News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 4/1/03   SOUTHEASTERN JAZZ COMBOS TO PERFORM AT POTTLE THURSDAY       HAMMOND -- Jazz will take center stage at Southeastern Louisiana University’s Pottle Music Building Auditorium Thursday, April 3, when the university’s jazz combos present their spring concert.       The seven musicians, joined by director and music professor Allen Zurcher on alto saxophone, will perform at 7:30 p.m. The concert is part of the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts, spring “Encore!” series, and is free and open to the public.       Zurcher said the program includes his arrangements of jazz standards such as “All the Things Your Are,” “The Eternal Triangle,” and “The Chicken,” which he described as a “funk-Gospel tune.”       Guitarist Wilson Marks of Boerne, Texas, will be featured in his arrangement of “Just Friends,” and trombonist Elmar Friedrich of Boenen, Germany, will be front and center in Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood.”       The jazz combos also include Lacy Blackledge, Stringer, Miss., trumpet; Emmanuel Seals, alto saxophone, Fairhope, Ala.; Vasil Cvetkov, Burgas, Bulgaria, piano; Kevin “Q” Estoque, New Orleans, drums; and Becky Daigrepont of Metairie, acoustic bass.       The 17-member Southeastern Jazz Ensemble, also directed by Zurcher, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 11, at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts in downtown Hammond.         For additional information about the jazz concerts, contact Zurcher at 985-549-5938 or azurcher@selu.edu. Return to News Releases