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Show lllMl'SltY JoDmlll • IIDnll'I, July 29, f996 • 3 Cedar Jazz Quintet in concert this weelf T he names and faces of members of the Cedar Jazz Quintet may be familiar across the southwest corner of the state, but it would be a serious mistake to pin a provincial label on the ensemble or its musicians. Members of the Cedar Jazz Qu intet, which will perform Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. on the Southern Utah University Summer Evening Concert Series, have a broad array credits and experience beyond just their local work. That experience includes work with a wide variety of regionally and nationally popu lar groups. "We are quite fortunate to have musicians of this caliber livi ng and working with music among us," Marla Bingham, director of the su mmer concert series, said. "Their individual and combined credits are very impressive. The ensemble they have created allows us to better appreciate the depth of their musical contribution to this area, and it also allows them to showcase their talents." The Quintet, which will be performing free in the Randall L. Jones Performing Arts Theatre, is led by David Bolsover-, who plays the saxophone and clarinet. Other members of the quintet are Jim Harrison, drums; Chris Davis, bass; Ray Sims, trombone ; and Stanley Seale, piano. Bolsover and Harrison are on the SUU faculty, and Seale teaches at the Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Washington County. Davis is completing a master's degree at UNLV, and Sims is a former touring professional musician. musical experience. Their show will include original arrangements and an instrumentation of saxophone, clarinet, trombone, piano, bass, and drums." Members of the Cedar Jazz Quintet will offer some of America's best known classical music-jazz. The repertoire includes such Dixieland standards as "T hat's a Plenty" and "Basin Street Blues;" such swing favorites as "Take the A Train" and "Perdido;" and such blues numbers as "Moanin"' and "Sack of Woe." Saxophonist/leader Bolsover graduated from the university of Miami, where he played in the UM Concert Jazz Band . he has performed with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, The Temptations, The Platters, and the Mills Brothers. Trombonist Simms toured with the Harry James, Les Brown, and Benny Goodman bands; he has lived and performed professionally in Las Vegas. Davis has played bass professionally in a variety of jazz and popular music settings along the Wasatch Front. Drummer Harrison is a former member of the Utah Symphony and a former cond uctor of the Southern Utah - - - J Symphony. He continues to perform with a number of local groups. Seale has 30 years experience in the music businessperforming, recording, arranging, composing, producing and accompanying. He is assistant director of the Southwest Choral Festival. ••11111~--t ''The group will be performing a variety of swing jazz ranging from Dixieland to big band to more contemporary styles," Bingham explained. "This is a group with a lot of versatility, style and exciting Brent Richey: an uncommon student, person . B rent Richey came to SUU in 1987, a recent graduate of Taylors~ille High School in the Salt Lake Valley. He immediately made his mark here and few who came to know him doubted that his life would be one of great success and accomplishment. It was clear that his name would be known . Unfortunately, before it could be known to a great measure in life, it became known in death. Richey, along with fiancee Seana Anderson, were among 230 who perished in the explosion and downing of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 on July 17. The two were on their way to Italy to be wed, and when their flight experienced mechanical difficulties which delayed it on the ground at New York's JFK Airport, Richey and Anderson quickly found a new flight: the fateful plane to Paris . Richey spent three and-a-half years as sports editor of this newspaper as well as a year and-a-half of simultaneous service as advertising manager. He was outstanding in both areas, winning up to a dozen regional collegiate awards for the quality of his work. That he was able to hold down two timeconsuming jobs in addition to his studies would seem impressive, but Richey went far beyond that extensive time commitment to engage in a wide array of extra- and co-curricular activities. At SUU, he also participated in forensics and television programs at SUU, was an editor of and contributor to the literary magazine Tailwind, worked in student lobbying efforts in Salt Lake City, served an internship for U.S. Sen. Jake Garn (R-Ut) in Washington D.C., and followed interests in music I and art in addition to his studies in political science and journalism. He also sold travel tapes for a local marketing company, served as a law clerk for Cedar City attorney Will Bishop, aided the campus sports • information office and worked as a stringer for the Associated Press. At the time of his death, he was about to enter his third year of stud ies at Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles . Add itionally, he ran a telecommunications corporation engaged in the marketing of 900 calling cards and was also beginning a film production company. His death occurred a day after his 26th birthday and only a few days after he and seana purchased a home in Southern California. · Richey, it's clear, was an energetic and ambitious man who, most who knew him felt, was destined for greatness. Among his strongest traits were integrity and a thirst for knowledge and truth. That hunger for knowledge and wisdom often drained his closest friends who found it impossible to keep up with him. He pushed the people around him to reach the fullness of their own potential. Richey continuous ly challenged others to be their best. He was a natural leader and an creative, independent and original thinker. He maintained great loyalty to family and friends and kept alive many friendships from his college days here in Cedar City, many of which were scattered all across the country engaged in many pursuits. He phoned the Journal offices a week before departing for New York to keep us aware of his plans. A scholarship in his name will be establish.!;!d here at SUU and his mother, Shirley Anderson of Ventura, Calif., has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to that fund. -Larry Baker |