The Jazz Room @ the Stage Door Theater

Overview

After much-acclaim and sold-out performances, Charlotte’s Jazz Arts Initiative’s (JAI) monthly series—The Jazz Room @ The Stage Door Theater – is swinging into Season 5 on Friday, May 15th with Greg Jarrell playing the music of the great baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. The Stage Door Theater is part of Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, at the corner of 5th and College in Uptown Charlotte.

Gerry Mulligan is one of the most widely respected and admired jazz musicians of our time, Gerry Mulligan occupies a unique place in the American musical scene. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable composer, conductor and arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. In 1999 the Library of Congress celebrated the opening of the permanent exhibit of the Gerry Mulligan Collection, which includes his library, manuscripts, instruments, and numerous personal effects.