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Guitarist to showcase all that's jazz
Music professor Don Saginario will perform standards and originals and work in some classical and surf-rock songs.
By STEPHANIE HAYES
Published March 11, 2005
KEYSTONE - Guitarist Don Saginario's concert Sunday will pay tribute to Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Luigi the Labrador.
"One of the pieces I wrote, Blues for Luigi, it's in memory of my late Labrador retriever," Saginario, 53, said. "It's one of the more meaningful pieces of the program."
Saginario will take center stage at Keystone United Methodist Church as a part of the church's ongoing concert series.
The guitar bug bit Saginario in grade school, and he has since built a strong resume. He played alongside jazz flutist Herbie Mann at the Village Gate in New York City and in a band with Vince Martell, a founding member of the 1960s group Vanilla Fudge.
Saginario has also studied with composer Ulysses Kay, classical guitarists John Scofield and Joe Monk, and jazz guitarists Jerry Willard and Jorge Morel, serving as Morel's teaching assistant at Lehman College in New York.
In addition to original songs, Saginario will strum instrumentals of standards including Don't Get Around Much Anymore by Ellington, Blues for Alice by Parker, Autumn Leaves by Johnny Mercer and Erroll Garner's Misty, the sole ballad in the upbeat set. He will also incorporate classical music and surf-rock songs.
"Generally, people have heard them before," Saginario said of the songs. "I wanted to play some things that were familiar to the audience. It brings them in close to the whole experience."
While the concert will be a diversion from Saginario's job as a music instruction and appreciation professor at Saint Leo University, he admits his penchant for teaching seeps through to his performances.
"I sometimes become a teacher during concerts," he said. "I try to explain it for them and with them, not at them."
IF YOU GO
WHAT: Don Saginario
WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Keystone United Methodist Church, 16301 Race Track Road
COST: Donations will be accepted
CALL: (813) 920-5153
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