FOUR Makes a Guest Appearance at USU Big Bands Concert
Members of the saxophone quartet FOUR perform with USU students in a Big Band concert April 8, 7:30 p.m., Caine Performance Hall, USU Logan campus.
Utah State University Big Bands are playing everything from Duke Ellington to Les Hooper in the Caine Performance Hall in a concert Wednesday, April 8. The USU Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble perform along with special guests, the saxophone quartet FOUR.
FOUR includes members Mark Watkins, soprano sax; Ray Smith, alto sax; Sandon Mayhew, tenor tax; and Jon Gudmundson, baritone sax. FOUR performs music ranging from the bebop Hot House and Ornithology to the contemporary mainstream Freer ör Edgier.
“The group is currently gearing up for its third European tour to include Reykjavik, Strasbourg, Hanover and London,” said John Gudmundson, member of the quartet and director of jazz studies in the Caine College of the Arts. “We have just finished a CD called ‘FOURway Stop,’ which will be released shortly. We’ll return to the studio in May to record another CD.”
FOUR will perform unaccompanied and with each of the big bands, Gudmundson said.
Tickets for “Big Band” are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and youth, $5 faculty and staff and free for USU students with valid ID. For more information and tickets, visit the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 435-797-8022 or see the Caine College’s Production Services website.
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Writer and contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
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