{"id":14482,"date":"2013-03-28T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2013-03-28T04:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:46:17","slug":"apsus-52nd-annual-mid-south-jazz-festival-april-3rd-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/28\/apsus-52nd-annual-mid-south-jazz-festival-april-3rd-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU’s 52nd annual Mid-South Jazz Festival April 3rd-6th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 2011, the New York Times published a review of a new jazz album, \u201cDawn of Goodbye,\u201d by a trumpeter named Dominick Farinacci. The album cover, printed with the article, showed a black and white image of a handsome, but very young-looking, 28-year-old musician. That picture caused some jazz aficionados to assume the album was the work of a novice. The Times review intended to correct that misconception.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Farinacci plays beautifully, with expressive control, throughout a program of love-haunted standards and compatible originals, including his yearning title track,\u201d the review stated. \u201cHis phrasing attests to some close study of Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, but avoids outright imitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jazz<\/a>

Jazz Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci<\/p><\/div>\n

At 7:30pm on April 6th, the Dominick Farinacci Quintet will visit Austin Peay State University\u2019s Mabry Concert Hall to headline the 52nd Annual Mid-South Jazz Festival. That concert is sponsored by the Clarksville Community Concert Association, with the support of the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, The Leaf-Chronicle and the Clarksville Arts and Heritage Development Council.<\/p>\n

Farinacci may be young, but he\u2019s already had an impressive career. When he was only 17, he opened for Wynton Marsalis and his big band during a jazz festival in Cleveland. He went on to perform as a special guest with Marsalis on a live PBS broadcast, \u201cLive From Lincoln Center.\u201d He was also part of the inaugural class of the Julliard Jazz Program.<\/p>\n

By the time he graduated from Julliard, he had received two Gold Disc Awards, the International New Star Award, had won first place in the ITG Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition and had traveled to Japan to promote his records over a dozen times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only have one real jazz event a year, and I\u2019ve always tried to get as top drawer musicians that we can get,\u201d David Steinquest, APSU professor of music, said. \u201cAnd I have a feeling that we\u2019re having Dominick here before he sort of explodes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mid-South Jazz Festival is a four-day event at APSU that was founded in 1961 as a way of bringing jazz musicians to Clarksville to work with APSU students. It has since morphed in the last 27 years, under Steinquest\u2019s leadership, into one of the region\u2019s most successful, professional jazz experiences. Luminaries such as the Joel Frahm Quartet, pianist Fred Hersch and Jason and Delfeayo Marsalis have visited the University over the years as part of the festival.<\/p>\n

The concerts begin at 7:30pm on Wednesday, April 3rd, with a performance by the Cumberland Jazz Project. That group, under the direction of Mike Ritter, consists of local musicians from the Middle Tennessee area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great group, and they have a good following here,\u201d Steinquest said.<\/p>\n

[320left]At 7:30pm on April 4th, the APSU Jazz Combo will present a program featuring works by some of the giants of jazz trumpet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put together a program of jazz pieces written by a bunch of different jazz trumpet players,\u201d Steinquest said. \u201cClassic giants like Miles Davis, and we\u2019re doing a couple by Dominick Farinacci, and everybody in between. It forces the students to get to know 10 different player\/composers from the 1940s to now. I think it makes for sort of an interesting program for the audience too.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 7:30pm on Friday night, April 5th, the APSU Jazz Collegians, will present a free evening featuring the popular jazz standards.<\/p>\n

At noon on April 6th, the festival will host middle school and high school band performances. Farinacci will give a clinic at 4:00pm that day. All events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, the festival closes with the Dominick Farinacci Quintet. Tickets for that performance are $25.00 a person, $5.00 for students and free for APSU students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe place should be packed,\u201d Steinquest said.<\/p>\n

Tickets can be purchased online at www.clarksvillemusic.org<\/a> or by phone at 931.552.6093.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the APSU Department of Music at 931.221.7818.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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