TURNER — Jazz flutist, pianist and vocalist Barbara London will perform at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at the community gazebo in Turner Center, off Route 117.

Joining her will be drummer/composer Rick Kress, an associate professor at Berklee College of Music where he teaches theory, advanced modal harmony and arranging.

The concert will feature original compositions, jazz standards and popular tunes done in an improvisational style. London’s original music ranges in style from jazz instrumentals and classical chamber works to songs influenced by her interests in blues, gospel and world music.

London is an award-winning musician and composer as well as a watercolor artist and writer. She received three National Endowment for the Arts jazz performance grants as a flutist, vocalist and pianist; and has performed at the Newport Jazz Festival (in New York City), the Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival and other festivals as well as schools and clubs across the country.

She taught at the University of Maine, Augusta, from 1982-86, and nearly 20 years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she became the first female chair in 1994.

London, who grew up in Aroostook County, performed throughout the state in the late 1970s with the fusion group Morning Sky and later with the Barbara London Quartet. In 2010, she performed a benefit concert for her latest CD, “Maliseet Dreams,” with Rick Kress in Houlton.

If it rains, the concert will be moved to Turner Center Church. Free-will donations will be accepted.

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