Prairie State College (PSC) will host its 36th Annual Jazz Fest featuring a concert on Friday, Feb. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble College Auditorium in the PSC Conference Center, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights.
Featured guest artists include Orbert Davis, an Emmy-Award winning trumpeter, composer and educator who co-founded, and served as conductor and artistic director of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic.
Also on stage will be saxophonist Len’I Glenn-McKinney, pianist and PSC faculty member Valerie Nicholson, bassist Larry Gray, and drummer Ernie Adams.
The concert is open to the public. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors 65 and older. For information, call 708-709-3742.
The Jazz Fest begins with the Jazz Invitational on Thursday, Feb. 20, featuring 18 middle and high school groups performing for and coached by the guest artists. Homewood-Flossmoor High School musicians will be part of the invitational.
Exemplary student performers will be selected during the festival to join the artists for the Friday night concert.
