University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 28, 1964
Page 5
Budding jazzmen competed, . . .
1964
OREAD
Jazz
Festival
The 1964 Oread Jazz Festival, the culmination of nearly two years of planning by a Student Union Activities committee, marked what may be the first of a series of annual KU jazz contests.
The festival attracted twenty entrants from across the country, twelve of which were ultimately chosen to appear at KU. Big bands and small groups vied for finalist positions Saturday morning and afternoon in the Kansas Union. Five groups made it to the finals in Hoch Auditorium Saturday night, two big bands, a sextet, a quartet and a trio.
Winning the small group category the Bill Farmer Quartet was awarded an engagement at Jazz Land in the Louisiana Pavilion at the New York World's Fair and transportation expenses to Europe this summer.
(Photos by Charlie Corcoran)
trying to outdo one another, . . .
while Woody Herman showed 'em how.
Needless to say, the judges had their hands full.