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X-WR-CALNAME:Hammer Presents Cool Yule 2025
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DESCRIPTION:Hammer Presents Cool Yule 2025\n\n \n\nBay Area music lovers ca
 n chill out this holiday season with San José State University Jazz Orche
 stra’s Cool Yule\, a lively concert of holiday classics with a jazzy swi
 ng at the Hammer Theatre Center.\n\nDirected by Dr. Aaron Lington\, this a
 nnual tradition features top SJSU music majors performing yuletide favorit
 es with a cool twist. \n\nGrammy Award-winning baritone saxophonist and co
 mposer Aaron Joseph Lington received his BM from the University of Houston
 \, Moores  School of Music\, and both his MM and DMA from the University o
 f North Texas. His credits include collaborations with the SF Symphony\, M
 aynard Ferguson\, the Count Basie Orchestra\, Bo Diddley\, Randy Brecker\,
  Tommy Igoe\, Pacific Mambo Orchestra\, and others. He has won awards from
  Downbeat Magazine\, ASCAP\, and was the 2003 recipient of the  Sammy Nest
 ico Award. He was named the 2011 “Jazz Educator of the Year” by the Ca
 lifornia Music Educators Association\, and has been recognized multiple ti
 mes in both the Downbeat Magazine Critics and Readers Poll. In 2015 he was
  named as a Silicon Valley Artist Laureate. The San José Mercury News pra
 ises Dr. Lington’s playing  as “revelatory…he obviously relishes the
  beautiful\, blustery bark of his instrument…” Dr. Lington is Coordina
 tor of Jazz Studies at San José State University.\n\nThe San José State 
 University Jazz Orchestra provides students with an opportunity to perform
  traditional and contemporary repertoire from an array of composers spanni
 ng over 50 years of jazz history. Activate hails\, “SJSU Jazz Orchestra 
 knows a few numbers of their own. This diverse group of music majors are w
 ell versed in diverse styles- from classical to Afro-Latin jazz.” Studen
 ts are selected for this ensemble by audition only.    \n\nSponsored by th
 e College of Humanities and the Arts Artistic Excellence Programming Grant
 .
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LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center
SUMMARY:Hammer Presents Cool Yule 2025
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.sjsu.edu/event/hammer-presents-cool-yule-2025
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions\, Performances\, Installations
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