Family Weekend In Concert Performance Set For Sept. 23

IDr. Wycliffe Gordon H‘06, trombone and voice, and Eric Reed, piano will perform for Family Weekend, accompanied by The University of Scranton Concert Choir.

Dr. Gordon and Reed, both internationally celebrated performers, composers and educators, have a long history with Scranton. Dr. Gordon has performed, composed, conducted and served as an artist-teacher at the University regularly since 1996, and served as commencement speaker in 2006. Both Dr. Gordon and Reed have performed with highly respected instrumentalists and singers across a variety of genres, including jazz, gospel, classical and country music.

These musicians will pass on the legacy of the great jazz tradition of our nation with a combined discography of thousands of recordings as soloists, leaders and/or sidemen.Hundreds of compositions; and whether playing for small children or heads of state.