Yale Jazz Ensemble
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Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director Stephanie Hubbard, Business Manager The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band, performs a wide variety of music, from classic pieces from golden age of the big band to pieces, including those from Yale’s Benny Goodman archive , to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions. The Ensemble has performed in the United States and internationally at such noted venues as New York’s Village Vanguard, Iridium Jazz Club, and Dizzy’s Club; Boston’s Scullers Club, and London’s Ronnie Scott’s. The YJE has played with or opened for the Mingus Big Band, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, and Wayne Escoffery. While the YJE offers the college big band experience primarily to undergraduates, graduate students and other members of the Yale community often can be included in the group. |
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