Ken Schaphorst, New England Conservatory's chair of jazz studies, leads the NEC Jazz Orchestra in a program of his own compositions and arrangements.
When Naxos released Schaphorst's album Purple, Jazz Times described it as "Not to be missed!" And with jazz big bands increasingly scarce on the live performance scene, this concert is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to hear an almost quarter-century anthology of Schaphorst's large-scale music, including two works not available on recording, Omega Man and Cleopatra's Variations.
new arrangements of music from Schaphorst's 1989 debut recording, Making Lunch
Chant
The Lashing of Tongues
Prayer
from Schaphorst's 1998 recording, Purple
Uprising
With You, Then Without
R.B. Lynch Love Lament arranged by Schaphorst
with vocalist Kim Mayo
Mahler songs arranged by Schaphorst
Where Trumpets Blow
Reveille
The Drummer Boy
Eternal Light
with vocalists Tomás Cruz and Nedelka Prescod
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG