Enjoy Vocal Jazz of Pamela Mallory Trio January 18

January 15, 2006

January 15, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - The Pamela Mallory Trio will perform a Winter Term co-curricular concert at DePauw University on Wednesday, January 18 at 8 p.m. This event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Kresge Auditorium with on-stage seating and features pianist Jim Connerley, a 1985 graduate of DePauw (seen in photo at left), as well as bassist Eric Sayer. Both are former professors in the DePauw School of Music.

Organized by Randy Salman, director of Jazz Studies at DePauw, in conjunction with his Winter Term course, "Jazz Vocalists: An Introduction," the program will cover a broad array of classic vocal jazz standards.

For Connerley and Sayer, who are veterans of the Cincinnati music scene, the Greencastle concert marks a musical reunion. In addition to being a DePauw alumnus, Connerley taught at the University from 1991 to 2001, leading the jazz ensemble and developing the jazz combo program. He is currently a member of the jazz faculty at the University of Louisville School of Music and has appeared with such internationally known jazz artists as Slide Hampton, Barry Ries, Don Braden, Othello Molineaux, and Scott Wendholt. In addition, Connerley can be heard on nearly twenty compact discs, including the recent releases, Vanessa's Song by Brent Gallaher and Contours by vibraphonist Rusty Burge.

An experienced and sought-after bass player, Sayer taught jazz bass and coached jazz combos at DePauw from 1998 to 2002. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Clark Terry, Della Reese, Louis Bellson, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz, Malachi Thompson, Frank Morgan, The Erskine Hawkins Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

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Learn about the renovation and addition, now under way, which will create the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts in this previous story.

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