Tutu
Marcus Miller, composer
Eric Ostling, arr.
1987
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Rhythm-A-Ning
Thelonious Monk
Jeff Friedman, arr.
April, 1981
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Sig Ep
John Cale
Everett Longstreth, guest conductor
May, 2008
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Portrait of Jenny
Russell Robinson & Gordon Burdge
Kenny Werner, arr.
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Jamshied Sharifi
James O'Dell, guest conductor
April, 2005
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Composed and conducted by Jamshied Sharifi
May, 1992
MIT Jazz Combo: Tombo in 7/4
Frederick Harris, Music Director
Spring 2012
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: Experience
Adrian Grossman, '14
Frederick Harris, Music Director
Spring 2012
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: Hermanos Latinos
Hermeto Pascoal
arr. by Guillermo Klein
Frederick Harris, Music Director
Fall 2011
Dylan Sherry '12, Adrian Grossman '14: Blackbird;Friday the 13th
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Thelonius Monk
Dylan Sherry '12, saxophone
Adrian Grossman '14, electric bass
Peter Godart ’15: Monk's Dream
Thelonius Monk (1917–1982)
Peter Godart ’15, piano
MIT CMS Jazz Combo: El Ron
Alan Evans
Keala Kaumeheiwa, Coach
December 2, 2014
MIT Jazz Combo: Jump Skip
Robert McQueen
Keala Kaumeheiwa, coach
Nat Atnafu - Bass
David Garcia - Drums
Colleen Josephson - Baritone Saxophone
Anders Lee - Guitar
Rob McQueen - Piano
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: Blues and the Abstract Truth
Oliver Nelson
Frederick Harris, Music Director
2011
MIT Jazz Combo: Nica's Dream
Horace Silver
2011
MIT Jazz Combo: Rare
Adam Schwartz '10
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: Birk's Works
Dizzy Gillespie
Directed by Frederick Harris
MIT Jazz Choir and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble: In Praise of MIT
Music and original lyrics by John B. Wilbur '22
Music arranged by John Harbison, 2011 | Lyrics updated
Performed for the MIT150 celebrations
This great arrangement of MIT's unoffical official song, by Pulitzer Prize-winning MIT composer John Harbison, opens with a short, decorous phrase (a nod to the 1922 original) — then shifts into festive jazz.
