Campus News
Oberlin Jazz Ensemble Residency
March 13, 2017
Communications Staff
Photo credit: Walter Novak
Jazz trumpet player and award-winning composer Michael Philip Mossman '82 returned to Oberlin for a residency in March. Mossman, director of jazz studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College/CUNY, joined the Oberlin Jazz Ensemble as a guest trumpet player. During the concert, the group performed several of his harmonically and rhythmically imaginative arrangements of jazz standards.
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