-4 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport\u2014and to rub elbows with jazz greats like Kamasi Washington and Christian McBride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to be invited back to the festival,\u201d said Goods. \u201cOur students need to get out into the laboratory. When I say get into the laboratory, you don\u2019t always have to be the one mixing the formula. Sometimes it\u2019s important to watch other people do that. And that\u2019s what this festival is an opportunity to do\u2014to meet and hear world-class musicians and take all the information we provide them in school and start to create.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the invitation even more special is that it\u2019s a major part of an ongoing collaboration with the Newport Festivals Foundation<\/a>\u2019s jazz education and community engagement efforts, Goods said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nonprofit foundation\u2019s jazz education program, headed by noted saxophonist Leland Baker, provides numerous outreach programs for burgeoning musicians along with community engagement that includes free music lessons for children on Aquidneck Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

溏心vlog免费B站 jazz students have taken part in several events offered by the foundation, such as workshops that provide high school and college students with insights from professionals. In March, 溏心vlog免费B站 students went over to Salve Regina University for a workshop with Tia Fuller, saxophonist, composer and faculty member at Berklee College of Music. And numerous 溏心vlog免费B站 jazz students have performed at bi-weekly jam sessions sponsored by the foundation at the Blue Room in Cranston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to foster and give back to our community and support educators like Emmett and students who are lovers and practitioners of music, but in particular, jazz music,\u201d said Baker, the foundation\u2019s music education manager. \u201cWe want to help the students develop a well-rounded sense of what it means to be a professional artist or person in the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople come from around the world to see the folk and jazz festivals,\u201d he added. \u201cMy role is to incorporate our community into the festivals. That\u2019s why we will have 溏心vlog免费B站 and other student bands again this year. I think it helps carry on the legacy that our founder, George Wein, initiated, which is to give artists the platform to express themselves freely and to cultivate their voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At last year\u2019s festival, seven 溏心vlog免费B站 student-musicians played a 25-minute set of jazz standards each day on the Foundation Stage, attracting hundreds of fans to the small stage. This year, Goods wants to open the experience to more students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year was a little different for us,\u201d said Goods, who is director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Jazz Big Band, which last played the festival in 2019. \u201cWe\u2019re used to playing one day and bringing the Big Band. So, we took a different tack and put together a really strong group that performed each day last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year, I want to get more students involved, shepherd them through the process and really get them that experience,\u201d he added. \u201cWe are ultimately trying to come up with three small bands that will play something a little different each day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the festival more than three months away, the 溏心vlog免费B站 musicians and the music they will feature have yet to be decided. But Goods said the jazz program has a lot to choose from \u2013 such as a new focus on Latin jazz led by piano teacher Zaccai Curtis; the jazz vocal program led by Atla DeChamplain, teaching professor in amplified voice; and the hard bop groove played by jazz bass teacher Dave Zinno\u2019s students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever they choose to play, Goods hopes 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s invitation to the jazz festival is a regular part of the foundation\u2019s education and outreach program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat better way for us to grow and cultivate the jazz curriculum and program at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he said. \u201cThe festival is a cultural nugget that I think is important for our students and we are excited about the possibility of this partnership deepening even more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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