OLS presents: New York Voices & Portland Jazz Orchestra at Westbrook Performing Arts Center

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@ Photo Credit: Hanna Flewelling Doors open an hour before showtime. ADVANCE PURCHASE: $20 (+ fees) ADVANCE PURCHASE SENIORS + STUDENTS: $10 (+ fees) DAY OF SHOW: $25 (+ fees) DAY OF SHOW SENIORS + STUDENTS: $15 (+ fees) All surcharges and member discounts will be calculated at checkout. Click Here to learn how our ticket surcharge supports OLS. The New York Voices – soprano Kim Nazarian; alto Lauren Kinhan; baritone Peter Eldridge; and tenor, saxophonist, and musical director Darmon Meader – “The Four and Only,” as the great Cuban saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Paquito D’Rivera once dubbed them, have been one of the world’s elite jazz singing groups for 38 years. Over the years, the New York Voices albums, repertoire, and concerts have evolved, sometimes in surprising ways. The Voices embrace a diversity of styles, from big band jazz to post-bop, from Brazilian jazz to the singer-songwriter repertoire of Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, to their own tuneful originals. In the beginning, their live shows featured a compact rhythm section, and they had no plans to perform with big bands or symphony orchestras. That changed in the fall of 1994 when the group was invited to sing two songs with the Count Basie Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The Voices have multiple recordings with big bands and have developed a diverse and extensive library of arrangements that feature this sort of collaboration. For decades, they have performed all over the world, including concerts and tours with the WDR and SWR Big Bands in Germany, the Metropole Orchestra in the Netherlands, the USAF Airmen of Note, Norway’s Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, and many other notable orchestras, including the Portland Jazz Orchestra. Now, after nearly four decades of concerts, world tours, 11 landmark albums under their own name, and high-profile collaborations with international jazz masters, this Grammy Award winning group will be performing with the Portland Jazz Orchestra as part of their Grand…

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