GJC Contemporary Ensemble/Mark Rapp-Spartanburg Jazz Festival at Spartanburg Jazz Festival at Evans Auditorium

Greenville Jazz Collective Quintet and Mark Rapp play the 2nd Annual Spartanburg Jazz Festival 7pm on Friday November 3rd at Evans Auditorium(Spartanburg Community College Downtown Campus). There is a "Suggested Donation" of $10 for this event.

University of South Carolina Upstate Latin Jazz Combo opens the show!

GJC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
The Greenville Jazz Collective is a non-profit organization started in 2012 by highly respected members of the jazz community in Greenville, SC. Through education outreach in the community and regular performance in an environment that is best suited for listening, the mission of the GJC is to create a greater awareness and appreciation for jazz music and history in the Upstate for generations to come....

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Greenville Jazz Collective Quintet and Mark Rapp play the 2nd Annual Spartanburg Jazz Festival 7pm on Friday November 3rd at Evans Auditorium(Spartanburg Community College Downtown Campus). There is a "Suggested Donation" of $10 for this event.

University of South Carolina Upstate Latin Jazz Combo opens the show!

GJC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
The Greenville Jazz Collective is a non-profit organization started in 2012 by highly respected members of the jazz community in Greenville, SC. Through education outreach in the community and regular performance in an environment that is best suited for listening, the mission of the GJC is to create a greater awareness and appreciation for jazz music and history in the Upstate for generations to come.
The first GJC ensemble, the musicians of the Contemporary Group are amongst the most accomplished jazz musicians in Greenville whose guest artists are recognized nationally and internationally. Dedicated primarily to playing the music of its members and composers from the region, the members play together in a variety of musical settings.

MARK RAPP markrapp.com
Mark Rapp is a distinguished trumpeter, composer, arranger, didgeridoo player, recording and touring artist and has performed with such distinct artists from Branford Marsalis to country music star Darius Rucker. Rapp has released 7 diverse recordings, and is featured on the closing track of Disney’s “Everybody Wants to be a Cat” CD. app’s celebrated 2009 debut release “Token Tales” (Paved Earth Music), earned him a spot as one of the “Top 25 Emerging Trumpeters” in Downbeat Magazine. His release “Good Eats” (Dinemec Jazz) had critics saying, “Rapp is quickly developing a reputation as a superb interpreter and great stylist, willing to tackle the history of this music with his eyes on the past and his mind on the present and future of this music.” – AllAboutJazz.com.
Mark has performed in jazz clubs around the world from Snug Harbor (New Orleans), Blue Note (NYC), The Jazz Standard (NYC), Yoshi’s (San Francisco), Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.), Jazzland (Vienna, Austria), AMR (Geneva, Switzerland), Clube do Choro (Natal, Brasil) to Jazz Tunnel (Zagreb, Croatia). Jazz festivals around the world from the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, Fillmore Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, WC Handy Festival, Festival AMR des Cropettes (Switzerland), JazzTimes Festival in Croatia to the Jazz&Blues Festival in Garanhuns, Brazil.

Spartanburg Jazz Festival 2017 sponsored by:
USC Upstate
Greenville Jazz Collective

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