MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble's 19th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert—Giant Steps in Jazz
Building W18, Thomas Tull Concert Hall, 201 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: $20, free for MIT Community
19th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert—Giant Steps in JazzMIT Festival Jazz EnsembleSpecial guest: Trombonist Elliot Mason Friday, November 13, 2027, 8:00pm Linde Music Building, Thomas Tull Concert Hall, MIT $20 general admission, free for MIT community Watch the Livestream MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director collaborates with special guest trombonist Elliot Mason for MIT’s 19th annual celebration of Herb Pomeroy (1930-2007), “the father of jazz at MIT,” the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble (MIT FJE). This special concert includes music of Ellington, Coltrane, ChickCorea, Miguel Zenón and others. Elliot Mason is an internationally acclaimed trombonist, composer, educator, and bass trumpet specialist. For more than two decades, he has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis and performs regularly with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. Alongside his work with Jazz at Lincoln Center, Mason leads his own Quintet, co-leads the Mason Brothers Quintet with his brother, Brad Mason, and performs with the Sofijazz Quintet. An accomplished educator, Mason has served on the jazz faculty at The Juilliard School since…