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Posted: 10/31/14
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People Are Talking: UMS presents Bob James at Hill Auditorium:
Bob James & Co were amazing. Their performance was so tight. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Meeting Bob James after the concert was so awesome – what a great guy! Thanks for having him and bring him back again.
People Are Talking: UMS presents Ahmad Jamal at Hill Auditorium:
Hey I was the “other Kelly” 🙂 out there that night waiting to meet the band! They were incredibly gracious and talked to us as if they had no place else to go. Awesome musicians and awesome people. So glad my husband and I got the chance to hear them and meeting them was the icing on the cake!! A dream my husband has had for 20 years!!
It was a great performance. Ahmad Jamal was so lively up there. Very charismatic. And I got to meet him afterwards. What a nice fella!!
"by Kelly K-Fresh Frazier
People Are Talking: UMS presents Ahmad Jamal at Hill Auditorium:
and what an amazing job Manolo did filling in those spaces that guy was so awesome! I love to hear musicians with that amazing ability to fill in and be right in tune with the melody. What an incredible group that I had the privilege to hear and see.
Hi, Marci…Mark Jacobson here from the UMS Programming department. I believe that percussionist Manolo Badrena (who first played at Hill Auditorium on his very first gig with Weather Report in 1976!) was intoning vocalizations from indigenous tribes of S. America, more than likely of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. Manolo, who was born in Puerto Rico, was impressively “filling in” some of the “empty spaces” between the melodic lines and harmony that Ahmad was creating on the piano as his whispered intonations were very much pitch-based!
"So glad you were able to attend this season-opening event!
by Mark Jacobson
People Are Talking: UMS presents Ahmad Jamal at Hill Auditorium:
Absolutely!!! He and the rest of the band were just so tight. They were amazing!
Herlin Riley was brilliant tonight! It was a beautiful performance.
"by Reid