218 N. Eighth Street | Columbia, MO 65201
Admin: 573-449-3009 | Tickets: 573-449-3001
Contact the Jazz Series
The Jazz Series makes all of its concert programs online as Adobe PDFs. Click to view or right-click to download.
2007/2008 Jazz Series Concert Review #2 (PDF, 6.7MB)
Featuring the Yellowjackets, Bill Charlap Trio & The Waverly Seven/Anat Cohen Quartet
2007/2008 Jazz Series Concert Review #1 (PDF, 5.7MB)
Featuring the David "Fathead" Newman Quartet and the Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
When you support these businesses, make sure to tell them the Jazz Series sent you!
Add your business to the list of ever growing Small Business / Concert Program Sponsors. (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or click here to find our how!
Jazz Series Concert Review #5 (PDF, 7.90Mb)
Featuring the Robert Glasper Trio & the David Berkman Quartet.
Jazz Series Concert Review #4 (PDF, 12Mb)
Featuring the Fred Hersch, The Bill Frisell Trio, & "The Latin Side of Miles & 'Trane" Presented by Conrad Herwig and Brian Lynch
Jazz Series Concert Review #3 (PDF, 12Mb)
Featuring the Pat Martino Quartet and Don Byron: The Music of Junior Walker
Jazz Series Concert Review #2 (PDF, 22Mb)
Featuring the Donald Harrison Quartet and the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet
Jazz Series Concert Review #1 (PDF, 18Mb)
Featuring the Javon Jackson All-Star Quartet and the Joey DeFrancesco Trio with special guest Bobby Hutcherson
When you support these businesses, make sure to tell them the Jazz Series sent you!
Add your business to the list of ever growing Small Business / Concert Program Sponsors. (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or click here to find our how!


12-23 1:58
12-17 2:12

This is a special year for us. As recipients of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts – the Jazz Masters Live Initiative we are required to match the award dollar for dollar. The goal: $30,000 – and we need do reach it by February 18, 2008 – the day commissioned composer and Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer returns to Missouri to conduct the world premier of his new work performed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. This season your tax-deductible donation to the Jazz Series goes twice as far.
Make a tax-deductible pledge (PDF) do the Jazz Series and we will apply it toward matching the NEA grant special NEA grant – one of only 12 in the country that allowed us to commission new work, and present one of the best big bands in the world at the Missouri Theatre. As a way of saying “Thank You” we’re pleased do offer tickets to this one-of-a-kind event—and a the most recent CD from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra CD – which is a part of University of Missouri’s Arts & Science Week.
“We Always Swing” Jazz Series snags prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Live grants…
Organization, one of only 12 presenters in the United States selected to receive $30,000 award paves the way for Missouri native and NEA Jazz Master Bob Brookmeyer to compose new work for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. New York-based, 16-piece orchestra arrives in Columbia to perform world premiere February 18, 2009, at the Missouri Theatre with Brookmeyer as guest conductor. Also on hand: Dan Morgenstern, fellow NEA Jazz Master and Director of Rutgers Jazz Institute. The world renowned historian will serve as guest emcee and host a pair of forums: a one-on-one interview with Brookmeyer and an in-depth look into the chronology of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, which has been holding court at jazz’s most famous basement – The Village Vanguard – since 1965. Much-anticipated events serve as centerpiece for MU’s Arts & Science Week.