Tucson Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle - Tucson Jazz Festival | Events at Fox Tucson Theatre

This event occured on Jan 13, 2019 and is no longer on sale.

13
January
7:30 pm

Tucson Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle – Tucson Jazz Festival

Reprising an artistically excellent and sold-out show in Crowder Hall this past spring, music director Jeffrey Haskell conducts the Tucson Jazz Collective, an all-star local big band, with the Tucson Jazz Festival Orchestra and vocalists including Katherine Byrnes and Joe Bourne, pianist Angelo Versace and guest trumpeter Terrel Stafford on the orchestrations that the great Nelson Riddle created for Ella Fitzgerald (Ella Swings Brightly), Nat King Cole (Mona Lisa), Frank Sinatra (Witchcraft) and Linda Ronstadt (What’s New?).  Jeff spent a total of six years as principal conductor for Linda Ronstadt who had done three albums of Riddle arrangements. Fabulous Riddle settings of songs like “Night and Day,” “Lush Life” and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” will be unearthed from the Riddle Collection at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music and presented onstage at the historic Fox Theatre for an unforgettable performance.