The UCSC Jazz Ensembles salute jazz great Dizzy Gillespie (1917-93) in a joint concert with the Big Band. A legendary jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger, Gillespie was one of most important musicians in jazz’s merger with Latin music. Along with Charlie Parker he created a new language for jazz called Be Bop and connected jazz to other forms of Afro-European music, effectively pioneering World music.

Program features:

Hickory and Twine - Alan Blaylock

Ray's Idea - Dizzy Gillespie

'Round Midnight - Thelonius Monk (arr. Dizzy Gillespie)

Spin Cycle - Alan Blaylock

Birk's Works - Gillespie

Better Git Hit in Your Soul - Charles Mingus 

plus additional works TBA

Big Band directed by: Dr. Robert Klevan

Jazz Ensembles directed by: Stan Poplin

$10 general, $8 senior, $6 student