Jazz: Live at the Library! Concert #107-CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

Well it happened Thursday, March 10th, 2016, at the Farish Theater in Lexington’s Central Branch Library. Funded by Jamey Aebersold Jazz and hosted by The Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc., the Michael Cruse Quintet put on an excellent show, playing to a house full of friends and jazz lovers. Michael Cruse, trumpet and vocals, Darren Benton, drums, Andrew Lin, saxophone, Jackson Steiger, piano and Kevin McClellan, bass started the evening off with an interpretation of Horace Silver’s Conformation, titled Juicy Lucy. They rolled out the carpet and delivered clean, concise impact filled playing. I thought that Andrew Lin’s (saxophone) first solo […]

The Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit, educational organization whose mission is “to enhance the awareness of Jazz as a performing art.” Since its establishment in 1989, the Foundation has published newsletters, coordinated jazz calendars, awarded educational scholarships and sponsored many jazz events and performances.

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