Lee University’s Small Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Hurst and Shawn Perkinson, will present a concert on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dixon Center.

The performance will include selections such as Charlie Parker’s “My Little Suede Shoes,” Miles Davis’s “Solar,” and Ella Fitzgerald’s “Cheek to Cheek.”

“Professor Perkinson and I are so pleased with the work of our student members in their efforts to develop their collective knowledge of the jazz vernacular and historical underpinnings of the various eras of the idiom,” said Hurst. “We feel they’ve made some excellent selections that will be entertaining repertory for this fall’s concert performance.”

Other selections will include works such as Frank Sinatra’s “All of Me,” featuring vocalist David Herzog; Sarah Vaughan’s “Mean to Me,” featuring vocalist Sophia Dejesus; Wayne Shorter’s “Speak No Evil,” featuring saxophonist Austin Barber; Lake Street Drive’s “Hypotheticals,” featuring vocalist Caroline Marie Layton; Billy Holiday’s “Moonlight in Vermont,” featuring vocalist Emma Richard; and George Benson’s “On Broadway,” featuring all four vocalists.

The performers represent a diverse mixture of students from various departments of the music program and will contribute arrangements within the jazz genre.

Hurst is a Nashville-based percussionist, educator, and clinician who has been a commercial percussion and applied drum set instructor at Lee for four years. He has supported artists across the spectrum of popular music for 25 years, whether behind the drum kit or playing ethnic percussion. The Backstreet Boys, Gary Allan, Wang Chung, Chuck Wicks, Tiffany, Joe Nichols, Sister Hazel, Tracy Lawrence, Peter Noon of Herman’s Hermits, and James Otto are a few of the national and international artists that have utilized Hurst’s performance services for touring and recording.

Perkinson, a commercial/jazz guitar instructor at Lee, has studied with such artists as Mark Boling, Donald Brown, and Jerry Coker while earning his bachelor’s degree in studio music and jazz from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has performed and recorded with many different groups and artists over the years, including The Charlie Daniels Band, Widespread Panic, and Confederate Railroad, with music ranging stylistically from rock, country, bluegrass, and gospel to blues and jazz.

The concert is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public.

For more information, contact Lee’s School of Music at (423) 614-8240 or email [email protected].