Jazz Heritage Orchestra Pays Tribute to Black Composers @BopStopTMS

JazzHeritage

Fri 8/7 @ 8PM

Sat 8/8 @ 8PM

The Jazz Heritage Orchestra, part of the black studies program at Cleveland State University, is a 17-piece professional ensemble which explores various aspects on jazz in performances, seminars and workshops.

This week, the group heads over to the Bop Stop for a pair of evenings devoted to paying tribute to composer/educator Wendell Logan. Logan, who died in 2010, was a professor of African-American music at Oberlin Conservatory who founded the jazz studies program there. As a composer, he brought together traditional European and modern classical music with vernacular African-American musical traditions including jazz, blues and gospel.

In addition to performing some of Logan’s work, the Jazz Heritage Orchestra will also play compositions by two major African-American jazz composers: Frank Foster, who wrote for Count Basie, and Gerald Wilson, who just died last year at age 94, and whose resume included writing arrangfements for Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Jean-Luc Ponty and Ella Fitzgerald among many others.

Admission is $20.

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Cleveland, OH 44113

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