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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton
In Recognition of Black History Month and the Significance of Blues Music to American Culture, the Winter show featured strictly Blues in its various forms. This video showcases Dr. Kopplins good friend, colleague, and Tonights Guest Artist, Christoph Luty in an Original Blues work by Dr. Kopplin. As presented in the Monologue, Slow Slow Slow Bus (Kopplin 2010) appropriately sat unfinished for 4 years and is a musical satire about the painfully pokey bus the Band rode to the Reno Jazz Festival.
Christoph currently lives in the Los Angeles area, and maintains a busy concert schedule, appearing in concert halls, clubs, and festivals throughout the United States, Japan, and Europe. He is presently a member of the Jeff Hamilton Trio, which performs concerts, club dates and workshops nationally and internationally. As the longtime bassist of the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra he has collaborated on concerts with artists like Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Clark Terry, Dave Brubeck, James Moody and Shirley Horn, to name only a few. He has recorded with the likes of Milt Jackson, John Pizzarelli, Diana Krall and more; and has appeared nationally with artists such as Dena DeRose, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, Curtis Stigers, Bill Watrous, Anthony Wilson, Jeff Clayton, Bill Cunliffe, Howlett Smith and many others.
Christoph is also interested in educating young bassists he teaches jazz bass at California State University Long Beach, assists John Clayton at the University of Southern California, and teaches privately in his own studio. From http://www.hamiltonjazz.com/lutybio.html
Student soloists include Brandon Tidwell on Electric Guitar, and the dueling saxophones of Darrell Tung, and 2008 IAJE Outstanding Soloist and multiple Cal Poly Foundation Award winner James Goese.
If this kind of Student-Empowering Progressive Music Department sounds interesting to you, visit the Cal Poly Music Department at http://www.class.csupomona.edu/mu
OK Live Jazz Fans, its Showtime! Thursday, June 03, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Cal Poly Pomona Music Recital Hall
3801 w. Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
Phone: (909) 869-3554
Get your tickets at http://csupomona.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=255647
Or take your chances at the door!
Be There or Be Square!