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John William “Buzz” Jones is Professor of Music at Gettysburg College. He served as Director of Bands (1989-2002), Music Department Chair (1999-2005), and was appointed Director of the Sunderman Conservatory of Music in 2006. Buzz also coordinates the theory program and teaches jazz history, counterpoint, and composition. He has directed the college jazz ensemble for eighteen years and led the group on three summer tours of Europe with appearances at the Montreux, North Sea, and Vienne Jazz Festivals. He founded The Buzz Jones Big Band in 1979. The band has released three compact discs- Live! At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Big Band Euro Tour, and Millennium Swing

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News: Performance / Tour

Performance: Gettysburg College Jazz Ensemble at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg on October 3

September 30, 2008

The Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music's fall jazz concert 'Autumn Leaves' featuring the College Jazz Ensemble and Camerata will take place October 3 at the Majestic Theater. Tickets are $5 for general admission and the event is free to Gettysburg College students with an ID card. The Majestic Theater is located at 25 Carlisle Street ...

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The Majestic Jazz Orchestra: Axiom Asunder

By Buzz Jones

Label: Carlisle Compositions
Released: 2007
Track listing: Oceans Apart: Elegna; Cape Roca. Northern Tangents: Konkomba/Red Dawn Blues; 18th and Vine. Coast to Coast: Lenox Avenue at Midnight; Dig and Be Dug; Silver Rain. Groove Machine: LuLu

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Majestic Jazz Orchestra: Axiom Asunder

by Jack Bowers
January 19, 2007

The Majestic Jazz Orchestra Axiom Asunder Carlisle Compositions 2007 The Majestic Jazz Orchestra isn't trying to sound self-important--its grandiloquent name actually honors the newly renovated Majestic Theatre in the orchestra's home base of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The album's title, on the other hand, might be construed, absent any argument to the ...

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