53rd Annual Jazz Festival

The 53rdAnnual EIU Jazz Festival will be held on February 10 & 11, 2012.  Guest artist Conrad Herwig will be featured in a performance with the EIU Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 PM on Friday, February 10 in Dvorak Concert Hall in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Visiting bands will perform, compete, and participate in clinics during the day on Saturday, February 11th.

 Conrad Herwig

New York jazz trombonist Conrad Herwig has recorded 20 albums as a leader. His newest CD release is The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note; 2010). This is the follow-up project to The Latin Side of Wayne Shorter (Half Note; 2008), Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis (Half Note; 2004), and The Latin Side of John Coltrane (Astor Place; 1996), each nominated for A GRAMMY Award.

His non-Latin recording, Heart of Darkness, received 4 1/2 stars in DownBeat Magazine and he’s been voted #1 Jazz Trombonist (Talent Deserving Wider Recognition) in the 2002 DownBeat “Jazz Critic’s Poll.”

In constant demand as a sideman, Herwig has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Horace Silver Octet, Tom Harrell’s Septet and Big Band and the Joe Lovano Nonet, and performs and records with Eddie Palmieri’s “La Perfecta II” and Afro-Caribbean Jazz Octet groups as well as with Paquito D’Rivera’s Havana-New York Connection and the Mingus Big Band. All told, Herwig has appeared on more than 200 albums in what is now a 30-plus-year career. 

 


 $10 Adults / $5 Students

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Festival Registration 



$175 Registration Fee per band should be made payable to Eastern Illinois University and sent to:

          Jazz Festival
          Eastern Illinois University
          600 Lincoln Avenue
          Charleston, IL  61920

Contact Information

Dr. Sam Fagaly
Professor of Saxophone
Director of Jazz Studies
swfagaly@eiu.edu
217-581-6628

  

 Eastern Illinois University Jazz Ensemble


Jazz Festival