{"id":43248,"date":"2026-09-15T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=43248"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:29:28","slug":"guest-artist-saxophonist-joel-frahm-in-concert","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/event\/guest-artist-saxophonist-joel-frahm-in-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest artist, saxophonist Joel Frahm in concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Furman Department of Music will present guest artist and saxophonist Joel Frahm in concert Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall. Frahm will join Furman jazz faculty Matt Dingledine on guitar, Shannon Hoover on bass and Justin Watt on drums. The event is open to the public. A $10 donation is suggested at the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After more than 30 years playing in New York City jazz clubs and three years working in the Nashville music scene, Joel Frahm joined the music faculty at Texas State University. He honed his craft working alongside top jazz artists such as Betty Carter, Kenny Barron, Freddy Cole, Dianne Schuur, Kurt Elling, Jane Monheit, Bill Charlap, Brad Mehldau, Matt Wilson, Cyrille Aimee and many others.<\/p>\n<p>His bold, inventive tenor sax sound has won fans in the U.S. and across the world. \u00a0He has played as a leader or sideman on more than 100 recordings and has appeared at jazz festivals in the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada and South America. In addition to his work as a performer, he has taught jazz classes in clinics at the University of North Carolina, the University of Connecticut, New York University, Wichita State University, the University of North Texas, Baylor University, Colorado State University, Furman University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Manitoba and others.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked at the Monterey Jazz Festival\u2019s Next Generation program; the Sant Andreu Youth Jazz Orchestra in Barcelona, Spain; the Dave Brubeck Institute in Stockton, California; the Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory in Tel Aviv; the Czech Jazz Workshop in Prague; and the Siena Jazz Workshop in Italy. Joel grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and moved to West Hartford, Connecticut as a high school freshman, where he became part of the acclaimed Hall High School jazz band. It was there he developed a passion for jazz, exploring the music of jazz greats such as Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver and Wayne Shorter. In 1992, he received a bachelor&#8217;s degree from the Manhattan School of Music.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Joel here:\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/joelfrahm.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/joelfrahm.com\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/joelfrahm.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Department of Music will present guest artist and saxophonist Joel Frahm in concert Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall. Frahm will join Furman jazz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":43250,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[122],"class_list":["post-43248","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-music","cat_music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43404,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/43248\/revisions\/43404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43248"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}