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Julie Haas, Associate Vice President, Marketing Communications, ext. 3120
Peggy Graham, Writer, ext. 3425
Tyler Cundith, Sports Information Director, ext. 3122

10/14/09
Story by Peggy Graham

Jeff Harshbarger, bass, plays Ruel Joyce Recital

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Jeff Harshbarger, bass, will perform at noon Monday, Nov. 9, in Yardley Hall of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College, in the concluding recital of the fall Ruel Joyce Recital Series. The series, featuring Kansas City classical musicians, are free and open to the public.

Voted Kansas City's Best Bassist by Pitch Magazine in 2007, Harshbarger has had a varied career. A prolific composer and bandleader in his own right, he has recorded and performed across the globe with such varied groups as Bobby Watson, Curtis Fuller, Forever Tango, Nathan Granner, Eugene Chadborne, Milt Abel, Tango Lorca, Jimmy Carl Black, Angela Hagenbach, Krystle Warren, Snuff Jazz, Brad Cox, Ghosty, The People's Liberation Big Bang of Greater Kansas City, Jazz Discharge and Forrest Whitlow. He is a  co-founder of Tzigane Music, an artist-run collective and record label, and is the curator of Jeff Harshbarger Presents: An Alternative Jazz Series promoting new improvised music in Kansas City. Harshbarger has received The Kennedy Center's Betty Carter Fellowship, the Steans Institute Fellowship, and the Professional Development Grant from the Creative Capital Foundation.

Harshbarger will be accompanied by fellow musicians.

The series, named for Ruel Joyce, a longtime jazz bassist who headed the local musicians’ federation from 1977 until his death in 1989, is cosponsored by the JCCC music departments, Community Services and the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts. Seating is available first-come, first-served.

For more information, call 913-469-8500, ext. 3605.

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