Fri 3/3 @ 7:30PM
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra’s next concert is called “Blues, Gospel, and the Abstract Truth: A Celebration of Gospel,” acknowledging one of the genres of music that watered the roots of jazz.
Joining the orchestra for the concert at the Maltz Performing Arts Center are vocal duo Dre & Leah, while conductor Jonathon Turner, who is on the voice faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory division and is the choirmaster for the Akron Symphony’s Gospel Meets Symphony choir, will be leading a gospel choir made up of singers from the Greater Cleveland Choral Chapter, Cleveland Heights High School and Lutheran East High School.
The program will mix hip-hop, funk, and blues, as well as jazz, in a tribute to the continuing influence of gospel on all forms of Black music. And as a bonus, it will perform music by the jazz reed player/composer/arranger Oliver Nelson, whose music was heavily influenced by jazz and whose album title The Blues and the Abstract Truth inspired the name of this concert. Go here to get tickets.