SOLD OUT: Jazz Small Ensembles: The Music of Kenny Dorham and Sonny Rollins
When:
Monday, October 9, 2023
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CT
Where: Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, McClintock Choral and Recital Room, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 for students with valid ID.
Contact:
Concert Management Office
(847) 467-4000
Group: Bienen School of Music Concerts and Events
Category: Fine Arts
Description:
This event has sold out.
Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort, conductors
Jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer McKinley Howard “Kenny” Dorham is frequently lauded by critics and fellow musicians, but in his lifetime he never received the level of recognition that many of his peers attained. An active bebop trumpeter, he played in the big bands of Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstein, Dizzy Gilespie, and Mercer Ellington, as well as Charlie Parker’s quintet, and was a charter member of the original Jazz Messengers. He recorded as a sideman with Sonny Rollins, the virtuosic tenor saxophonist hailed as “the greatest living improviser,” with a career spanning seven decades. Rollins recorded over 60 albums as a bandleader, and his collaborations have included such luminaries as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. Many of his compositions—”St. Thomas,” “Oleo,” “Doxy,” and “Airegin” among them—have become jazz standards. Join the Derrick Gardner and Kevin Fort Ensembles for a celebration of these two jazz masters.