Courtney Bryan, Tulane University
Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University
Nicole Mitchell, University of Pittsburgh
Renowned composers and instrumentalists Courtney Bryan and Nicole Mitchell will join Professor Brent Hayes Edwards
for a live listening session featuring the Duke Ellington Orchestra's 1957 recording of Such Sweet Thunder, sharing some of
their favorite sections of Ellington's suite and discussing some of the innovative ways Ellington and his collaborator
Billy Strayhorn orchestrated their classic "tone parallel" to Shakespeare.
February 11, 2022 7pm
Pre-show performance with:
The Columbia University Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program Students
Stephanie Chow (guitar), Andre Yan (sax), Paul Torres (bass)
