Sun Dec 4, 2011 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Yale Jazz Ensemble at the GPSCY
Sponsored by: Yale University Bands
The Yale Jazz Ensemble, directed by Thomas C. Duffy, will present two cabaret-style shows at 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm on Sunday, December 4, 2011, at the Graduate and Professional Students Center at Yale (GPSCY), 204 York St, New Haven. Admission is free and no tickets are required. Call (203) 432-4113 for more information.
The program will feature the music of Rosamonde Safier, Juilliard pianist and a composer of words and music for 1930s Tin Pan Alley hits that were sung by, among others, Rudy Vallee, Yale Class of 1927. Featuring Redhot & Blue vocalists Hannah Loeb ’12 and Melinda Paul ’12. Additional music by Count Basie, Earle Hagen, and Duke Ellington.
The Yale Jazz Ensemble (YJE) is a seventeen-piece big band that performs a wide variety of music, from Yale’s Benny Goodman archive to the newest and most progressive jazz compositions. The Ensemble has performed extensively in the United States and internationally at such noted venues as New York’s Village Vanguard and Iridium jazz clubs, and London’s Ronnie Scott’s. The YJE has performed with or opened for The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis.
- Admission: Free
- Graduate and Professional Student Center at Yale
- 204 York St
- New Haven
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