LWE Jazz Showcase

Enjoy a night (or two!) on the town right close to home with an evening of dinner, raffle prizes, desserts, dancing, and great jazz music provided by LWE Jazz Bands and Combos, and LWE vocal jazz groups and soloists. Special Guest saxophonist! tickets at lwemusic.org

Our special guest for the evening will be saxophonist Jarrard Harris!!! A native of Louisville, Kentucky, saxophonist and educator Jarrard Harris attended the Youth Performing Arts School in high school and attended the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music to further his jazz studies. At CCM he studied with Rick VanMatre, Pat Harbison, and Marc Fields. Upon Graduation from CCM and a stint as an educational intern for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Harris moved to Chicago in 1998 to further his studies at DePaul University where under the tutelage of Bob Lark, Tim Coffman, and Marc Colby he earned his master’s degree in jazz studies. Harris currently lives in Chicago, where he is on the jazz faculty of Northwestern University and Columbia College Chicago. He also serves as the director of jazz studies with the Chicago Public Schools Advanced Arts Education Program at Gallery 37. He maintains an active private teaching studio in addition to adjudicating college and high school festivals, giving master classes, lecturing, serving as a board member for the Jazz Institute of Chicago and has performed with musicians in the United States and abroad.