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REXBURG — Grammy-winning sax player Joe Lovano will headline the winter jazz festival at Brigham Young University-Idaho next week. The festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 14 in the Hart Auditorium.

Backing up Lovano will be the BYU-Idaho Sound Alliance jazz ensemble under the direction of Mark Watkins.

Lovano is known for his Grammy-nominated symphonic work and his role as Gary Burton Chair of Jazz Performance at the Berklee College of Music. In 2001, Lovano won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album and Jazz Journalists Awards Album of the Year for his album “52nd Street Themes.”

In 2014 Lovano won awards for Multi-reeds Player and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association and Tenor Saxophonist of the Year from Down Beat Magazine. He has released 23 celebrated albums on the Blue Note label; with the last three focusing on his quintet Us Five.

In 2015, he was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Improvised Jazz Solo.”

Tickets for the BYU-Idaho Center Stage concert are $12 for the general public and $6 for BYU-Idaho students. They are available online here, at the Kimball Ticket Office or by calling 496-3170.

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