Jazz Band concert to entertain audiences on Clinton brick streets

The Mississippi College Jazz Band will play some of their favorite jazz selections at a free concert April 13 on Clinton’s Brick Streets.

The event in front of the 303 Jefferson restaurant begins that Friday evening at 6 p.m. Patrons are asked to bring their chairs and enjoy the music in the city’s historic business district.

Wayne Linehan serves as the conductor of the eighteen-member MC Jazz Band.

The musicians includes trumpet players like MC students Christopher Guilotte of Pearl, Brian Rogers of Columbia and Anastasia Crout of Lake.

Trombonists include MC students Matthew Knight of Florence, Josh Waldbieser of Cleveland and Ann Marie Marshal of Prattville, Alabama. Members of the rhythm section are Chandler Noel of Clinton, Austin Toler of Madison and Scott Dunaway of Ocean Springs.

Saxaphone players include students Isaac Tan of Malaysia, Ian Wilson of Eads, Tennessee, and John Janikowski of Ocean Springs.

Director of Bands Craig Young says it should be an entertaining spring evening with the band to showcase Swing Era selections from the 1930s and 1940s.

The Mississippi College band will perform numbers made famous by such legendary American jazz artists as Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Bennie Moten and George Gershwin.

For more concert information, contact Dottie Serio of the Music Department at 601-925-3440.