Bryce and Bethany Merritt’s Christmas With the Mrs. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday UCO Jazz Lab 100 E. Fifth St., Edmond ucojazzlab.com 405-974-2100 $20 Married musicians Bryce and Bethany Merritt have known each other since first grade, but they grew up celebrating Christmas differently. The two Will Rogers Elementary School alums will return to Edmond from their […]
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Holly Jones uses her UCO Jazz Lab debut to celebrate a new release
The Edmond-based composer recently returned from a trip to Europe recording with Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
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Drummer Walter Taylor III uses the Blu Fonk movement to bring the blues back to Oklahoma City
Taylor has been drumming in jazz and blues clubs since he was a teenager.
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Folk chart toppers to play UCO Jazz Lab
Billboard’s top songs list for 1965 includes few surprises. It is populated with now-iconic names: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations and The Supremes. Alongside British Invasion bands and Motown elite, an almost-forgotten folk music revolution mushroomed. The Communist witch hunts of the McCarthy era damaged the genre’s growth and popularity, and pulled legends […]
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UCO fundraiser features unique pianist Valery Kuleshov
Kuleshov became the Artist in Residence for the UCO School of Music in 2000, and in 2013, he declared Edmond his home.
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Ox rocks
Making music comes naturally to Oklahoma City brothers Sam and Ray Ashford, who made it official by s tarting a band together in 2009. With big choruses and mellow verses, Oxford Town has been described as garage blues with a hint of grudge. A reflection of their shared musical taste, their band name is taken […]
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Tribute to ‘Speedy’ West set for Sunday
However, as they say in the business, the show must go on. Sunday’s benefit from 2 to 6 p.m. at UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth in Edmond, will double as a tribute to West and as a fundraiser to offset the costs for his medical treatment and funeral. Four bands each will play a […]