Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Past Event
Event Date(s)
Tuesday, 3/3/2026, 7:00 pm - Tuesday, 3/3/2026, 9:30 pm
Event Location
Performing Arts Center
Event Format
In-Person
Intended Audience
Everyone
Mesa Community College Music Department Presents: Jazz/MPJE Jazz Concert with Guest Artist Andrew Gross
Mar 3 at 7 pm at MCC Performing Arts Center
The MCC Jazz Band has a long history of continued success. Under the direction of MCC alum and instructor Paul Brewer, the MCC Jazz Ensemble continue to promote jazz at a high level throughout the Valley. Jazz Big Band Lovers! You Won't want to miss this one! At the MPJE Jazz Ensemble with Artistic Director and Piano Extraordinaire Nick Manson is made up of professional musicians and educators from around the valley.
Guest Artist Andrew Gross is a Professional Jazz Saxophonist and educator. He performs regularly with the Phoenix Symphony and works freelance with many local Jazz and Contemporary Music groups and ensembles. He has played on numerous recordings including three of his own. Andrew has been a featured soloist on GCU Faculty Recitals and the GCU Thunder Big Band, Mesa Community College Big Band.
Andrew is the Music Director for Young Sounds of Arizona, a youth program dedicated to developing not only excellent musicianship but the social skills needed to be successful. His students regularly achieve numerous honors and regularly secure scholarships for college. In addition, Andrew is regularly requested as the clinician by high schools in the valley and as instructor of summer camp programs that feature jazz bands. Andrew maintains a large private teaching studio of saxophone and clarinet students in the Phoenix Area.
Andrew received a Masters of Music Performance from Arizona State University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemporary Music with honors from the New School University in New York, NY. He studied with a number of well known Jazz Musicians, including Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, Rich Perry, Tony Malaby, Dewey Redman, and Reggie Workman.