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Music

Jazz Ensemble II & Jeff Ellwood Quintet

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April 25, 2003

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Director Charles (Chuck) Tumlinson is in his second year at Cal State Fullerton leading the jazz program. He was formerly associate professor of trumpet and director of jazz studies at Washburn University at Topeka, Kansas. As a jazz performer Tumlinson was featured as trumpet soloist with the University of North Texas One O'clock Lab Band, and has appeared at the Wichita, Reno, and Kool jazz festivals. He has performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Terence Blanchard, Mark Murphy and Ray Charles. Tumlinson has been featured soloist at several national conventions and has appeared as soloist, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the country. His compositions and arrangements have been recorded by leading bands and performers throughout the country such Pete Christlieb, Eric Marienthal, the University of Northern Colorado Lab and the University of North Texas One O'clock Lab Band. In addition to his jazz credentials, Tumlinson has served as principal trumpet in the Wichita Falls (Texas) Symphony and has performed with the Wichita Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony/Opera and Sunflower Chamber orchestras.

Graduate saxophonist Jeff Ellwood leads the Jeff Ellwood quintet. Ellwood a graduate assistant in jazz studies was selected last summer to be a member of the Henry Mancini Institute, and will return again this summer. Participants are selected from applications worldwide and represented 62 U.S. cities and 15 countries. Last summer at the Institute he performed in the Institute Big Band and Orchestra, and was spotlighted as a soloist. In a review by the Los Angeles Times, Ellwood’s playing was lauded, saying he “displayed inventive imagination already functioning at a high professional level.”

Program: Jazz II:
Double Barrel Blues .................... Bob Florence
Takin’ a Walk ................................. Roger Neumann
That Warm Feelin’ ........................ Sammy Nestico
Groovemaster ............................... Bob Mintzer
Quintet:
Opportunity ..................................... Hal Crook
Everything Happens to Me .......... Matt Dennis
   
Media Contact: Elizabeth Champion, College of the Arts at 657-278-2434


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Jazz Ensemble II &
Jeff Ellwood Quintet

Who:
Department of Music at Cal State Fullerton

What:
Jazz Ensemble II & Jeff Ellwood Quintet, Chuck Tumlinson, director

When:
8 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Where:
Little Theatre, California State University, Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. (Nutwood and State College Blvd.) Fullerton

Admission:
Advance sales $10 ($5 with advance Titan discount student, senior or CSUF ID) At the door all tickets $10

Box Office:
Tickets available at the Performing Arts Center box office 657-278-3371. Hours: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Mondays-Fridays and one hour prior to performance. Or online at: tickets.com

Website:
www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/

 
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