Simply This Quintet Illinois
Simply This was formed in the Fall of 2018 by graduate students in the jazz department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our focus is to reinterpret the classic two tenor saxophone jazz ensembles of the 1950’s and 60’s in a modern jazz style through our own original compositions. ... more
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