A free concert featuring the Washington State University Jazz Big Band and VOJAZZ vocal jazz ensemble will be presented at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in Kimbrough Concert Hall.
The program will open with VOJAZZ directed by Jennifer Scovell. VOJAZZ will perform “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Georgia,” “In the Silence of Time” and “Me and Julio.”
The Jazz Big Band, directed by Greg Yasinitsky, will perform two new compositions: “Thinkin’ Bout Maynard” composed by David Snider, a graduate teaching assistant and bassist in the band, and “The Big T” composed by director Yasinitsky. The band will also perform Steve Brown’s “Catch Phrase,” Thelonious Monk’s “Ask Me Now” and Yasinitsky’s “After Eight.”
Soloists will include trumpeters Matt Reid, Brendan McMurphy and Matt Postle; saxophonists Jr. Tupa’i, Jason Larsen and Malcolm Lewis; pianist Jesse Hadley, drummer Javin Grove and bassist Snider.
