VJC Spotlight Benefit Concert with Tito Carrillo
Sat, May 06
|RAVENSCROFT HALL
The Valley Jazz Cooperative Sapphire and Indigo Big Bands will share the stage for the final time this season, joined by guest trumpeter Tito Carrillo. Tickets only $20 and benefit Abounding Service. Details below.
Time & Location
May 06, 2023, 2:00 PM MST
RAVENSCROFT HALL, 8445 E Hartford Dr, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, USA
About the Event
// TICKETS AVAILABLE CLICK HERE // Russell Schmidt, Director of Valley Jazz Cooperative in partnership with MSW Ministries presents this SPOTLIGHT CONCERT featuring The Valley Jazz Cooperative's Sapphire and Indigo Big Bands joined by guest trumpeter Tito Carrillo for this season's finale! The program will include music by Duke Ellington, Bill Holman, John Scofield, Jueun Seok, and Mary Lou Williams.
This year’s VJC Spotlight Concert is also a fundraising event, with 100% of all ticket sales donated to Abounding Service, which is dedicated to helping refugees from many nations belong and connect through English proficiency, citizenship, and friendship. The ability to aptly communicate changes their lives and impacts the trajectory of entire refugee families and communities. (Learn more at https://aboundingservice.org/)
About the guest artist…Tito Carrillo is a trumpeter, composer, and educator whose music blurs the lines between Afro-Caribbean music traditions and modern jazz. Born and raised in Austin, TX, by a…