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Q’d Up is a jazz combo made up of several BYU Faculty Members. Formerly known as FJQ, or Faculty Jazz Quartet, Q’d Up features faculty members Eric Hansen, Jay Lawrence, Steve Lindeman, Ron Saltmarsh, and Ray Smith. The group plays jazz standards and fan-favorites as well as originals written by the members of the group–all extremely talented musicians and professors with years of experience and a love for jazz under their belts. Q’d Up plays jazz that’s fun and new without losing the true spirit of the music, and it has been played on jazz radio stations across the country.

Q'd Up: Going Places

Read "Going Places" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 14, 2021

Q'd Up is a quintet comprising faculty members at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The group's latest album, Going Places, marks the end of an era, as two of its longest-serving members—multi-instrumentalist Ray Smith and pianist Steve Lindeman--are indeed “going places." In other words, they are retiring and making their final recorded appearance with the group, co-founded by Smith in 1983 as the Faculty Jazz Quintet, save for a companion album, Dawn Fire Mist, which is edgier and more ...

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Q'd Up Closes A Chapter Of Its Own History With 'Going Places,' Set For Release Oct. 8 On Tantara Records

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 11, 2021

Q’d Up celebrates its enduring creative bounty on Tantara Records’ October 8 release Going Places. The venturesome quintet, formed in 1983 out of the jazz faculty at Brigham Young University, packs their seventh recording with eleven original compositions of hard-charging, straight-ahead jazz with bold progressive touches. Going Places also marks a sunset of sorts for the band. Its founding saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, Ray Smith, and veteran keyboardist Steve Lindeman have both put in their retirement papers from the BYU School of Music ...
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