Big band concert at the TouPAC on Monday, December 12

The Genesis Jazz Project and the UMSL Community Jazz Band will team up for a concert of big band jazz at 7:30 p.m., Monday, December 12 in the Lee Auditorium of the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the UMSL campus. The performance will be free and open to the public, and no tickets are required.

Genesis Jazz Project, formerly the Monday Night Jazz Lab Band of St. Louis Community College-Meramec, is a jazz ensemble of metro area performers. Directed since 1975 by Robert Waggoner, the ensemble is now in residence at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Waggoner is the director of the Jazz Ensemble of the Community Music School of Webster University and an adjunct professor in the Webster music department.

The two bands will come together for another concert at the TouPAC next spring, on Monday, May 8.

(edited 11/25/05 to fix a type and add a link)