Lou Donaldson Quartet performs at Yale Oct. 5
Alto saxophonist Donaldson recently named an NEA Jazz Master The Ellington Jazz Series at the Yale School of Music continues its 2012—2013 season on Friday, October 5 at 8 pm with a concert featuring LOU DONALDSON and his trio. Donaldson, recently named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, is legendary for his [...]
Mingus Big Band opens Ellington Series Sep. 14
“The hippest big band in the universe – robust, earthy, sanctified.” – Time Out New York The Ellington Jazz Series at the Yale School of Music kicks off its 2012–2013 season on Friday, September 14 with a concert featuring the MINGUS BIG BAND. The Grammy Award-winning Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of the composer [...]
Willie Ruff to lecture on jazz legend Oscar Pettiford May 13
Willie Ruff, Professor of Music and the Director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship at Yale, will present “Blues in the Closet,” a musical portrait of the legendary bassist and cellist Oscar Pettiford, on Sunday, May 13 at 3 pm. Pettiford, born in 1922 in Oklahoma to parents of African American and Native American ancestry, is [...]
Jazz drummer Matt Wilson performs with Arts and Crafts May 11
“Besides being a great drummer and a promising composer, Matt Wilson knows how to lead a band! – Boston Globe The Ellington Jazz Series at the Yale School of Music concludes its 2011–2012 season on Friday, May 11 with a concert featuring drummer Matt Wilson. Voted Drummer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, [...]
Jazz pianist, arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi performs with her quartet Dec. 9
Concert also features flutist and saxophonist Lew Tabackin The Ellington Jazz Series at the Yale School of Music continues its 2011–2012 season on Friday, December 9 with a concert featuring the Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet. Akiyoshi, a 2007 NEA Jazz Master and 14-time Grammy nominee, will perform with flutist and saxophonist Lew Tabackin, bassist Paul Gill, [...]
Video: Jazz Concert Preview
“The drum is central to American jazz music,” says Willie Ruff in a new video. “Without the drum, the language dies.” Watch Willie Ruff talk about jazz drumming and Friday’s concert featuring the percussion quartet The Whole Drum Truth.
Bigger Than Life: Big Band Music of Benny Goodman
Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday concludes with a concert by the Yale Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas C. Duffy and featuring clarinetist Vincent Oneppo Yale’s Celebrating the King of Swing: A Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th Birthday will conclude with a big band concert on Tue, Sep. 29 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall, [...]
Tirro’s The Birth of the Cool published
Frank Tirro’s new book, The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates, has been nominated for a 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award. Recently published by the College Music Society and Pendragon Press, The Birth of Cool is accompanied by an audio CD of related music. The ARSC award recognizes excellence [...]
Jane Ira Bloom to perform on Yale’s Ellington Jazz Series
Bloom, who utilizes electronics and movement, will appear with her quartet The Yale School of Music presents a special performance on its Duke Ellington jazz series by soprano saxophonist and composer Jane Ira Bloom at 8:00 pm on Friday, March 27 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. A graduate of Yale College and [...]
Yale University to host trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
Chubb Fellow Wynton Marsalis will hold a “musical conversation” on February 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the United Church on the Green, corner of Temple and Elm streets. The event is free and open to the public. Wynton Marsalis is the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation. He is a big band [...]
