Wycliffe Gordon And The Billy Marcus Trio at Riverview Performing Arts Center

One of the world's greatest trombonists, 4 time Downbeat Poll and 8 time Jazz Journal award winner, Wycliffe Gordon headlines the 36th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival. Gordon has received the Louis Armstrong Memorial Prize presented by the Swing Jazz Culture Foundation and was named Artist of the Year by the Augusta Arts Council, Augusta, GA. He is past recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award. He has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Eric Reed, Randy Sandke and Branford Marsalis, plus many top players from the swing and traditional jazz world. He has been a featured guest on Billy Taylor’s “Jazz at the Kennedy Center” Series. Billy Marcus… a member of the South Florida Jazz Hall of Fame, worked with Bobby Hackett. His career has included performances on radio and television, in clubs, concert halls and festivals around the world. He has worked with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Scott Hamilton, James Moody, Maynard Ferguson, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and numerous others. ...

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One of the world's greatest trombonists, 4 time Downbeat Poll and 8 time Jazz Journal award winner, Wycliffe Gordon headlines the 36th Annual Sarasota Jazz Festival. Gordon has received the Louis Armstrong Memorial Prize presented by the Swing Jazz Culture Foundation and was named Artist of the Year by the Augusta Arts Council, Augusta, GA. He is past recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award. He has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Eric Reed, Randy Sandke and Branford Marsalis, plus many top players from the swing and traditional jazz world. He has been a featured guest on Billy Taylor’s “Jazz at the Kennedy Center” Series. Billy Marcus… a member of the South Florida Jazz Hall of Fame, worked with Bobby Hackett. His career has included performances on radio and television, in clubs, concert halls and festivals around the world. He has worked with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Scott Hamilton, James Moody, Maynard Ferguson, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and numerous others.
Don Mopsick has performed with Rosemary Clooney, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, John Carisi, Paul Jeffrey and others. Don is perhaps best known for his 19 years with Jim Collum’s Riverwalk Jazz Series with guests such as, Benny Carter, Dick Hyman, “Sweets Edison”, Joe Williams, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Vince Giordano, Milt Hilton and others.
Stephen Bucholtz performed with artists such as Chuck Redd, Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen, Jon-Eric Kellso, Roni Ben-Hur, Buster Cooper and John Lamb. He has also performed with the Florida Orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra and Metropolitan Wind Symphony.

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