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Walt Weiskopf Sextet at Arlington Center For The Arts
Courtesy of Daniel Fox | Posted on February 4, 2014
Where
Arlington Center For The Arts
20 Academy St
Arlington, MA
Map
(781) 648-6220
When
Sun, February 9, 2014
4:00 pm
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Internationally Acclaimed Saxophonist Walt Weiskopf Headlining the Third Annual A-Town Jazz Festival
Internationally renowned jazz saxophonist-composer Walt Weiskopf, best known as the sax player in the band Steely Dan, will headline the Third Annual A-Town Jazz Festival February 9 at Arlington Center for the Arts. The festival is hosted by local jazz artist Dan Fox, director of Morningside Music Studio, a music school specializing in student jazz combos.
Walt Weiskopf will open the festival with a jazz workshop beginning at 4 PM and will close the event with a sextet featuring his original compositions. A dynamic player and acclaimed composer, Weiskopf began his career with the Buddy Rich Band and went on to perform and record with Frank Sinatra, jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Steve Smith’s Jazz Legacy. Now a faculty member at Temple University in Philadelphia, Weiskopf has been in Steely Dan since 2003 and has written six books on jazz improvisation....