Gary Smulyan / Rob Scheps Core-tet, with Jim Knapp, trumpet, Dave Captein, bass, and Gary Versace, piano

Wednesday, February 27, 8 p.m.

Evans Music Center

$10 general/ $5 LC employees and alumni and students with ID.

Free to LC students. Tickets at College Bookstore or at the door

Legendary jazz baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan will be making his first Portland appearance at Lewis & Clark College. This New York artist has been with the famous Monday night Mel Lewis/Village Vanguard Orchestra for the last 21 years in the chair vacated by Pepper Adams. He is also baritone saxophonist with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band under Jon Faddis.

Oregon native Rob Scheps is well known in jazz circles as saxophonist, flautist, composer, and clinician. While living in the Boston area he led his own groups; most notably the True Colors Big Band. In 1988 he moved to New York , formed the Rob Scheps Core-tet and Bartokking Heads and established himself as a formidable force on the jazz scene. Down Beat magazine Awards include Best Chamber Music Performance, Soprano Sax Solo (1985); Bas Relief, Best Funk Group (1984); Outstanding Performance, tenor Sax Solo (1987); Outstanding performance, Rob Scheps Quintet(1987).

Also appearing will be Jim Knapp, Seattle trumpeter, band leader, composer and educator. Knapp directed and performed with the Composers and Improvisers Orchestra and has won numerous composition fellowships and awards. He has played in such groups as the International Creative Music Orchestra and the New York Composers Orchestra West. He developed the jazz program at Cornish College, where he continues to teach.