{"id":816,"date":"2015-09-18T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/?page_id=816"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:10:35","slug":"45th-parallel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/45th-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"45th Parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/files\/2015\/09\/students-at-Rainmaker-Studios.jpg\" alt=\"45th Parallel members posing on stage\" class=\"wp-image-932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/files\/2015\/09\/students-at-Rainmaker-Studios.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/files\/2015\/09\/students-at-Rainmaker-Studios-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/files\/2015\/09\/students-at-Rainmaker-Studios-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>45th Parallel is a unique multi-genre ensemble incorporating instrumentalists on a variety of instruments (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, horns, strings), plus 3&#8211;4 vocalists. Our repertoire includes a variety of music from the American vernacular including soul, funk, jazz, Latin, R and B, pop, rock as well as World music and original student compositions and arrangements. Recently the group has included a rhythm section, horn section, and vocal trio, and has performed music from Frank Zappa to Tito Puente, Amy Winehouse to Queen Latifah, Duke Ellington to Miles Davis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent visiting artists who have coached the ensemble have included Dan Balmer (guitar, Portland OR); Rob Scheps (saxophone\/flute, Cold Springs NY); Kathy Kosins (vocals, Detroit MI); and Dmitri Matheny (flugelhorn, Olympia WA). The ensemble also recently recorded four songs at Rainmaker Studios in West Pasco, Washington as part of a field trip with the Advanced Electronic Music class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45th Parallel is a unique multi-genre ensemble incorporating instrumentalists on a variety of instruments (drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, horns, strings), plus 3&#8211;4 vocalists. Our repertoire includes a variety of music from the American vernacular including soul, funk, jazz, Latin, R and B, pop, rock as well as World music and original student compositions and arrangements. Recently the group has included a rhythm section, horn section, and vocal trio, and has performed music from Frank Zappa to Tito Puente, Amy Winehouse to Queen Latifah, Duke Ellington to Miles Davis. <\/p>\n<p>Recent visiting artists who have coached the ensemble have included Dan Balmer (guitar, Portland OR); Rob Scheps (saxophone\/flute, Cold Springs NY); Kathy Kosins (vocals, Detroit MI); and Dmitri Matheny (flugelhorn, Olympia WA). The ensemble also recently recorded four songs at Rainmaker Studios in West Pasco, Washington as part of a field trip with the Advanced Electronic Music class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":932,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-816","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/816\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}