New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Berklee College of
Music and the City of
Boston Parks and Recreation Department present the Bill Pierce
Collective at the annual, free Jazz at the Fort concert, Sunday, August 2, 5:00 p.m., at Roxbury's
Highland Park. After the Berklee City
Music All-Stars open the concert, the Bill Pierce
Collective will perform a jazz set built around saxophone and organ.
A Berklee alumnus and faculty member, Bill Pierce is a celebrated saxophonist and educator who is featured on over 70 albums and has performed with artists including Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, and many others. The Bill Pierce
Collective features Bill Pierce on saxophone; Rollins Ross, a Berklee alumnus, on organ; Jeffrey Lockhart, Berklee faculty member, on guitar; and Ralph Peterson, Berklee faculty member, on drums.
Entryways to
Highland Park are on Fort Avenue or Beach Glen Street in Roxbury. The park is wheelchair-accessible. Parking is available at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street in the Roxbury Community College lot. The park is also a short walk from the MBTA Roxbury Crossing Station. In the event of rain, the concert will move to Roxbury Community College's Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Avenue.
Jazz at the Fort is part of Berklee's Summer in the City series, made possible by presenting sponsor Natixis Global Asset Management, with musical performances by Berklee musicians in neighborhoods throughout Boston. For more information on Jazz at the Fort and other Berklee Summer in the City events, visit berklee.edu/events/summer.
About Berklee College of Music:
Berklee College of
Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For more than half a century, the college has evolved to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business, leading the way with the world's first baccalaureate studies in jazz, rock, electric guitar, film scoring, songwriting, turntables, electronic production, and more than a dozen other genres and fields of study. Berklee serves distance learners worldwide through its award-winning online extension school, Berklee Online. The college's national afterschool music program for underserved teens, the Berklee City
Music Network, is in 41 cities and counting. A new campus in Spain, Berklee in Valencia, began hosting the college's first graduate programs in the fall of 2012. With a diverse and talented student body representing more than 80 countries, and alumni and faculty that have collectively won more than 250 Grammys and Latin Grammys, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today-and tomorrow.
About Berklee's Office of Community Affairs and Campus Engagement:
Berklee's Office of Community Affairs and Campus Engagement (CACE) cultivates and manages institutional relationships, partnerships, and programs that advance the college, mobilize musicians as leaders, and contribute to the cultural, educational, and artistic development of the
Boston area and our society.
About the City of
Boston Parks and Recreation Department:
The
Boston Parks and Recreation Department offers residents and visitors the opportunity to enjoy free performances, workshops, and visual arts programs in parks throughout the city year-round. Tens of thousands of children and families enjoy Parks programming each year. Our special events and free programs bring free, safe quality activities to these spaces and help build community.
