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JAZZ
STUDIES
 The
Drury University Jazz Ensembles maintain an active performance schedule on campus and in the community. They perform at a variety of events including Parent's Weekend, University Day, Music Day, and for the Alumni Association. These groups also present
both formal and informal concerts each semester featuring
music from a variety of periods and styles.
The Drury Jazz Ensembles make regional or extended tours each year. Past performance cites have included:
the Hawaiian Islands, Walt Disney World, Tulsa, Dallas, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi.
Each March, Drury hosts the Drury Jazz Festival,
Missouri's oldest Jazz Festival, which attracts high school
bands from Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. This festival
has attracted such artists as the big bands of Stan Kenton
and Count Basie, as well as individual performers including
Doc Severnson, Bill Waltrous, Kim Park, Clay Jenkins, Mike
Metheny, and Mike Steinel.
The Drury Jazz Camp is the oldest camp in the state of Missouri, and has a long-standing tradition of excellence dating back to the fifties and sixties when the great bandleader Stan Kenton was running the camp.
Click here to download
the camp brochure.
The camp takes place on the campus of Drury University in the Mabee Center for the Performing
Arts and is open to high school and middle school students 13 years and older with a minimum of one year experience on their instrument, as well as to adults with previous experience on a jazz instrument (saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, piano, bass or drums). Previous experience in jazz is not necessary!
Daily activities include rehearsals, masterclasses, jazz
theory, improvisation, listening, and jam sessions. In
addition, the Drury Jazz Camp Faculty will perform each
evening of the camp. Thursday evening’s and Friday
afternoon’s concerts will feature performances by the
student combos and big bands.
For more information, please contact Tina Claussen at 417-873-7296 or email at
cclaussen@drury.edu
Contact informaton:
E-mail Tina Claussen
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