12/04/2024
What an exciting week in the OkState Bass Studio. A fantastic Junior recital this evening featuring Avery Johnson and friends with a guest appearance by Harrison Reynolds (performing Barnyard Disturbance)
Last Night was a great Tchaikowski 5 concert by our orchestra and our stellar Double Bass Section. Beethoven 5 for the first concert in the spring! Yay!
Tomorrow high is Combo Concert #2 featuring even more of the bass studio and our great Jazz Studies students. (7:30 in the McKnight Center Recital Hall)
Then, on Monday, Dec 9 at 7:30 yours truly and jazz faculty will be performing a Christmas Concert in the Performance Hall at the McKnight Center.
Oh yeah - Jacob Robinson and myself will be performing Handel’s Messiah at 7:00 on Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Stillwater with the string faculty and string and choral students.
Busy week - hope to see you at one of these upcoming events!!
11/14/2024
What a fantastic jazz combo concert this evening!! Bravo to all and congratulations to Shane Edens, Harrison Reynolds and Avery Johnson for their outstanding performances!
11/09/2024
It was a great evening of music on Wednesday for the low strings recital! Thank you, Dr. Kevin Flynn, for sharing the artistry of your young artists and letting us share the stage with them.
A special shout out to Cyrus Rowe, Harrison Reynolds and Jacob Robinson for your fantastic playing! Bravo! Go Pokes and Go OKState Bass Studio!!
10/04/2024
Great few days with World Renound bass soloist Dominik Wagner. Quite an amazing experience!!
Everyone played great! Bravo to Cyrus Rowe, Drew Moguin and Jacob Robinson for their great playing in the Master Class and in the Bass Quartet at the concert with Dominik. Couldn’t be prouder!
09/28/2024
MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ ENSEMBLES CONCERT!!
Yes, you heard me right! Plural! The jazz ensemble AND the jazz orchestra will perform in the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts concert hall this Monday, September 30 at 7:30 PM.
This will be my first concert as the official Director of the Jazz Ensemble. I couldn’t be happier with the work ethic and talent of these young artists and the resulting product is swinging! Both JE and JO have a nice variety of compositions prepared for this event. Both bands sound fantastic and it’s going to be a great night of music! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
(programs listed below)
Oklahoma State University
Michael and Anne Greenwood School of Music
OSU Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble
OSU Jazz Ensemble
Glenn Dewey, director
Basie Straight Ahead comp. & arr. Sammy Nestico
Blue Bossa comp. Kenny Dorham / arr. Mark Taylor
Early Autumn comp. Johnny Mercer, Ralph Burns, & Woody Herman
arr. Ralph Burns
West Coast Blues comp. Wes Montgomery / arr. by Kris Berg
Granada Smoothie comp. & arr. Mark Taylor
OSU Jazz Orchestra
Tommy Poole, director
Low Down comp. & arr. Thad Jones
Like It Is comp. & arr. John Fedchock
Back Bone comp. & arr. Thad Jones
Cherry Juice comp. & arr. Thad Jones
09/28/2024
Great Brucker Birthday Concert last evening! Bravo, Basses! Nailed it!
07/14/2024
Very impressed with all of the performances at the conclusion of the Cowboy Camp at the Greenwood School of Music this past week. Kudos to Johnny and Monica Salinas, Thomas Dickey, Brad Genevro, Tom and Heather Lanners and all of the faculty and staff for their outstanding work with with these young artists this past week!
I would also like to give a special shout out to Harrison Reynolds and Avery Johnson for their assistance and fantastic playing as the bass section! Bravo, guys!
04/20/2024
Great Low Strings recital on Thursday featuring Harrison Reynolds and Jacob Robinson and well as the Bass Ensemble featuring the two of them with Shane Edens, Cyrus Rowe and Avery Johnson.
The program finished with the first movement of the Schubert Trout Quintet which I have had the pleasure of coaching this semester. They call themselves “The Catch of the Day” Quintet!
Bravo/Brava to Dr. Wells and all her cellists who played beautifully on this program. Congratulations to all!!
04/16/2024
OkState Bassists Cyrus Rowe and Avery Johnson played a couple of shows this weekend with the amazing Terell Stafford and the OSU Jazz Orchestra! Bravo guys! Great job!!
02/24/2024
Great Job Dr. Howard Potter and Dr. Tommy Poole on the fantasticJazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra performances last evening. The bands sounded great!
A special shout out to bassists Cyrus Rowe, Avery Johnson, Harrison Reynolds and Shane Edens for laying it down on the bass chair! Bravo!!
02/20/2024
Great performance this evening of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony by the OSU Symphony and this fantastic bass section. Bravo, gentlemen!
02/04/2024
Our amazing OSU bassist Avery holding down the low end at Every Man jazz brunch in Stillwater. Go check them out next week!
Go check them out every Saturday from 10-2
Every Saturday morning at Every Man (EM) in downtown Stillwater OK, OSU Jazz students perform for brunch at 10am-2pm.
Every Man (EM)
615 S. Main St.
Stillwater OK 74074
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jazz.okstate.edu
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