Bringing Jazz to our community
CONCERT PROGRAM
Tonight’s Tunes
Tunes for tonight's show will be selected from the following:
St. James Infirmary
What a Wonderful World
Summertime
Blue Skies
All the things you are
Mack the Knife
Take the “A” Train
“C” Jam Blues
A Night in Tunisia
Joy Spring
Take Five
Girl from Ipanema
Moanin’
All Blues
Watermelon Man
Tonight’s Musicians
Sam picked up the trumpet as an eleven-year old in response to a suggestion from a friend: “Hey Sam, you should play trumpet so we can start a ska band!”
And he did. Music quickly became his favorite thing in the whole world, and every performance is a chance to let spontaneity and fun shine through. Ska was left behind for Jazz, and Sam went on to receive a BM Commercial Music from BYU, where he toured the world with groups like the Young Ambassadors and Synthesis.
Sam is now graduated, moved to Southern Utah, works in Marketing, and has four beautiful children.
Christian Bohnenstengel teaches piano at Southern Utah University. Praised as “a master of contrasts” (Aalener Nachrichten) and for his ability to “put the audience into a state of sheer awe” (Gmünder Tagespost), his performances have taken him all over the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe. Christian frequently performs with jazz combos and big bands throughout southern Utah, and his recordings include the albums Jazz Hands and Jazz Hands II with the Shawn Owens Project Trio. He also serves as music director for the First Fridays at Kayenta event series.
Shawn Owens is from Cincinnati, Ohio. He fell in love with jazz at an early age and was influenced by Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, and Dave Weckl. Shawn left music behind for awhile but when he moved to Utah he found his way back to jazz, when a jazz group performing at a local restaurant didn't have a drummer and invited him to audition right then and there on the house drum set. Shawn got the gig and has been playing ever since. While Shawn's favorite genre is jazz, he's on the first call list for fill-in work (live and studio) for classic rock,country, gospel, and reggae bands.
Photo courtesy of Donna Conversano / Conversanophoto.com
THOMAS HERB
Thomas Herb is originally from Salem, Oregon but has spent the last 15 years in Cedar City where he runs the music education program at Southern Utah University. While his list of saxophone influences run far and wide, his initial youthful inspiration came from Spyro Gyra and Maynard Ferguson. He founded the Jazz Alliance of Cedar City in 2018, and during 2020 the “JAZZcast” (currently getting 20k monthly views) was formed. He can be found performing with many local bands, including the Rebel Jazz Band, St. George All Stars, and The Shawn Owens Project, while also doing plenty of freelance work.
Photo courtesy of Donna Conversano / Conversanophoto.com
Our Next Performance will be
November 11
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All concerts are supported in part by Utah Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Cedar City RAP Tax.
