The Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director, will celebrate Slide Hampton and George Coleman at its season opener on Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall.
Admission is free and no tickets are required.
The concert will feature the pioneering music of jazz trombonist/composer/arranger Slide Hampton’s octet (of which saxophonist George Coleman was a member), with new big-band orchestrations of “A Moment’s Notice” and “Star Eyes” by Michael Philip Mossman, arranged specifically for the Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band. Also featuring Hampton’s early works, including his expressive arrangement of “Motherless Child,” and his originals “Frame for the Blues,” “Go East, Young Man,” and “Althea,” originally written for The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.