Aardvark Jazz Celebrates 50 Years of Jazz at Mit with Music by Mark Harvey at MIT Kresge Auditorium

Praised for "expansive harmony, brilliant music" (CultureJazz.Fr, France) and called "very hip, very creative" (The Boston Globe), The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra continues its historic 40th season with a show April 20 at 8 pm on MIT's main stage at Kresge Auditorium, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA. Free admission. Information: 617 452 3205. The show, called Echoes & Resonance, celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Jazz at MIT. Aardvark music director Mark Harvey will reprise two of his major MIT commissions: Beyond (written for the MIT Wind Ensemble and featuring Herb Pomeroy and Ran Blake in the premiere), and Saxophrenia (composed for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, featuring Joe Lovano in the premiere). The concert will also honor legendary musicians and their connections to Aardvark and MIT: Jaki Byard, who performed with Aardvark in 1986 in Kresge Auditorium, and Mercer Ellington, who lectured to Mark Harvey's classes at MIT and donated his arrangement of Moon Mist to the band....

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Praised for "expansive harmony, brilliant music" (CultureJazz.Fr, France) and called "very hip, very creative" (The Boston Globe), The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra continues its historic 40th season with a show April 20 at 8 pm on MIT's main stage at Kresge Auditorium, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA. Free admission. Information: 617 452 3205. The show, called Echoes & Resonance, celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Jazz at MIT. Aardvark music director Mark Harvey will reprise two of his major MIT commissions: Beyond (written for the MIT Wind Ensemble and featuring Herb Pomeroy and Ran Blake in the premiere), and Saxophrenia (composed for the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, featuring Joe Lovano in the premiere). The concert will also honor legendary musicians and their connections to Aardvark and MIT: Jaki Byard, who performed with Aardvark in 1986 in Kresge Auditorium, and Mercer Ellington, who lectured to Mark Harvey's classes at MIT and donated his arrangement of Moon Mist to the band.

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