Archive for November, 2015
Interviews: Young Sounds of Arizona combo, performs Nov. 24 at MCC
By Patricia Myers
Jazz entered the young lives in different ways for five members of a combo that emerged from the Young Sounds of Arizona’s two larger ensembles. All three groups will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 24 in a concert featuring the Mesa Performing Arts Jazz Ensemble with Nick Manson on piano (formerly Arizona Jazz Masterworks Orchestra) in the Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center
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Interview: Larry Lederman tells how Young Sounds of Arizona started.
By Patricia Myers
Larry Lederman remembers how Young Sounds of Arizona came into being as a multi-high-school jazz band of teenage musicians. And what a concept it was: Students from schools that were zealous sports rivals would get together regularly to play jazz.
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Riffs: Music News from Out and About
By Patricia Myers
The fall season concert by the long-acclaimed Young Sounds of Arizona on Tuesday Nov. 24 at Mesa Community College will be an appealing and exciting program performed by in two ensembles and a quintet comprised of talented teenage jazz musicians from metro-Phoenix high schools.
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