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April 22, 2021
University of Wyoming Department of Music faculty members Ben Markley and Andy Wheelock will team up with bassist Bob Bowman and trumpeter Dan Jonas for a virtual performance Wednesday, April 28.
The performance will be livestreamed at 7:30 p.m. from the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall. The group will play a collection of jazz standards and originals. To view the performance, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMXx6nWGL68.
Markley, a UW associate professor, is director of jazz studies and a jazz pianist. He has performed with well-known jazz musicians Brian Lynch, Eddie Henderson, Terell Stafford, George Garzone and John Fedchock. Compositions from each of Markley’s two albums earned him American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2007 and 2008. He co-leads the band Raincheck, which recently released a recording on the Dazzle Recordings label.