{"id":18852,"date":"2010-12-15T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:53:53","slug":"jazz-cd-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/jazz-cd-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz CD Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"
JazzWeek is the definitive Jazz and Smooth Jazz national radio airplay chart\u2014a weekly report<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The resulting collaboration, includes not only classics but also new works such as \u201cBad Moon\u201d and the title track written specifically for the UCF Jazz Ensemble.<\/p>\n Jazz singer Vance Villastrigo joins the band on the jazz standard, \u201cThe Eternal Triangle\u201d, arranged by Cliff Pecota and on the soul classic, \u201cMe and Mrs. Jones\u201d, arranged specifically for this collaboration.<\/p>\n Repertory works include the Fletcher Henderson arrangement of \u201cBugle Call Rag\u201d, featuring several student soloists along with Allan Vach\u00e9 on clarinet, whose contribution is exciting and flawless.<\/p>\n Thomas Potter (UCF voice faculty) joins the UCF band and Villastrigo for a remake of the James Brown classic, \u201cIt\u2019s a Man\u2019s World\u201d, inspired by the James Brown\/Luciano Pavarotti collaboration. \u201cLush Life\u201d and \u201cSpring Can Really Hang you Up the Most\u201d are live performances by the UCF Jazz Professors at the internationally-acclaimed UCF Orlando Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n 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 Flying Horse Records<\/a>. Packaging design and marketing materials were produced by UCF Senior Art Specialist Matthew Dunn.<\/p>\n