OSU Jazz Festival is Saturday

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Trombonist and drummer are guest artists at Jazz Festival

The OSU Jazz Festival will feature internationally renowned trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and Stockton Helbing, drummer for Doc Severinsen’s band, on Saturday, April 26, at the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.

 

The festival will include opportunities for other local ensembles to perform and receive feedback, master classes and performances by the OSU Jazz Ensembles and guest artists. The event begins at 12:30 p.m. and will culminate with a 7:30 p.m. finale concert.  

 

In addition to an extremely successful solo career, Gordon tours regularly leading the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, headlining at legendary jazz venues and performing arts centers throughout the

world. Gordon is a former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and has been a featured guest artist on Billy Taylor's "Jazz at the Kennedy Center"

Series.

It is hard to find a drummer as diverse as Helbing. He’s also a composer, arranger, producer, band leader, educator, music director, author, and entrepreneur. Helbing currently serves as Jazz Artist in Residence at Oklahoma State University. In addition to Severinsen , he has performed and recorded with a large range of artists including Maynard Ferguson, Erika Badu, David Braid, Chip McNeill, and Jennifer Holiday.

The OSU Jazz Festival is sponsored by President Burns Hargis, the OSU Institute for Creativity and Innovation, Yamaha, the Atherton Hotel and the OSU Department of Music.

 

Tickets for the entire day are $15 at the door. For the finale concert, tickets will be $8 general admission and $6 for students and senior citizens.  

 

For questions, please call (405) 744-6133 (Ext. 1, Events Line)