Mingus Big Band at Yale
- Yale University Woolsey Hall 500 College Street New Haven, CT, 06511 United States (map)
Willie Ruff Memorial Concert
Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:00PM
Woolsey Hall
ELLINGTON JAZZ SERIES
The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars and the Mingus Big Band, which includes Yale Jazz Ensembles Director, YSM Lecturer in Jazz, and Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, perform in celebration of the life, work, and legacy of YSM Professor Emeritus of Music Willie Ruff.
2-3:15PM Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
3:30PM Panel Discussion
4:30PM Mingus Big Band
Featured
David Lee Jones, alto sax
With special guest Jimmy Owens who recorded with Charles Mingus at 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival and UCLA (Music Written for Monterey, Not played…) and later toured with Mingus Dynasty and was recorded on their Chair in the Sky recording.