Purchase Jazz Orchestra at The Falcon

Co-Directed by Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist Todd Coolman, and legendary trumpeter Jon Faddis
The PJO swings!

The seventeen piece Purchase Jazz Orchestra performs jazz from staples like Ellington and Basie, to modern works by today’s leading composers and arrangers such as McNeely, Clayton, Abene, and Schneider.

Along with tonight's performance at The Falcon, PJO continues its tradition of performing at two renowned NYC jazz venues - Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center and The Blue Note, affording the students invaluable experience. The gigs provide instruction not replicated in the classroom. ...

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Co-Directed by Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist Todd Coolman, and legendary trumpeter Jon Faddis
The PJO swings!

The seventeen piece Purchase Jazz Orchestra performs jazz from staples like Ellington and Basie, to modern works by today’s leading composers and arrangers such as McNeely, Clayton, Abene, and Schneider.

Along with tonight's performance at The Falcon, PJO continues its tradition of performing at two renowned NYC jazz venues - Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center and The Blue Note, affording the students invaluable experience. The gigs provide instruction not replicated in the classroom.

“They perform for a real audience of bona fide jazz fans who are there by choice rather than coincidence. That audience is demanding and they expect excellence to be on display at venues of this reputation,” Coolman says.

This year, they’ll perform with renowned trumpet player Jon Faddis as a guest soloist, who is also a professor of music at Purchase.

Coolman is certain PJO performances at these venues will impress discriminating listeners.

http://www.purchase.edu/Music

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