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CAU's Jazztet offers free Friday night concert

April 7, 2011

Student jazz musicians from Clark Atlanta University's Department of Music, will host a free concert at 6 p.m. Friday night at the Park Street Music and Art Complex, 793 Park St.

Under the direction of James Patterson, the CAU Jazztet is an offspring ensemble of the CAU Jazz Orchestra and has performed throughout Africa, the West Indies and Europe.

The group features Frank Hayes on alto saxophone; Allan Knighton on tenor saxophone; Phillip N. Davis on piano; Maria Montgomery on acoustic bass; and Christopher Belcher and Amir Henry on drums.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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