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Florida Southern presents 15th annual
"Child of the Sun" Jazz Festival
Band members perform the following day
at a service in Annie Pfeiffer Chapel

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 22, 2002) - Florida Southern College presents the 15th annual "Child of the Sun" Jazz Festival April 6 beginning at 2:30 p.m. The outdoor event features several jazz ensembles performing throughout the afternoon and evening at the Wall Plaza on the Florida Southern campus. The following day, members of the jazz bands will perform newly composed music by Larry Willis at a service in Annie Pfeiffer Chapel on campus at 11 a.m.

Jazz ensembles include the Vincent Herring Quartet; the Nathen Page Quartet; the Freetime Jazz Ensemble; the FSC Jazz Ensemble, and the FSC Faculty Jazz Quartet. Rob Bargad and Larry Willis, former Nat Adderley pianists, will perform together as a duo for the first time. The 10th anniversary performance of the "Child of the Sun" Suite, a work originally commissioned from the late Adderley, will feature the FSC Jazz Ensemble and the original members of the Adderley quintet who first performed the work with the college band.

The chapel service will include Willis on piano, Herring on soprano sax, and a string section from the college orchestra.

Jazz performances are scheduled as follows:
Saturday, April 6:
2:30 p.m. FSC Faculty Jazz Quartet
3:45 Freetime Jazz Ensemble
5:00 FSC Jazz Ensemble featuring Jimmy Cobb, Walter Booker and the 10th anniversary performance of the "Child of the Sun" Suite
6:15 Larry Willis/Rob Bargad duo jazz pianos
7:30 Nathen Page Quartet
8:45 Vincent Herring Quartet

Sunday, April 7
11 a.m. Chapel service featuring music by Larry Willis

Admission is free to both events. Festival attendees are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs. Rain cover for festival: Branscomb Auditorium.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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