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September 2, 2016

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SHELTON STATE TERRIFIC TUESDAY CONCERT SERIES

TO FEATURE UAB JAZZ COMBO

Tuscaloosa, Alabama – Shelton State Community College’s Terrific Tuesday Concert Series will feature the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Jazz Combo on Tuesday, September 6 at 1:00 p.m. in the Alabama Power Recital Hall on the Martin Campus. The UAB Jazz Combo will be under the direction of Dr. Steven Roberts.

Dr. Steven Roberts is associate professor of jazz studies and trumpet at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is an active teacher and freelance musician and has performed with Kirk Whalum, Vincent DiMartino, Ryan Anthony, Jon Faddis, Allen Vizzutti, Cecil and Deedee Bridgewater, Chip McNeill, Jim Pugh, Charo and many others. 

His group “The Roberts Jazz Project” released their album Let’s Fall in Love in 2012. He is also music director for Unity Church of Birmingham and Saint Junia United Methodist. Along with jazz experience as a member of “the Roberts Jazz Project”, “Steve Roberts Jazz Quartet,”, “Birmingham Seven”, and various jazz ensembles aboard Holland America and Royal Caribbean cruise ships, Roberts has also had extensive classical ensemble experience performing with the UAB faculty Brass, the Mountain Empire Brass Quintet, the Johnson City Symphony, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony and Sinfonia da Camera. Dr. Roberts received his Bachelors in Music in 1999 from Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied classical music from members of the Cleveland Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Al Couch and Bill Lucas respectively, and studied jazz from Kenny Davis, Robin Eubanks, Wendall Logan, and Neal Creque, freelance musicians from Cleveland and New York. Dr. Roberts received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in trumpet performance and jazz at the University of Illinois (U.C.) in 2005, where he also received his masters degree in 2001.

Shelton State’s Terrific Tuesday Concert Series is designed to showcase a variety of repertory styles. Weekly performances are offered by guest artists as well as Shelton State faculty and students. Admission is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Lillian Roberts at 205.391.2399 or lroberts@sheltonstate.edu.

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