UNH Traditional Jazz Series Presents Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band Sept. 19

The 27th season of the UNH Traditional Jazz Series begins on Monday, Sept. 19, with a return concert by Ray Smith’s Paramount Jazz Band. Widely respected and acclaimed for his perennial weekly program The Jazz Decades on National Public Radio (currently well over 2,000 in separately prepared presentations), Smith organized this performing ensemble in Boston in 1980; its seven members are now broadly dispersed around the country, but gather from time to time for jazz festivals, recording sessions, and special events. They emphasize music from the teens through the 1930s, rescuing much of it from underserved neglect. Vocalist/banjoist Jimmy Mazzy is featured.

The concert takes place in the Johnson Theatre of the Paul Creative Arts Center on the Durham campus, and begins at 8 p.m. Single tickets are priced at $8, senior citizen and student tickets sell for $6 and are available at the MUB Ticket Office, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and one hour prior to the concert.

If you would like a brochure listing the upcoming season and other jazz events, call the UNH Department of Music at 2-2404. For tickets, call 2-2290.

In cooperation with the Department of Music, the concert series is sponsored by the New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz archive in the Special Collections division of UNH’s Dimond Library, under a generous and visionary bequest from the late Dorothy Prescott of Auburn, NH. Further information about the archive is available at 2-2714.