Todd Kelly Quintet to perform at Bradley

Peoria, Illinois . . . September 24, 2004 . . . The Todd Kelly Quintet will perform a concert on Tuesday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Bradley University's Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. Admission is free and open to the public.

Members of the Quintet include Dr. Todd Kelly, trumpet and flugelhorn; Dr. Steve Heinemann, saxophones; Mike Flack, piano; Toby Curtright, bass; and Tom Marko, drums.

The group will perform several Todd Kelly original compositions, including "Perpetual Notion," "Hurtin' for Certain," and "Berg-Like." They will also play jazz classics including Horace Silver's "Strollin'," Blue Mitchell's "Sir John," Clark Terry's "The Snapper," and Donald Byrd's "It's a Heavy Town."

Dr. Kelly is assistant professor of trumpet and director of jazz ensembles at Bradley, where he teaches trumpet, jazz improvisation, secondary music methods. He maintains a busy performing schedule in the Central Illinois area as a member of the Todd Kelly Jazz Quintet, Broadway Big Band, Peoria Symphony Orchestra, and as a freelance jazz and classical musician. He is the musical director of the Central Illinois Jazz Orchestra, a big band comprised of seventeen of the finest musicians from the central Illinois area. Recently, he has been touring with Indian tabla artist Sandip Burman. He has backed such performers as Wayne Newton, Jerry Lewis, Charo, the Fifth Dimension, and Chubby Checker. Dr. Kelly is an artist/clinician for Conn/Selmer in Elkhart, Indiana.

For more information, call the Music Department at 677-2597.