LEWISTON – The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will perform at Bates College at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, in Olin Arts Center.

This Boston orchestra will play Aardvark originals and Duke Ellington masterpieces. Ellington’s music will include classics like “Solitude” and “Don’t Get Around Much Any More” plus selections from his suites “Such Sweet Thunder ” and “The River.” The concert will also feature works by Aardvark music director Mark Harvey, including his latest piece, “Beyond,” a tribute to Ellington commemorating the 30th anniversary of his death in 1974.

Winner of the 2000 Independent Music Awards, the orchestra is celebrating its 32nd season.

Besides original exploratory works by trumpeter-composer Harvey and a wide-ranging Ellington repertory, the musicians also play American music by such composers as Ives, Gottschalk, and Billings. Aardvark has premiered more than 75 works and released seven CDs. The latest CD, “Duke Ellington/Sacred Music,” was hailed by allaboutjazz.com as “exhilarating” and “soulful.”

Harvey, the founder and music director, is the band’s principal composer and arranger. As a trumpeter, he has recorded with George Russell and Baird Hersey, and performed with Gil Evans, Claudio Roditi, Howard McGhee and Sam Rivers. He has more than 100 compositions in his catalog and has won awards from ASCAP, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Meet-the-Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program.

Aardvark band members are Arni Cheatham, Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Chris Rakowski, Dan Zupan, and Tim O’Dell on woodwinds; Jeanne Snodgrass and Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpets; Bob Pilkington, Jay Keyser, Jeff Marsanskis and Bill Lowe, trombones; Larry Carsman, John Funkhouser, Harry Wellott and Craig Ellis, rhythm section; Jerry Edwards vocalist; and Harvey, trumpet and piano.

Reservations are recommended. Call 786-6135. Tickets: $8 for adults, $5 for seniors and non-Bates students.