Event Date: March 24, 2017
Event Time: 7:30pm
Dunham Hall/SIUE
This Essentially Ellington event will culminate with an evening concert that features the participating bands with performances by the guest clinicians. 2017 Guest Clinicians:
REGGIE THOMAS: Piano, Count Basie Orchestra, director of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University
TODD WILLIAMS: Saxophone, Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Assistant Prof. of Music Ed. at Indiana Wesleyan University
STEVE SVEUM: Saxophone, director of bands at Sun Prairie High School in Wisconsin (repeat finalists at Essentially Ellington)
JEFF CAMPBELL: Bass, director of jazz studies at Eastman School of Music
Dennis Mackrel: Drums, former director of Count Basie Orchestra