Jazz

The jazz concert is something of a tradition for orientation and has always provided a highlight. This year should prove no exception. First up is the Creative Art Ensemble, a band that helps keep alive music of the great bebop jazzmen of the fourties and fifties as well as the experimental free jazz of Coltrane, Coleman and the like. It will be another chance to catch the beauty and vitality of the music that had dominated the American and European jazz world since the war.

Next up, something rather a different a combination, the old big bands with a rock rhythm section. The music of New Zealand's premier jazz band The Roger Fox Big Band combines excitement with excellence and contains some of the countries best musicians. They have completed tours of the country and highly praised recordings.

[unclear: Ending] the concert is a new group by one of the stars of the Roger Fox Big Band, Colin Hemingsen. Also included are two musicians from Pacific Eardrum, an English based New Zealand band that have made a great impression on the London jazz scene, Joy Yates vocalist and keyboards man Dave McCray. On the whole, a finer presentation of the tradition and direction of jazz would be hard to find.

Following the concert, will be a hop with one of the nation's most amazing bands. Living Force. They play Santana - like music and star Eddie Hansen. NZ's ace rock guitarist. They have just returned from California and will soon be returning overseas. Discover your arses swinging to some of the best music around.;