Friday, August 10, 2018 Showcasing students of the Vermont Jazz Center’s 43nd annual Summer Workshop perform in professionally coached ensemble, trio, and featured vocalist settings. Different concerts at 3:30 and 8 pm with break for dinner. At the idyllic Putney School in Vermont. $5 donation suggested. Michael S. Currier Center …
Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 The University of Vermont Jazz Ensemble, with special guest, trumpeter Ray Vega, perform at the Vermont Jazz Center. Admission is free (donations accepted). Conducted by UVM Professor Alex Stewart, the concert features arrangements by Philip Mossman of works by Dizzy Gillespie, Carlos Santana, Ellington, Charlie …
April 13,14 & 15, 2018 Celebrating the refined art of solo jazz piano, in partnership with the Brattleboro Music Center, at their new facility. Friday. April 13 at the Brattleboro Music Center Concert Hall, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT 05301: 8 pm- Feature concert- Kirk Lightsey &Harold Danko, solo …
Thelonious Monk Award Winner and trumpeter Marquis Hill swings super-hard and its grooves use elements of hip hop, hard bop and swing. The ensemble’s touch is light and its use of dynamics and space makes the music very easy to listen to. Hill’s band presents the new Chicago sound but, …
Tom Harrell Quartet at the Vermont Jazz Center Saturday, October 14, 2017, 8 pm Tom Harrell is one of the most prolific trumpeters in jazz. His career spans more than 40 years and he has appeared on over 260 albums with artists such as Charles McPherson and Horace Silver. Harrell …
Saturday, January 14, 2017 8pm Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is a two-time Edison Award winning, Grammy Award nominated trumpeter, composer, and producer. Scott apprenticed as a youth growing up in his native New Orleans with his uncle, jazz master and Big Chief of the Congo Nation, saxophonist Donald Harrison. Upon graduating …
Caili O’Doherty Quartet- Emerging Artist Series. Saturday, October 1, 2016 8 pm Pianist Caili O’Doherty’s 2015 release Padme won NPR’s 10th Annual Jazz Critic’s Poll for Best Debut Album. She garnered an ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award and recognition for her work as a composer and pianist from Downbeat …
An evening showcasing the wide breadth of experience and talent of the VJC’s Summer Program faculty members. Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton- vocals Carolina Calvache, Harvey Diamond, Eugene Uman, Ray Gallon- piano Scott Mullet- saxophones Jeff Galindo- trombone Rob Freeberg- trumpet Cameron Brown, Marcus Mclaurine, George Kaye, David Picchi- bass, …
Saturday, March 26, 2015 8 pm Saxophonist Zsoldos performs his own transcriptions of string quartet arrangements from tenor sax giant Ben Webster’s lush 1950s recordings. Some of New England’s top string players and a rhythm section including pianist Miro Sprague are featured. Co- sponsored by Norman Cohen in honor of …
Saturday, March 12, 2016 8 pm “Fred Hersch is singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz – a jazz for the 21st century.”- The New York Times Multi- Grammy nominated pianist Hersch, with over 40 recordings under his own name, Hersch …
