URI Fall Jazz Series - Concert IV

Recent East Greenwich High School graduate, Bianca Sperduti, will be the featured vocalist with the C100 Big Band, directed by John Monllos. There will be a wide variety of big band swing music in the tradition of Count Basie and classics like Rhapsody in Blue. Lead trumpet, Don Chilton, will present a three song tribute to Harry James. The Jazz Messinger Project, directed by Eric Hofbauer, will offer pieces by two important members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from the early 1960s, Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan.