Echoing the recent birthday "party" with octogenarian Cool jazz reedman Lee Konitz, the Eastman School of Music's Jazz Studies Department is presenting another jazz legend, the composer, valve trombonist and conductor Bob Brookmeyer to help celebrate his upcoming 80th birthday and his achievements in a lifetime in jazz. 
Bob Brookmeyer is one of the foremost jazz composers working today and taught many of today’s other leading composers in jazz, including Maria Schneider and Jim McNeely.
On Wednesday, December 2nd, Brookmeyer will be playing some too during the performance in Eastman's Kilbourn Hall with the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dave Rivello. The music presented will take a chronological view of Brookmeyer’s work, including music written for the Terry Gibbs Dreamband, the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra, and Brookmeyer’s own New Art Orchestra. As a special highlight, there will also be five mini-premieres based on the music of “Happy Birthday,” written by five different composers who are special friends of Brookmeyer’s—Bill Holman, Jim McNeely, Dave Rivello, John Hollenbeck and Ryan Truesdell. Dave Rivello will also be giving a pre-concert lecture at 7 pm on the evening of the concert. The concert will begin at 8 pm. Admission is free.
If you can't get enough of Brookmeyer, you'll have another chance to catch him on Thursday, December 3rd at 9:00 pm. Bob is planning to guest solo with The Dave Rivello Ensemble as they record live for their next CD at the Village Rock Café at 213 Main Street in East Rochester. For more information, please contact Dave Rivello at (585) 381-4309 or email.
Sending you your Rochester jazz listings this week from somewhere in the Flint Hills east of Wichita, Kansas (OK, 
As I wing off to Kansas for Turkey Day with my parents, I leave you with some jazz to get out to before tucking in the bird next Thursday.
On Sunday, November 22nd, “Jazz@111” is presenting a double bill of local favorites The 
If you have attended an ETJ show in the past, one friend (who is attending for the first time) will be admitted free for each reserved seat or general admission ticket you purchase. If you are purchasing a ticket to your first ETJ show, you and one friend will be admitted for the price of one ticket. Treat a friend and join the funk! 
Sometimes just don't have enough steam to get more than the Wednesday listings post out. I'm sure you're lives went on without it... So, enough with the bellyachin, here's the jazz for the next seven days:
