Contact: Maridith Geuder
Jazz and swing standards, along with a few gospel favorites, will be on the program Nov. 28 at a Mississippi State University concert.
The MSU Jazz Ensemble, directed by music education department head Michael R. Brown, will perform in the McComas Hall theater. While the 7:30 p.m. program is free, contributions will be accepted to support future programming and the department's scholarship development fund.
Selections for the evening will include "'Round Midnight," "Porsha," "Dues Blues," and "This Little Light of Mine," among others. In a special tribute to the late multi-talented performer Steve Allen, the group also will perform "This Could Be the Start of Something Big."
Guest performers include Malcolm Lynn Baker, director of the jazz studies and commercial music program at the University of Denver's Lamont School, and former MSU departmental faculty member Mark Applebaum, now a teacher at Stanford University.
Baker, who conducts the award-winning Lamont Jazz Orchestra and Contemporary Combo, will be featured on a set of original songs and arrangements. Applebaum, with Baker, will revive his Mark Applebaum Trio, which performed widely in Mississippi in recent years.
The concert concludes with a jam session on the classic blues tune "Emancipation Blues."
In addition to the music education department and its band section, the Nov. 28 performance is sponsored by the University Honors Program.
For more information, telephone (662) 325-3070.