Noah Baerman Trio Performs the Music of Bill and Kenny Barron

Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Free

Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff can RSVP on WesNest.

Pianist Noah Baerman, Private Lessons Instructor and Director of the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, and his trio featuring bassist Henry Lugo and drummer Dennis Mackrel, will perform a concert featuring the music of Bill Barron and Kenny Barron. The concert will also feature special guests Bailey Distinguished Visiting Scholar Roxy Coss on saxophone and Erica Tracy (Center for Creative Youth ’08) on vocals.

Bill Barron (1927–1989) was a remarkable saxophonist, composer, and scholar who served as a beloved faculty member and Chair of the Music Department at Wesleyan. His younger brother Kenny Barron (b. 1943) is one of the pre-eminent living jazz pianists with hundreds of recording credits, more than a dozen Grammy Award nominations, the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship, and a multi-decade legacy as an educator.

In addition to the performance, Baerman will hold a series of three workshops for students interested in getting an inside look at the process of curating, arranging, and rehearsing the music for the concert based on visits to Bill Barron's archives in the Wesleyan Library, as well as Baerman’s experience as a student of Kenny Barron for six years.

This performance is presented by the Music Department, with support from the Zachary Golub Rosen ’11 Fund for Visiting Music Faculty, created by his parents in memory of Zachary Rosen ’11 (1989–2019) to support student engagement with professional musicians.