Date: Friday, October 25
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Jonsson Performance Hall

Ticket Prices
$10 General Admission
$5 Non-UTD Students
$5 UTD Alumni
$5 Children under 18
Free for UTD Faculty/Staff
Free to UTD Students with valid UTD Photo ID

Kelly Durbin is a faculty member at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he directs the Jazz Ensemble and teaches classes in music theory, MIDI, jazz history and jazz keyboard. He holds a Master of Music degree from The University of North Texas. Durbin is a long time member of the Marchel Ivery Quintet and the James Gilyard Ensemble, and has performed at numerous jazz concerts, festivals, and workshops. His professional credits include work with David “Fathead” Newman, James Clay, Chuck Rainey, Billy Hart, Louis Hayes, Ed Soph, Lynn Seaton, Hank Crawford, Sebastian Whittaker and Roseanne Vitro. Durbin was the music consultant and pianist for the Hollywood film Daddy’s dying, Whose got the will? and can be heard on recordings by James Gilyard and Freddie Jones.

Toni Bishop’s unique style and live performances are well known to Smooth Jazz enthusiasts throughout her native state of Florida. Toni's signature "jungle sounds" unfolded in the mid-80's. She studied and learned to produce artistic and uncannily precise imitations of cheetahs, monkeys, eagles, snakes, and other jungle animals. Tony has shared the stage with national artists such as Gato Barbiera, Larry Carlton, Najee, and Arturo Sandoval. Other artists that have appeared on stage in Toni Bishop's Restaurant and Jazz Club (Florida) include Chick Corea, Shirley Horn, Spyra Gyra, and Tito Puente. Toni's talents can be heard on several CD's produced under her name.

Dennis Durick, born and raised in the D.C. area, came to Texas to study music in Denton. He keeps busy performing with many different artists and projects that are musically diverse. He has recorded with Dave Liebman, Dave Zoller, Joe McBride, Tony Hakim, Pete Brewer, Larry Spencer, Leora Salo, Kellye Gray, and Brian Moore. Currently Dennis is working on projects with Quartet Out, Flipside, Café Noir, Bill Lohr, Lyles West, Paul English, Circo, and his own band, Brouhaha.

James Gilyard, jazz bassist, composer, producer and lecturer has over 39 years of performing experience in the clubs and other venues of Texas and Oklahoma. He graduated from Langston University in 1967 with a B.A. in education and took post graduate studies in Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma. He retired from a 27 year career as a HR professional with a Fortune 500 company to pursue a music career. He is a solid, sensitive accompanist and has performed with many well known artists including Red Garland, Sonny Stitt, Barney Kessell, Dewey Redman, Roseanne Vitro, James Clay and Billy Hart, to name a few. He has recorded four albums for Generativity, Ltd. and was one of five nominees for “Jazz Artist of the Year” in the 1996 Dallas Observer Reader’s Poll. Gilyard was also selected “Sammons Jazz Artist of the Year” for 1998 by the Sammons Center for the Arts, and is now the Artistic Director for the Sammons Jazz series.

Karl Lampman holds a Master of Music degree from The University of North Texas. During his time at UNT, Lampman was a member of the "One O'Clock Lab Band" and has performed with numerous artists including Ronnie Ball, The Supremes, Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, Billy Daniels and Buddy Greco. Lampman also toured with the Barnum & Bailey-Ringling Brother's Circus as well as the Ice Capades Band.

Chris Seiter is from Lubbock, Texas, where he started playing trombone at the age of 12. Mr. Seiter attended the University of North Texas and was a member of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band his entire four-year tenure. While a UNT student, he became an active freelance and studio trombonist in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, performing with such notable artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, Ray Charles, and others. Seiter was a two-time recipient of jazz study grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and also received the Frank Rosolino Memorial Jazz Award from the International Trombone Association. As a resident of New York City, Mr. Seiter performed with the Toshiko Akiyoshi New York Big Band ("Ten Gallon Shuffle"), the Bob Mintzer Big Band ("Camouflage"), the Woody Herman Orchestra, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Also while in New York, Seiter studied improvisation with Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely, and David Liebman.