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Rob Tapper, University of Montanas trombone professor and the Director of Jazz Studies, conducts the band during the UMs 41st annual Buddy Defranco Jazz Festival in Dennison Theatre on Thursday, March 25. Kennedy Delap / Montana Kaimin The rising crescendo of University of Montana School of Music students and faculty playing Sonny Rollins’ “St. Thomas” fills the mostly vacant seats of George & Jane Dennison Theatre with the raw, relentless sound of hard bop jazz. The tempo is ...