The Lee University Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Alan Wyatt, will present its fall concert in the Dixon Center on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will feature the music of Thelonius Monk, Bob Mintzer, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. Lee’s Small Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dr. Nathan Warner, will also be featured.
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 of music at Lee, has shared the stage with several artists, including Frank Sinatra, Jr., The Temptations, The Four Tops, Doc Severinsen, and Clay Aiken, among others. Prior to his appointment at Lee, Wyatt was the co-leader, along with his late wife Paula Archer-Wyatt, of a jazz quartet that performed throughout the greater southeastern United States.
Dr. Warner is an assistant professor of music at Lee and has performed with the Chattanooga Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, Lady Antebellum, Doc Severinsen, Peter Cetera, and The Temptations, 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.
Admission to the concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lee’s School of Music at 614-8240.