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ENCORE: FGCU Jazz Combo Performs Original Music in Studio!

(from left) Mason Hunn, John Gonzalez, Matthew Edwards, Brandon Robertson, Jorge Ylisastigui and Frank Saunders
Julie Glenn, WGCU
(from left) Mason Hunn, John Gonzalez, Matthew Edwards, Brandon Robertson, Jorge Ylisastigui and Frank Saunders

We listen back tour our show from April with music recorded live in studio by members of the Florida Gulf Coast University Bower School of Music’s Jazz combo. The students spent the last school year writing and collaborating on their own music under the direction of FGCU’s Director of Jazz Studies Brandon Robertson. We’ll meet members of this elite jazz ensemble and hear them perform original tunes composed by each member. The FGCU Jazz Combo consists of Matthew Edwards (bass), John Gonzalez (drums), Mason Hunn (piano), Frank Saunders (trumpet/soprano saxophone) and Jorge Ylisastigui (tenor saxophone).