Jim Ketch

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 has always been one of the most popular in the Sharp Nine concert series.

• Jim Ketch – trumpet
• Evan Ringel – trombone
• Donavan Cheatham – drums
• Aaron Gross – bass
• Mark Wells – piano
• Dexter Moses – tenor sax

This concert is sponsored by Steve and Esther Kant