Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
"Presenting the great works of jazz"
Guest Artists
The SRJO has invited numerous internationally acclaimed guest soloists and composers (twelve of them NEA Jazz Masters) to join in its concerts, including trumpeters Clark Terry and Arturo Sandoval; saxophonists Benny Golson, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, Frank Wess and Kenny Hing; trombonist Slide Hampton; bassist Buddy Catlett; composers Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gerald Wilson, William O. Smith and Jovino Santos Neto; and singers Marlena Shaw, Ernie Andrews, Dean Bowman, Dee Daniels and Ernestine Anderson. In 2001, Quincy Jones conducted the SRJO at the Seattle Opera House in a performance of works he wrote for the Basie band and his own groups.
