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the Bill Pierce Collective at Summer In The City at Highland Park

Courtesy of Berklee Media Relations | Posted on July 2, 2015

Where

Highland Park
Summer In The City

Fort Avenue
Boston, MA
Map

When

Sun, August 2, 2015
5:00 pm

Musicians

About

BOSTON, June 29, 2015 -- Berklee College of Music and the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department present the Bill Pierce Collective at the annual, free Jazz at the Fort concert, Sunday, August 2, 5:00 p.m., at Roxbury's Highland Park. After the Berklee City Music All-Stars open the concert, the Bill Pierce Collective will perform a jazz set built around saxophone and organ.

A Berklee alumnus and faculty member, Bill Pierce is a celebrated saxophonist and educator who is featured on over 70 albums and has performed with artists including Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, and many others. The Bill Pierce Collective features Bill Pierce on saxophone; Rollins Ross, a Berklee alumnus, on organ; Jeffrey Lockhart, Berklee faculty member, on guitar; and Ralph Peterson, Berklee faculty member, on drums. Entryways to Highland Park are on Fort Avenue or Beach Glen Street in Roxbury. ...

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