- Event dates: Saturday, December 20
- Showtimes: 5:30pm
- Featured Artists:
Daniel Ian Smith/Jim Robitaille Duo
Location:
twenty-eight Atlantic
Wequassett Resort & Golf Club
Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist, flutist, educator, and composer with over 30 years’ experience. He is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, and in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and lecturer with appearances throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Israel and England. Recordings and performances by his ensemble The New World Jazz Composers Octet (NWJCO) have received rave reviews in DownBeat, JazzTimes, Cadence, ArtsFuse and All About Jazz magazines. His groups The New World Jazz Composers Octet and The Latin Side of Billy Strayhorn have been featured at festivals and concert halls locally and internationally.
Guitarist and award-winning composer Jim Robitaille has performed at The Newport Jazz Festival, The Rochester International Jazz Festival, Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, and The Wang Center in Boston, among others, and appeared on more than 30 recordings as a leader and sideman, including film and television work. Jim is an international clinician, an applied jazz guitar instructor, small jazz ensemble and guitar ensemble director, and founder of the Performance Jam Session Series on the Jazz Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He has performed concerts and taught throughout the Northeast. Jim studied guitar and improvisation at Berklee College of Music.
