Pender to share the passion.Byline: Paul Denison The Register-Guard The Green Garter Band, an elite group of full-scholarship music students at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. , will perform Wednesday night with a guest artist who studied at the School of Hot Licks - Kansas City, New York and New Jersey campuses. Mark Pender, better known as "The Loveman," plays trumpet with the Max Weinberg 7 on `Late Night With Conan O'Brien Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an Emmy Award-winning American late night talk show that is syndicated worldwide. The show, hosted by Conan O'Brien, features varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and stand-up comedy performances. .' He also plays guitar and harmonica harmonica. 1 The simplest of the musical instruments employing free reeds, known also as the mouth organ or French harp. It was probably invented in 1829 by Friedrich Buschmann of Berlin, who called his instrument the Mundäoline. , and is featured in sketches as an overwrought vocalist who wails on about people and events in the news until O'Brien reins him in. Wednesday night, The Loveman will focus all that passion on music by James Brown, Ozzy Osbourne, Maynard Ferguson, Real Big Fish, Tower of Power, Earth Wind & Fire and Ben Folds Five Ben Folds Five (1993–2000) was a trio formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina who were a mainstay of piano rock until their breakup in 2000. Much of their work was influenced by jazz, evident in frequent improv-styled passages through bridge and/or ending. . He'll also bring along charts from the Mark Pender Band. Pender can boast of 12 years' experience on the O'Brien show and nearly a quarter of a century playing with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Jukes: see Dugdale, Richard Louis. . Membership in the Jukes led to collateral gigs with other New Jersey stars, including Little Steven, Jon Bon Jovi This article or section has multiple issues: * It may need a complete rewrite to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. * It may require general cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. and Bruce Springsteen. Even further back - as a teen-ager on the Kansas City jazz Kansas City Jazz is a style of jazz that developed and flourished in Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding Kansas City Metropolitan Area during the 1930s and marked the transition from the structured big band style to the musical improvisation style of Bebop. , blues and funk scene - he was schooled by elders, including Jay McShann and Joe Tur- ner. Although he's had a hand in more than 10 gold and platinum records and now leads his own New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. band, Pender told an interviewer a couple of years ago, "I still haven't made a name for myself. ... But if you last long enough, the resume starts to look a lot better, you know?" That resume - or to be more accurate, word of mouth among musicians who've worked with him - got Pender tour or studio gigs with artist the likes of Ricky Martin, David Bowie and Robert Cray. Pender was getting ready to tour with Cray when he got a call to join the house band being formed for `Late Night With Conan O'Brien.' "It was a hard choice at that time," Pender told interviewer Michelle Paponetti. "But I really wanted to stay home and stick around and actually live in New York rather than touring all the time. `And it turned out great." Pender has performed on all of O'Brien's shows since the premiere in 1993. And they still can't stop him from chewing the scenery. CONCERT PREVIEW Green Garter Band with guest artist Mark Pender When: 8 p.m. Wednesday Where: Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets: $12 general, $8 for students and seniors, available through the Erb Memorial Union, 346-4363 CAPTION(S): Mark Pender has been the trumpet player on `Late Night With Conan O'Brien' since the show's beginning in 1993. |
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