Jazz Articles about The UNCG Jazz Ensemble

The UNCG Jazz Ensemble: Vision

by Jack Bowers
July 8, 2006

When it comes to jazz studies programs, one might think that the University of North Carolina-Greensboro would be one of the new kids on the block. Not so. Actually, the UNCG program will be forty years old in 2007. What's more, Vision isn't the jazz ensemble's first album; half a dozen others have preceded it, including a live date with Chicago saxophone legend Dewey Redman (father of Joshua). Among its many accomplishments is one notable first: in 1991, the UNCG ...