James Dapogny�s Chicago Jazz Band will come to Stevens Point on Wednesday, Jan. 28.

A Major Arts Attraction of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point�s Performing Arts Series, the band will perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Sentry Theater.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $16 for senior citizens, $8 for youth and $4 for students with a UWSP ID. Tickets can be purchased at the University Box Office, Room 103A in the University Center, by calling 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378 or at the door if seats are still available. A minimal ticketing fee will be charged. Tickets also can be purchased on the Internet at https://tickets.uwsp.edu/Wt3/. Visa, Master Card and Discover cards are accepted.

Founded in 1976, the internationally known eight-piece band has performed throughout the U.S., playing a variety of styles from the first 50 years of jazz. Concerts feature entertaining and informative commentary by noted jazz scholar Dapogny, a professor of music at the University of Michigan.

The band has performed to sold-out audiences at the Kennedy Center, given lecture concerts for the Smithsonian and opened for Benny Goodman. It has made nine appearances on National Public Radio�s "A Prairie Home Companion."

Albums include "Laughing at Life," "Original Jelly Roll Blues" and "Hot Club Stomp" for Time Warner Discovery records and "Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?" on the Red House label. The 20th anniversary album, "On the Road," is available on Schoolkids� Records.

The band�s 1982 Grammy nominated recording, "Sippie," including blues singers Sippie Wallace and Bonnie Raitt on Atlantic records, has been reissued on CD.

Dapogny has researched, transcribed and arranged the music of the jazz masters and has written more than 20 biographical and critical articles on jazz figures in "Grove�s Dictionary of Music and Musicians." He produced "Jelly Roll Morton: The Collected Piano Music," a first-of-its-kind scholarly edition of a jazz musician�s work. For a Rounder Records CD, he edited the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings. His edition of scores by master swing-era arranger Fletcher Henderson is being published by the Smithsonian�s Jazz Masterwork Editions.