Thursday, Oct. 17 | 7:30 p.m. | Hansen Theatre Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. He and the other Marsalis family members (father Ellis and brothers Branford, Wynton and Jason) earned the nation’s highest jazz honor – a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, in 2011.Marsalis and his big band […]
Monday, Sept. 23 | 7:30 p.m. | Gaede Stage MSUM’s School of Performing Arts hosts a guest performance by jazz trumpet player Ralph Alessi and his quintet on Monday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. For tickets, go to mnstate.edu/tickets, or call the MSUM Box Office M-F from noon […]
On Wednesday, March 5, saxophonist Steve Cole will present two master classes at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Fox Recital Hall. That evening at 7:30 p.m. in Fox Recital Hall, Cole will present a concert featuring MSUM jazz faculty Tom Strait, Allen Carter, Doug Neil, and Michael J. Krajewski. MSUM student, Chad Hanson will also perform with the group. […]
Jazz guitarist Pete McCann will be on campus all week presenting master classes and recitals. McCann has been an integral part of the New York City scene for 20 years. He currently leads an exciting new group of New York’s finest jazz artists on his latest CD, Extra Mile. McCann’s other releases, Most Folks, You Remind Me of Someone, Parable, […]
Peter Erskine, a Grammy-award-winning jazz drummer, educator and composer, appears with the MSUM Jazz Ensemble in Hansen Theatre in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m.