The Mississippi College Jazz Band will perform their annual Jazz Band Concert in the Entergy Theatre of the Gore Arts Complex on November 18 at 7 p.m. Tickets are free for MC students and $10 for the public. Directed by Wayne Linehan, a retired member of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, the band will cover the history of jazz.
“From 1914 to 1940, we’re doing chronologically music in that order, hitting every kind of section of jazz,” said Duval Salvant, MC’s Director of Bands and bass trombone player for the concert.
The Jazz Band’s standard spring concert will pick up from the ’40s and continue into modern styles of jazz. This theme fits into the school’s larger one of their bicentennial anniversary celebration, as the Jazz band will celebrate the history of MC through music…