Pitt Jazz Faculty Concert, featuring Tia Fuller. Bellefield Hall

Faculty performers will include Mark Strickland (guitar), Irene Monteverde (piano), Ralph Guzzi (trumpet), Yoko Suzuki (saxophone), James Johnson III (drums). Non-faculty bassist Tony DePaolis will join them in a performance of the music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Free and open to the public

Tia Fuller

The 52nd annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert, which runs Oct. 31 through Nov. 5, 2022, will feature performances by national artists and regional musicians, a gift to the Pitt Jazz Archives, a jazz film, panel discussion, community workshop, a presentation by a visiting scholar and five concerts. All events, including the concerts, are free to the public.

Pianist Dave Burrell will perform with his own trio. Saxophonist Tia Fuller will lead a group of Pittsburgh-area musicians, be featured at the Pitt Jazz Faculty concert, and host a community workshop.

“With the theme of ‘We are All Jazz Messengers,’ our event seeks to invoke the spirit of Pittsburgh drummer and bandleader Art Blakey, whose Jazz Messengers were devoted to spreading the word of jazz and its powers to enlighten and delight audiences,” according to Aaron Johnson, assistant professor and interim director of the Jazz Studies Program.