Hamiet Bluiett in Austin

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CreOp Muse presents

The 3rd Annual NEW JAZZ SERIES

Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra

with special guest

Hamiet Bluiett

WHEN: May 23, 2004

WHERE: Laguna Gloria Amphitheatre (3809 West 35th St.)

TICKETS: $12 general; $8 Students, Seniors, Artists; $5 Children

Hamiet Bluiett

The finest baritone saxophonist of the 1970's and beyond, Hamiet Bluiett has demonstrated a huge, impressive sound, superb technique, and a mastery of his horn in every register. Bluiett played with Sam Rivers, Charles Mingus and many others, as well as founding the BAG (Black Artists Group), before becoming a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet along with Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and David Murray. Down Beat and the New York Times consider the WSQ among the most important acoustic jazz quartets performing today.

Tina Marsh and the Creative Opportunity Orchestra

Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (CO2), Austin’s longstanding jazz composer’s consortium, have consistently created innovative jazz compositions, laced with brilliant improvisations and the unique vocalizations of bandleader Marsh. Far more than a typical jazz Big Band, Tina Marsh & CO2 accelerate the genre into the modern age with an avant-garde sound mixed with a world music sensibility.

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A Free Flowing Improvisational

CHAIN

WHEN: May 14, 2004

WHERE: Church of the Friendly Ghost (209 Pedernales)

Tickets: $5 general

an evening of spontaneous musical interaction... a daisy chain of musicians exchanging and collaborating on instant musical ideas from a variety of aesthetic points of view... solos, duos, ensembles, and whatever else we can think of.

MUSICIANS: Tina Marsh, Alex Coke, Chris Cogburn, Travis Weller, Brian Allen, and others

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE SERIES: visit www.creop.org or call 448.348.5

Creative Opportunity Orchestra is a project of CreOp Muse and is funded in part by the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Chamber Music America, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Still Water Foundation, SBC Foundation, HEB, the Austin American-Statesman, with generous help from Epistrophy Arts, DiverseArts, Blue Lapis Light, Greenlights, and Sharir+Bustamante DanceWorks.