Name: Saxophonist Sharel Cassity Quartet
Start: 2020-08-22T21:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-08-22T22:30:00-05:00
Location: Jazz Showcase

Saxophonist Sharel Cassity Quartet

Jazz Showcase

It's Charlie Parker Month! Welcome to the Sharel Cassity Quartet

<p>Saxophonist, Woodwindist, Composer &amp; Educator Sharel Cassity is a musician on the New York, Chicago and international jazz scenes. Listed as “Rising Star Alto Saxophone” in Downbeat Magazine for the past 9 consecutive years, Sharel has appeared on the Today Show, earned her MA from The Juilliard School under full scholarship, won the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award &amp; has been inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Cassity has shared the stage with jazz luminaries including Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis &amp; the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; as well as mainstream artists Aretha Franklin, Natalie Merchant, Vanessa Williams &amp; Trisha Yearwood. She has released four albums as a bandleader and appeared on over 30 as a sideman, toured 24 countries and performed at leading venues like the Newport Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival &amp; the North Sea Jazz Festival. Recently relocated to the Chicago area with her husband and son, Cassity is currently a professor of saxophone and piano at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois. Sharel is a proud Vandoren Performing and AMT Microphone Artist.</p><p>Face masks are required for this show unless seated. Temperature will be taken upon arrival. Social guidelines will be enforced. </p>

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