Jazz Concerts Bestow Brightness to Autumn Days
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus

Brooklyn, N.Y. - Top names in jazz will delight music fans at a series of jazz concerts and clinics presented this fall by the Music Department of Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Among the highlights are appearances by pianist George Cables, guitarist Jack Wilkins and vocalist Jay Clayton at workshops that are open to the public and free of charge.

Tuesday, October 21, 4 p.m.- Legendary jazz pianist George Cables performs with LIU students in the Spike Lee Screening Room, Library Learning Center Room 122.

Tuesday, November 4, 4 p.m.- Noted jazz guitarist and lecturer on jazz history Jack Wilkins conducts a workshop with LIU students in the Spike Lee Screening Room.

Tuesday, November 18, 4 p.m.-Internationally known jazz vocalist Jay Clayton offers her expertise to students in the Spike Lee Screening Room.

Wednesday, December 3, 7 p.m.-LIU Vocal Jazz Ensemble Concert/LIU Chorus Concert takes place in the Triangle Theater.

Tuesday, December 9, 1 p.m.-Student Jazz Ensembles Concert, Spike Lee Screening Room.

For more information, call Professor Bob Aquino at (718) 488-1668.

In addition to a B.A. in traditional studies, the Music Department offers a B.F.A. degree in Jazz Studies. Students may study privately with professionals off-campus for credit. The program can be tailored to suit students’ needs with either a minor or double major in other fields.Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.