The Salt City Jazz Collective will present a free jazz concert on Tuesday, April 2, at 9 p.m. in Café Opus at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts at Hamilton College.
The Salt City Jazz Collective is a 16-piece jazz orchestra comprised of music educators, touring artists, free-lance musicians, business professionals and university professors from the Syracuse area and lead by Joe Columbo. The Jazz Collective has earned recognition by boldly delivering the historical compositions of the big band genre's greatest icons including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Bob Mintzer. This performance will also include original compositions for jazz orchestra by Joe Riposo, Angelo Candela, and Mike Woods. Hamilton College Associate Professor of Music "Doctuh" Mike Woods will conduct several of his compositions.
Joe Colombo, trombonist, artistic director and band leader, is based in Syracuse. He has performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse University Wind Ensemble. As a freelance trombonist, Colombo has performed in pit orchestras for regional and local theatre companies. His shows include Cabaret, Carousel, Damn Yankees, and Sweet Charity, among others. Colombo has also been a member of Bones East Trombone Ensemble since 1987. The Bones East Trombone Ensemble is a group that performs at area high schools to create interest in trombone playing.
In addition to Colombo, Salt City Jazz Collective members include: Steve Carney, Patrick Carney, Rob Robson, and Jon Laverty on trumpet; Angelo Candela, Mark Alverson, and Jim Lamica on trombone; Joe Riposo, John Delia, Jim Spadafore, Bob Cesari and Paul Dipastena on saxophone; Tom Wikowski on piano; Rick Balestra on guitar; Tom Brigandi on bass; and James W. Jones on drums.
Sponsored by the class of 1949 Endowment Fund. This event is free and open to the public and will be held in Café Opus. There will be a pre-concert talk at 8:30, also in Café Opus. For more information, call the Hamilton College Department of Music office at 859-4261.
