Don’t Call It Jazz: Stevie Wonder & The Commercial Music Big Band

I am excited to welcome Dr. Jenna McLean, my colleague in the ISU music department and co-director of the commercial music big band to Don’t Call it Jazz. Jenna and I converted the big band to this open-instrumentation group as a way to better represent and support the growing and dynamic talent of the commercial music program. We put together ten interesting new arrangements of songs by Stevie Wonder for our debut concert, Friday October 25^th in Jensen Hall at the Stephen’s Performing Arts Center. Concert starts at 7:30pm, tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance.

For this episode, Jenna and I will be discussing the concert, the band, the rehearsals so far, and listening to the ten Stevie Wonder tunes.

1. “As”, 7:08
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

2. “Uptight, Everything’s Alright”, 2:54
*SINGLE*, (1965)

3. “Contusion”, 3:46
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

4. “Overjoyed”, 3:43
In Square Circle (1984)

5. “Isn’t She Lovely”, 6:34
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

6. “Higher Ground”, 3:42
Innervisions (1973)

7. “A Place in the Sun”, 2:53
Down to Earth (1966)

8. “I Wish”, 4:12
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)

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