 Musician and faculty member John Bacon is director and arranger for the Latin Jazz Ensemble. Visit his website. |
The Fredonia Latin Jazz Ensemble is a curricular ensemble of the School of Music dedicated to the performance of classic and contemporary arrangements of jazz styles from the Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian traditions.
The 20-piece ensemble will present music by Horace Silver, Duke Ellington, and Pixinguinha in new arrangements by Mike McGough and John Bacon.
The ensemble is directed by School of Music faculty member John Bacon, who also serves as the group’s music arranger. He has taught at SUNY Fredonia for the past eleven years where his duties include teaching percussion lessons, music theory, and directing the Latin Jazz group. He holds a Master's Degree in Music Performance and is pursuing a doctorate in music composition.
Bacon has been a mainstay of the music scene in Western New York for over 25 years. He has performed with Lester Bowie, Roswell Rudd, Bobby Previte, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bobby Militello and was a featured soloist with the SUNY Fredonia percussion ensemble.
Equally skilled as a classical percussionist and trap drummer, he has been a member of HatArt and has recorded artists such as The Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble, as well as leading his own band, Multi-Jazz Dimensions, for many years in and around the United States.
