Concert brings blues to campus | Arts & Entertainment - The Signal

The Kendall Hall Main Stage Theater was filled with jazz, solos and a wide showcase of talent as the TCNJ Jazz Ensemble gathered for its concert on Nov. 15., notes Julia Duggan, Staff Writer at The Signal. 

Fienberg leads the ensemble
Photo: courtesy of Nelly Sanchez.

Gary Fienberg, the coordinator of Brass Studies and the director of the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Studies, led the group, which performed music from two accomplished jazz arrangers, Bob Florence and Thad Jones. 

While the concert featured all the standard jazz instruments that one might expect, such as five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones and a standard rhythm section, the performers had more uncommon ones as well, including French horns, a vibraphone, flutes, clarinets and a bass clarinet...

The audience was so pleased by the concert that the ensemble performed an encore, “Farewell,” by Jones. The piece opened with the trumpet section hitting screaming high notes, which called attention to itself from being so high in the trumpet range. After a satisfying end to the concert that was full of energy and excitement, Cancglin expressed his gratitude to the audience.
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Source: The Signal