Last year’s “Jazz Fame” honoree, Justin DiCioccio, will conduct this year’s LaGuardia High School tribute to Gabriel Kosakoff, featuring an impressive list of alumni performers
LaGuardia Concert Hall
100 Amsterdam Ave. at 65th St.
Monday, February 3, $35-$75, 7:30
212-595-1301
www.laguardiahs.org
www.alumniandfriends.org
Last year, the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts paid tribute to its longtime jazz teacher, Justin DiCioccio, with a special “Forty Years of Jazz Fame” concert that included performances by such former students as Kenny Washington, Don Byron, and Marcus Miller. This year DiCioccio will be conducting another collection of jazz greats honoring trombonist, WWII veteran, and class of 1944 alum Gabriel Kosakoff, who chaired the Fame school’s instrumental music department from 1969 to 1991. Among the LaGuardia graduates and parent musicians participating in the February 3 celebration at the 1,100-seat LaGuardia Concert Hall are Clifton Anderson, Larry Bustamante, Paquito d’Rivera, Bob Franceschini, Jon Gordon, Charles Gordon, Carolyn Leonhart Escoffery, Arturo O’Farrill, Jimmy Owens, Marcus Rojas, Mark Sherman, Buddy Williams, and Miller. It should be quite a treat to see so many jazz greats come together, showing what a difference music and arts education in schools can make.