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Spartan Jazz Collective Performs Music By Jazz Legend Max Roach

WUNC | By Nicole Campbell,
Frank Stasio
Published October 8, 2013 at 10:02 AM EDT
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The Spartan Jazz Collective from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is made up of students and faculty.

The group will perform a retrospective of work by percussionist composer and native North Carolinian Max Roach. The Spartan Jazz Collective is Chad Eby, Melvin Holland, Evan Ringel, Jonathan Wiseman, Thomas Linger, Aaron Gross, Kassem Williams, and Dr. Neeraj Mehta.

The Spartan Jazz Collective draws heavily from Roach's "We Insist!", one of his most notable releases
Credit Candid Records

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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