From groundbreaking pioneers to contemporary icons, the 2024-25 Jazz Roots season honors the enduring legacy of jazz titans Sarah Vaughan and Duke Ellington while celebrating the vibrant energy of Latin jazz powerhouses Chucho Valdés and Arturo Sandoval.
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SARAH VAUGHAN: A SASSY CENTENNIAL
November 1, 2024
Featuring Patti Austin, Randy Brecker, Lisa Fischer and 2023 Sarah Vaughan Vocal Competition Winner Tyreek McDole with Shelly Berg and the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra and its resident conductor, Scott Flavin
This celebration of the versatile and widely influential jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, whose nicknames included Sassy and the Divine Sarah, will find talented admirers performing her music in front of a full orchestra. “Among the singers of her generation, only Ella Fitzgerald enjoyed comparable stature,” The New York Times wrote of Vaughan, whose hits included “It’s Magic,” “What Lola Wants” and “Make Yourself Comfortable.”
CHUCHO VALDÉS ROYAL QUARTET
February 7, 2025
In his early 80s, Cuban-born pianist Chucho Valdés continues to excite audiences with electrifying performances of music that draws from his deep well of jazz, blues, funk, Latin, classical and African influences. The title of Valdés’ new album, Cuba & Beyond, reflects the scope of his sound and ambition, and pays tribute to musicians and composers he reveres, including Chick Corea and Mozart. Named a 2025 NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, Valdés recorded Cuba & Beyond with his Royal Quartet, which also includes Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez on drums, José Armando Gola on bass and Roberto Jr. Vizcaino on percussion.
JASON MORAN PERFORMS THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON: MY HEART SINGS
March 21, 2025
With special guest Alicia Hall Moran and the Frost School of Music Big Band
Guided by Duke Ellington’s great canon, Moran takes a solo piano climb up “Mount Ellington” in this extraordinary celebration of the composer’s enduring legacy 125 years after his birth. Experience the timeless genius of Ellington’s music, brilliantly reimagined by Moran.
ARTURO SANDOVAL: A MASTER OF AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ
April 11, 2025
Cuban-born trumpeter Arturo Sandoval returns to the Arsht Center stage for an evening of virtuosic, hard-swinging jazz. A founding member of groundbreaking Latin jazz act Irakere, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, Sandoval’s Dizzy Gillespie-inspired playing has earned him numerous awards and accolades, including being named as a 2024 Kennedy Center Honoree. In 2000, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, a biopic starring Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan, debuted on HBO. Dafnis Prieto Sí o Sí Quartet will open the show.
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