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Show 6 The Daily Utah Chronicle, April 27J971 I I University groups capture azz taureto Bruce Fowler, trombone, and John Larsen, piano. These students stu-dents received $100 tuition grants to be used at the school of their choice next year. Bass player Tom Fowler was ruled the number one instrumentalist instrument-alist at the festival. Tom, son of Dr. William L. Fowler, University professor of music and festival coordinator, was chosen out of the ranks of some 200 competitors. competi-tors. He plays in both the Jazz Orchestra and the John Larsen Combo. The combo is composed of BY FRANK RUNNER Chronicle Staff Some people at the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain Collegiate Jazz Festival last weekend thought that it would be a cold day in April before any groups from the University would take any honors. They were sure that the University of Colorado Jazz Ensemble (Boulder) or the Metropolitan State College Jazz Band (Denver) were really the only big bands in the running. To these people's dismay, it snowed the day after the decision. Ladd Mcintosh's Big Band "And, as the big band representing repre-senting this area. . .Ladd Mcintosh's. Mcin-tosh's. .." and the applause drowned out the remainder of the speaker's announcement of the winner. What the delegate from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was referring" to, of course, was the fact that the University Jazz Orchestra, directed dir-ected by Ladd Mcintosh had been chosen by a panel of three judges to represent the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Region at the American College Jazz Festival, May 14-16, at the University of Illinois in Urbana. The judges were Dick Grove, Oliver Nelson and Pat Williams. Wil-liams. Gets Standing Ovation The combo is composed of Tom, bass; his brother Bruce, electric elec-tric trombone; John Larsen, piano; pi-ano; Ken Breinholt, drums, and Glen Garrett, tenor saxophone. National Festival in Illinois Although the combo gave a fine performance Saturday night, it is the Neo-Classic Jazz Quintet from the University of New Mexico that will be flying along with the Jazz Orchestra to the national festival next month in Illinois. The combo will still be represented, repre-sented, however, because members mem-bers Bruce and Tom Fowler and Glen Garrett also play in the Jazz Orchestra. Free large color posters have been placed in the Chronicle office of-fice lobby for anyone who cares to pick one up. On the back of the posters is information about the American College Jazz Festival Festi-val program, and the sponsoring Kennedy Center. Supply is limited to the first 500 comers. Of course, the audience had made their decision almost one-half one-half hour before, when they gave the Jazz Orchestra the singular honor of a standing ovation after the winning performance of "Gotta Get Away," "Raisin Breath" and "Ooo, Mother Magnet Mag-net (or 'Lord Buckley Rides Again')." All of the pieces were composed by director Ladd Mcintosh. Mcin-tosh. The Orchestra had been selected sel-ected Saturday afternoon for the evening finals after giving renditions rendi-tions of "Nameless as Yet," a composition by orchestra guitarist Merrill Clark; "Diana," by orchestra orches-tra sax player Glen Farrett and an arrangement by Mcintosh of "Aquarius." Merrill Clark won the Outstanding Outstand-ing Student Composer award for jus "Nameless as Yet." University students who received re-ceived outstanding soloist awards were Glen Garrett, tenor saxophone; saxo-phone; Andalin Nebeker, flute |
