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Friday, November 19, 1993
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Jazz seminar showcases sounds
By Chesley Dohl Kansan staff writer
KU students with a love for jazz music are doing their best to give rhythm, blues and soul a permanent home on campus and in Lawrence.
Templin Hall will set the stage for a third consecutive year of informal jazz education and live music. The Marqueal Jordan Sextet will perform and showcase some of the popular
ind Richard Prince, this year's seminar organizer, said the clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, flugelhorn and other instruments associated with the jazz sound would be discussed.
but "It's not necessarily the instruments we want to credit, but the great jazz artists who gave the instruments their
character," he said. "The instruments take on the personalities of the greats who played them — they (the artists)
LIVE JAZZ: The jazz seminar will begin at 7:30 pm. Sunday night in the lower lobby of Templin Hall.
Prince said jazz had become popular in Lawrence this year, but he said it was important to keep the jazz infusion going.
control the moods and the emotions."
"We want to foster a deeper and longer lasting love for jazz in lawrence and with the students," he said. "If there's enough interest we might be able to bring more big jazz names into Lawrence."
Marqueal Jordan, Kansas City, Kan., senior, is a KU student who has established a future for himself, Prince said. He will play the saxophone Sunday night, but he also will talk about the individual instruments.
rarely develop a taste for the first time they hear it, Jordan said.
"Jazz music is something you have to be exposed to," he said. "You have to learn about it, and its history. Once it's in you, the love for jazz is there forever."
Jordan said he and members of his sexet would structure their music to feature the different jazz instruments. Jazz music is something that people
Brandon Sanders, Kansas City, Kan, senior, organized the first jazz seminar at KU in the fall of 1991. He developed the idea to have a jazz presentation with Richard Wright , professor of music history. The first seminar focused on historic jazz figures such as Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis because Sanders said the history of the music was what made it fun to listen to.
"Jazz music is improvising, and it's spontaneous. You play what you feel — it's a mood," Sanders said.
"Today lots of people think jazz is Kenny G, but that's more like elevator music," he said. "There's a real history behind jazz."
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