Jazz Week 2017

Jazz Week concerts - Tickets available at ArtsUAA.com and (907) 786-4TIX.

Greta Matassa and Yngvil Vatn Guttu Friday, March 10, 7:30 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 150

Greta Matassa and Yngvil Vatn Guttu Saturday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 150

Jazz Week workshops - Free to attend; no registration necessary.

How to Scat with Greta Matassa Friday, March 10, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 150

Improvising Your Solo with Yngvil Vatn Guttu Friday, March 10, 2-3:30 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 122

Join acclaimed singer Greta Matassa and trumpeter Yngvil Vatn Guttu for two nights of inspired jazz music and free jazz workshops!

In the Pacific Northwest, where she built her career, Greta Matassa wins wide acclaim; four times, the readers of Earshot, the Seattle jazz magazine, have voted her the best jazz vocalist in the Northwest. Seattle Times critic Misha Berson described Matassa as a vocal chameleon who "can sound husky or crisp, ebullient or wailing, girlish or jaded."

Norwegian-born musician and composer Yngvil is a spirited, multi-talented stage performer and band leader. Yngvil plays the trumpet, acoustic and electric guitar, keyboards and willow flute (a Norwegian overtone instrument), and occasionally breaks into song. She runs a jazz festival in Alaska, a free improv group in New York City and a "Purpose Built Orchestra" in Oslo, Norway. Yngvil tours with her one-person jazz project, POCKET JAZZ, and does artist residencies across the USA and beyond.

Learn more at the UAA Jazz Week website.

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