Celebrate Jazz Appreciation month with this free concert in the Daniels Auditorium of the NC History Museum. The Triangle Youth Jazz Orchestra and the award-winning Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble will play a varied program including:
Harlem Airshaft by Duke Ellington
A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie
At Last by Harry Warren
It’s Only a Paper Moon by Harold Arlen
Sing Sing Sing by Louis Prima
Happy-Go-Lucky-Local by Duke Ellington
St. Louis Blues by W.C. Handy/Duke Ellington
Only You by Bob Florence
Launching Pad by Duke Ellington
It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got that Swing by Duke Ellington
Georgia by Hoagy Carmichael
Cottontail by Duke Ellington
Jump for Joy by Duke Ellington, Sid Kuller, Paul Francis Webster
Sugar Hill Penthouse by Duke Ellington
Stay On It by Tadd Dameron and Dizzy Gillespie
Hear TYJE before they compete in NYC in the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Festival. Donations will be accepted to help with trip expenses.