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Renowned jazz pianist and Lafayette honorary degree recipient is Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence for the 25th anniversary season of the Williams Center for the Arts
Jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller and his group Wingspan will perform at 8 p.m. Nov. 22 in the Williams Center for the Arts as part of the Jazz Masters performance series. The performance is the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Concert.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $20 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009. The remaining Jazz Masters performance will be Dianne Reeves, Feb. 7, $27.
Wingspan returns to the Williams Center stage for the Boys and Girls Club of Easton’s 22nd annual Easton Jazz Festival. Bandleader/piano man Miller, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, saxophonist Steve Wilson, and trumpeter Duane Eubanks, along with a veteran rhythm section bring fire and grace to this straight-ahead, post-bop repertory of Miller’s compositions. “True to [Miller’s] blues-tinged upbringing, he’s a bop intellectual with an unabashed gift for populism,” says Time Out New York. “That explains both the thundering jabs in his sparkling runs and the sleekness in his writing and arranging.”
The 2008–2009 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for extraordinary support of the 25th anniversary season, and to Joan Moran and the Amaranth Foundation for support of the Ravi Shankar commission.