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RazzaMaJazz performance
March 28, 2006
CARROLLTON, GA - The University of West Georgia will host the jazz combo, RazzaMaJazz, at a free concert on Friday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Kathy Cashen Hall.
The
group, which performs as a quintet and a sextet, is comprised of UWG music
faculty members and regional musicians. Faculty members of the group are
Dr. Daniel F. Bakos, professor of music at UWG, pianist, composer and
the leader of RazzaMaJazz; Dr. Kevin Mobbs, adjunct professor of music
at UWG and a trombonist; Mariano Pacetti, instructor of jazz improvisation
at UWG and saxophone player; and Dr. Doug Overmier, UWG director of bands
and percussionist.
Regional musicians in the group are Tom MacArthur, who plays trumpet and fluegelhorn, and bass player Ned Watson III.
The concert is a reunion and rebirth for the group. The original members, Bakos, Pacetti, MacArthur and Watson, have not performed together since 2001. Selections from the group’s CD, “Don’t Forget Me!,” will be featured and include Bakos’ compositions of “Canta Dos Cantas,” “I Don’t Wanna Lose You,” “Little Joe,” “Don’t Ever Leave Me,” “Don’t Forget Me!” and Pacetti’s “Samba by the Sea” and “Sweet in C Minor.”
The April concert will also feature Bakos’ new works, “1612373739162332 Blues,” “Stolen Dream,” “Chasin’ after My Bird” and “Isn’t it a Little Late for Dinner?”
The group’s CD was released in the late 1990s and three selections were featured on “The Weather Channel” and its “Local on the Eights” presentations.
RazzaMaJazz hopes to release a second CD soon. Bakos said the group has enough new material for another CD but still needs the backing necessary to produce it. “I would like to have another CD pressed within the next two years,” said Bakos. “I believe we owe it to all of our fans. The problem is always money and I am searching for backing of the recording. The last one paid for itself within four months of the release and the second one will probably do the same.”
The group’s musical style is a myriad of jazz, blues, ballad, Latin samba and bolero, jazz waltz and funk. Their improvisation is an entertaining skill of all the musicians and is what Bakos refers to as “the most significant feature of the style of RazzaMaJazz.”
For more information, call 678-839-6262.
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