JazzWeek is the definitive Jazz and Smooth Jazz national radio airplay chart鈥攁 of the top fifty Jazz and Smooth Jazz recordings played on radio stations across the United States and Canada. Radio reporters and industry subscribers receive the weekly Jazz Fax or Smooth Fax with the current chart each Friday.
On April 13, 2010, the UCF Jazz Ensemble, comprised of freshmen, sophomores, and a few juniors in the emerging Jazz Studies program, recorded seven pieces with director Jeff Rupert.
The resulting collaboration, includes not only classics but also new works such as 鈥淏ad Moon鈥� and the title track written specifically for the UCF Jazz Ensemble.
Jazz singer Vance Villastrigo joins the band on the jazz standard, 鈥淭he Eternal Triangle鈥�, arranged by Cliff Pecota and on the soul classic, 鈥淢e and Mrs. Jones鈥�, arranged specifically for this collaboration.
Repertory works include the Fletcher Henderson arrangement of 鈥淏ugle Call Rag鈥�, featuring several student soloists along with Allan Vach茅 on clarinet, whose contribution is exciting and flawless.
Thomas Potter (UCF voice faculty) joins the UCF band and Villastrigo for a remake of the James Brown classic, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a Man鈥檚 World鈥�, inspired by the James Brown/Luciano Pavarotti collaboration. 鈥淟ush Life鈥� and 鈥淪pring Can Really Hang you Up the Most鈥� are live performances by the UCF Jazz Professors at the internationally-acclaimed UCF Orlando Jazz Festival.
Jazz Town was professionally recorded, mixed and mastered in Orlando at Starke Lake Studios by Kendall S. Thomsen. The album is distributed by UCF Music’s new label . Packaging design and marketing materials were produced by UCF Senior Art Specialist Matthew Dunn.
Thomas Potter is an associate professor in the
Jeff M Rupert is a professor in the Department of Music, and the program director of the Department of Music Jazz