Cleveland Jazz Orchestra: Bright Lights Big City - The Sounds of Quincy Jones

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra: Bright Lights Big City - The Sounds of Quincy Jones at Maltz Performing Arts Center

You know Quincy Jones's sound even when you don't realize you're hearing it. His arrangements, grooves, and collaborations shaped generations of music. Cleveland Jazz Orchestra brings that musical imagination into the room for a celebration with real swing.

The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra is built for an outing like this. Its own program title, The Sounds of Quincy Jones: from Basie to Broadway to MJ, points straight at the breadth of Jones’s legacy: swing-rooted jazz, theatrical polish, and the kind of mainstream reach that shaped generations of listeners. When an orchestra takes on that kind of repertoire, the arrangements become the event.

Jones’s career supports the concept. Official sources describe him as a bandleader, arranger, composer, trumpeter, and producer, with early work in jazz orchestras and major collaborations across the American songbook. That mix is why this concert can feel so rich: it is not one-note nostalgia, but a tour through a musician who helped connect jazz language to wider popular culture. See the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra program

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