Live Jazz in the Library

Peter Davis, Professional Musician in Residence and Chair of the Department of Music
Michael Johnson, an adjunct professor, teaching jazz theory, piano, and small jazz ensemble
Doug Woolverton, an adjunct professor, teaching trumpet performance methods
D.J. Cordeiro - Drums
Jon Lavieri - Tenor Sax

Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Jazz Café setting
R.S.V.P. 341-2327.

The MSD Quintet will perform and talk about influences and innovations in their music. For this special event, the first floor of McKillop Library will become a jazz café. The MSD Quintet is a contemporary jazz ensemble principally based in Newport, RI. Consisting of keyboards, sax, trumpet / flugelhorn, bass guitar and drums, they play sounds of Yellowjackets, Miles Davis, The Pat Metheny Group, Michael Brecker, Steps Ahead, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, and other jazz greats, as well as original compositions.

Three members of the Quintet are on the Salve Regina faculty: Peter Davis, Professional Musician in Residence and Chair of the Department of Music; Michael Johnson, an adjunct professor, teaching jazz theory, piano, and small jazz ensemble; and Doug Woolverton, also an adjunct professor, teaching trumpet performance methods. The quintet also includes D.J. Cordeiro on drums and Jon Lavieri on tenor saxophone.

To learn more about the group see the MSDQ Web site: http://www.themsdquintet.com/about.html

Listen to jazz from our own music databases:

Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
This database includes more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Specially developed, controlled vocabularies enable users to browse by musical instrument, geographic area, or cultural group, among other fields. Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
Browse and listen to the: Jazz Collection

Naxos Music Library
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It offers the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo catalogues, and selected titles from other labels. Most recordings come with scholarly notes which have been written by respected musicologists. All notes can be accessed and read while listening. NAXOS has 90,000-plus tracks, and more than 6,000 CDs. Over 7,000 composers are represented. Besides classical other genres include Jazz, Blues, World and Chinese music. New releases are added monthly.
Browse and listen to the: Jazz Collection
Listen to HERBIE HANCOCK Cantaloupe Island (5:49)

The Whitaker Collection
A large collection of jazz and classical recordings located in Cecelia Hall on Ruggles Ave. Recordings from the Whitaker collection can not leave Cecelia Hall, but patrons are able to listen to the recordings there.
Browse the: Jazz Collection

Listed below are just a few of the books available at the McKillop Library on the subject of Jazz:

Jazz Anecdotes

What to Listen for in Jazz

Myself Among Others

The Birth of Bebop

Send comments or questions to Olga Verbeek, Information Systems Librarian, 341-2281 or verbeeko@salve.edu