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13th annual Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend—Oliver Lake Big Band
Composer, arranger, poet, bandleader, and saxophonist Oliver Lake is a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed World Saxophone Quartet with Julius Hemphill, Hamiet Bluiett and David Murray; as well as the multi-disciplinary St. Louis collective the Black Artists Group. Mr. Lake has created chamber works for the FLUX String Quartet, collaborated with choreographer Ronald K. Brown, shared the stage with Mos Def and Me’shell Ndegeocello, and arranged for Björk, Lou Reed, and A Tribe Called Quest. Mr. Lake will perform as part of the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend with his Big Band, which features 17 musicians, including Hartford native Josh Evans on trumpet. The group’s critically-acclaimed album “Wheels” (2013) includes an arrangement of OutKast’s “The Whole World,” which DownBeat called “the best-ever jazz cover of a hip-hop track.” The Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra, directed by Adjunct Professor of Music Jay Hoggard ’76, will open the concert with a performance of classic jazz compositions. This concluding concert of the 13th annual Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra Weekend is co-sponsored by Latin American Studies, the Center for African American Studies, and the Office of Diversity at Wesleyan University.
Fee: $20 general public; $18 senior citizens, Wesleyan faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students; $6 Wesleyan students
Website: www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
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