NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

3/09/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES ­The Northwestern State University Jazz Orchestra will present its first concert of the spring season Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. The orchestra is conducted by Galindo Rodriguez. Admission is free and open to the public.

The featured artist will be jazz bassist Ted Partin from Memphis. The special guest for the evening will be Chris Aikins, high school trombonist from Mount Pleasant, Texas

The program will feature two work of Charles Mingus: Fables of Faubus and Gunslinging Bird. Carlos Ortiz will be soloist on Sammy Nestico's arrangement of I Remember Clifford, paying homage to jazz legend Clifford Brown. Aikens will be featured on Frank Mantooth's version of Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most. Rodriguez will be featured on Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.

Partin will be joined by guitarist Luke Brouillette and Todd Mason on drums. Other soloists for the evening will include tenor saxophonist Matt Hooker, alto saxophonist Marcus Barber, trumpeters Roland Smith and John Chappell, pianist Adam Hudlow, trombonists Jibri Houston and Alan Sypert, baritone saxophonist Jason Morris, and Mason.

Partin has performed with the Memphis, Arkansas, Illinois, and Tennessee Summer Symphonies. In addition to his symphonic work, he has performed as a chamber musician and soloist at the Memphis Arts Council's Arts in the Park Festival (1998-2000), the 1998 Edinburgh International Double Bass Festival, the Imagine New Music Festival (1997-2001).

His career as a jazz/electric bassist has allowed him to perform with artists such as Joyce Cobb, Reba Russel, Wendy Moten, Melba Moore, Kim Crosby, Ney Rosauro, Cecil Welch and Jack Gilfoy (of the Henry Mancini Orchestra), Jeff Tyzik (The Tonight Show Band), Bill Conti, Kim Hill, Pat Flynn, Buddy Greene, Marvin Stamm, and Jack Cooper as well as with groups like the Deep Grooves Steel Drum Band, Orquestra Caliente, the PGP Jazz Trio, the Memphis Jazz Orchestra, The Jazz Orchestra of the Delta and numerous theater productions.

Partin is an instructor of music theory and music appreciation at the University of Memphis and instructor of jazz bass at Rhodes College. He also maintains an active teaching schedule as a member of the University of Memphis Community Music School faculty and as the bassist for the Memphis Symphony, the Hope Band (led by Grammy winner Bruce Carroll), the Teresa Pate Trio and the Pat Register Band.

The Jazz Orchestra concludes its 7th annual jazz concert series with The NSU Jazz Festival on Friday April 22. The guest artist for that evening will be Matt Niese, jazz trombonist with the U. S. Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, Pershing's Own, from Washington, D.C.

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