JCA Orchestra in Concert at Berklee Performance Center

The Jazz Composers Alliance opens its 41st season with JCA Orchestra concerts featuring music by resident composers David Harris, Darrell Katz, Bob Pilkington and Mimi Rabson. The 21-piece ensemble performs ingenious new compositions for jazz big band, with inspirations including sounds on the Green Line, a meeting in a bar of a Bulgarian, an Arab, and an Ethiopian, and a setting of a Charles Coe poem about inviting Duke Ellington to dinner. The group has premiered over 200 pieces and performed with guest artists including Sam Rivers, Julius Hemphill, Dave Holland, Maria Schneider, Henry Threadgill, Steve Lacy and Oliver Lake.