Pianist, funk band will play at Winter Jazz Fest

LEWISTON — Winter Jazz Fest, a concert featuring one of Maine's best-known jazz pianists and a Bates College student band, will be presented Friday, Feb. 5, at the college.

Performing will be the Thomas Snow Quartet, led by pianist Tom Snow, and C-Funk, a group of Bates students.

Snow is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Berklee College of Music. He has recorded on the Telarc and Origin labels and has three CDs as a leader: "Northern Standard Time," 1997; "Christmas at Mast Cove," 2001; and "Some Other Time," 2007. He directs the Bates Jazz Band and has been a lecturer at the college since 2003.

Snow's career has included international tours, performances throughout the United States with noted Irish tenor John McNally and engagements at the Ritz Carlton Resort in Amelia Island, Fla., on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and at the Mount Washington Grand Resort.

Other members of the quartet are saxophonist Matt Langley, bassist Rick McLaughlin and drummer Phil McGowan.

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Tickets, $6, are available at www.batestickets.com. For more information, contact 786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.