EMU Jazz will blend notes and talents with “Just Jazzin'” for a spring concert Mar. 30.Photo by Jim Bishop
Two local jazz ensembles will join musical forces for a concert 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mar. 30, in Lehman Auditorium.
The “EMU Jazz” and “Just Jazzin’,” a community-based big band group, will feature favorite standards from the Glen Miller, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra libraries along with contemporary arrangers such as Doug Beach, Tom Kubis and Mike Tomaro.
Jennifer Cooper of the EMU music faculty, featured vocalist with EMU Jazz, will perform “The Man I Love,” “My Funny Valentine” and “Till You Come Back To Me”; and Charles Barone, featured vocalist with Just Jazzin’, will perform a collage of Sinatra arrangements – “Come Fly With Me”, “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head” and “My Way.”
Jim Warner will direct EMU Jazz, and Tom McKenzie is director and solo trombonist of Just Jazzin’.
Admission to the concert is free. Donations will be accepted for the EMU music department student scholarship fund.