The Lee University Jazz Ensemble
The Lee University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Alan Wyatt, will present its fall concert in the Dixon Center on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will feature the music of Steve Allee, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonius Monk, among others.
Lee’s Small Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Nathan Warner, will also be featured performing works by Miles Davis and Kenny Garret.
The Lee University Jazz Ensemble performs traditional and recent literature for the traditional Big Band. The ensemble includes rhythm, saxophones, trumpets, and trombones. A frequent award winner at national festivals, it performs for campus, school, and civic events.
Mr. Wyatt, an assistant professor at Lee, currently serves as coordinator of Music Business. Mr. Wyatt has also served as a clinician for senior high school jazz clinics throughout the greater Southeast. Mr. Wyatt is presently an artist for the Andreas Eastman Winds Corporation.
Dr. Warner is an assistant professor of music at Lee and has performed with the Chattanooga Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, Lady Antebellum, Doc Severinsen, and Peter Cetera, among others. He performs regularly as a classical, orchestral, commercial, big band, and jazz artist in New York City, where he lived for 15 years.
The concert is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public. For more information about the concert, contact Lee’s School of Music at 614-8240.