The Rutgers Jazz Ensemble is a very fine group so it was a natural to have the students involved in this. We wanted to have a real mix of musical styles, from vocals to the Hammond B3. And also, for this series, I felt it should be mostly artists from around the area who you might not hear in New York.

Holly Hofmann

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This is kind of a pre-series for a bigger summer series next year. So, with these four concerts, we can give the (city officials) in New Brunswick a preview of what we would be doing in terms of the jazz series.

— Holly Hofmann

Now he's doing his own trio as well as our quartet, which is the two of us, bassist Hassan Shakur and drummer Victor Lewis who are both well-known around New Brunswick. In fact, Victor teaches at Rutgers.

— Holly Hofmann

We even show how jazz, rock and country are all intertwined and related to each other. The students also learn how the basic music principals of rhythm, harmony and melody work together to make any form of music.

— Angela Cring

CountryJazzStudents

While [jazz] students are a first priority, we get a nice mix of students and community members at our shows.

— Evan Siegel

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If you have to ask, then you'll never know (when asked 'what is jazz?')

— Louis Armstrong