Concert: URI Jazz Series III

105 Upper College Rd, Kingston, RI | Get Directions »
$10.00

Jazz Series, Concert III: C100 Big Band, Joseph Parillo, coordinator. In the main concert hall. John Monllos, director. The band will perform a wide variety of big band swing music in the tradition of Count Basie with hits such as Shiny Stockings. Their featured vocalist Bianca Sperduti will offer classic songs including Cheek to Cheek and Straighten Up and Fly Right. Don Chilton (lead trumpet) and his son William Chilton, a Rogers High School trumpeter, will team up for a trumpet duet entitled Bill. The band will also be presenting a modern composition by Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band and Latin compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joe Henderson.