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JOE FONDA
Thursday, February 26
8PM
Bezanson Recital Hall
Joe Fonda’s From the Source is an interdisciplinary music-performance sextet that blurs the boundaries between music, dance and healing by engaging the unusual vocal apparitions of body healer (Vicki Dodd) with the percussive cadence of a tap dancer (Brenda Bufalino). Also featuring: Herb Roberson, trumpet, Gebhard Ullmann, reeds, Rudy Walker, drums and the leader on bass.
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THE SUN RA ARKESTRA
Thursday, March 25
8PM
Bezanson Recital Hall
Composer, arranger, keyboard master and philosophical guru, Sun Ra became a source of breath-taking originality in the music we call jazz. Marshall Allen joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1958 and led Sun Ra's formidable reed section for over 40 years. Allen leads the 15-piece Sun Ra Arkestra beyond 'ghost' band status by writing fresh arrangements of Sun Ra's music as well as composing new music for the Arkestra.
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BOBBY PREVITE & BUMP
Thursday, April 29
8PM
Bezanson Recital Hall
Bobby Previte, one of the few jazz drummers who are also composers of significance, brings his all-star quintet, Bump (Marty Ehrlich, reeds, Curtis Fowlkes, trombone, Wayne Horvitz, piano and Steve Swallow, bass) to UMass. "Mr. Previte's pieces are thoroughly, stubbornly, and distinctly his own...the music copies nothing," writes The New York Times.
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