Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Big Band Jazz Ensemble (CP272)

CP – Performing Arts Participation

Prerequisite: ability to play and read music. We practice and perform big band jazz from the 1940s to the present. The instrumentation for this ensemble consists of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, piano, bass, guitar and drum set.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Len Defrank

DeFRANK, LEN — Professional diploma, instrumental performance, Berklee College of Music; B.A., music education, Rowan University; M.A., saxophone performance, College of New Jersey. Fifty years of professional playing, and teaching at public and private schools. (CP272, CP273)

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