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  • 10/24 Jazz Combos Concert

    Please join the UConn Jazz Combos  for an afternoon of music on Sunday October 24th at 3:00pm at UConn's von der Mehden Recital Hall.

    von der Mehden Recital hall is located at 875 Coventry Rd. Storrs.

    General admission is $10. Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are Free.

    Due to COVID-19 restrictions, audience seating is limited to 200. Tickets may be pre-purchased at: 

    https://vdm.ticketleap.com/jazz-combos1/

    A live stream of this performance can be accessed at: 

    https://www.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/2090521/uiconf_id/36463151/entry_id/1_almc4hoz/embed/dynamic

    Program:

      Jazz Combos

    Earl MacDonald, director

    Doug Maher, director

     

     Just Friends                                                                                         John Klenner (1899–1955)

     

    A Night in Tunisia                                                       John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie (1917–1993)

     

     

    Moanin’                                                                                   Bobby Timmons (1935–1974)

                                                                                                                arr. by Doug Maher (b. 1955)

     

    Recorda Me                                                                                         Joe Henderson (1937–2001)

                                                                                                                                        arr. by Maher

     

    Litha                                                                Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea (1941–2021)

     

    Windows                                                                                                                                 Corea

     

    Someday My Prince Will Come                                                         Frank Churchill (1901–1942)

     

    All the Things You Are                                                                      Jerome Kern (1885–1945)

     

    Out of Nowhere                                                                      John Waldo Green (1908–1989)

     

    UMMG (Upper Manhattan Medical Group)                          William Thomas “Billy” Strayhorn

                                                                                                                                        (1915–1967)

    For more information, contact: Earl MacDonald at earl.macdonald@uconn.edu