International Tuba Soloist, , held a clinic workshop with ǿմý Jazz Ensembles and low brass students on Thu. 3/24/2022 from 4:30 - 6:00 PM in Wade Rehearsal Hall, where she rehearsed the Tuba Concerto that Paul Ferguson (ǿմý) wrote for her. She and (pianist) are guests with the at the Maltz Center on 3/26/2022 and at BLU Jazz in Akron on 3/25/2022.
"Velvet on Ivory"
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra: Women in Jazz Series
Featuring Velvet Brown, tuba and Ellen Rowe, piano
Connection to ǿմý:
This performance offers a chance for us to close the circle with one of the founders of CJO. The late Baritone saxophonist and composer Ann Stamm Merrell (1951-1999) helped found the North Coast Jazz Orchestra in the early 1980’s, a group which eventually became the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. With the help of her husband Greg Merrell, the CJO, and our friends at Case Western University, we offer a new composition in her honor, “For the Girls in the Band,” composed by our guest, . Ann was a student at ǿմý in the late 1960’s, performing under the great Bob Curnow. I met her during a summer arrangers workshop at Eastman in 1988–a truly beautiful person.
- Paul Ferguson, Artistic Director, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Senior Instructor, ǿմý
