The Voice

Issue date: 11/15/07 Section: Front Page

Media Credit: Juli Kuebler "Hotter Than That" rehearses for their upcoming show in the Ballroom on Friday night

Mention Jazz music to a group of college students and chances are, a collection of blank stares will ensue.
This is not the case for Bloomsburg University senior, Drew Nugent.
"The problem is people take this music and think it belongs in a museum," said Nugent. "They are wrong, this music inspired modern dance. This is America's music."
Through the group, "Hotter Than That," which was formed by Nugent, student musicians are working to preserve a genre of music known as hot jazz.
Hot jazz is, according to Nugent, a sub genre of jazz originating at the turn of the century and lasting into the early 1930s, with its peak in the 1920s.
"Hotter than that" will be performing their first official featured performance in the Kehr Union Ballroom, Friday night at 8 p.m.
The group is made up of five members, not all who are students here at Bloomsburg.
Besides Nugent, who plays piano, the group consists of Eric Scattareggia on drums, Nick Jendrzejewski on trumpet, Carl Karupa on saxophone, and Maria Mirenzi on baritone saxophone.
Friday's performance will also include two guests, vocalists Lisa DiMarcantonia and Joe Popson.
"The show will put the 1920s and the music of the 1920s in a new light," said Nugent. "This is not a genre only for 'old people.'"
The hour and a half long show will consist of certain titles such as, opening act "Rosetta", "Chinatown" by Chinatown, and "I Can't Get Started".
"To treat this like it should belong in a museum is a sin," said Nugent.

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