Jazz Events
SPRING 2019
Feb. 5 Tuesday 7:30pm Bowker Auditorium FREE
The Langston Hughes Project
Live music, poetry & imagery featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet
Ron McCurdy, trumpet; Yuma Sang, piano; Fumi Tomita, bass & Tom Giampietro, drums
In partnership with the W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of Afro-American Studies & the Fine Arts Center
Feb. 20 Thursday 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall FREE
Graduate Jazz Composers' Concert
February 28 Thursday 7:30pm Bowker Auditorium $10/5
38th Annual Jazz Showcase
Felipe Salles, producer/coordinator
UMass Jazz Ensemble I, Chapel Jazz, Jazz Lab & Vocal Jazz Ensembles
Tickets: 413-545-2511 or www.fineartscenter.com/musicanddance
March 26 Tuesday 7:30pm Bezanson Hall FREE
Guest Artist Concert: Feathery Jazz Quartet
Led by saxophonist & composer Lena Bloch '06MM
March 30 Saturday All day Bezanson Hall & Music wing
37th Annual New England Saxophone Festival
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen & Felipe Salles, hosts
Guest artists: Connie Frigo & Claire Daly
Registration & info at www.umass.edu/saxophone/festival
April 6 Saturday All day Bezanson Hall & Music wing Daytime activities FREE
20th Annual High School Jazz Festival
Thomas Giampietro, coordinator
Guest adjudicator: Wycliffe Gordon
8pm FAC concert by Wycliffe Gordon & His International All Stars, tickets at www.fineartscenter.com
April 8 Monday 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall FREE
Jazz Ensemble I & Jazz Lab Ensemble
Thomas Giampietro, Brian Martin & Haneef Nelson, directors
April 9 Tuesday 7:30pm Old Chapel $10/5 Online Tix
The New Immigrant Experience
Premiere Performance of Felipe Salles' Guggenheim Fellowship Project
Multi-media concert with music composed by Salles and performed by the Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble
April 27 Saturday 7:30pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall $10/5 Tickets
Wind Ensemble & Studio Orchestra: Real Cool!
Matthew Westgate & Felipe Salles, conductors
Includes Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story plus a new symphony by composer-in-residence David Biedenbender
April 28 Sunday 1pm Bezanson Recital Hall $10/5 Online Tix
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
April 30 Tuesday 7:30pm Bezanson Hall $10/5 Online Tix
Chapel Jazz Ensemble
David Sporny, guest director