Archive for October, 2015
Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
By Patricia Myers
A sophisticated and engaging performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis was a meld of the trumpeter-leader’s ongoing homage to jazz history with the spark of original compositions from his current colleagues in a Sept. 25 concert at the Mesa Arts Center.
Continue ReadingRiffs: Music News from Out & About
By Patricia Myers
Seven acclaimed post-graduate jazz musicians from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance/UCLA Herb Alpert School will visit six underserved central-city high schools in Phoenix Oct. 19-21.
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