Paul Winter, sax, with Jeffrey W. Holmes, piano

Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, seniors & children; $10 general public.

Pianist, composer and arranger, Jeff Holmes is Professor of Music and Director of Jazz & African-American Music Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Bellson, Vanguard Orchestra (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis), Sheila Jordan, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, David Goloschokin, John Abercrombie, Slide Hampton and numerous NYC Broadway shows. He has often played with the Paul Winter Consort in recent years. Two of his gorgeous compositions “My Father’s Smile,” and “Sunderland”, are on the Consort’s recent album Earth Music.