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Pitt Jazz 2013

Issue Date: 
November 18, 2013

Lundy performed for community members at the Hill House Senior Services Center on Bedford Avenue.Lundy performed for community members at the Hill House Senior Services Center on Bedford Avenue.

To help set the mood on campus in the weeks leading up to the Pitt jazz event, members of the Pitt Jazz Ensemble played for a lunchtime crowd at Nordy’s Place in the William Pitt Union.To help set the mood on campus in the weeks leading up to the Pitt jazz event, members of the Pitt Jazz Ensemble played for a lunchtime crowd at Nordy’s Place in the William Pitt Union.

“What we play is life.”— Louis Armstrong

The UniversityThe musicians filled Carnegie Music Hall with their soulful and sometimes improvisational tunes. of Pittsburgh’s 43rd Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert—the first under Pitt’s new Jazz Studies Director and Professor of Music Geri Allen—brought the music of 12 stellar musicians to concertgoers, Pitt students, area senior citizens, and schoolchildren. In the days leading up to the Nov. 2 concert in Oakland’s Carnegie Music Hall, the musicians were on campus and out in the community, playing their instruments and discussing their music. Among the community outreach events were visits to the Hill House Senior Services Center in the Hill District, the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Oakland, and two City of Pittsburgh schools. The weeklong event was billed as a tribute to event founder and Pitt Professor Emeritus of Music Nathan Davis. (Photos by Jim Schaffer, and Tom Altany and Mary Jane Bent, both of Pitt's CIDDE)