Memphis Jazz Orchestra featuring Michael Dease

Memphis Jazz Orchestra featuring Michael Dease The Green Room at Crosstown Arts Saturday, April 25th, 2026 Doors open at 7:00 PM | Show starts at 7:30 PM $25 in advance | $30 at the door PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Join the Memphis Jazz Orchestra for a special one-night only performance at the Green Room at Crosstown Arts featuring one of the preeminent trombonists of the current era, Michael Dease! Michael Dease is one of the world’s eminent trombonists, lending his versatile sound and signature improvisations to over 200 recordings and groups as diverse as Grammy-winning artists David Sanborn, Christian McBride, Kanye West, Michel Camilo, and Alicia Keys. Born in Augusta, Georgia, he played the saxophone and trumpet before choosing the trombone at age 17. In 2001, Dease moved to New York City to become part of the historic first class of jazz students at The Juilliard School, earning both Bachelors and Masters degrees, and quickly established a reputation as a brilliant soloist, side-person, and bandleader. Give It All You Got (Posi-Tone, 2021) received positive acclaim from JazzTimes Magazine and a coveted 4-star review from Downbeat Magazine. The music centers on themes of devotion to the past and future of the jazz lineage, realized at the Jazz Institute at Brevard where he serves as director. As a bandleader, this is Dease’s eighth album for Posi-Tone, fourteenth of his career, and features Gregory Tardy, Ulysses Owens, as well as his wife Gwen Dease and eldest daughter Brooklyn Dease on percussion. Since then, he has released Best Next Thing (Posi-Tone, 2022), his baritone saxophone recording debut on Swing Low (Posi-Tone, 2023), two albums featuring music from composer Gregg Hill, The Other Shoe (Origin, 2023) and Found in Space (Origin, 2024), plus Groves Groove (Le Coq Records, 2024), and City Life (Origin, 2025). Downbeat Magazine named Dease the 2016 Rising Star Jazz Trombonist. He then won the magazine’s Critics Poll for 2021 Trombonist of the Year, an…