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Habitat jazz concert to be recorded
Published June 11, 2008
LAKE JACKSON — Habitat for Humanity of Southern Brazoria County will sponsor a jazz concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at The Clarion performance center at Brazosport College, 500 College Drive in Lake Jackson.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 students. They are available online at www.clarion.brazosport.edu or by calling The Clarion box office at (979) 230-3156
The feature artist will be Jazz Sunday. The band began leading jazz worship services in 1990 at Christ Lutheran Church in Lake Jackson. Since then, it has led jazz worship services and performed concerts in Texas and throughout the country, including the 2006 Episcopal General Convention in Columbus, Ohio.
Its repertoire includes jazz accompaniments of traditional hymns; special instrumental arrangements of hymns and spirituals for use as prelude, anthem, offertory, communion and postlude; and original compositions for jazz worship. Jazz Sunday has released three compact discs: “Joyful Noise,” “Marvelous Things” and “Jazz the Halls.”
Jazz Sunday will record this concert and members plan to release it as their fourth compact disc later in the summer. Selections to be performed include “Get Happy,” “Just a Closer Walk With Thee,” “Wade in the Water,” “Blow Gabriel Blow,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Wayfaring Stranger” and “This Little Light of Mine.”
All proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity of Southern Brazoria County.
The members of Jazz Sunday are:
Richard Birk, trombone: Birk is the leader/founder of Jazz Sunday as well as associate professor and coordinator of music at Brazosport College.
Sparky Koerner, trumpet: Koerner is professor of music at College of the Mainland in Texas City and principal trumpet in the Galveston Symphony.
Johnny Gonzales, saxophones: Gonzales recently retired as principal of Marshall Middle School in the Houston Independent School District.
Tom Borling, piano: Borling is a recently retired professor of music at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
Brian Casey, bass: Casey is assistant band director at Brazoswood High School where he directs the award-winning A.M. Jazz Band.
Ben Atkinson, drums: A graduate of the University of North Texas, Atkinson is one the first-call jazz drummers in Houston and is a member Houston jazz groups the Blue Monks and Category Five.
Ellen Johnson, vocals: After Hurricane Katrina, Ellen relocated from New Orleans to Houston where she is an active singer on the local jazz scene.
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