George Salisbury Jazz Festival
February 5 - 6, 2010

Pierson Auditorium, UMKC University Center 

2009 George Salisbury Jazz Festival Downloadable Program

 

 

 

About the Festival

The George Salisbury Jazz Festival provides an extraordinary weekend for jazz musicians and educators. Instrumental school jazz ensembles of all levels – middle school through college/university - are invited to perform in Pierson Auditorium at the UMKC University Center on Friday and Saturday, February 5th and 6th. In addition to the performance, each group receives feedback from festival clinicians on stage (30 minutes total time on/off). Instrument-specific clinic sessions provide musicians a chance to ask questions and gain information from recognized experts in jazz performance and education. 

The Festival also includes two public concerts:

• Friday afternoon, 12:30 p.m., UMKC 11 O'Clock Jazz Band
• Saturday evening, 7:30 p.m., George Salisbury Memorial Scholarship Concert:  Conservatory Concert Jazz Band with featured guest artist

Although the Festival is non-competitive, outstanding festival musicians and soloists will be announced at the opening of the Saturday evening concert and will be awarded certificates of achievement.

Friday’s concert will take place at 12:30 pm in Pierson Auditorium and feature the 11 O’clock Jazz Band under the direction of Michael Pagán. The Saturday concert will feature the Conservatory Concert Jazz Band led by Bobby Watson with our special guest artist.  Proceeds from this concert will benefit the George Salisbury Memorial Scholarship fund.

Past festival guest artists have included Jaleel Shaw, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Mantilla, Curtis Lundy, Tim Hagens, Bob Brookmeyer, Gary Foster, Bryan Lynch, Conrad Herwig, Howard Johnson, Robin Eubanks, and Randy Brecker.

George Salisbury Jazz Festival Schedule

Friday, February 5, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Registered Middle School, High School, and Collegiate Jazz Ensembles (TBA)

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.  UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance 11 O'Clock Jazz Band

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Break Out Sessions with Festival Clinicians

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Registered Middle School, High School, and Collegiate Jazz Ensembles (TBA)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Concert Jazz Band Rehearsal

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registered Middle School, High School, and Collegiate Jazz Ensembles (TBA)

Saturday, February 6, 2009

8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Registered Middle School, High School, and Collegiate Jazz Ensembles (TBA)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Break Out Sessions with Festival Clinicians

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Guest Artist Clinic with Sean Jones

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registered Middle School, High School, and Collegiate Jazz Ensembles (TBA)

7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Salisbury Memorial Scholarship Concert with featured guest artist Sean Jones

How To Register

There are several options for registration for the 2010 George Salisbury Jazz Festival.  See below and choose the option that works best for you and your school.

 

Option 1:  Online registration and payment.

1.  Scroll up and click on "Register Online."  You will be asked to provide a credit card number. (COMING SOON)

2.  Download and complete the repertoire list and the seating chart.  Submit to the address below.  (COMING SOON)

Option 2:  Online registration; payment by check.

1.  Scroll up and click on "Sign Up."  You will not be asked to provide a credit card number.  (COMING SOON)

2.  Send a check, money order, or purchase order to the address below.  MAKE CHECKS OUT TO UMKC.

3.  Download and complete the repertoire list and the seating chart.  Submit to the address below.  (COMING SOON)

Option 3:  Registration by mail.

1.  Fill out the paper application (COMING SOON) and return, along with payment, to the address below.  MAKE CHECKS OUT TO UMKC.

2.  Download and complete the repertoire list and the seating chart.  Submit to the address below.  (COMING SOON)

Submit all materials to the following address:

George Salisbury Jazz Festival

UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance

Community Music and Dance Academy

301 E. 51st St., room 201

Kansas City MO 64112

 

Deadlines and Fees

Registration and Payment Deadline:  January 29, 2010.

• Participation fee is $250.00 (big band or combo).
• Reduced fee of $175.00 for each additional ensemble from the same school.
• All materials, including repertoire sheet and seating chart, must be received no later than January 29, 2010.

DISCOUNTED Registration and Payment Deadline:  January 15, 2010.

• Partipation fee with early registration discount is $200.00 (big band or combo).
• Reduced fee of $125.00 with early registration discount for each additional ensemble from the same school.
• All materials, including repertoire sheet and seating chart, must be received no later than January 15, 2010.

 

About George Salisbury

George Salisbury (1918 – 1986) moved to Kansas City, Missouri from his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas in 1936 and worked at the Avalon Dance hall as a member of the Tommy Douglas orchestra. He then studied piano with the great Mary Lou Williams. After serving in the U.S. Army Band during World War II, he became the house pianist for Kansas City’s Boulevard Room, backing such luminaries as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, and many more. In the early 1950s he studied music at the Kansas City Conservatory (later to become part of UMKC) and joined its faculty in 1957. Earning a legendary reputation as a jazz artist and educator, he taught at the Conservatory until his death in 1986. In 2005 the George Salisbury Scholarship fund became endowed, ensuring that jazz students will continue to have the opportunity to benefit from this resource to further their jazz education.

