Thurs. 2/14 10a: Mid-school and high-school musicians from across New Mexico come together for the Albuquerque Jazz Festival, a two-day event that's part music adjudication and part jazz performance. The Festival concludes on February 16 with a public concert in the auditorium at Eldorado High School: the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra performing with saxophonist Dick Oatts from New York City. Spencer Beckwith speaks with Maud Beenhower, the Executive Director of the producer of the concert, the New Mexico Jazz Workshop.
Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.