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DePaul Jazz Music Showcase-- SOLD OUT!

Thursday, February 23, 2023

This program is sold out.

Don’t let the winter blues get you down! Join us for a night of hot jazz with up-and-coming musicians from DePaul University’s renowned School of Music Jazz Studies Program. Drawing from their classwork in improvisation, theory, composition, and arranging, these students will show off their chops and get you swinging. If you’ve never experienced the Nickerson Ballroom filled with the sounds of music, you are in for a treat sure to warm up any cold night.

This event will be held in the Nickerson Mansion Ballroom. The program will have an intermission.

Program Details

Jazz Combo II

317 East 32nd ||Lennie Tristano

Before You ||Sam Jones

Save Your Love For Me ||Buddy Johnson

Ain’t Misbehavin ||Fats Waller

Julia Smulson, vocals

Takeru Satoh, alto saxophone

John Kaster, piano

Arlo Wohlgenant, acoustic bass

Jayden Richardson, drums and cymbals

Scott Burns, combo coach

Jazz Combo VI

Blue ||Connor Sullivan

Colours ||Kenny Reichert

Sourceful ||Garrett Munz

Ending Old Habits ||Rufus Parenti

** Please note, all of these selections are original compositions written by the performers


Garrett Munz, alto saxophone

Rufus Parenti, tenor saxophone

Kenneth Reichert, guitar

Connor Sullivan, acoustic bass

Paul Barrilles, drums and cymbals

Jim Trompeter,combo coach