A Celebration of Jazz at Washington State University, 7:30 p.m., April 20.
The School of Music at Washington State University will present a special virtual event: “A Virtual Celebration of Jazz at WSU” featuring virtual videos of the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band, combos, the faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest and the new WSU Faculty Big Band. Special guest for this virtual concert is trumpet and flugelhorn artist Mike Galisatus, who hails from the San Francisco Bay Area is Director of the Stanford University Jazz Band, leader of the Mike Galisatus Big Band and a top freelance artist. Also, for many years, Galisatus was Director of Bands at the College of San Mateo.
The program will include the premiere of “RBG,” a tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice by recent MA graduate Alison Poteracke, and compositions by Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Greg Yasinitsky including “Conspiracy Theory” performed by the Jazz Big Band, “To the Max” featuring Graduate Teaching Assistant Max Harrington, “After Charlie,” a tribute to saxophonist Charlie Parker featuring saxophonists Brant Fisher and Adam Hureau, “No Hoax” performed by the faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest, and “Best of Friends,” written especially for Galisatus, performed by the WSU Faculty Big Band. Other soloists will include saxophonist Thomas Wieland, pianist Josh Pinkham, bassist Joe Ballestrasse and drummer Erik Hawkins. The virtual concert will also include a video featuring the WSU Big Band II directed by Harrington.
This event will be live streamed on YouTube at WSUPullmanMusic at https://www.youtube.com/wsupullmanmusic.
