Jazz Articles about Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University Jazz: It Could Happen to You

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2002

This is the fifth album produced by the twenty-two-year-old Jazz Studies program at Richmond’s Virginia Commonwealth University, the first under the direction of Antonio Garcia, who came to VCU from Northwestern University a couple of years ago. The award-winning Jazz Orchestra I, which performs on the first eight of the album’s dozen tracks, plays well as a unit and the soloists are fairly respectable. But there’s no denying the far more potent electrical charge generated by guest trumpeter Brian Lynch ...