Attractions & Accommodations

Located in mid-town Kansas City, UMKC is minutes away from the Plaza shopping and entertainment district. There are numerous hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, and jazz clubs nearby. A short drive from campus, take your students to the city’s unique American Jazz Museum in the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District.

 

Faculty Host: Bobby Watson

A saxophonist, composer, producer and educator, Bobby Watson trained formally at the University of Miami and earned even greater credibility and experience as musical director of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the ultimate “postgraduate school” for ambitious young players. Along the way, he worked with such notable jazz artists as Max Roach, Louis Hayes, George Coleman, Sam Rivers and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, as well as vocalists Joe Williams, Dianne Reeves, Lou Rawls, Betty Carter and Carmen Lundy. Later, in association with bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Victor Lewis, Watson launched the first edition of Horizon, his acoustic quintet. Watson also wrote original music for the sound track of Robert Deniro¹s directorial debut “A Bronx Tale”. Bobby has recorded 26 records as a leader and appears on more than 80 recordings to date and over 100 compositions. In 2000, Bobby serves as the director of jazz studies at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance.Bobby will be on leave for the spring of 2008.

Faculty Host: Michael Pagán

 

Michael Pagán joined the Conservatory faculty as Assistant Director of Jazz Studies in the Fall of 2005. His teaching duties include jazz improvisation, jazz styles and analysis, jazz piano, and the 11 O’clock jazz band. Prior to his UMKC appointment, Mike was on the jazz faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he served as Interim Director of Jazz Studies. He has also served as Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Pagán received his Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University and his Master of Arts degree from Kent State University, both in composition. His Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education is also from Kent State University. Dr. Pagán has received numerous awards and commissions for his compositions and arrangements, including First Prize, New Music for Young Ensembles composers competition, which included a Carnegie Hall premiere; commissions from Michigan Music Teachers Association, the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, WLS-TV Channel 7, Chicago, and high schools and colleges throughout the country. Mike is much in demand as a jazz pianist, having performed professionally for nearly thirty years with many jazz greats including Gary Burton, Slide Hampton, Robin Eubanks, Wallace Roney, Lew Soloff, Marvin Stamm, Lennie Niehaus, Frank Tiberi, Billy Hart, Milt Hinton, and John Clayton, among many others. He has most recently performed with Kenny Wheeler, Ralph Peterson, Jiggs Whigham, and Greg Abate, with whom he recorded. Downbeat Magazine has called him "a versatile keyboard improviser" and his debut CD “Is Waiting For You” (Cadence Jazz Records) met with much critical acclaim; Andrew Bartlett for Arts Midwest said "this is one of the finest bop-oriented dates I've listened in on lately." His solo piano release entitled Nobody Else But Me (Capri Jazz Records) received similar accolades; Scott Yanow’s review of it described Pagán as “a superior jazz pianist” and Brad Weismann of The Colorado Daily said "If Bach had played jazz, it might have sounded like this." In 2004 Dr. Pagán traveled to The Netherlands, appearing as solo jazz pianist at "Grand Café Meneer Frits" in Eindhoven and in concert with the Pagán/Walter Duo (Doug Walter, vibraphone) in Thorn. Other recent appearances include a performance at the World Saxophone Congress in Minneapolis; a residency at Rhode Island College, and premieres of commissioned works for the jazz ensembles of Long Beach (CA) Polytechnic and New Trier (IL ) High Schools. In 2005 he was a guest artist/clinician at the Ashland University jazz festival in Ohio and conductor of the Colorado All-State Jazz Ensemble. Michael Pagán's compositions and arrangements are available through P&D Jazz Publications, Dutch Music Partners of The Netherlands, and UNC Jazz Press.

 

Festival Includes

Guest Artist Clinic for all festival participants at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 6.

Performance:  Your ensemble will perform onstage at UMKC's Pierson Auditorium.

Critique:  Written and/or recorded comments from two adjudicators.  Clinician feedback immediately following your performance. One or two adjudicators will work with your ensemble in the time remaining.

“Break-Out” Clinics on trumpet, saxophone, trombone, guitar, bass, and percussion by festival adjudicators and clinicians.

Outstanding Musicianship Certificates for soloists and musicians selected by festival adjudicators.

The following backline equipment will be provided by UMKC:

• Piano.
• Bass and guitar amps.
• Drum set.
• Vibraphone.
• Cymbals.

Drummers:  PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR OWN DRUMS.  You may bring your own cymbals if you prefer; however, cymbals will be provided.

UMKC Jazz Camp Scholarships are available on a limited basis and will be offered to outstanding student musicians.

Repertoire list, soloist information, and stage setup forms are coming soon and must be received by Friday, January 29. Bands that cancel will not receive a refund. Confirmation and performance times will be provided to the first paid applicants.

 

 

Forms for Participants (2010 Forms Coming Soon)

George Salisbury Jazz Festival Repertoire Sheet

George Salisbury Jazz Festival Seating Chart