2009-09-10 / Dining & Entertainment

CLU faculty to present jazz concert

California Lutheran University will present an afternoon of jazz music at 2 p.m. Sun., Sept. 20 in Samuelson Chapel, at Olsen Road and South Campus Drive, Thousand Oaks.

The Faculty Jazz Quintet will play a set of standard tunes. The quintet has Daniel Geeting on tenor saxophone, John Hester on bass, Eric Kinsley on piano, Ryan McCarty on drums and Peter Woodford on guitar.

The Four Brothers saxophone quartet will perform Gordon Jacob’s “Saxophone Quartet” and a novelty piece called “Sax Lix.” The quartet has Geeting, Richard Bunter, Spike Evans and Don Nardone.

Both groups will play a suite of pieces by Lennie Niehaus called “Jazz Mosaics No. 1.”

Geeting has taught at CLU since 1984. He teaches clarinet and conducts the university wind ensembles and symphony. Hester performs with many orchestras, including the Pasadena, New West and Santa Barbara symphonies.

Kinsley, a senior music lecturer, has performed and lectured in venues including the Getty Center, the Huntington Library and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Woodford has been playing guitar professionally since 1969, including 19 years with The Doc Severinsen NBC Tonight Show Band.

McCarty is a CLU junior majoring in music.

Donations will be accepted.

For more information, call the Music Department at (805) 4933306 or visit www.callutheran .edu/ music.

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