DAN O'REILLY

Jazz After Hours Concert with Dan O’Reilly

Friday, February 13, 2009
2:30pm – 3:20pm
Wheelwright Auditorium
Reception to follow in Mezzanine

Returning by popular demand to again perform the Celebration's Closing Session, Jazz After Hours with Dan O'Reilly will provide a variety of musical favorites that express the sounds of American-born jazz music and the stories of the lives of the musicians who created them.

O'Reilly has been a member of the performing arts faculty at Coastal Carolina University since the fall of 2001. His teaching commitments include American Popular Music, the CCU Saxophone Ensemble, the Jazz After Hours Big Band, the Pop 101- the CCU contemporary music ensemble, and the Saxophone Studio.

O'Reilly continues to maintain a professional performing schedule on the Grand Strand, appearing with his own jazz quartet u”n”i, with various blues bands, and backing up artists such as Lou Rawls, the Temptations, and the Four Tops. Jazz After Hours—the CCU Big Band—is a full-sized band, performing the works of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and many other essential American jazz composers.