Jimmy Heath Big Band September 24, 2011

Rose Theater
Jazz royalty begins the 2011-12 JALC season with two NEA Jazz Masters, both stylish veterans who are still finding new ways to swing a big band. A triple threat as a composer, arranger, and player, Jimmy Heath was already a forward-looking musician when he formed his first orchestra in 1947, and has remained so with his current big band. The ageless Jon Hendricks once made the Count Basie Orchestra into an instrument of vocalese and he’s now doing the same with the Andy Farber Orchestra.