LUFKIN, TEXAS, Feb. 19, 2018 – Angelina College is hosting a jazz concert/high school/middle school jazz festival March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Hudgins Hall. Admission is $5 for adults and $4 for seniors, students and children. The AC Big Band and the AC Swingin’ Roadrunner Jazz Combo will perform along with special guest artist Rick Condit.
Condit currently serves as the director of Jazz Studies and associate professor of Saxophone at Lamar University. He began his career in jazz and jazz education in 1973 as the tenor saxophone soloist with the Stan Kenton Orchestra. Since then he has performed and taught in 47 states and over 25 countries on five continents. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he spent more than 10 years there as a freelance professional, performing with such noted artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, Ray Brown, Oliver Nelson, Bob Hope, and the San Francisco Symphony Pops Orchestra. Condit recently performed with Wycliffe Gordon, Tom Scott, John Pizzarelli, Bobby Shew, Tom “Bones“ Malone, Ingrid Jensen, Joey DeFrancesco, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and is a regular member of the Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra. He is also an endorsing artist for the Conn-Selmer Corporation, Jody Jazz Products, and D’Addario Woodwinds.
The program for the AC Big Band includes “There Will Never Be Another You,” “The Beat Goes On,” “‘Round Midnight,” “Tangerine” and “Softly as a Morning Sunrise.”
Big Band performers are Dixon Shanks, Michael Parrish, Jimmy Simmons, Amanda Burns, Bethe Girardi, Ken Barnes, Robert Shanks, LaVan Watts, Steven Brown, Scott Williams, Mel Miller, Ricky Gay, Eric Chin, JD Salas, Mark Saldana and AC music instructors Larry Greer and Jimmy Battle.
The Swingin’ Roadrunner Jazz Combo program, under the direction of Larry Greer, includes “Mr. PC, Caravan,” “Killer Joe,” “Little Sunflower” and “Blues Walk.”
Members of the combo are Max Vallejo (Lufkin), Trevor Powell (Liberty), Heather Barney (Liberty), Qurdale Huff (Paristyler dover (Livingston), David Evett (Nacogdoches).
For more information about this event call 936-633-5454.