Jim Ketch Swingtet

Name: Jim Ketch Swingtet
Start: 2025-10-24T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Sharp 9 Gallery

Schedule

Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Sharp 9 Gallery | Durham, NC

Jim Ketch is one of the most important jazz artist/educators in North Carolina. Director of the jazz studies program at UNC-CH for over 30 years, co-founder and musical director of the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and a longtime clinician for Jamey Aebersold and Savanah Swing Central summer clinics, Jim Ketch has performed with Tom Harrell, Wycliff Gordon, Steve Wilson, Terri Lynne Carrington and Slide Hampton to name just a very few. He has 2 recordings under his own name on Summit Records.
His Swingtet shows have always been some of the most popular in the Sharp Nine concert series.
Jim Ketch - trumpet
Dexter Moses - tenor sax
Evan Roberson - trombone
Mark Wells - piano
Aaron Gross - bass
Donovan Cheatham - drums
This concert is sponsored by Steve and Esther Kant