Rivers to Host Jazz Festival
The Rivers School will host its first jazz festival on Sunday, October 16 from 3-5 p.m.
The Rivers School will host its first jazz festival on Sunday, October 16 from 3-5 p.m. in the Corkin Auditorium. In a tribute to the great Big Bands, The Rivers School Select Combo 1 and Big Band will perform in a concert with The Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra, featuring former all-star alumni soloists from the Buddy Rich and Woody Herman Big Bands.
The Greg Hopkins 16-piece all-star jazz orchestra includes such stellar jazz soloists as: Bill Pierce on tenor sax, Shannon LeClaire on alto sax, Tim Ray on piano, Jeff Stout on trumpet, Tony Lada and Artie Cabral on drums, and Paul Del Nero on bass. Hopkins was a trumpet soloist, arranger and composer for the Buddy Rich Band.
Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. Students and faculty members will be admitted free of charge.
On Sunday, October 2, the students in the Rivers Big Band and Select Combo 1 held a two-hour workshop with Greg Hopkins and the section leaders of the Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra in preparation for the big event.
Hopkins and his musicians worked with the Rivers students on dynamics, articulation and interpretation of the music. The woodwinds worked with lead alto saxophonist Shannon LeClaire, the brass with Greg Hopkins and the rhythm section students worked with pianist Tim Ray. After one hour of section rehearsal, the band went to the Corkin Auditorium for a full band rehearsal led by Greg Hopkins.
In other jazz news, Rivers jazz director Philippe Crettien took the members of the Select Combo 1 to perform as part of a live cable TV telethon to benefit the Hopkinton Community Endowment. Crettien is a Hopkinton resident. The band opened the event with their arrangement of Chick Corea's composition "Chick's Tune," to the delight of the audience. The Combo went on to perform their arrangement of "Strollin," a Horace Silver composition. Last year the four-hour telethon raised nearly $120,000 for the cause. The Hopkinton Community Endowment is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing a permanent fund to reduce tax increases from large capital projects like the new senior center, police station, schools, and land.
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The Greg Hopkins 16-piece all-star jazz orchestra includes such stellar jazz soloists as: Bill Pierce on tenor sax, Shannon LeClaire on alto sax, Tim Ray on piano, Jeff Stout on trumpet, Tony Lada and Artie Cabral on drums, and Paul Del Nero on bass. Hopkins was a trumpet soloist, arranger and composer for the Buddy Rich Band.
Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. Students and faculty members will be admitted free of charge.
On Sunday, October 2, the students in the Rivers Big Band and Select Combo 1 held a two-hour workshop with Greg Hopkins and the section leaders of the Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra in preparation for the big event.
Hopkins and his musicians worked with the Rivers students on dynamics, articulation and interpretation of the music. The woodwinds worked with lead alto saxophonist Shannon LeClaire, the brass with Greg Hopkins and the rhythm section students worked with pianist Tim Ray. After one hour of section rehearsal, the band went to the Corkin Auditorium for a full band rehearsal led by Greg Hopkins.
In other jazz news, Rivers jazz director Philippe Crettien took the members of the Select Combo 1 to perform as part of a live cable TV telethon to benefit the Hopkinton Community Endowment. Crettien is a Hopkinton resident. The band opened the event with their arrangement of Chick Corea's composition "Chick's Tune," to the delight of the audience. The Combo went on to perform their arrangement of "Strollin," a Horace Silver composition. Last year the four-hour telethon raised nearly $120,000 for the cause. The Hopkinton Community Endowment is a non-profit corporation dedicated to providing a permanent fund to reduce tax increases from large capital projects like the new senior center, police station, schools, and land.
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