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The O-ZONE PERCUSSION GROUP The Percussion Record of selected percussionists at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The O-Zone Group also recorded the marimba ensemble album, Whiplash. Their conductor, dr. Gary 'J. Olmstead has been Director of Percussion Studies at IUP since 1966. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan, Ohio University, and a degree in Philosophy from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is nationally as a leading percussion educator and is active as a performer, conductor, and clinician.
Carl Adams has been a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania since 1979 teaching flute, jazz improvisation, and is a member of the IUP Faculty Woodwind Quintet. Adams has performed at the US Military Academy Band, the Keystone Wind Ensemble, and the Akron and Johnstown Symphonies. Solo recital appearances include the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Chautauqua Institution. He performs in a tri-state area with the Carl Adams Jazz Quartet and has appeared at the Pittsburgh Jazz Society, Nemacolin in Woodlands, Three Rivers Arts Festival, the Westin-William Penn (Pittsburgh), and in benefit concerts for the Westmoreland Symphony. He has also appeared in Canton OH, Atlantic City, Atlanta, and numerous Pennsylvania public schools.
James Rupp is a veteran of the great 'big bands' of Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and Glenn Miller, including tours of the United States and Europe. Jim has recorded television specials with the Woody Herman Orchestra and the Bobby Floyd. The connection of the percussion ensemble with jazz / rock / popular music seems to be the inclusion of various percussion instruments as integral parts of this music, The drumset, of course, The vibraphone has long been a favorite jazz instrument, and the xylophone was a favorite ragtime solo instrument in the early part of the 20th, century. Ethnic percussion instruments from Latin America, Africa, and other cultures have long been used in the jazz / rock / pop idiom.
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