CMU Jazz Ensemble will feature faculty member’s original arrangement and solo

CMU’s Jazz Ensemble and Combo will present a concert in the Moss Performing Arts Center Robinson Theatre on Monday, October 12^th at 7:30pm. The concert will feature the jazz combo performing original compositions and arrangements by students in the group. The jazz ensemble will perform the title track from the 1959 Brazilian film Black Orpheus, arranged as a powerhouse showcase for jazz ensemble by Eric Richards. The ensemble will also play Shiny Stockings by Frank Foster as performed by the Count Basie Orchestra. Senior music education major Lyndon Marshall will also be featured on flugelhorn playing a beautiful bossa nova arrangement of When You Go by Ray Brown. Finally, faculty member Jonathan Hinkle has arranged Anthropology by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie for jazz ensemble, and the group will perform his arrangement and feature him as a soloist on trumpet.

Tickets for the Jazz Ensemble and Combo concert are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, faculty/staff and $5 for students. They are available by calling the Box Office at 970.248.1604.