Details
Item details
Date
Sunday, April 2, 2023 2:00PM
Location
Woolsey Hall
Name
Epitaph: 100 Years of Mingus
Description
Ellington Jazz Series
The correct start time for this concert is 2:00pm. (It was originally listed as 7:30pm.)
“Among the most important, prophetic, creative statements in the history of jazz.”
– Gunther Schuller
In celebration of Charles Mingus’ 100th birthday, the Ellington Jazz Series presents the revered Mingus Big Band, with Grammy Award-winning saxophonist, YSM Lecturer in Jazz, and Director of the Yale Jazz Ensembles Wayne Escoffery and Yale students, in a performance, conducted by Escoffery and trombonist Ku-umba Frank Lacy, of Mingus’ idiosyncratic jazz-orchestra epic, Epitaph. This rarely performed, enigmatic work reflects the genius of its composer while defying all categorization and offers the world an experience of the man himself and of the ideas that filled him.
Tickets are still available for this concert! Purchase tickets online, below, until 12:00pm on Sunday, April 2.
After 12:00pm on Sunday, visit the Woolsey Hall rotunda (500 College St) to purchase or pick up reserved tickets.
Tickets start at $23, students start at $10
(Seating is General Admission by section)
Concerts at YSM are open to asymptomatic individuals. ASTM or N95-equivalent masks are required for all audience members.
Tickets are no longer available online for this event (online sales close 2 hours prior to the start of the event). Please contact the box office at (203) 432-4158 to get up-to-the-minute ticket availability information.
