Ridin' on a Blue Note: Music of Ellington, Morris, and Wilder

About this event

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra presents a program of jazz chamber music, featuring works by Duke Ellington, Alec Wilder, and more. Enjoy riffs from the 1930s to the contemporary era, with some novel twists on the music of favorite Classical and Romantic composers. Andrew Fox, bandmaster of the acclaimed Cascade Swing Orchestra, leads an ensemble of SMCO artists and Northwest jazz players.

Tickets: $30 General Admission $10 Students and Seniors

Seattle First Baptist Church | Map 1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Andrew Fox, clarinet and leader Jory Tindall, clarinet and flute Brandt Fisher, saxophone Brittany Harrington, bassoon Bhavani Kotha, oboe Don Tran, bass Jack Swiggett, piano and harpsichord Rocky Martin, drums

Oliver Wallace and Harold Weeks: Hindustan Frederic Chopin, arr. Gerry Mulligan: Prelude in E minor (arrangement for jazz sextet) Buster Bailey: Haydn Gets Hip Franz Liszt, arr. Girard: Liebestraum Vernon Duke: April in Paris Duke Ellington: Ridin’ on a Blue Note Charlie Shavers: Arabian Nightmare (after Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade )

Alyssa Morris: Duo Displasia for Oboe and Alto Saxophone

Alec Wilder: Jazz Octets Jack, This is My Husband Little White Samba The Children Met the Train Neurotic Goldfish Sea Fugue, Mama Dance Man Buys a Farm Kindergarten Flower Pageant Seldom the Sun Her Old Man was Suspicious

Presented in one hour and fifteen minutes, with no intermission.

From Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra