WSU Jazz concert set at Kimbrough

A free, public concert featuring the award winning WSU jazz ensembles will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Kimbrough Hall on the Pullman campus.

The concert will open with WSU VoJazz, directed by Assistant Professor Dean Luethi, performing the Pat Methany tune “James,” arranged by Michelle Wier, and the traditional tune “Scarborough Fair,” arranged by Kerry Marsh. Kylie Booher will sing “At Last,” made popular by the late Etta James.

VoJazz will close its portion of the program with Phil Mattson’s arrangement of “I’ll Be Seeing You” and Derek Fawcett’s funk arrangement of the George Gershwin tune “Summertime.”

The WSU Jazz Big Band, directed by Regents Professor Greg Yasinitsky, will perform the elegant “Quietude” by Thad Jones, the hard-driving blues “Lookin’ Bad” by Matt Schon (the late father of Journey guitarist Neil Schon), the jazz standard “Stolen Moments” by Oliver Nelson as arranged by Paul Jennings, and the modal, up tempo composition “The Intrepid Fox” by Freddie Hubbard as arranged by Eric Richards.

The band also will present the premiere of “Waltz of the Wicked” by lead alto saxophonist and graduate teaching assistant Matt Lanka.

Soloists will include saxophonists Lanka, Jonathan Urmenita and Tom Guenther, trumpeters Noah Austin and Adam Willey, trombonist Eric Power, bassist Matt Piatt, pianist Charles Wicklander and drummer Paul Davis.