{"id":4069,"date":"2024-04-11T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:42:19","slug":"ellington-lives-cu-international-jazz-day-concert-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2024\/04\/11\/ellington-lives-cu-international-jazz-day-concert-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellington Lives! CU International Jazz Day Concert on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2024\/04\/Collage-Image-3-flatten-small-FINAL-120ppi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3668 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2024\/04\/Collage-Image-3-flatten-small-FINAL-120ppi-910x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"608\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three generations of musicians from Urbana-Champaign will perform works by jazz master Duke Ellington for our annual C-U International Jazz Day that will be held on Sunday, April 14 (2:00-3:30) at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEllington Lives! Singin\u2019 and Swingin\u2019 Three Generations On\u201d will feature various ensembles led by Barrington Coleman.\u00a0\u00a0 Performing under his leadership will be Larry Gray, professor of jazz performance, U of I jazz students Xiantian Yu, Alex Manfredo, Dexter O\u2019Neal, Eli Naragon, Max Osawa, and Nick Young, and Henry Gengler, a talented member of the award-winning Champaign Central High School Jazz Band.<\/p>\n<p>They will offer up several Ellington standards, among them \u201cReflections on D,\u201d \u201cIn a Sentimental Mood,\u201d \u201cMood Indigo\u201d and \u201cTake the A Train.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The free event also will feature a short informational session on Ellington provided by Sam Reese and informal reflections on Ellington\u2019s influences on each of the afternoon\u2019s performers.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s program is free and open to the general public.\u00a0 For further information about this program email <a href=\"mailto:schwrtzs@illinois.edu\">schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a> or call 217-333-4577.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three generations of musicians from Urbana-Champaign will perform works by jazz master Duke Ellington for our annual C-U International Jazz Day that will be held on Sunday, April 14 (2:00-3:30) at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. \u201cEllington Lives! Singin\u2019 and Swingin\u2019 Three Generations On\u201d will feature various ensembles led by Barrington Coleman.\u00a0\u00a0 Performing under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}