NATCHITOCHES - The NSU Jazz Orchestra will present a concert Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

     Galindo Rodriguez is the director. Guest artists will be Northwestern State faculty members Dr. Paul Forsyth and Dr. Malena McLaren.

     The program will include The Heat’s On by Sammy Nestico featuring Neil Cosby on tenor saxophone and Michael John Butler on drums, Take the A Train by Billie Strayhorn and the Atlanta Rhythm Boys and arranged by Frank Foster featuring Cosby and Mike Jackson on trumpet and Jack the Bear by Duke Ellington and transcribed by David Berger featuring McLaren, Jackson, Adam Thomas on baritone saxophone, Kirby Atkins on trombone and Michael Herren on bass.

     The Jazz Orchestra will also perform Misty by Johnny Burke and Erroll Garner and arranged by Dave Wolpe, I Loves You Porgy by George Gershwin and arranged by Bret Zvacek with Andrew Bezik on trumpet/flugelhorn, Pegasus by Hank Levy with Rodriguez on flugelhorn and Forsyth on alto saxophone, Rock This Town by Brian Setzer and arranged by Wolpe, Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima and arranged by Mike Lewis with Kali Broussard on drums and April in Paris by Harburg and Duke and transcribed by Jeff Hest.