USM Jazz Ensembles
From classic big band to modern jazz, the University of Southern Maine School of Music Jazz Ensembles will get you grooving at their spring concert Thursday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Corthell Concert Hall, College Avenue, USM Gorham.
The Jazz Ensemble, directed by School of Music faculty member Chris Oberholtzer, will perform jazz favorites like Miles Davis’ Seven Steps To Heaven and Gillespie & Coots’ You Go to My Head, plus other memorable examples of big band literature like Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla, Flight of the Foo Birds by Neal Hefti, Moten Swing, by Buster & Benny Moten, and more.
A sampling of the Lab Jazz Ensemble’s program, directed by Mark Tipton, includes Bob Mintzer’s The Happy Song, Big Jim Blues by Mary Lou Williams, Interloper by Thad Jones, Eye of the Hurricane by Herbie Hancock, and I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart by Duke Ellington.
Tickets cost $6 general public; $3 students, seniors, USM employees and alumni. For reservations, contact the Music Box Office at www.usm.maine.edu/music/boxoffice or 780-5555
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