CCM JAZZ SERIES PRESENTS
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, 2023, Corbett Auditorium
Scott Belck, music director
Featuring guest artist Tatum Greenblatt, trumpet
CCM’s Essentially Ellington festival, sponsored by Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center, returns in full swing! The daylong event features the region’s top high school jazz ensembles, culminating in a gala concert with the CCM Jazz Orchestra.
Tatum Greenblatt. Photo by Michat Patamerski.
One of the most versatile and in-demand trumpeters in New York, Juilliard alumnus Tatum Greenblatt (MM ’08) can currently be heard on Broadway with the orchestra for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and on Monday nights with The Mingus Big Band at The Jazz Standard.
Recognized at a young age by Wynton Marsalis as one of his favorite up and coming trumpet players, Tatum has performed and toured with The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Orrin Evans, Roy Hargrove’s Big Band, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Blood Sweat and Tears, Sachal Vasandani, Christian Sands, Ulysses Owens, Macklemore, Bastille, Shaina Taub, The Uptown Jazz Tentet, George Gruntz, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and spent six years on the road with Richard Bona, visiting more than sixty countries across six continents.
As a leader he has released three albums to critical acclaim, and performed with his groups at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Smalls, Club Bonafide, Fat Cat, and Zinc Bar. In addition to conducting regular workshops and clinics for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Tatum also co-leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra alongside Ted Nash, and is on the trumpet faculty for the jazz program at Rutgers University.
CCM’s acclaimed Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Lab Band perform a wide variety of styles including historical swing, bebop, post-bop, fusion, Latin and avant-garde. Concerts have included historical tributes to Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, as well as composer residency programs featuring artists like Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, Slide Hampton, Tim Hagans, Kenny Wheeler and many others as guest conductors and performers. Mandy internationally recognized artists have performed as soloists with the CCM Jazz Orchestra, including Eddie Daniels, John Fedchock, Frank Foster, Curtis Fuller, Kenny Garrett, Joe Henderson, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Liebman and Joshua Redman.
the first 'college affiliate' invited to be in residence on tour with the world-renowned Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Cincinnati Business Courier
Scott Belck, music director
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