Thompson Jazz Big Bands

Associate Professor of Jazz Studies Paul McKee is a world-renowned jazz trombonist, arranger and composer. After 11 years with the CU Boulder College of Music, he will retire at the end of the spring semester. Join us in celebrating McKee's incredible contributions to our campus community with an evening featuring his own compositions and arrangements performed by our Concert Jazz Ensemble and Thompson Latin Jazz Ensemble (with special guest!).

The Concert Jazz Ensemble, the Thompson Jazz Studies Program’s premier ensemble, performs music from the rich legacy of big band music—from its early swing days to music by contemporary innovators.

The Thompson Latin Jazz Ensemble studies music from the Caribbean and South America and its integration and ties with jazz. Traditional and contemporary forms of Latin music are surveyed, including Afro jazz, Afro-Cuban, danzón, salsa, calypso and cha-cha-chá—as well as Brazilian forms, such as samba and baião.

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