KU Jazz Ensemble I with special guest Marcus Printup, trumpet
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KU Jazz Ensemble I:
KU Jazz Ensemble I, directed by Dan Gailey, is the flagship ensemble within the Jazz Studies program at the University of Kansas. The program has received 31 DownBeat Student Music Awards, including Jazz Ensemble I’s 2023, 2021, 2019 and 2015 awards in the Graduate Division for Best College Big Band in the United States or Canada, and their Outstanding Performance Awards in the same division in 2022 and 2017.
Marcus Printup, trumpeter
Marcus Printup, special guest:
Trumpeter, composer and educator Marcus Printup has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) since 1993, and he regularly contributes to the orchestra as an arranger and composer. Printup has performed and recorded with Betty Carter, Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Cyrus Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon and Marcus Roberts, among many others. He has led multiple recordings on several major record labels, and he also composed “Jo Jo’s Mojo” honoring Jo Jo White on JLCO’s Rock Chalk Suite album.
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