Tuesday Night August 27 the LeFlore County Historical Society will present their Monthly Jazz at the Museum with special Guest Don Bailey
Don Bailey is in his 39th year as Associate Professor of Music and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. He developed one of the first comprehensive summer jazz camps for all instruments in the state, and, at the time, one of very few summer jazz camps for orchestra in the tri-state region. He is an active jazz clinician and adjudicator.
A native of New Jersey, Don received his formative music education performing as a freelance musician in New York and his home state. He holds music degrees from the University of Northern Iowa (M.A.- emphasis in Jazz Studies), and Iowa Wesleyan College (B.M.E.). Don was the graduate assistant in Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Iowa under Dr. Bob Washut.
Don received the National Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 6-time recipient of the “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” Award, a 7-time recipient of “Who’s Who in America”, and a 6-time recipient of “Who’s Who in the World”. He has received many other awards in addition to these.
As a composer, Don has composed 2 full symphonies- “Jazz Suite: A Retrospective” (History of Jazz), and “The History of Rock”, a 2- hour work with narration, costumes, and staging. Both works were premiered by the Fort Smith Symphony. Don has also written and arranged about 15 other symphonic works.
As a saxophonist, Don has shared the stage and performed with Johnny Mathis, Jon Faddis, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Marvin Hamlisch, Diane Schuur, Jeff Jarvis, Tommy Newsom, Ed Soph, and many more nationally acclaimed artists.
The LeFlore County Historical Society is located inside the Historic Hotel Lowrey at 303 Dewey Ave in the Downtown Dewey District.
The concert is free and will start at 6:30 pm
Refreshment will be served
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