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Previewing the 32nd Annual Valparaiso University Jazz Festival with Founder & Jazzer Jeffrey Brown

This "A LOOK AT THE ARTS with Tom Lounges" program originally aired on FRIDAY,  MARCH  31, 2017

TOPIC:  VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY 2017 JAZZ FEST

GUEST:  JEFFREY BROWN Fest Founder Head of Jazz Studies at Valparaiso University

This week's "A LOOK AT THE ARTS with Tom Lounges" program is a preview "The 32nd Annual Valparaiso University Jazz Festival" -- running from APRIL 3 thru APRIL 8th with all concerts taking place in the Harre Union Ballroom on campus.   Headliners include tenor saxophonist Mark Colby, The Victor Wooten Trio and The Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble.   Music will be heard from all three artists on this show, along with music from the Valparaiso University Faculty Jazz Trio.

The in-studio guest for this program is Jeffrey Brown, Valparaiso University's Coordinator of Jazz Studies, and the producer of the annual V.U. Jazz Festival he founded 32 years ago.   

* Repeats on MONDAY, APRIL  3 @ 7pm.

Tom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.