<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P align="right" style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Media Contact Only:</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="right" style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="right" style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">440-775-8328 (office); 440-667-2724 (cell); </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:marci.janas@oberlin.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">marci.janas@oberlin.edu</SPAN></FONT></A></P><DIV style="text-align: right;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Palatino; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14.7px/normal Palatino; min-height: 19px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B>THE OBERLIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE KICKS OFF THE SEASON IN STYLE</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B> WITH THE WORKS OF JEAN-BAPTISTE ‘ILLINOIS’ JACQUET NOV. 3</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"> </P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">OBERLIN, OHIO (October 25, 2007)—</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><B>The acclaimed Oberlin Jazz Ensemble (OJE) at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music will kick off the 2007-08 performance season in style on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel with a program of works by Jean-Baptiste “Illinois” Jacquet. </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Considered by most musicians to be the greatest tenor saxophonist of the 20th-century, Jacquet (1922-2004) contributed numerous standards to the repertoire, including “Flying Home,” “Stompin’ at the Savoy,” “More Than You Know,” and “Three Buckets of Jive,” all of which will be performed by the OJE under the direction of Visiting Professor of Jazz Dennis Reynolds.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="text-indent: 48px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Politics and jazz collided in January 1993 when Jacquet played “C-Jam Blues” with former President Bill Clinton, an amateur saxophonist, on the White House lawn during Clinton’s inaugural ball. Jacquet’s lifelong companion and business manager, Carol Scherric, as well as his daughter Pamela, will be in Oberlin to hear the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble perform his works.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 48px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">All OJE concerts are free and open to the public, and are held in Oberlin’s historic Finney Chapel, located at 90 North Professor St., across from Tappan Square, on the Oberlin College campus. Finney Chapel is wheelchair accessible, and free parking is available throughout the campus. Upcoming OJE concerts for this season are planned for Saturday, December 1, 2007, Saturday, March 8, 2008, and Saturday, May 10, 2008; all concerts begin at 8 p.m.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-indent: 48px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><B>The Oberlin Jazz Ensemble</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> was founded by Wendell Logan, Professor of African American Music and Chair of Oberlin’s Jazz Studies Department, in 1973. Composed of jazz as well as classical performance majors, the ensemble is a component in a four-year curriculum in jazz studies, leading to a bachelor of music degree with a concentration in performance, composition, or both. The United States Information Agency has invited the ensemble to make an extended tour of major cities in Brazil, and the OJE frequently appears at collegiate festivals throughout the U.S. In 2002, the OJE took the top honors at the 44th Annual Collegiate Jazz Festival, held at the University of Notre Dame.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><B>Visiting Professor of Jazz Dennis Bradley Reynolds</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> is the artistic director of the Jazz Heritage Orchestra. A former lead trumpet player with the Count Basie Band, directed by Frank Foster, he is also a former member of the Lionel Hampton orchestra, and a former lead trumpeter with the Clark Terry Big Band. Mr. Reynolds has performed with such stars as Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé, Rita Moreno, Patti Austin, Roberta Flack, Rosemary Clooney, and Ella Fitzgerald. A resident of Warren, Ohio, he has assembled the group of artists who make up the Jazz Heritage Orchestra not only because they are excellent performers and teachers, but also because of their ability to relate to young people and to serve as role models. Mr. Reynolds is a graduate of the Lamont School of Music.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><B>The Oberlin Conservatory of Music</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">, founded in 1865 and situated amid the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. Renowned internationally as a professional music school of the highest caliber and pronounced a “national treasure” by the </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><I>Washington Post</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">, its alumni have gone on to achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music world. Oberlin offers a premier undergraduate jazz studies program, chaired by Professor of African American Music Wendell Logan, that prepares students for careers as professional jazz musicians and for advanced study in jazz. The jazz studies faculty includes composers and performers who, in addition to teaching lessons and coaching ensembles, maintain active performing careers throughout the world. Numerous Oberlin alumni have achieved success in the jazz idiom, among them keyboardist Ted Baker, pianist and composer Stanley Cowell, bassist, composer, and arranger Leon Lee Dorsey, pianist, arranger, and producer Allen Farnham, bassist Ben Jaffe, composer and pianist Jon Jang, writer, composer, and saxophonist James McBride, and trumpeter, trombonist, and composer Michael Mossman. For more information about Oberlin, please visit </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.oberlin.edu/con"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">www.oberlin.edu/con</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"># # #</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 24.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>CALENDAR LISTINGS</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>THE OBERLIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Dennis Reynolds, </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B><I>guest</I></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B><I>director</I></B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Program:</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Works by Jean-Baptiste “Illinois” Jacquet</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Saturday, November 3, 2007, at 8 p.m.</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>FINNEY CHAPEL</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Free</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Free parking</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B> </B></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; 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