Posts tagged “Jazz”

2013 MCG Jazz Series Concerts

The twenty seventh annual MCG Jazz will be another star filled affair featuring such musical artists as David Sanborn, Diane Schuur, Ahmad Jamal, Joshua Redman, touring with Bob James for the very first time. Over twenty headliners will perform in the series that will start with a special party on 28th September and will go [...]

Mark Harvey honored by jazz community

Mark Harvey is a MIT lecturer, but he has another identity; he is a well known jazz trumpeter as well as Aardvark Jazz Orchestra’s founding director. Recently he was honored by elected officials and fellow musicians at the annual event called JazzBoston at the Ryles Jazz Club on 29th January.
JazzBoston is an organization of well [...]

Arsht Center to host concert

The line which separates the popular culture and high art has been blurred a long time ago, but still old habits die hard. For some, the connection between European jazz music and classical music remains an object of suspicion and fascination.
Many points of argument are as old a jazz itself – a music of performers [...]

Commanders Jazz Ensemble at Las Positas College

The Veterans First Program recently announced that The Commanders Jazz Ensemble is all set to perform at a community concert that will take place at the Las Positas College campus. The Commanders will hit LPC’s Mertes Center for the Arts’ Main Stage auditorium on 10th December, Monday. Since it is a community outreach effort, there [...]

First concert of semester

On 22nd October, at the Evans Auditorium, the School of Music’s Ensemble Series will hold a Jazz Lab Band which is one of the 3 jazz ensemble classes in School of Music. The students would participate in the first 2 concerts for the class. Professor Martin McCain has directed the course for three years and [...]