Acclaimed trumpeter learned chops at YSU

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Sean Jones

His performance will celebrate the centennial of Youngstown State University.

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YOUNGSTOWN — Sean Jones, a 2000 graduate of Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music and lead trumpeter of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, will perform with his quintet Thursday at Stambaugh Auditorium in a concert celebrating the university’s centennial.

Local band Redline will open the concert at 6:30 p.m. in Stambaugh’s ballroom, where a dessert and coffee buffet will begin the evening. The Sean Jones Quintet will perform at 8 p.m. in the upstairs concert hall.

A native of Warren, Jones is a professor of jazz studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He earned a master’s degree from Rutgers University.

He has worked with jazz professionals as diverse as Harry Connick, Jr., Joe Lovano, Charles Fambrough, the Louis Armstrong Legacy Band, and the International Jazz Quintet. Jones also leads his own groups and has released four albums on Mack Avenue Records: “Eternal Journey,” “Gemini,” “Roots” and “Kaleidoscope.”

He is a featured soloist on Nancy Wilson’s “Turned Blue” album and, since 2005, has been named in the Rising Star Trumpet category by Downbeat magazine, as well as being named in the Rising Jazz Artist category in 2007.

For more information on the concert, call 330-941-3105