OSU Jazz Ensemble to perform jazz classics and more

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Selections from the Count Basie Orchestra will be included among several improvisational numbers during the first performance of the OSU Jazz Ensemble this season, set for Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Seretean Center Concert Hall.

Dr. Tommy Poole will conduct the ensemble for the first time. Poole, the new director of jazz studies, is an active saxophonist, who has performed professionally with Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, Maynard Ferguson, Marilyn McCoo, Ramsey Lewis, Arturo Sandoval and many more.

He has recorded several commercially-available CDs ranging in style from classical to jazz and pop, and composed and arranged works for a variety of settings from jazz big bands to full-sized studio orchestras.

Tickets for this performance  are $8 general admission and $6 for students and senior citizens. They are available in the Music Department Office  at 132 Seretean Center or online at http://marketplace.okstate.edu. Tickets also go on sale at the Seretean Center box office one hour before the performance.