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Jazz Duo @ Chapel Sept. 26

Fri, Sep 17, 2010

Jazz Duo @ Chapel Sept. 26

Colgate University Department of Music presents Bill Cunliffe and Glenn Cashman performing a jazz duo recital on Sunday, Sept. 26 at 3:30 p.m. in Memorial Chapel. 

They will present a mixture of notable jazz standards and thoughtful original compositions in a chamber music-like setting. The concert is free and open to the public.

Cashman divides his time between teaching at Colgate and traveling to Los Angeles to perform with the 14-piece Southland Big Band, Luther Hughes & The Cannonball-Coltrane Project and many others.  

Grammy nominated composer, arranger and jazz pianist Cunliffe is gathering attention with his innovative and swinging recordings and compositions He studied at Duke University with the pianist Mary Lou Williams., and received his masters from the Eastman School of Music, and won several Down Beat Awards for his big band and orchestral pieces.

After teaching at Central State University, in Wilberforce, Ohio, he toured as pianist and arranger with the Buddy Rich Big Band, and working with Frank Sinatra. He then played and toured with many legends of jazz, including Ray Brown, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, James Moody, and Joshua Redman. He plays with his own trio, his group Imaginacion, and duets with the  jazz flutist Holly Hofmann, with whom he has recorded five CD's. Cunliffe is composer in residence at All Saints Episcopal Church, in Pasadena and associate professor of music at Cal State Fullerton.

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