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DTSTART;TZID="Pacific Time (US & Canada)":20251015T193000
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SUMMARY:WSU Combined Jazz Big Band Concert
LOCATION:Kimbrough Music Building
DESCRIPTION:Program: (Link will open in a new tab)\n\nWSU Big Band and Lab Band\n\nFeaturing special guest Brad Linde\n\nWednesday, October 15, 7:30\n\nKimbrough Concert Hall\n\nHailed as "the capital city's contemporary cool king" (Giovanni Russonello, Capitalbop), Brad Linde is a saxophonist, educator, bandleader, and impresario in the Washington DC metro area. He is the director of Jazz and Creative Music at Georgetown Day School and founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.\n\nRaised in North Carolina, he studied music at Elon University (BA), and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before moving to attend graduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park (MM). He additionally studied privately with Lee Konitz and attend weekly workshops by Barry Harris in New York. In 2013 was a participant in the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop.\n\nBrad maintained a long performance relationship with the legendary hardbop pianist/composer Freddie Redd (2009-2013), worked with bassist Butch Warren, and recorded four albums with original Tristano School members, tenor saxophonist Ted Brown (2010-2020). Additionally, he has performed and/or recorded with Matt Wilson, Jeff Lederer, Caroline Davis, Sara Serpa, Allison Miller, Grachan Moncur III, Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Fay Victor, Lee Konitz, among many others at venues including the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Dizzy's Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Smalls, and the Jazz Gallery.\n\nAs an impresario, Brad has curated series for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Northeast Washington DC, the Drawing Room in Brooklyn, and others. He continues to present performances and collaborations in the Washington DC area, Baltimore, New York City, and in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC.
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