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From ALAN HOSKINS, Kansan Contributor

An award-winning percussionist will join Kansas City Kansas Community College’s award-winning Jazz Band and Jazz Combo for the annual KCKCC Fall Jazz Concert Tuesday, Nov. 24.

Scott Prebys, who won the North Dakota Governor’s Award, will be featured on the Zen Drum, vibraphone and steel drum in the 7 p.m. concert in the Performing Arts Center on the KCKCC campus at 7250 State Avenue. Tickets are $5.

Multi-award winners at the Pittsburg Jazz Festival and other jazz festivals and directed by Jim Mair, the Jazz Band and the 11 a.m. Jazz Combo will be joined by the 3 p.m. Jazz Band, the Latin Band under the direction of Jurgen Welge and the college’s community Blue Devils Big Band directed by David Chael in the performance of jazz classics by such legends as Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Bobby Shew, Les Hooper, Thad Jones, Joe Williams, Gordon Goodwin, Fats Navarro, Sammy Nestico, Grover Washington Jr. and Carlos Santana.

Students in the jazz groups are not only alumni of the Kansas City Kansas public schools but also Basehor-Linwood, Turner, Tonganoxie, Shawnee Mission, Lansing, Olathe, McLouth, DeSoto, Blue Valley and Lee’s Summit and Warrensburg, Mo., school districts along with the countries of Turkey and Korea.