Uptown Jazz Series to Highlight Music from The ‘Cool Era’

The Uptown Jazz Series (UJS) continues its theme of The Evolution of Jazz next week with a concert focusing on music composed during the genre’s “Cool Era.”

The Evolution of Jazz: The Cool Era will be held on Monday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dr. Thomas D. Pappert Center for Performance and Innovation in the Mary Pappert School of Music.

Music at the upcoming concert includes tunes from the 1957 album Birth of the Cool, a compilation by jazz musician Miles Davis. The release defined the music of the “Cool Era” of jazz, according to Mike Tomaro, professor of jazz studies, jazz saxophone and composition.

Works by Gerry Mulligan—a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger—and jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck will also be highlighted during the concert.

This is the third in this six-concert series that is chronicling the specific eras in jazz history. The concerts feature a core group of music school faculty members and special guest performers under the direction of Tomaro, who developed this year’s theme, organizes and arranges all of the series’ music, and performs during each concert.

General admission is $10 for each concert. For more information, visit www.duq.edu/UptownJazz.