ADVENTUROUS JAZZ SINCE 1973
Join us on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 7:00 pm EST for an online video concert experience from the comfort of your home. The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra’s Eclectic Excursions will feature a reprise of selections from Aardvark’s April 2014 concert at MIT Kresge Auditorium. Performances Read More …
Aardvark’s 48th Annual Christmas Concert was a virtual excursion into Aardvark’s Christmas archives. If you missed the live event, join us now in celebrating Aardvark’s 48th Annual Christmas Concert which revisited the band’s performance of the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite, originally recorded in December 2013 at Boston’s Emmanuel Church. Read More …
Join us for a livestream celebration of Aardvark’s new CD, Faces of Souls, on Sun., Nov. 15 at 7 pm EST. Distinguished jazz journalist Bob Blumenthal will interview Mark Harvey, and they’ll play excerpts from the CD–music by Mark Harvey on themes of democracy, justice and equality. Read More …
Aardvark continues its 48th season with another video from our archives. As Election Day is less than 2 weeks away, we are thinking about how all of us can stand together to protect our democracy. Please join us in watching Tony Hill’s short film about Mark Read More …
Aardvark’s 47th Annual Christmas Concert was a special celebration of Duke Ellington (1899-1974) in his 120th birthday year. Duke’s music included “Come Sunday,” “Almighty God Has Those Angels,” and “The Shepherd.” The orchestra also performed jazz arrangements of carols like What Child is This, and Read More …
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra continued its 47th season with wide-ranging originals by music director Mark Harvey, including the premiere of his piece Greta (for teen climate activist Greta Thunberg) and the Boston premiere of his 2019 composition Consecration. Harvey’s rambunctious political satire was on display Read More …
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (Mark Harvey, director) opened its historic 47th season with a Duke Ellington Celebration, including classics and sacred music featuring the First Parish of Concord choir, directed by Elizabeth Norton, with Nikki Turpin, narrator. The concert was sponsored in collaboration with The Read More …
In case you missed it: Last summer, in New Hampshire, the Aardvark Jazztet, comprised of members from the larger orchestra, performed two shows in August, in Claremont and Cornish, New Hampshire. Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 6:30 pm Aardvark Jazztet: Duke Ellington Celebration Mark Harvey, Read More …
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra continued its 46th season on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 8:00 pm, with a show on MIT’s main stage, Kresge Auditorium, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. The concert was presented by MIT Music & Theater Arts. Acclaimed tenor saxophonist Ricky Read More …