The Distinguished Artist Series of The Arts & Medicine Program at The Cleveland Clinic, Weston will host the popular DUO BRUBECK on Wednesday October 8th, 2014 at 12:30 in the afternoon on the clinic side of the Weston Campus.
Original arrangements will be premiered and presented in this intimate setting where admission is free. The duo will feature specially selected compositions from Bill Withers, Chick Corea, Burton Lane, Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Miles Davis and Horace Silver in the single set appearance in Broward.
This DUO BRUBECK performance performance is dedicated to the memory of bass trombonist, arranger and educator Fred Sturm. Fred was the founding bass trombonist of the Jazz Fusion group Matrix, served as the Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, on the jazz faculty at The Eastman School of Music, and as Director of the Academy Band at Birch Creek Music Academy in Door County, WI. Fred recently passed, and his great musicianship and humanity are remembered by all who knew and loved him.