{"id":28024,"date":"2026-01-19T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=28024"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:02:46","slug":"jazz-festival-at-eiu-with-john-clayton","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/calendar\/28024-jazz-festival-at-eiu-with-john-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Festival at EIU with John Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-tribe_events pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The <strong>66th Annual Jazz Festival<\/strong> at Eastern Illinois University is where you can see John Clayton, the Grammy-winning bassist, composer, arranger, and producer.\u00a0 Clayton has worked with countless artists, including arranging Whitney Houston\u2019s rendition of the \u201cStar Spangled Banner\u201d at the 1990 Super Bowl performance.\u00a0 Clayton&#8217;s performance will be on Friday, February 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dvorak Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to winning a Grammy, he&#8217;s been nominated nine times, and has written and\/or recorded with artists such as Milt Jackson, Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Regina Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gladys Knight, Queen Latifah, McCoy Tyner, Yo Yo Ma, and Charles Aznavour, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>John was the principal bassist in the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1980-1984.\u00a0 In 1986, John co-founded the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and rekindled The Clayton Brothers Quintet.\u00a0 In addition to his individual clinics and workshops, he also directs the educational components of Centrum, The Port Townsend Jazz Festival, and the Vail Jazz Workshop.<\/p>\n<p>John feels, \u201cI\u2019ve been guided by a village of musicians who helped me understand the humility that goes along with playing music at the highest level you can.\u00a0 Ray Brown used to tell me to \u2018Learn how to play the bass!!\u2019\u00a0 Just take care of the music and it will take care of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: $25\/$20\/$15\/$10 for festival attendees.<\/p>\n<p>To check ticket availability, visit:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiu.edu\/doudnatix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.eiu.edu\/doudnatix\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 66th Annual Jazz Festival at Eastern Illinois University is where you can see John Clayton, the Grammy-winning bassist, composer, arranger, and producer.\u00a0 Clayton has worked with countless artists, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[40],"class_list":["post-28024","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-calendar","cat_community-calendar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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