UT Concert Hall brings you excellent performances that were given at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, spotlighting faculty, guest artist, and graduate student recitals, as well as student ensemble performances. Join local host and producer, Melony Dodson, for this hour-long program, as she transports you to Cox Auditorium and/or the Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall to hear these world class performances. Thursday night at 8pm and Sunday evenings at 7pm.

UT Concert Hall, April 9 and 12, 2026

UT Jazz Big Band Concert

Keith Brown, director

with UT Singers, special guest
Dr. Jeff Pappas, director
Andrea Markowitz Gantte, director

Tuesday, April 08, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

PROGRAM

All of Me
Seymore Simons (1896-1949)

Alexander's Big Time Band
Tom Kubis (b. 1951)

Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

Too Close For Comfort
Jerry Bock (1928-2010)

Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Manning Sherwin (1898-1974)

On A Clear Day
Burton Lane (1912-1997)
arr. Denin Slage Koch

Embraceable You
George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Just Friends
John Klenner (1899-1955)

UT Jazz Big Band:

Saxophones
David Feldhaus
Matthew Sexton
Bryce Christianson
Kaiden Cox
Cayden Bess

Trombones
Matthew Walker
Nathan Whittington
Luke Bowers
Eli Hoffman

Trumpets
Phillip Troutman
Bruno Osega
Forrest Dixon
Issaic Hair

Rhythm
DeAndre Deener
Eli Cobb
Larson Buck
Asher Humphrey