Junta Ensemble

Sat., Feb. 11, 2012

2 Sets

7:30 – 10:30

Yassa African Restaurant

716 E 79th St.

Chicago, IL

(773) 488 – 5599

No cover

BYOB

Junta – (Spanish. Pronounced ‘Hunta’) – To meet; meeting, committee.

The Junta Ensemble has been together since 2003, but has been performing individually in Chicago for years in various genres of music, classical, gospel, jazz and R&B. What you will encounter is a meeting of individual taste to form an agreeable and pleasing blend as they put their collective spin on some jazz standards. The members of the group are as follows:

Mark Coulter – Director- Trumpet, Flugel Horn

Ronald Dennis – Percussions

Gerard Matthews – Alto Saxophone, Flute

Michael Price – Keyboards

Dean Thornton – Keyboards, Trombone

An interesting fact about the members of the ensemble is that all are Music Teachers in the Chicago Public school system. As music educators we know that it is our duty to instill the appreciation of the arts in our young people and promote the preservation of jazz as a true American art form. With this in mind, there is a segment in some of our performances where we invite a student in grades 3rd through the 12th grade who plays an instrument and know a jazz standard to come up and play a song with the ensemble.

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