Area Students to Perform in Jazz Ensemble

The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will present their spring concert Friday, April 22. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public.

The 18-member ensemble, which features Ripon College students as well as Ripon faculty and staff and area community members, will present a wide variety of jazz music spanning almost 100 years. It also will be the last Jazz Ensemble concert for three of the group's seniors: Jacob Zuehlke of Whitewater, Wisconsin, will be featured on Gil Evans' arrangement of Leo Delibes "The Maids of Cadiz," from the classic Miles Davis album "Miles Ahead"; and Lydia Wiley Deal of Whitewater, Wisconsin, and Allison Slowiak of Kiel, Wisconsin, will be featured on Kenny Wheeler's "Gentle Piece."

The concert also will feature the world premiere of "For Everyone," composed and arranged by ensemble director Paul Dietrich, adjunct instructor of music.