{"id":78772,"date":"2025-12-02T22:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78772\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:01:06","slug":"cool-yule-concert-pairs-sjsu-jazz-orchestra-san-jose-jazz-all-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78772\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Yule concert pairs SJSU jazz orchestra, San Jose Jazz all-stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleigh bells, make way for the saxophones.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s annual Cool Yule concert at the Hammer Theatre will feature the San Jose State University Jazz Orchestra, along with members of the San Jose Jazz High School All-Stars, playing jazzy, swinging arrangements of holiday standards plus newer compositions.<\/p>\n<p>Conducting the musicians will be SJSU\u201ds Aaron Lington, a professor of music and himself a Grammy Award-winning baritone saxophonist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth groups have a variety of arrangements that are new twists to holiday classics,\u201d Lington said. \u201cFor example, \u2018Angels We Have Heard on High\u2019 will be played in the style of Neil Hefti\u2019s famous song for the Count Basie Orchestra, \u2018Cute.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 concert are available <a href=\"https:\/\/hammertheatre.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> and at the Hammer Theatre box office. Admission is $25 general, $15 for members of the SJSU community, $10 for youths 12 and under and $5 for SJSU students.<\/p>\n<p>Details: 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose; <a href=\"https:\/\/hammertheatre.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/hammertheatre.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sleigh bells, make way for the saxophones. Tonight\u2019s annual Cool Yule concert at the Hammer Theatre will feature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,2644,967,23,100,88,90,89,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-78772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-concerts","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}