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New York Voices, one of the world’s premiere vocal jazz quartets, will join the William Paterson University Jazz Orchestra on Sunday, November 17 as part of the University’s fall 2024 Jazz Room series. The concert begins at 3 p.m. in the Shea Center for Performing Arts on campus.
The concert will be preceded by “Sittin’ In,” the Jazz Room’s accompanying “meet the artist” concert preview featuring interviews with jazz artists and guest speakers. This informal discussion, free to all Jazz Room ticketholders, begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Shea Recital Hall.
New York Voices ranges in style from great American song standards by Cole Porter and Al Jolson and bebop and big band jazz classics to Stevie Wonder, Latin jazz and pop, and world music. As they approach their historic retirement as an ensemble in 2026, they have appeared and collaborated with The Count Basie Orchestra, Paquito D’Rivera, and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band.
This performance will feature the group’s long-standing foursome—Kim Nazarian, Darmon Meader, Lauren Kinhan and Peter Eldridge— together with the powerful WP Jazz Orchestra performing musical director Darmon Meader’s wonderful arrangements, exactly as they have been featured on the New York Voices’ many hit CDs.
Tickets are $20 for the general public, $18 for WP faculty, staff, alumni, and senior citizens, $10 for non-WP students, and WP students are admitted free with ID. For tickets or additional information, visit wp-presents.org, or contact the Shea Center Box Office at 973.720.2371 or boxoffice@wpunj.edu.
William Paterson University’s Jazz Room series is the longest-running program of its kind in the United States. Launched in 1978, the Jazz Room has welcomed more than 500 jazz legends to the stage, including Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Joe Williams, Marian McPartland, Slide Hampton, Kenny Burrell, Joe Lovano, Kenny Garrett, Clark Terry, Michael and Randy Brecker, the Vanguard Orchestra, and more. Concerts have encompassed the entire spectrum of jazz, from early jazz and swing to avant garde, and from intimate solo performances to big bands.
The performance series provides support for the University’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies Program, founded in 1973. The program draws students from across the United States and abroad under the current direction of Grammy Award-winning pianist Bill Charlap.
The Jazz Room at William Paterson University has been made possible, in part, by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
