Jazz Celebration of Frank Sinatra at Sheraton Gateway Lax

Big Band Concepts is a Four Day Jazz celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday year featuring an array of concerts, film showings, panel discussions and special presentations.

The focus is centered around instrumental jazz interpretations of classic songs and albums associated with Frank Sinatra.

The festival is designed to feature three primary elements:

1. Concerts of the Sinatra arrangers and sidemen performing their own music. This includes living masters such as Johnny Mandel and Patrick Williams as well as concerts featuring the music of Nelson Riddle, Billy May and more....

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Big Band Concepts is a Four Day Jazz celebration of Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday year featuring an array of concerts, film showings, panel discussions and special presentations.

The focus is centered around instrumental jazz interpretations of classic songs and albums associated with Frank Sinatra.

The festival is designed to feature three primary elements:

1. Concerts of the Sinatra arrangers and sidemen performing their own music. This includes living masters such as Johnny Mandel and Patrick Williams as well as concerts featuring the music of Nelson Riddle, Billy May and more.

2. Concerts featuring the original arrangements from Sinatra’s jazz collaborations with Count Basie, Duke Ellington and the small jazz combos.

3. New interpretations of the Sinatra Concept Albums: In the 1950s, Frank Sinatra began recording albums that had a single unifying theme which not only resulted in an amazing body of work but also set the standard for others to follow.

We’re celebrating Sinatra’s Concepts by featuring different bands and arrangers doing new arrangements of songs from various Concepts albums. Each band will present the music from a specific album.

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