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Orville Wright (rt), chair of UMass Boston's performance department and WCVB correspondent, Jim Boyd, flank Walter Beasley.
Walter Beasley and Quintet
Few performers could be better suited to join in our celebration than Walter Beasley. Friend of Chancellor Motley and Professor Orville Wright, Over the past two decades, saxophonist Walter Beasley has artfully and dynamically redefined the phrase “musical Renaissance Man” for the modern generation. Considered by fans and critics alike as “the heir to Grover Washington Jr.’s throne,” the Boston-based musician has long mastered an exhilarating high wire act of balancing a successful career as a contemporary jazz recording artist and performer with an equally thriving presence in the field of music education. |more|