The UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band will present their final concert of the Spring 2014 semester on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 at 7.30 p.m in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The concert will feature a wide selection of music, to include: Big Dipper by Thad Jones two movements of the Sweet Time Suite by Canadian-British composer-trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, One By One by Wayne Shorter (arranged by Mark Taylor) and the UNL premiere of a new arrangement of Hoagy Carmichael’s jazz standard The Nearness Of You arranged by Kara Baxter (DMA ‘14). The concert will conclude with an original funk tune for big band titled Wolfdenfunk composed by Dr. Eric Richards, director of the UNL Jazz Orchestra. The UNL Big Band is directed by Dave Stamps (DMA ‘14), newly appointed Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Jazz Composition at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.