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Orbert Davis debuts new ensemble
It seems like Orbert Davis just can’t take a month off. For Chicago-area students, that news should come as music to their ears. Specifically, it means that his summertime Jazz Academy returns this July for its second season at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
The recently announced two-week program, jointly administered by UIC and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (see below), takes place the last two weeks of July and features a stellar faculty. In addition to Davis himself, students will have access to such instructors (and world-class improvising artists) as saxophonist Ari Brown, flutist Nicole Mitchell, pianist Ryan Cohan, and Ernie Adams, one of the city’s most versatile drummers.
The curriculum features bands ranging from combos to jazz orchestras (for both elementary and high-school students), as well as a course in Drum Line and a series of jazz electives, including jazz history, jazz improv, and jazz aesthetics.
Davis is the gifted Chicago trumpeter, bandleader, and educator, nowadays spends less time on the trumpet playing and more and more much on the stewardship of his other projects. These include the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP) -- the 55-piece jazz-and-classical orchestra he leads in several concerts each year – and his extraordinary involvement with students in a variety of contexts. In addition to his work at University of Illinois Chicago, where he teaches and conducts the university’s jazz ensemble, Davis runs Jazz Alive, an interdisciplinary program in which, through music, he imparts learning skills applicable to other subjects. (The program was founded as MusicAlive, and was still known that way when profiled in Downbeat Magazine some years ago.)
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