
Ensemble Series: Hill Country Jazz Festival featuring Guest Artist Bob Mintzer
Ensemble Series presents
Hill Country Jazz Festival featuring Guest Artist Bob Mintzer
8:00 p.m.
Evans Auditorium
Bob Mintzer, lead sax player in the jazz rock band the Yellowjackets, composer, arranger, and big band leader debuts and performs a new Big Band composition commissioned by Texas State Jazz for the Hill Country Jazz Festival.
Mintzer has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards both for his solo work and big band recordings (Art of the Big Band, Departure, Homage to Count Basie, One Music, and Only in New York) and his work with the Yellowjackets (Blue Hats, Club Nocturne, Dreamland, Greenhouse, Like a River, Live Wires, Mint Jam, Runferyerlife, Time Squared). Homage to Count Basie won the Grammy in the best large ensemble category for the 44th Annual Grammy Awards, 2001
For additional information contact
Dr. Keith Winking
kw09@txstate.edu