The cover charge is $6 for general admission and $5 for students, only those 21 and older.
The concert series was founded by David Miller in 1989. Thursday’s celebration will feature the Jazz Fables Quintet with three of the original members from the 1989-90 quintet: David Miller on trumpet, Tom Walsh on saxes and Luke Gillespie on piano.
Walsh is the chairman of jazz studies and a professor of jazz saxophone at the Jacobs School of Music. ?Gillespie is also a professor of jazz at the music school.
The quintet will also feature professor of jazz Pat Harbison on trumpet and jazz associate instructor Bobby Scharmann on bass.
IU jazz alumnus Ben Lumsdaine will perform a tribute to Horace Silver, an influential jazz composer and pianist who died this summer, according to Bear’s Place.
The Jazz Fables Concert Series is the longest-running off-campus jazz series in Bloomington.
Thursday will also mark the 37th anniversary of the Jazz Fables Quintet, which was also founded by Miller in 1977.
Alison Graham
