Jazz concert today

HAMILTON, N.Y. >> On Sunday, April 2, Colgate Associate Professor Glenn Cashman will present a concert featuring the music of jazz composer/pianist Cedar Walton. Walton was a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and successfully led his own groups until his passing in 2013.

Many of Walton’s compositions have become celebrated jazz standards including “Bolivia,” “Firm Roots,” “Cedar’s Blues” and “Fantasy in D.” Along with saxophonist Cashman, the concert features jazz faculty musicians Rick Montalbano (keyboard), Jimmy Johns (drums) and special guests Richard Roeder (guitar), Robert Gibson (bass), Iris Benjamin (voice).

Roeder is well known in the Baltimore-Washington area as a heavyweight performer, recording studio owner/engineer/ producer. Benjamin is regarded as one of the top jazz vocalists in that region and has worked and recorded with the top musicians in DC and Baltimore. Bassist Gibson is also an acclaimed New Music composer, and is currently Professor of Composition at the University of Maryland, College Park, after serving a decadelong tenure as Director of the UM School of Music. Cashman is bicoastal, spending summers and

semester breaks as an active saxophonist-organist/ bandleader/composer in Los Angeles.

For more information, or a complete 2016/2017 Concert Calendar, call Lorraine Joseph, concert manager, Department of Music, Colgate University at 315228-7642.

Founded in 1819, Colgate University is a highly selective, residential, lib- eral arts college enrolling nearly 2,750 undergraduates.

Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, Colgate University attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests and talents.