On Tuesday November 11th The Jazztet will be returning once again to The Front Room in Baker Center. We hope you can join us for another night of great jazz!
On Tuesday October 14th The Jazztet will be returning once again to The Front Room in Baker Center. For this performance we’ll be welcoming vocalist Angela Blair. Angela moved to Athens from Fort Lauderdale, Florida in November 2007 and is currently studying voice and music theory at the Athens Community Music School with Ivy Crockron and Greg Sigman. Her Grandfather, an opera major at the Julliard School of Music in New York City, was an avid fan of jazz greats such as Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald and exposed her to jazz at a young age. She was immediately drawn to the genre and is particularly influenced by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington.
The Jazztet will be kicking off our monthly jazz series at The Front Room in Baker Center this Tuesday September 9th. We’ll be performing on the second Tuesday of each month and special guests will be sitting in from time to time again this year. We hope you can join us!
Tuesday September 9 2008 8:00-10:00pm
2nd Tuesday Jazz Series
The Front Room
Baker University Center
Ohio University
One Park Place, Athens, OH 45701
740-593-4020
Reprinted from The Athens News July 24, 2008
Teacher offers youth offenders a 6-string rehab program
Karen Zolka
July 24, 2008
Editor’s note: The full names of the young offenders in this article are not being used out of regard for their privacy.
You walk through a set of double glass doors adorned with announcements printed on yellow cardboard. You continue past a poster with an assortment of pictures, and past a ceramic mural that stretches from the ceiling to the floor. While walking around a circular hallway, you hear snippets of conversation, doors closing and the sound of music.
“I think some of the other staff must be like, ‘Oh God,’ because it gets kind of noisy up there,” Darrell Gladish said with a smile. “They’re all into it.”
This isn’t a floor in Glidden Hall, the music building at Ohio University. Nor is this a private music conservatory. It’s actually the Hocking Valley Community Residential Center, a juvenile correctional facility in Nelsonville.
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