Tucson Jazz Institute's award-winning Ellington Big Band will open for jazz piano phenom Matthew Whitaker at the 2023 HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival.
Cathalena E. Burch Each year since the HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival launched in 2014, a group of aspiring young musicians from the Tucson Jazz Institute has shared the stage with some pretty big names in the genre.
People are also reading… “It’s about getting to play a really large venue, having a real command performance for the material they are going to record and the interaction with a famous jazz musician,” said Scott Black, who owns and operates TJI with jazz saxophonist Brice Winston. “One of the cool things about jazz is that it’s about the music and people of all ages play that together,” Black said.
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