URI Jazz Series

Friday, November 30 at 8:00pm to 10:00pm

Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall 105 Upper College Rd, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA

Joseph Parillo, coordinator, Concert III: C100 Big Band, John Monllos, Director.

URI Jazz Series, Concert III: C100 Big Band, Joseph Parillo, coordinator. John Monllos, director. The band will perform a wide variety of big band swing music in the tradition of Count Basie with hits such as Shiny Stockings. Their featured vocalist Bianca Sperduti will offer classic songs including Cheek to Cheek and Straighten Up and Fly Right. Don Chilton (lead trumpet) and his son William Chilton, a Rogers High School trumpeter, will team up for a trumpet duet entitled Bill. The band will also be presenting a modern composition by Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band and Latin compositions by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joe Henderson.