promises great jazz and great food in the great outdoors. Organized by the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Berman Music Foundation, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music, this year's free Tuesday evening series is one of Lincoln's sublime summer delights.
Enjoy the Jazz in June Market, starting at 5 p.m. at 12th and R Streets, and then stroll onto the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus to listen to great jazz, beginning at 7 p.m.
For the best seating locations on the plaza west of Sheldon Museum of Art, come early with a blanket or lawn chair for comfort. Watch the crowd gathering on the lawn last year, on June 16.
University of Nebraska School of Music's accomplished jazz trumpeter, Darryl White, nourishes hungry listeners with shining solos on pieces ranging from classical standards by Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk to his own compositions.
Bringing the roots of Samba, Flamenco and Latin jazz, Dusty Brough (guitar), Kevin Freeby (bass), and Steve Haney (percussion) formed Otro Mundo to create a distinctive musical experience. It's an experience the band has shared from President Obama's first state dinner at the White House to stages across Europe and the United States.
Hagenbach's voice has been described as a mocha-rich contralto with razor-sharp intonation. Her 2003 tour of Brazil drew standing-room-only crowds in Rio de Janeiro and Ilhabela, where she sang selections from her Poetry of Love album, which features jazz legends Clark Terry and Jimmy Heath.
Combining the instrumentation of a New Orleans marching band and an electric R&B group, this free-wheeling ensemble has brought its infectious rhythm and joyful humor to enthralled audiences from the Atlantic to the Rockies.
A trailblazer in rock-jazz fusion in the 1960s and 1970s, Jerry Hahn is recognized as one jazz's most influential guitarists. Born in Nebraska and raised in Kansas, he began playing professionally at age 11 with the Bobby Wiley Rhythmaires, appearing daily on Wichita's first television station KEDD.
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