Jazz Concert
About the event
The Washington State University School of Music will present their first jazz concert of the semester on Tuesday, February 15, at 7:30pm, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The concert will feature faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest and the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band under the direction of Regents Professor and Coordinator of Jazz Studies Greg Yasinitsky.
Jazz Northwest’s will perform “JP” by Darryl Singleton, percussionist with the group, and “Funky Changes” and “Chimera” by César Haas, guitarist with the ensemble. Jazz Northwest also includes David Turnbull, trumpet; Horace Alexander Young, alto saxophone; Jake Svendsen, piano; David Bjur, bass; and Yasinitsky, tenor saxophone.
The Jazz Big Band, which will present an invited performance at the Conference of the Washington Music Educators Association, will perform Yasinitsky’s “Gator Tail” featuring the trombone section and “Gotta Have Soul,” a new piece written especially for the group. The band will also perform the classic ballad “Body and Soul” and Los Angeles composer Bill Liston’s Tri-Bop. Soloists will include saxophonists Thomas Wieland, Christian Nicoll and Rogan Tinsley; trombonists Brad Dowson and Jason Kochis; and drummer Erik Hawkins.